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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... 1847. January 1st.--The first day of my first year alone. May my heart and life be very full of Christ; and may the Lord be pleased very plainly to show me the way in which I should go; I humbly trust I have had Divine renewings in the life of faith this week. How sweet in every state to live on Jesus by simple faith, for the present moment, and leave the rest with Him; looking to Him instead of looking to my dear one gone, the loneliness has been lost. I do think that by Him this " solitary place" is beginning to blossom as the rose; Lord, increase my faith. I give this year and my heart to Thee. Oh! fill them with Thyself! January 10th, Night.--I have committed all my way to Jesus; and I believe His very love and faithfulness insure me that it will not be in vain. I trust I shall here have to record His mercies, and that He will so plainly show me His way, that I may say, The thing proceedeth from the Lord, I cannot speak bad or good. My earnest desire is the glory of my most precious Jesus, "who loved me, and gave Himself for me;" to minister to His dear saints in soul and body, as He shall give me ability, is my delight. I say, with Abigail, "Let thy hand-maid be a servant, to wash the feet of the servants of my Lord." I also have desires for a quiet, secluded life, as hitherto--little with the world, much with Jesus; and I long to do all things spiritual and secular for Christ's sake, not my own, not to the creature. The glories of my Well-Beloved have beamed upon me this evening, so that I longed to be away, fully beholding, and fully enjoying. When will these dusky shades of mortality have fled away, and the presence, love, and glories of my kinsman Redeemer burst upon me in eternal day? "Oh, happy souls, that dwell in light, And...
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