Divinity by Samuel V. Cole
Friday, April 18, 2025
Divinity
The Blessings of A Short Life
We all spend much time in panegyric of longevity. We consider it a great thing to live to be an octogenarian. If any one dies in youth we say, ""What a pity!" Dr. Muhlenbergh in old age, said that the hymn written by him in early life by his own hand, no more expressed his sentiment when it said:
" I would not live alway."
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"I Am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.'' John 11:25 |
Life Is Passing
This world is turning on its axis once in four and twenty hours; and, besides that, it is moving round the sun in the three hundred and sixty-five days of the year. So that we are all moving; we are flitting along through space. And as we are traveling through space, so we are moving through time at an incalculable rate. Oh! what an idea it is could we grasp it! We are all being carried along as if by a giant angel, with broad out-stretched wings; which he flaps to the blast, and, flying before the lightning, makes us ride on the wind. The whole multitude of us are hurrying along, - whither, remains to be decided by the test of our faith and the grace of God; but certain it is, we are all traveling. Your pulses each moment beat the funeral marches to the tomb. You are chained to the chariot of rolling time. There is no bridling the steeds, or leaping from the chariot; you must be constantly in motion. Spurgeon.
Life - New and Old
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There have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile; and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. All that sickness can do, all that disappointment can effect, all that blighted love, disappointed ambition, thwarted hope, ever did, they do still. Not a tear is wrung from eyes now, that, for the same reason, has not been wept over and over again in long succession since the hour that the fated pair stepped from paradise, and gave their posterity to a world of sorrow and suffering. The head learns new things; but the heart forevermore practices old experiences. Therefore our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. H. W. Beecher.
Life and Death
by Edward Young
Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres.
Through chinks, styled organs, dim life peeps at light,
Death bursts th' involving cloud, and all is day ;
All eye, all ear, the disembodied power.
Death has feigned evils, Nature shall not feel.
Life, ill substantial, Wisdom cannot shun.
Is not the mighty mind, - that son of Heaven -
By tyrant Life, dethroned, imprisoned, pained?
By Death enlarged, ennobled, deified?
Death but entombs the body ; Life the soul! . . . .
Death is the crown of life
Death wounds to cure : we fall, we rise, we reign!
Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies.
Where blooming Eden withers in our sight,
Death gives us more than was in Eden lost.
This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
When shall I die to vanity, pain, death?
When shall I die? - When shall I live forever?