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. 1913 Excerpt: ...be a duty to us, but a joy to us. It is not duty that brings the lover to see the woman he loves. He comes not because of appointment, but because his heart hastes thitherward. 0 Lord, we would hurry up and come to meet Thee. And we hasten this morning to tell Thee that we love Thee. Our hearts were worse than ashes if ...
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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. 1913 Excerpt: ...be a duty to us, but a joy to us. It is not duty that brings the lover to see the woman he loves. He comes not because of appointment, but because his heart hastes thitherward. 0 Lord, we would hurry up and come to meet Thee. And we hasten this morning to tell Thee that we love Thee. Our hearts were worse than ashes if we did not tell God this. Each season hath its splendor and there is Spring time and then the Fall time, and Thou hast Thine own message to us at all times. O God, this glorious Sabbath morning, refresh our hearts with the sense of God. We can not live always. Our journey leads us to the grave. O God, hearten us by this solemn truth to-day, that after the Autumn leaf there is the Spring leaf. No intervention of Winter, no wild callings of the Winter winds disturb us. If we love Christ we run out of the shadows to the glory and the beauty of the eternal Spring time, where flowers are eternal and the Spring time clouds glory along the sky. O God our Savior, teach us this morning how beautiful it is to be Christians. So bless all who are in the autumn of life, who can not hear as they used to hear, who can not see as they used to see. Bless the men that have to lean on the arms of others, who used to have others lean on them. Bless the mothers who lean now on their sons and daughters they held in their arms. Bless age, youth, childhood, and adulthood, and help us all to love Thee, O Christ. Amen. BLESSED Lord and Savior of mankind, how we magnify the love of God which had a race in its intent and never forgot the design of saving a race, and never fell below the glorious intent of establishing a race in the Heaven of heavens. We are Thy beloved. Though we be bad and slow of heart and removed from high thoughts, yet the love of God walks out our ...
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Add this copy of The Climb to God to cart. $59.18, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.