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The Gospel standard, or Feeble Christian's support (1876)
The Gospel standard or Feeble Christian's support - 1876 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ones are in the everlasting covenant of our God, ordered in all things and sure. Glory be to his holy Name for all his heavenly love, tender mercy, and amazing g... more »race. You will remember that, when I visited you seven years ago. I told you eternal life was then in the soul of your late wife. I felt sure none could desire to love and long for the Saviour, as she appeared to me to do, if they had no life in them. There must be life to feel. If the Lord has not made you great in the ministry, by great things in the church to which you minister, he certainly has made you very great in your own household, by the manifestations of great grace and glory in your family. How sublimely blessed the thought that forty years the Lord has kept you praying, and now has answered your prayers, in grace and glory being given to your dear partner in life; so that as you have been heirs together of many sorrows, and some joys, in human life, and now at last joint-heirs of eternal life, even so you shall soon be heirs together in glory too! What a mercy to be in Jesus, where relationship never ends, where love never fails, and where parting is unknown! Glory be to the Lord Most High! You and yours, gone before, are now in Jesus together, engirdled by his love in the same bundle of life with the Lord of life. Soon you will be with them, encircled in the same glory; and there will be no more parting there. Wait, then, my brother, wait a little while, and God shall bid you go up to tkem. And then, "With God eternally shut in, There you shall see his lovely face, And ever dwell in his embrace." We all join in weeping, joyful love to you all. Your loving Brother, Sydney, Oct. 17th, 1874. D. Allen. My dear Friend and Brother in the Lord,—Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied by Jes...« less