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What grief would the lovers of the Lord have, if you now sat by the bedside of a sister of whom we had no evidence that her heart was purified by a Saviour's blood? If you are so distressed about one whom you trust your Father Is taking to rest in the bosom of his Son, how would you feel if she were one of those who, as soon as the breath left her body, would dwell with everlasting burnings!

Here was the real "bottomless pit" the "fire which is not quenched" "the place of hell" "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone" the "everlasting burnings" the fiery sea whose waves are never weary. There were groanings, rumblings, and detonations, rushings, hissings, and splashings, and the crashing sound of breakers on the coast, but it was the surging of fiery waves upon a fiery shore.

And Thomas Jefferson: how did this return to primordial chaos, brought about in no uncertain sense by his own premeditated act, affect him? Only a man quite lost to all promptings of the grace that saves and softens could look unmoved on the burnings and riotings, the cruel wastings and the bloodlettings, one would say.

Life was sweet moreover it was supremely interesting! Her breakfast ended, rising from her place at table, she looked away to the purple cone of the great volcano and the uprising of the smoke of its everlasting burnings. The sight of this, magnificent, menacing evidence of the anarchic might of the powers of nature, quickened the pagan instinct in her. She wanted to worship.

Is it possible for the soul that has escaped eternal burnings that has experienced the bitterness and exceeding sinfulness of sin that has felt the misery of transgression that has been brought up out of that deep and horrible pit to backslide and plunge again into misery, with his eyes open to see the smoke of their torments ascending up before him?

Let me rest in Thee while in this weary land, and let Thy sweet love, my Brother and my Lord, be mine all on earth and the heaven of my heaven! 'Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? 15.

One is, that if we glance back at past beliefs and their correlative feelings, as shown in Dante's poem, in the mystery-plays of the middle ages, in St. Bartholomew massacres, in burnings for heresy, we get proof that in comparatively modern times right and wrong meant little else than subordination or insubordination to a divine ruler primarily, and under him to a human ruler.

The extensive burnings, and the number of our sable visitors, showed that the country was well inhabited. About four or five miles from the last creek, which I shall call "Hodgson's Creek," in honour of Pemberton Hodgson, Esq. the river divided into two almost equal branches, one coming from the northward, and the other from north-west by west.

Recent examples of the thorough manner in which the royal admirals could carry out these bloody instructions had been furnished by the hangings, burnings, and drownings of Fazardo. But the barbarous ferocity of the Dutch on this occasion might have taught a lesson even to the comrades of Alva. The fleet of Avila was entirely destroyed. The hulk of the St.

He had been seized suddenly with illness on the Sunday after his return from the Bois. He had felt intolerable burnings in his bowels, which passed through his whole body, searing as with a red-hot iron, and alternating with a cold lethargy and long periods of coma. Jenkins, summoned at once, did not say much, but ordered certain sedatives.