The Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter Volume 6 (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. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...over the fields of personal experience and human history. No gleaner ever more faithfully harvested his field than will memory in the other world carefully gather up every sheaf of her past. Over and over again will she eagerly revisit and traverse all the way by which she Came up to the judgment seat of Christ. She will seem to live over again each epoch of mortal life, and treasure up the number of those years which were spent in the earth, as a tale that is told. Each incident of that tale will be distinctly defined, and some of its occurrences prominently delineated among the pictures of memory. There will be a grouping of the recollections of childhood, of youth, of manhood, and old age, in their appropriate variety and order. Seasons of grace and of trial, of wandering, of peril, of conversions, of the spiritual conflict, of prayer, praise, Christian fellowship and gracious attainment, and of the dying hour, will come thronging to the mind like bees to their hives--like doves to their windows. Privileges, opportunities, invitations, warnings, appeals of conscience, strivings of the Spirit, sermons, Sabbath hours and ordinances of God's house; the vicissitudes and associations of business; memorable events of domestic and social life, of school days and of subsequent years, will flock for recognition to the door of memory. And that door will be thrown wide open. Many of the stores of time are wrapped up in mystery, or jealously guarded as the secrets of the individual breast; known only to consciousness and to the Omniscient eye. But hereafter we may expect veils and disguises to be removed, and may anticipate the disclosure of every idle word, each guilty purpose, each sinful thought, as well as every deed done in the body. Secret sins will...