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. 1817 Excerpt: ... by those who have already enrolled their names on the list of donors and subscribers. Thus the resources of your Society will be abundantly augmented; its foundations will be strengthened and enlarged; and its sphere of usefulness greatly extended. Thus you will transmit the name of Reynolds coupled with benevolence, ...
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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. 1817 Excerpt: ... by those who have already enrolled their names on the list of donors and subscribers. Thus the resources of your Society will be abundantly augmented; its foundations will be strengthened and enlarged; and its sphere of usefulness greatly extended. Thus you will transmit the name of Reynolds coupled with benevolence, down to the latest posterity. Thus you will erect a noble monument, bearing the inscription, "Glory to God in the highest; on earth peace and good will towards men.' And thus you will be still rendering to the author of all good as ages roll by, the tribute of gratitude, whichjiis unceasing mercies demand, until the mystery of his love is finished, and the wonders of eternity are unfolded; and if angels are spectators, ' of what passes below, however they may look down with pity and contempt, upon the folly of pride--the uneasiness of avarice--the gnawings of envy--the restlessness of ambition--the torment of lust--the noise of drunkenness--and the madness of infidelity, they must behold you with peculiar approbation. They mark your progress, they behold with delight your labours of love, and repeat the symphony once heard by the shepherds on the plains of Bethlehem. There is, Sir, a communication between Heaven and Earth. There is a mystic ladder on which angels are ascending and descending. There are ministering spirits sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation. If these heavenly messengers, when returning from their offices of love, should convey the intelligence to the disembodied spirit of the holy man, of the formation and progress of your Society; will he not strike his golden harp afresh? If in yonder regions, where a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years, after the lapse of twelve of our months, he ...
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Add this copy of Fragments to the Memory of the Late Richard Reynolds.. to cart. $40.03, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
