Lectures on Prayer and Kindred Subjects (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 edition. Excerpt: ...using the healthy exercise, watching against that which might injure, we should not travel on, as many now do, in doubt and darkness and discomfort. How much more also should we prove living witnesses of our Father's love, and how would our marked separation from the spirit and aim and hopes of the world, make it plain to those that are afar off from God, that we possessed a life of X which they knew nothing. For the prominent features of that life would continue to be the same as those I have already alluded to as marking its commencement, and how alien are these to the spirit of the world. Let me again repeat them. Contrition for sin, and a shrinking from it in every form. Faith and love toward the Lord Jesus Christ, with peace and joy in Him. A subjection of our will to the Divine will. A prayerful spirit. A life devoted not to ourselves but to the Lord. Do we bear these evidences of life? Again let me ask it, Are we alive or are we dead? LECTUEE IV. OUR SAVIOUR AND THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA. CHAPTER I. THE INTERVIEW. There are few of the narratives of the Bible that are more indelibly engraved on our minds than that which claims our attention this evening. With our mind's eye we see a little company of travellers in the heat of the day walking slowly along a verdant plain. We watch them till, at the extremity of this plain, they reach a narrow valley between two well-defined hills. At the entrance of this valley is a well of water, on which one of the party, wearied with his walk, sits down to rest whilst the others pass on to the town in the beautiful gorge before them. Then we see a woman with her water-pot drawing near to the well, and the two at length engaged in earnest conversation. But who are they who appear to have thus ace dentally met...