This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...the nations." The root idea of the comparison is that of recovery, restoration, and repair, of the renewal of a temporarily suppressed and hindered life--a new root from an old root, a new shoot out of a seed that seemed dead. It suggests a fresh life springing up in glory and beauty and gladness. I have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...the nations." The root idea of the comparison is that of recovery, restoration, and repair, of the renewal of a temporarily suppressed and hindered life--a new root from an old root, a new shoot out of a seed that seemed dead. It suggests a fresh life springing up in glory and beauty and gladness. I have suggested that the message of hope is one especially appropriate to the present occasion. It is clearly spring-time for you as a congregation; and you are making a new beginning with every possible ground of cheerfulness and hope. You have passed safely through a time of comparative uncertainty and difficulty, by the guidance of the Spirit that is in you, and in the exercise of faithfulness and patience and mutual consideration; and if you have lost any ground anywhere, which I do not believe you have done, you will soon recover it again; and now you may well look forward to a period of greater privilege and blessing in your Christian fellowship than you have ever yet enjoyed; of more help in your work, of greater enlightenment from the Gospel, and more success in your united effort to advance the Kingdom of God. May all your hopes be abundantly fulfilled and far surpassed! As individuals, however, many of you need the promise of recovery and the message of comfort and hope for the very opposite reason. Can I forget through what a dark winter some of you have been passing, or how hard it is for you to accept the gladdening omens of the spring? For some then--a few perhaps--it may be difficult to look forward into life hopefully, or to think that their spirits will recover from the things that have befallen, and they can only feel to-day that their happy and hopeful days are over, that they have had their spring--these long-past days of...
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