Life Thoughts Gathered From the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher
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Grace is meant to carry men back to nature, whose true laws and intents are only the moulds of God's thoughts. The idea of the Bible is not to make neat, snug, nice, dapper little Christians, that go tripping along the ways of life. There is no warrant in the Bible for any thing which is not 202 LIFE THOUGHTS. manly, and robust, and large. Cautiousness and timidity, a narrow path and a timid policy, are not Christian traits. * As bells answer bells, and strike with sweet collision in the air, s...o may heart answer heart, and joy answer joy, upon this wedding day, when those who are affianced to God are openly united to him in holy coimmunion. I HAVE seen men whose reverence for religion was so morbid that they could hardly lift up their eyes to heaven, but who made it up by the way they looked down on their fellow-men men who yield- ed to no master here, who were touched by no name of friend or brother ; but the moment the name of God was pronounced, they collapsed. WHY should you carry troubles and sorrows un- healed ?
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