The Record of a Happy Life; Being Memorials of Franklin Whitall Smith a Student of Princeton College (Paperback)

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. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...to change its course, so we may leave all responsibility as to our lives in the Lord's hands, and go on at ease and naturally, unless He speaks and calls for a change of course. The branch is not all the while making an effort to produce fruit; it simply bears it, and leaves to the husbandman all the labor of cultivation, and of making it productive. And we are nothing but the branches, Christ is the Vine, and our Father is the Husbandman Surely, we can afford to leave ourselves to His care " I love to think of thee, my precious boy, in the care of thy dear Lord; His arms around thee, and His love enfolding thee " To his "Aunty Lill" Frank wrote about this time: "ever So Dear Auntie: "I was very glad, indeed, to get thy letter week before last. It was very encouraging to me to find thee was so glad of my being able to trust Christ, although I knew thee would be. It truly is a blessed life. But my faith is weak. It seems hard to keep continually trusting. I am so apt to forget for a moment, and then immediately I fall. But, as mother says, I know I must not be discouraged by my falls; only let them make me more anxious to return. As long as I am enabled to abide, it is a far greater and deeper joy than any the world gives. Tell grandpa I do realize the Christian's life to be a joyous one. I always used to think that when I should become an entirely consecrated Christian, I would have to be sombre and morose, and live altogether separated from, the world. But I have seen how often we are exhorted to rejoice and be joyful; and have noticed that text in John, ' I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.' There is our distinction, it seems to me, --that we should join heartily with this...