Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... the heedless city. O'er him breaking, Beyond the far hills and the soundless main, Rise lands and peoples, deep in night's domain, Where deathless love shall conquer; nations waking Down the long ages, prisoned souls set free. His face was westward--it was turned to me." This is very beautiful. Wherever there is a life that is hurt by sin or sorrow in all the land, the face of the Christ on the cross beams on it with healing in its beams. "By his stripes we are healed." By his wounding our wounds are cured. His visage was marred, that the marring of sin in our faces might be changed to beauty. By his sorrows our sorrows are comforted. "I will restore the cankered years," he said. He smote thrice, and stayed... Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times.--2 Kings xiii. 18, 19. /CHARACTER comes out in little things. It V_y seemed a small matter, there in the prophet's dying chamber, whether the king shot three arrows or six, yet the future successes of his sword depended on it. Unconsciously, he was undergoing a critical test. His lack of energy in shooting the arrows betrayed a fatal weakness of character. And when the test was over the measure of his success in life was unalterably fixed. No doubt he would have given large sums for a repetition of the testing, now that he knew what depended on it; but it was too late. Every life is full of just such testings. Destinies are forever turning on events too trivial for record. Our characters are ever being put to proof in the smallest things, and the result settles important matters for our future. He who improves his one talent receives more. He who is faithful in things that are least is intrusted with greater things. On the other hand, unfaithfulness in the...
