Présentation de l'éditeur
Foreword In the preparation of a treatise on such a superlative subject as the title of this book suggests, the author rea Hzes that the few who have approached it have drawn near with gentle footsteps and bated breath, fearful of being in the category of those who rush in where angels fear to tread ;and it is not without the same feeling of reverential awe that the writer has compiled this work. That there cannot be too much said on such a glorious theme, however, need scarcely be stated. The present life with its sighs and its sorrows, its moans and its maladies, its troubles and its tears, its griefs and its graves, groaning with the sufferings of the poor, resounding with the shrieks of the dying, and reeking with the stupendous and incalculable degradation and debauchery of sin, is to me a constant reminder that this world is not an Eden, and that I am but a stranger here; Heaven is my home. Who has not longed for that blessed haven? It has been the theme of the most holy and seraphic of mankind in all ages, as they voiced their sentiments in song, sermon, testimony, and prayer. The human heart instinctively longs for that blissful abode, and the best and most luminous of the militant church dwell often upon its supernal glories and grandeurs.
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