The Methodist Review Volume 24 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...abounds in multitudes of illustrations of the wisdom and power of God. There are sermons in stones, and eloquent sermons, that will beco1ne so plain that he may run that readeth them. N ature s brooks and vales, and mountains and seas, have tongues and voices and ministries that inspire the mind, refresh and replenish the soul, and open new fountains in the human heart. N 0 man has a right to know more of the book of nature than he who is called to explain the words of the living God to the intelligence, and enforce them upon the consciences, of living men. All science belongs to the treasury of the householder, whose business it is to help his fellow-men to live noble lives here and nobler lives hereafter. Men and books form a large part of the life-time study of the laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. Nature, above, below, around us; twinkling in the stars; glittering in the dew-drop; trembling in the fullness of the summer-time; burdened with its wealth of harvest-fields; preaching its lessons of decay in winter, and of resurrection in the spring--how many sermons of sublimest eloquence does the book of nature tender to the appreciating earl But I have no time. So said Sir Samuel Romilly when solicited to undertake a certain work. Go to that fellow Brougham; he seems to have time for every thing. How many hours were there in Lord Brougham s day? Only twenty-four; precisely as many as in the day of Sir Samuel Romilly. But Lord Brougham wasted no time. As a pleader at the bar; as a lawyer of the first rank, whose eloquence was only inferior to his knowledge; as an author, sketching the times in which he lived and the men who preceded and...