Perennials; Selections from the Writings of (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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... December jfirst. If Christ sees reality, we can well understand how He can be patient with littleness. For where He stands, eternity is all in sight; He sees forever; He knows through what summer of cloudless sunshine the least grace will have time to ripen to the richest. He knows in what rich fields the seed will find eternal lodgment. So there is time enough if only the seed be real. If it be not real, eternity is not long enough nor heaven rich enough to bring it to anything. December Secon&. The power of any life lies in its expectancy. "What do you hope for? what do you expect?" The answer to these two questions is the measure of the degree in which a man is living. December Gbirb. As our souls stand waiting for their Deliverer... men are questioning about Him; they are asking, "Who is He?" Let us have our answer ready: He is my Saviour. To know Him has been a new life to me. It has been salvation. Henceforth not I live, but He liveth in me; and where He leads I will go, what He makes me I will be, now and "forever. December jfourtb. Look at Christ.... His was the freest life man ever lived. He walked across old Jewish traditions and they snapped like cobwebs. He acted upon the divinity that was in Him up to the noblest idea of liberty. But was there no compulsion about His working? Hear Him: "I must be about my Father's business." Who does not pray that he, too, may be ruled by such a sweet, despotic law of liberty. JDecember jfKtb. All heaven is working for us if we will, as the little child digs his well in the sea-shore sand, and then the great ocean comes up and fills it for him. December Sijtb. "Getting a living " Is it not one of the mortifying things to take now and then these words that we are using every day so lightly, and see...