Sabbath thoughts and sacred communings [ed. by S. Aguilar].
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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. 1853 Excerpt: ...in sacred awe, but my soul feels as I think on death, a longing after Heaven! There is nought yet in this world to dim the bright picture of Heaven:--as long as it pleases my Heavenly Father to guard me in this world I am content to live; but when it is His pleasure to remove me hence, I have no dread of death; I know not what it is to feel-that fondness for a passing world to live in dread of death, and "die a thousand deaths in fearing one." We lament over the departed, but we lament our loss; surely not that they have quitted a world where joy and sorrow mingle, to enter one of eternal bliss! We mourn, for perchance a family circle is deprived of one of its loved supporters; we feel their absence, we miss their affection, their council, we weep for we can see them not again, at least not in this life, and there is a blank where they have been. Perchance a friend long loved and dear has gone to her last home, and we weep over her tomb, for there is a void within our hearts which no one else can fill--the joys of this world once enjoyed with her are joys no longer. Perchance a fond mother weeps over her child, cut off in the spring of life: she looks in vain for the endearing smile, she can no longer watch the dawning mind, the rise to fame; and a parent's grief no human skill can cure. But, can we weep for the fate of the departed--weep, that they are removed from a chequered world where perfect happiness is not. When we see those in the early bloom of youth cut off, we may sympathise with their mourning friends and weep for them, that those so dear to us are gone; but not for the released one, whom God has taken to Himself, ere the troubles of this world are his, whilst yet the pleasure of an earthly world have been his lot, alone, and ere sin ...
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