Identifier: saturdayeveningp1933unse (find matches)
Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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s I have thought in a horrified momentthat if God had not made this earth some man would havemade it. Give him an anvil and an atom and he can donearly anything that is a thing. But who by takingthought can change the wind from the east to the west,or cause one drop of rain to fall, or make a season fairwhen clouds steam up? That breath which the Lordbreathed upon this earth when he said, Let there belight, so that he could set up a firmament to divide thewaters from the waters and establish the dry land, andstarted the grass to growing with the dew on it, is the samewind that blew up the first cloud from which the rain fell,and it is still blowing where it listeth according to his mindand his seasons. And we cannot do a thing about it exceptput on more clothes and build a fire; or take off someclothes and not build a fire. It is the same with the Word. We cannot change it. Itis the weather of immortality. It is the very breath ofGod to the soul of man. Nothing we do or think can take
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That Ctrl Would Get Up Every Time and Leave the Church Without Speaking to Him and Telling HimHow Much She Fnloyed the Sermon its place. The fact remains that the pure in heart do seeGod, and they do it by faith. They are good by faith, theylove and hope by faith, and they are the only peacemakersin this world who do make and keep the peace. They arethe safe people. The Word is their law and their life. Theyare still the leaven that leaveneth what we call Christiancivilization. They are yet the most powerful and most in-fluential people among as without making a fuss about it.They hold things together in spite of wars and politics andthe masses and classes who work and work in idleness andbitterness to achieve their greeds and purposes. What does it matter that the mere form of the Scripturesis blown down the windy ages to us out of songs and myths,as the mere body of a man comes up from the familiardust? The truth is in them, as the spirit of Something notdust is in man. This truth c

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