The Image Passing Before Us (Classic Reprint): A Sermon After the Decease of Elizabeth Howard Bartol: A Sermon After the Decease of Elizabeth Howard Bartol (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Bartol, C. A.

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ISBN 10: 1330535502 ISBN 13: 9781330535509

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book is an evocative sermon delivered by a minister to his congregation following the death of a parishioner, who is remembered with both reverence and affection. The sermon explores the nature of human perception, particularly the vividness of images that emerge from memory and association. The author draws parallels between these images and the enduring presence of the departed, suggesting that they are vessels for the departed's qualities and values. This sermon is a meditation on grief, memory, and the enduring power of love and the human soul. It is a moving and insightful exploration of the ways in which we connect with those who have passed away and the profound impact they continue to have on our lives.

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Excerpt from The Image Passing Before Us: A Sermon After the Decease of Elizabeth Howard Bartol

A medical phrase; and this one was congenitally a sparkling and vivacious image, whose age kept una bated and undimmed the liveliness of youth, whose octogenarian laugh was as merry, though never loud, as that of youth, and which showed robust intention in a slender frame. It was intrinsic Vigor. I do not think it ever met any person but with a cheerfulness almost gay, a hilarity which was sobriety, like some selflluminous orb that enlivens as it majestically pro ceeds. The image kept its gloom, gloaming, or gravity for itself. How seriously and invariably it called its own character to account at the bar! How earnestly it pondered, the problem of a future lot! How wistfully it looked to its unworthy companion for information on what the sharpest eyes are as unable as the dullest to discern; and how, when the angel came to loosen the silver cord, not a shadow of the life-long solicitude remained. No whirring of wings was heard! ~dark angel? Not at all! No such thing! All his terror had been expended long ago, every arrow of his quiver had been shot, his dreadful bow was empty; and he had but to open one gate out and another in. The agony of a birth in 1803 near Washington Gardens, so called, was not repeated in 1883, at a second and greater nativity for one of the oldest citizens, living where born. There was beside a marked humor and an imita tive gift, a dramatic power quite singular in a charac ter so individual and pronounced, although a natural dignity disinclined it to a jest. In former years, it would give impersonations that might have adorned the stage and sang with a sweetness, some will remember, as they must the melody of the speaking.

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Excerpt from The Image Passing Before Us: A Sermon After the Decease of Elizabeth Howard Bartol

These words describe the chief part of human perception, which is not of things outside in broad day, but of objects within, under that dark magic lantern of the brain called memory, imagination, association, affection, many slides and countless pictures with one interior light. While the worship of graven images was forbidden by Moses, and Paul told the men of Athens, Epicurean and Stoic philosophers, they ought not to think the Godhead like anything graven by art and man's device, no law can prevent our beholding and loving other images which no chisel carves or pencil draws. Images of things, plants, flowers, hills, stars, sky and sea, and still more often of dear human faces moulded and painted by a divine hand, yet glowing or with all earthly clay and color gone, dance or solemnly troop before this inward sight, which the latest science teaches is inward always. Indeed the act of vision only seems to take place in the air, really occurring with the passage of forms on the wings of light by a curious course among the convolutions which the skull conceals. How large measure is this image-beholding, with eyes shut or open, of our daily life!

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330535502
• ISBN 13: 9781330535509
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 27
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