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. 1858 Excerpt: ...guide the sailor on the sea and the traveller on the desert; and it is for some, like the sailor and the traveller, simply to be guided. You are in a hurry to see the world in its latterday glory; and well you may be, for you have but a little time. But God is not in a hurry. There is no such thing as time with God. ...
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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. 1858 Excerpt: ...guide the sailor on the sea and the traveller on the desert; and it is for some, like the sailor and the traveller, simply to be guided. You are in a hurry to see the world in its latterday glory; and well you may be, for you have but a little time. But God is not in a hurry. There is no such thing as time with God. The world is his seed-bed. He has planted deep and multitudinously, and many things there are which have not yet come up. Some things are just sprouted, and some have blossomed; and yet, because the sheeted prairie of life is not covered with the flowers of love, men say, "It will never come. The world will be burned up first." The world is preparing day by day for the millennium, but you do not see it. Every season forms itself a year in advance. The coming summer lays out her work during the autumn, and buds and roots are forespoken. Ten million roots are pumping in the streets; do you hear them? Ten million buds are forming in the axils of the leaves; do you hear the sound of the saw or the hammer? All next summer is at work in the world, but it is unseen by us, and so "the kingdom of God cometh not with observation." If any man is rich and powerful, he comes under that law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them. Patriotism, in our day, is made to be an argument for all public wrong, and all private meanness. For the sake of country a man is told to yield every thing that makes the land honorable. For the sake of country a man must submit to every ignominy that will lead to the ruin of the state through disgrace of the citizen. There never was a man so unpatriotic as Christ was. Old Jerusalem ou...
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