The book Sermons Preached in Eton College Chapel 1870 1897 was written by author Francis St John Thackeray Here you can read free online of Sermons Preached in Eton College Chapel 1870 1897 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sermons Preached in Eton College Chapel 1870 1897 a good or bad book?
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We may dismiss him with the thought that perhaps he deserves his present state ; but there is in him the possibility of restora- ioo The Book of Job. [vn tion ; at least we know not his trials in the past. We know not his scant measure of opportunity compared with our own. We cannot tell what may be in store for him hereafter. Sometimes over the face of some miserable person, as the mists of wretchedness clear off, and the end is unmistakeably drawing near, there comes a dignity which it never ...wore before. This I have seen, and a new light has flashed upon those wondrous words : " Who shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body. " I look upon Job in prosperity as the pattern priest and head of a family, who feels that there exists something far beyond earthly comfort, and recognizes its certain danger, its proneness to self-reliance, to softness, and to wantonness. Very touching is his anxiety for his sons, and the glimpse we have of his sanctifying them, and offering sacrifices for them after the days of their feasting : " For it may be, " he said, " that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.
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