This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CORDS OF A MAN: AFTER COMMUNION I drew tliem with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat before them.--Hosea xi. 4. Hosea, who lived at the decline and fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, had to speak mostly of doom. He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CORDS OF A MAN: AFTER COMMUNION I drew tliem with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat before them.--Hosea xi. 4. Hosea, who lived at the decline and fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, had to speak mostly of doom. He was face to face with the evil conditions which he knew must result in doom. His sensitive heart was torn with anguish as he saw the sin and misery of his time, and as he looked forward to the dark days in front of them. The nation was blundering on to ruin through the stupidity of rulers, the formalism of religion, and the consequent degradation of life. With a miserable opportunism, which has always been thought by worldly-wisdom to be true statecraft, the ruling classes were intriguing now with Egypt and now with Assyria, not understanding that they were only making their country a pawn in the great game of these two world-powers. Through the weakening of religion, corruption was eating into the morale of the people. The prophet, loving his country with a passionate devotion, had no hope for the future except from the mercy of God using the inevitable chastisement to bring Israel back to a purer faith and a nobler life. This is why, in spite of his intense patriotism, he almost welcomes the exile he predicts. Just because of this mercy and love of God in which he trusts, he never ceases to hope against hope, to strive up to the very last to lead the people to a better mind. The book is full of the most tender appeals, that after all these centuries touch the heart still with their pathos. He breaks off from denunciation and judgment ever and anon into pleadings and persuasions. It is a book of tears and blood. It reads like the tossing of...
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