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Summer in the Soul; Or, Views and Experiences
Summer in the Soul Or Views and Experiences Author:Henry Ward Beecher General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: Alexander Strahan Subjects: Congregational churches Sermons, American Religious thought Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrat... more »ions and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE FULNESS OF GOD. passages of the Scripture are like hundreds of wayside flowers, which for months and years are unnoticed by us, simply because we have been accustomed from our childhood to see them without stooping to pluck or to examine them. Many of the homeliest flowers would appear transcendently beautiful if we would take the trouble to study them minutely, to magnify their parts, and to bring out their constituent elements. And so, we were taught to read the Bible so early, in the family and in the village school, and we have so often and often walked along the chapters, that we have beaten a dusty path in them, and some of their most precious and beautiful things are neither precious nor beautiful to us, simply because we look at them and not into them. Many parts of the Bible may be compared to those exquisite creations of art which are sometimes found in old cathedrals ; they have collected dust and grime and weather-stains, that hundreds of persons go past them every day, never cleansing them, never restoring feature nor colour, nor bringing out the artist's embodied thought, so that they are quite unconscious, till they see them restored in the picture of some book, or till some enthusiastic Ruskin brings them out, and teaches us how beautiful are the things that we have slighted as uncomely. So the Scriptures are often overlaid, and, frequently, some of the passages that really are the most resplendent a...« less