Christian Thought on Life: In a Series of DiscoursesTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 - 287 páginas |
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Página 45 - ... unbroken, awful solitude of its own personal accountability ; and though the inhabitants of the universe were within the spirit's ken, this personal accountability is as strictly alone and unshared, as if no being were throughout immensity but the spirit and its God. The word written in the sacred book, declares that " every one of us shall give account of himself to God," and this is but a transcript of an earlier word, of " the law written in the heart.
Página 69 - Gibeon in life, upon which we can rest for a moment, the morning or the noon-tide ; there is no Ajalon in age, whereon we can force the moonlight to repose beyond its appointed hour. We cannot rekindle the morning beams of childhood ; we cannot recall the noontide glory of youth ; we cannot bring back the perfect day of maturity ; we cannot fix the evening rays of age, in the shadowy horizon ; but we can cherish that goodness which is the sweetness of childhood, the joy of youth, the strength of...