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. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... Note No modern treatment of the subject of ministerial depression is more full of pathos and suggestiveness than that which is to be found in a sermon by F. W. Robertson upon the despondency of Elijah (Sermons, ii. pp. 73 f.). Every word comes pulsing from the inmost heart of the speaker. A few sentences may give an impression of its general purport, but it should be carefully studied as a whole. 'We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Of that constitution, which in our ignorance we call union of soul and body, we know little respecting what is cause and what is effect. We would fain believe that the mind has power over the body, but it is just as true that the body rules the mind. Causes apparently the most trivial: a heated room--want of exercise--a sunless day--a northern aspect--will make all the difference between happiness and unhappiness, between faith and doubt, between courage and indecision.'... 'What greater minds like Elijah's have felt intensely, all we have felt in our own degree. Not one of us but what has felt his heart aching for want of sympathy. We have had our lonely hours, our days of disappointment, and our moments of hopelessness--times when our highest feelings have been misunderstood, and our purest met with ridicule. Days when our heavy secret was lying unshared, like ice upon the heart. And then the spirit gives way: we have wished that all were over--that we could lie down tired, and rest like the children, from life--that the hour was come when we could put down the extinguisher on the lamp, and feel the last grand rush of darkness on the spirit.' After tracing with extraordinary insight the Divine treatment of Elijah's case by the administration of' food, rest, and exercise, ' by the healing influences of..
