The Great Pilot and His Lessons (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. 1867. Excerpt: ... X. g go to yityatt a part for gon.--John 14: 2. Suppose that you and I were children belonging to a family living in England. And suppose that our father had come over to this country to purchase a farm, and build a house and barn upon it, and get everything ready to make it a comfortable home for us. Before he went away, he told us that as soon as he got it all prepared he was going to come back and take us all there, that we might live with him in that new home. If this were the case with us, how much interest and pleasure we should take in thinking and talking about that home in America, which our father was getting ready for us, and where he was going to take us to live, one of these days. And when we received letters from our father, telling us about that home, --how large the farm was which he had bought, --where it was situated, --how much of the land was in woods, and how much was cleared, --what sort of fruit trees were growing on it, --what kind of buildings were on it, --how the country looked around, --the character of the people living in the neighborhood, --and various other particulars, --how carefully we should read those letters How often we should take them out and look over them again And what great delight we should find in talking among ourselves of everything that our father had told us about the home to which we were going. Now, my dear children, if we love Jesus, we belong to a great family, of which he is the head or father. He has left his family in this world, and has gone to the heavenly Canaan to prepare a place for us, a blessed, happy home, in which we are to live with him forever. When that place is ready, --when that home is finished, --he will come back again to this world and gather all his family together, and take them