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: ...with his venerable grandeur, when " hoar-frost is scattered like ashes, and ice like morsels"--of the heavens, which declare the glory of God, and the firmament, which showeth his handy work--of the earth, with its varied features of loveliness--of " the brook by the way," which runs among the hills, that the beasts of ...
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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: ...with his venerable grandeur, when " hoar-frost is scattered like ashes, and ice like morsels"--of the heavens, which declare the glory of God, and the firmament, which showeth his handy work--of the earth, with its varied features of loveliness--of " the brook by the way," which runs among the hills, that the beasts of the field may drink--and of the great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great. This love of nature was a passion strong even in death. It is well known to you all that a great but unhappy genius, when dying, requested that the window-blinds of his room might not be let down, so that he might see as long as he was able the glories of a July sun--and the last words of Israel's sweetest singer were enriched with figurative allusions drawn from the material world, which no one but a true lover of nature, and a true worshipper of God, could have employed. "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain." 2 Samuel xxiii. 3, 4. All the allusions to the material world, so profusely scattered throughout the book of Psalms, betoken a spirit deeply imbued with a love of nature in all her varied moods, in all her forms of romantic grandeur, or simple, bland, and placid beauty. Thomson's Hymn of the Seasons has been greatly admired, but it cannot once be compared to the 104th Psalm, which is the divine hymn of nature, in which the sacred minstrel represents the Almighty as clothing himself with light as with a garment. (What a sublime conception!) St...
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