This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt:...fOD allows the last struggle to be a very heavy one, to make heaven all the brighter. When the guide takes the traveller to see the Grotto of Pharos, he drops his torch in the darkest spot, as if by accident, and the traveller, fearing that he will never get out, has to go upon his hands and knees, creeping through narrow passages, when suddenly he emerges into the magnificent grotto, lit up by five hundred lamps. Why was the torch extinguished 1 Just to make the grotto look more beautiful. And sometimes a dark AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OUT OF THE DUST. death-struggle is but the gloomy passage just before we come into the glory of the redeemed.73 "'Tis but' a little while;' the way is dreary, The night is dark; but we are nearing land. Oh! for the rest of heaven, for we are weary And long to mingle with the deathless band." Remember, fOR ever with the Lord. Comfortable words, indeed! for they open all the future, and show it to be a future of untroubled, unending life. No death there! men die but once. No sin there! the One Offering put it for ever away. No sorrow for lost friends! they are rejoined in Christ. No fear of change in the presence of the Unchanging One. Above all, no possibility of wandering and falling again into those depths from which we are ascending Oh precious promise, mercifully given! Well may it hush the wail of earthly woe; O'er the dark passages to the gates of heaven, The light of hope and resurrection throw! Thanks for the blessed life--inspiring word--"So we shall be For Ever with the Lord." HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM GOD CORRECTETH: Remember, SIT HE hour is at hand--it is very near--when every fcji cloud shall vanish from our spiritual horizon; when we shall recline in sweet security amid the bowers of a celestia...