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. 1884 Excerpt: ...of life, come whence and how they may. In this broad and comprehensive sense this universal challenge is to be taken. It is addressed to suffering mortals of every sort. Looking over the world of mankind, everywhere sorrowing and burdened, reaching after happiness, but finding it in no earthly conditions or relations, ...
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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. 1884 Excerpt: ...of life, come whence and how they may. In this broad and comprehensive sense this universal challenge is to be taken. It is addressed to suffering mortals of every sort. Looking over the world of mankind, everywhere sorrowing and burdened, reaching after happiness, but finding it in no earthly conditions or relations, and arrogating to Himself the sole prerogative of God as fully indicated in the old question and answer: "Who will show us any good? Lord, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us" (Ps. iv. 6), Christ offers Himself, not in the way of mere verbal sympathy, but as the absolute, personal Source of all true and solid comfort--"Come unto Me, I will give you rest." Even in this direction, what moral grandeur is His! How quietly, yet how confidently, He calls all mankind away from their toil and hardship to His side. He puts Himself in opposition to the world under its best form, and claims to be of more account than all its honors, riches, pleasures; and His language is a direct challenge to men to turn away from all the things in which their good is thought to lie. If the language rested in no consciousness of Divine being and powers then was it in the highest degree presumptuous, and the Christ of the Gospel stands before the world as an unmitigated fraud (St. John vii. 12)--deceiving the people. All this, however, is but the smallest fraction of the misery of our present state. In these manifold branchlets of woe we have not begun to touch the bitter root in which they all stand. Public calamities, social distress, personal disappointment, private grief, family sorrow, bodily disturbance and final disorganization, disease terminating in death--"the fortunes of the body following the fortunes of the soul"--a...
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