The Family Treasurey (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. 1860 Excerpt: ...Beings thus sentenced can claim no right, exercise no civil function, perform no legal act; and though as yet only trembling in the grasp of death, the law regards them as already dead. "I am come," says the Saviour, " that you might have life." "Look to me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." In the moment we look to him in penitence and faith, our sentence is reversed, and the promise is fulfilled which declares that "He who believeth on the Son hath life." The life which he spares he renovates, for to the gift of a free pardon he adds the gift of the Spirit. That Spirit is life. Henceforth we have a life that can trust, a life that can love, a life that can burn with the beauties of holiness; a life that can work for God on earth, and worship him in heaven; and although the body must die, that dissolution which nature regards with such a deep instinctive terror, does not in reality break the continuity of our highest life; it is only an event in our history, a change we must suffer, a line we must cross on our way to a nobler existence. You who are searching for the great secret--you who, like the alchemists of the Gothic ages, have been trying through many a long year, and by many a weary experiment, to discover the true elixir of life--come to Jesus; he aloue can offer to your souls the cup of eternal youth. Drink of the water of life that he gives, and you will never die. Time will die, earth will die, sorrow will die, death will die; but he who believes in Jesus shall never, never die, --Rev. C. Stanford. EVENIHO HYMH. The moon up heaven is going, The golden stars are glowing, In skies serene and bright; The still woods lie in shadow, And dreamlike from the meadow The mist is creeping dim and white. How ...