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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... V1.--"THE VALE OF TEARS." Painted by GUSTAVE DoRE.) "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."--Matt. iv. 16. Read also John i. 4, and John viii. 12. AM inclined to think that the verse which is generally associated ...
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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. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... V1.--"THE VALE OF TEARS." Painted by GUSTAVE DoRE.) "The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up."--Matt. iv. 16. Read also John i. 4, and John viii. 12. AM inclined to think that the verse which is generally associated with Gustave Dora's picture, "The Vale of Tears," "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," does not convey so precisely the conception which the artist has sought to embody on canvas as the words which I have just read for my text. I accept this verse as representing: --I. The condition of humanity without Christ. II. The nature of the blessing which Christ's advent into the world brought with it. I. The condition of the human race without Christ. Of course, these words on the lips of the prophet who first uttered them, as also of the evangelist who refers to their fulfilment, had a primary meaning, but, on the principle that no prophecy "is of any private or special interpretation," these words have also a wide significance. Christ's advent into the world not only affected the condition of those with whom by His personal ministry He was thus early brought into contact, but also of the whole human race whose nature He assumed. The verse describes graphically, not only the state of certain benighted districts, but of the whole world without the Christ. He, and He only, is "the light which lighteth every man coming into the world." Thus our text graphically describes the condition of humanity by sin: --" Sat in darkness.... Sat in the region and shadow of death." I think that this great fact has been wonderfully represented in the picture to which I call your attention this evening. All the light we see in...
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