Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... HRIST is with you--in the hour and article of death. Never did a believer in Jesus die alone! Alone he may be as to all human aid and Christian sympathy. But he cannot be really and actually alone; for, if ever Christ fulfils this exceeding great and precious promise, "I am with you alway" it is when His blood-bought, ransomed saint enters and passes through the shaded valley, He is with you to speak the promises, to mete out the grace, to stifle fear, to repel the tempter, to apply the blood, to strengthen faith, and to waken the echoes of the silent valley with the music of His voice: "I am with you." "Amid the prostration of earthly hopes, when unable to glance one thought on a dark future, when the stricken spirit, like a wounded bird, lies struggling in the dust, with broken wing and wailing cry, longing for pinions to fly away from a weary world to the rest and quiet of the grave; in that hour of earthly dissolution, He who has the keys of death at His girdle, nay, who has tasted death Himself, and better still, who hath conquered it, draws near in touching tenderness, saying, 'Lo I am with you. I am with you to cheer you, to comfort you, to support and sustain you. I, who once wept at a grave, am here to weep with you; I will be at your side in all that trying future; I will make my grace sufficient for you, and my promises precious to you, and my love better than all earthly affection. The one. is changeable: the one must perish;. I am the strength of your heart and your portion for ever.'" Blessed Lord! "Abide with me from mom till eve, For without Thee I cannot live; Abide with me when death is nigh, For without Thee I cannot die." Oh! seek much, living and dying, of the sensible presence of Christ. Let this be the grand, ...
