Sunny Memories of Three Pastorates, with a Selection of Sermons and Essays (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.1903 Excerpt: ... Equinoxes in Life. "Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth" signs of the Zodiac in their Season?--Job Xxxviii: 32. In the heart of the Bible, which is our Heavenly Father's book, we find two dramas, one a drama of the spirit, the other a drama of the affections. In the Song of Songs, we have the dramatic picture, in five acts and fourteen scenes, of a pure woman tempted as women are most tempted, keeping purity and yet reaching peace and victory. In the book of Job we have a drama of the spirit. In a tragedy with prologue, dialogue, and epilogue, we see the temptations which can most try the spirit of a man. The movement culminates in God's vindication of his servant, with whom He walks. Job's captivity is turned and his prosperity reappears. Upon a single line of this poetical drama, a question of God as he speaks out of the whirlwind to the man of Uz, we meditate this morning. This Sabbath day falls ou the autumnal equinox, and at four o'clock this afternoon, the season of autumn, as determined by the clock of the heavens, begins. The great line of the sun's path touching the line of the earth's equator, will make the autumnal equinox. Exactly one-half of the earth will be bathed in sunlight. The exact other half being in darkness. There will be equal day and night all over the world. Rejoicing as a strong man to run a race, even after uncounted centuries of unwearied activity, the sun will speed forward to the winter solstice of December 21st. The question to Job which the inspired poet puts into the mouth of God, has an especial and felicitous timeliness today. He bids desponding Job look up to the starry heavens whence come the influences which generate rain, frost, snow, ice. He points him to the clustered stars in the Pleiades, the bands of Orion, the G...