Inhaltsangabe
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.1885 Excerpt: ... XX. THE DANGER OF FORGETTING. How much forgetfulness there is in the world. Girls meet each other in service, or at their houses of business, and become very intimate. Then something happens to separate them; they part, promising to be friends all their lives long, and what then? very often, after all, they write but two or three letters, and in a few months have almost forgotten each other. Or a man has done some great kindness to a friend. "I shall never, never forget you, and your goodness to me," exclaims the friend warmly, and for a time he speaks and thinks often of the help which has been given him. But after a while the remembrance of it dies away, he sees his benefactor but seldom, too often he forgets him altogether. This habit of forgetting the earthly friends whom we have loved is very sad, very ungrateful, but there is, alas, a still worse kind of forgetting, the forgetting of God, and what we have learned from Him. To-day you have come here for the last Lesson which we shall have for some time. During many weeks we have been meeting together in Christ's name, and we have found His promise come true. He has been with us, and I think His blessing has rested on the class. I know some of you feel that you have learned from Him, and have received from Him here; you have learned to know in your own hearts the sinfulness of sin; you have learned about our Lord's forgiveness and love; you have learned to come to Him, and trust in Him; you have learned to O hunger and thirst after holiness; you are learning to ohey Christ, and to confess Him before men. Is it so? Then, indeed, it is not I who have taught you. A greater teacher has been in our midst, the Lord Himself, oh thank Him for it. And now I have a solemn last message for you from my Master. It i...
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