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Excerpt from Mountain-Musings, and Other PoemsHampstead Heath: Rural Charms Hampstead Heath: The Teeming City Preface to Bolton Abbey Hymns At Bolton Abbey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from The Wonderful Escape: A Brief MemoirMusing on the progressive nature of his piety, - how year by year, from an elevation seldom attained, he rose yet higher and higher in heavenly-mindedness, re¿ecting more and more steadily and distinctly the image of his Lord, I might have applied to him the words of Solomon The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.The testimonies received dur...

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Excerpt from Lyrics of a Long LifeLord of the mountains Thee I praise Who didst the ancient hills upraise, The furrowed cliffs that frown on high, And granite peaks that pierce the sky.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruc...

Excerpt from A Parting WordLarge congregations, the Gospel of Salvation. How will that pleasure be augmented should words of mine, spoken in Weakness, become, by Divine, Grace, means of spiritual good to any Who have listened to my voice! I pray that God may bless my simple Words to the comforting and strengthening of His children. I also, and still more earnestly, pray that He may use those words to bring back many Who have wandered from Hims...

Excerpt from Quench Not the SpiritA man has lost his way in a dark and dreary mine. By the light of one candle which he carries in his hand, he is groping for the road to sunshine and to home. That light is essential to his safety. The mine has many Winding passages in Which he may be hopelessly bewildered Without that light. Here and there marks have been made on the rocks to point out the true path, but he cannot see them Without that light....

Excerpt from Come to Jesus!There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. Some sinners seem to be at peace, but it is only by refusing to think. They will not consider. But such thoughtlessness is not wor thy to be called peace. It is like a man in a sinking ship, who will not examine what is the danger, or like a tradesmen, who fancies all is not going on well, but will not look into his ao counts, lest his mind should be disturbed. So the s...

Excerpt from The Christian Philosopher Triumphing Over Death: A Narrative of the Closing Scenes of the Life of the Late William Gordon, M.D. F L. S. Of Kingston-Upon-HullAnother weight which painfully oppresses the mind of the writer, is the deeply-felt incompetence to do justice to his theme. His object is not to eulogize the dead, but to benefit the living, by exhibiting the value of that religion which could so wonderfully sustain the decea...

Excerpt from The Reasonableness and Efficacy of PrayerTo borrow the words of Guizot: Alone, of all living beings on the earth, man prays. There is not among all his moral instincts a more uni versal, a more invincible one than prayer. The child betakes himself to it with ready docility.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of ...

Excerpt from From Liverpool to St. LouisIn some degree to supply this defect, to furnish an opportunity of acknowledging some of the many kindnesses received, and in the hope, perhaps the pleasant delusion, that some of his readers may be interested in so personal a narrative, the author ven tures, by way of preface, to give the following outline of his tour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...

Excerpt from Newman Hall in America: Rev. Dr. Hall's Lectures on Temperance and Missions to the Masses, Also, an Oration on Christian Liberty, Together With His Reception by the New York Union League ClubI' quite forgot it. Why, we could sing every line of that hymn as well as you. It suits us exactly, and you sing it to our tune [laughter].I am not going. To make a speech, for I deter mmed I would not do anything till Sunday, but my friend Dr...

Excerpt from NowBut multitudes waste what they actually possess, in vain regrets for what they once had, or vain intentions respecting what is not yet theirs. Alas! Says one, Ihave thrown away the choicest opportunities - the best part of my life is lost -0, if those years might re turn, how differently would I now act! Those years cannot return. But you have the pres ent moment! Why add the neglect of the present which you can improve, to the...

Excerpt from Sermons: With a History of Surrey Chapel and Its InstitutionsGentlemen: I am much obliged to you for consulting me in reference to the publication of some of the sermons I preached in the United States, and for giving me the opportunity of selection and revision. This is a courtesy due to every author, but not always shown to those who speak as well as write, and to whom the injustice is sometimes done of placing on permanent, rec...

Excerpt from Sermons: With a History of Surrey Chapel and Its InstitutionsGentlemen: I am much obliged to you for consulting me in reference to the publication of some of the sermons I preached in the United States, and for giving me the opportunity of selection and revision. This is a courtesy due to every author, but not always shown to those who speak as well as write, and to whom the injustice is sometimes done of placing on permanent, rec...

Excerpt from The Land of the Forum and the Vatican: Or Thoughts and Sketches During an Easter Pilgrimage to RomeIn conclusion, I have to express my obligations, more or less, to the labours of my predecessors, especially to the elaborate work of Sir G. Head, in three volumes. Every quotation of Which I am conscious has been ac knowledged in the margin. For many valuable sug gestions, Iam indebted to our estimable and aecom plished travelling c...

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