Synopsis
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. 1871 Excerpt: ...be then, is base and slavish; that kind of fear is a fear which hath torment, and has never done anything else than weaken and impoverish life. It is a solemn thing to live, with a human will, with a selfish sensual nature, pressed by the temptations of a world like this; solemn, nay awful, to the man who has no higher hand to lean upon, no light from on high to guide his steps, no hope reaching beyond the veil to nerve and inspire his heart. Every moment there are influences pressing upon him which tend to make existence a burden and life a curse to him, as long as thought or feeling endure. And his own power is utter impotence. The wonderful passage, Romans vii. 7-25, which the reader will do well to study in this connection, utters the wail of man's heart over the tremendous evils which threaten him, and the miserable weakness and helplessness which leave him to be their prey. But it is here and now that the burden has to be borne, the pain has to be felt, the deliverance has to be realised. Here and now the Deliverer is waiting to save; "now is the accepted time, now is Hie day of salvation "--salvation, not from a possible future, but from an actual present: a present burden, a present pain, a present despair., The grand aim of the preacher of the gospel must be to awaken men to a present sense of the misery of sin, and the anguish of alienation from God. The man who is conscious of that in his heart of hearts is in a wholesome, hopeful condition. This is the only "anxious inquiry" which it is wise and right to foster, How shall I get rid of the sin which is perverting, corrupting, destroying my nature, is poisoning all the springs of life, and sowing seed which will bear a bitter harvest of death in time and through eternity? That ...
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