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A horse that can read and write, spell, understand mathematics, go to the post office, git mail from any box, give chapter and verse of Bible text where the horse is mentioned, uses the telephone, and is so intelligent you expect him to break out in oratory any time. Josiah wuz spell bound here, I could hardly tear him away.
And so, says Christ, wherever there is a rotting, dead society, a carcase hopelessly corrupt and evil, down upon it, as if drawn by some unerring attraction, will come the angels, the vultures of the divine judgment. The words of my text were spoken, according to the version of them in Luke's Gospel, in answer to a question from the disciples.
You will have anticipated my motive for selecting this text now. It seems to me to gather up, in vivid and picturesque form, the thoughts and feelings which to-day are thrilling through an Empire, to which the most extended dominion of these warrior kings of old was but a speck.
But to the good marquis it was consolation enough to repeat to himself the text from his precious Vulgate: Scimus enim; For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For the ladies, so long as their father-chief was with them, they were at least not too anxious.
I once heard a famous preacher say that he could preach throughout his whole life on the text, "the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked," and even then have something left to say. The statement illustrates the many-sidedness of truth, and the multitude of its relations to the life of the individual and the world.
To some it was a kind of satisfaction offered to conscience, after which they could more easily come to peace. With others it was an honest, heroic effort to know themselves and to right themselves with their God. The text was disappointing.
'Brahman swells through brooding'; through brooding, i.e. thought in agreement with a later text, 'brooding consists of thought' Brahman swells, i.e. through thought in the form of an intention, viz. 'may I become many, Brahman becomes ready for creation.
Wherever I went, I preached with much more enjoyment and power than at Teignmouth, the very reverse of which had been the case on my first going there. Moreover, almost every where I had many more hearers than at Teignmouth, and found the people hungering after food, which, generally speaking, was no longer the case at Teignmouth. April 10. I asked the Lord for a text, but obtained none.
For the text of this measure, see American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 267. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 443. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 446. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 195. Author's italics. Ibid., p. 371. See, particularly, Foster to Monroe, July 3, 1811.
It can no more fall on rebellious hearts than the pure crystals of the snow can lie and sparkle on the hot, black cone of a volcano. The other text that I have read sets forth another view of God's purpose. God seeks our praise. The glory of God is the end of all the divine actions.
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