The Millennial Harbinger (Volume 37) - 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. 1866. Excerpt: ... son, but by the right use of it; and that with the apostle's decla, ration of the limits of human knowledge, every fact in Philosophy agrees; " Now we know in part and we prophecy in part. But when that which is x>erfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass darkly ; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." William C. Dawson. Elegant Extract.--Give me to know that the doctrine of Jesus is bread from heaven, and that it sustains the spirit and prepares it for heaven, and I well may be indifferent whether that bread descended, like the manna in the desert, in nightly dew, or whether, like the food of Elijah, it was bsocight to my eager hands by the ravens, or whether it was broken for myself and the hungry thousands around me, by the hand endued with miraculous power. So long as I know that it was sent to me by the Father of my spirit, and that, eating it, I shall live forever, I know that can give it value, and awaken my gratitude. When soroe friendly hand presses a cup of cold water to my lips, as I am fainting from thirst in a thirsty land, I will not ask, for I do not care, whether that water was showered from the skies or gushed from a spring I ask not whether it was brought to me m a golden urn, or whetb,er it was presented in a crystal vase or a soldier's helmet. It is -water that bids me live, and that is enough for me. -'There 5es in the depth of every heart, that dream of o-.xr youth, and the chastened wish of manhood, which neither cares nor honors ctcn ever estfinguish, the hope of one day resting from the pursuits which absorb us; of interposing between our old age and the tomb some tranquil intervals of reflection, when, with feelings not subdued but softened, with passi...

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