Author : Henry Cowles
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230113592
The Oberlin Evangelist Volume 7-8 by Henry Cowles Pdf
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ... and gained its shadow. The Word of God tells us of a fountain whose wa lual life, and whose supplies shall never fail. Fortlie heart that has become faint and weary in the service of the Iworld, for the soul that is bowed down by care, tost with disquietude and harrassed by remorse, there is a lountain of refreshment which offers to renew the suf l-Suppose these laws are dormant Then they dot ferer by a nobler strength than that of nature, and bias, him with the experience of a more glorious, because immortal existence. He has no savage wilds to 11-93, to reach it. no hostile bands to battle with, to win the right to drink of its waters. Its streams flow down tr) him from the Cross on which the Redeemer died and from the throne where he intercedes for sinners. They are ofl'ered to him in the living oracles of the Divine Word--in the Christian ordinances---in the Church of the living God. They come through prayer, through meditation, through the exercise of penitence, through the efforts of faith, through God's Spirit vouchsgfed to sincerity ofheart, and earnestness in the pursuit 0fdutv_ rcfiman. ' The Oberlin Evangelist ls published every alternate week. Each volume begins the first Vednesday of January, and closes with the year, containing twenty-six numbers, with a. title page and index. 1. Taking into view the whole of the verse of which the text is a part, it is obvious that there are two prime ideas involved in the syiiritqfthe i'n_junction: ---namely, 1. A caution against giving attention to things that are idle and profitloss. By " profane and old wives' fables," Paul may have referred to the doctrines of the Rabbies, than which nothing can well be more worthless and ill befitting a sensible and Christian...