The Soul's Life; Its Commencement, Progress, and Maturity. Its Commencement, Progress, and Maturity - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XX. PATIENT WAITING. "Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."--2 Con. v. 1. ST. PAUL has been speaking in the preceding chapter of the confidence which upheld him and his fellow-apostles under the worst conjunctures of human affairs, and the most grievous calamities which flesh and blood can endure. Neither the sufferings of life, nor the approach of death, could for a moment shake the serenity of their hope. The sufferings of life they regarded as the sign of that apostleship in which they were to follow the steps of their Divine Master, alike in the cross on earth and in the crown in heaven, and as the means whereby their faith might be trained into the vigorous manhood of the life of God. Death itself they regarded as an advantage, since it was not the end nor even the temporary cessation of their essential life, but only a change of scene and condition, glorious and blessed beyond the power of mind to conceive and tongue to utter. It was but the transit, painful but brief, into another life; it was but the putting on of their crown; but their investiture in the robes of immortality; but the re-union in glory with the beloved Master, whom they sought to serve on earth, and hoped to enjoy in heaven. Thus the very darkest of human events became changed to their eyes almost into objects of desire from the aspect in which they regarded them; just as in some fair landscape the very ruggedness of nature, the barren rock, the precipitous cliff, the tangled wild, become beautiful in the colours of the whole, and in the shifting lights and shadows with which they are clothed. The apostle pursues this theme in the present chapter, and in the first verses traces out yet more particularly the Christian's hope in re...

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