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. 1865 Excerpt: ... mornings, and mid-days, and evenings among the ages, and doubtless some truth lies under the figure. We, being short-sighted, and having limited memories, are compelled to generalize, and condense biographies into history, for the convenience of traveling through this busy and hurried world. But that book of universal ...
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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. 1865 Excerpt: ... mornings, and mid-days, and evenings among the ages, and doubtless some truth lies under the figure. We, being short-sighted, and having limited memories, are compelled to generalize, and condense biographies into history, for the convenience of traveling through this busy and hurried world. But that book of universal biography which is daily being written in heaven is, we may be sure, no philosophical abstraction of history, no mere record of successive phases of opinion and principle, but a collection of Lives of the Saints. Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to believe, and the most impossible for us to conceive, is the individuality of God's dealings with men. God does not need the aid of classifications. Every soul stands before Him as individual and distinct as Adam's did when he first looked forth alone on the world. With every soul He acts as individually as lie did with Adam when His voice was heard at noon in the silent garden calling him. Every soul has its history, and in many how strangely the religious history of the world is re-enacted! Eden, the natural rejoicing in creation; the law, the gospel; dispensation after dispensation; the "early days of faith and love," the middle ages, with their darkness and quaintly-colored illuminations, the Reformation, the era of skepticism; primitive ages, dark ages, and cold ages; era after era; how they are repeated unconsciously in the soul, some pausing at one step, some at another. So many centuries are contemporary in one. Every hour of the day exists at once every day in our world. Toujonrs un astre a son reveil, Partout ou s'abaisse Ta vue Un soleil levant Te salue. It was this individuality, this being alone with God, that Kate was now experiencing. And this was much. A kind...
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