A Pastor's Valedictory : a Selection of Early Sermons
The book A Pastor's Valedictory : a Selection of Early Sermons was written by author Stratton, Joseph B. (Joseph Buck), 1815-1903 Here you can read free online of A Pastor's Valedictory : a Selection of Early Sermons book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Pastor's Valedictory : a Selection of Early Sermons a good or bad book?
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It vegetates in the tranquil nooks and corners of ground where the sunshine and the dew, anil the hand that teiuls it, the eye that loves it, are its only visitors. And piety in the soul is not the nurseling of the strifes, and exciteujents, and cares, and pas- sions, of the world. It must grow as the lily grows, where heaven can look down upon it, and it can look uj) to heaven. It wants its hedge of domestic sanctities, and its consecrated closet, and its quiet solitude, in which to meditate, ...and its cloisters in the breast where holy thoughts and spiritual af- fections, may shelter their purity from outward pollution. Show me a languid, sickly Christian, and I shall explain the secret of his unhappy condition, [)robably by saying, "he is growing wliere he ought not to be." He has become entangled with the allairs of this life; and the dust of worldliness is blighting his spiritual frame, and earthly schemes and cares have separated him from fellowship with God, and his Son. He has left that fenced garden, that spot "out of the world" where the Saviour placed him, and where the "beloved' (as the Song of Solomon expresses Christ's art'ectionate intercourse with his saints), "goes down to wander amidst tiie beds of spices, and to gather lilies." Yet, let it not be supposed, that man is to cease to be man, and sever his heart from all human sympathies and interests, by becoming a Christian.
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