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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...presence chastens into purity, your family ties. Innermost of all, and closed by muffled doors, stands the real sanctum--the closet of unshared thoughts, secret imaginings, and personal ambitions. Here sits the soul, silent and alone, pursuing unchecked its proper bent and play. Yet even at this sacred door, ...
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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. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...presence chastens into purity, your family ties. Innermost of all, and closed by muffled doors, stands the real sanctum--the closet of unshared thoughts, secret imaginings, and personal ambitions. Here sits the soul, silent and alone, pursuing unchecked its proper bent and play. Yet even at this sacred door, where no earthly intimate may enter, does Jesus knock. Perchance you keep that dark room for shameful images, or for the weaving of forbidden dreams, or for the worship of a vanished treasure. Can it be that it is like the chamber with its door built up which Ezekiel saw, on whose blind walls were portrayed "every form of creeping and evil things," and within whose guarded secrecy the ancients of the house of Israel sent up incense, "every man in the chambers of his imagery "? I might name other apartments; but I care not how you choose to label those divisions of our complex life out of which our Lord is excluded. Count over the occupations that fill up each working day, and say how far you let Christ legislate for them all. Glance round the circles of society with which business or amusement brings you into contact, and ask yourself how far your intercourse with each is regulated by the will of your Lord. You may find on inquiry that you are keeping religion too exclusively to the intellectual or to the devotional side of your nature, not suffering it to express itself sufficiently in active duty. Or you may find it to be an affair of fuss and display with you, penetrating hardly at all to the base of character so as to sweeten your temper or restrain your appetites. It may be some favourite study or pastime, from your indulgence in which you have hitherto shut out the thought of God. Or you may not be consciously...
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