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. 1891 Excerpt: ... We also are better prepared to estimate the value of the life that now is ag related to what we call eternity; its culture as related to everlasting growth, and the work of forming character as related to the immutable fixedness of character hereafter. Heed the words of the poet Holmes.: "Build thee more stately ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ... We also are better prepared to estimate the value of the life that now is ag related to what we call eternity; its culture as related to everlasting growth, and the work of forming character as related to the immutable fixedness of character hereafter. Heed the words of the poet Holmes.: "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than thelast, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea F' The theme is an inspiring one. These computations and measurements of the soul's actual and possible life quicken one to a higher consecration to life's great end. We are to look on our body as the temple of the Holy Ghost identified some way with the resurrection body, and therefore as God's residence to be kept holy, worthy of its prospective glory. We are to look on life, with its cares and burdens, its mysteries and disappointments, its friendships and enmities, its successea and reverses, as but the scaffolding to Chabacter, that grand edifice which death cannot demolish nor the grave deface, but which is to grow more beautiful throughout eternity. How insignificant the posses, sions or the losses of this little life when n Christian views them in the light of that near eternity! Dedicated to Jesus, he will be devoted to the salvation of men. His religion, " set on fire," will be a power among men. Having tasted of the powers of the world to come, he will so speak to men as to convince them that he is at least in earnest. "When he preaches," said Charles I. of one of his clergy, "I cannot go to sleep, for he speaks as though death were behind his back." When Dante ...
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