The Higher Christian Life
- ISBN-10
- 1458919463
- ISBN-13
- 9781458919465
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-08
- Publisher
- General Books
- Author
- William Edwin Boardman
Description
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Excerpt: ... for that which is not bread, and his labor for the wages of disappointment. Now, to illustrate these by-ways one by one, each by a life-sketch, would be easy, aud not without interest and profit; but it would require a volume almost. - There are those who have tried nearly every byway of them all, -- run each out, in turn, to the bitter end of disappointment, before finally going to Jesus as the Way. One such would give us a complete chart of them all in the single sketch of his own blunderings. Such a one is at hand. THE PASTOR. He is no blunderer either in other matters. Few more careful or wise or discreet than he. Abundant success in his pastoral works shows that. And yet he calls himself--as we shall have occasion to see in the end, in view of the Jong succession of blunders he made, in his efforts to learn the way of sanctification experimentally -- a fool. How and when and where he was convinced is not at all essential to our chart. Possibly it may have been in connection with a very delightful work amongst the students of another of our theological seminaries. Such a work there was; and in it many of the young gentlemen came to see and understand the way of sanctification by faith, and to be filled with the Holy Spirit; and the pastor knew much of this work, and commended it publicly. It would be a glorious thing, if, from year to year, each and all of our schools of the prophets could be baptized in this way. Possibly it was the conscious leanness of his own soul which made him hunger and thirst for the precious things of God. Not that he was not a devoted Christian and minister; there was no apparent lack of this kind; indeed, he was far more than most others a faithful, earnest, tender, thorough pastor and preacher. And, for this very reason, he would be more likely ...
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