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A Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Thomas Chalmers, D.d., Ll.d
A Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Thomas Chalmers Dd Lld Author:Thomas Chalmers General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Harper Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select f... more »rom more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I pursued our yesterday's topic of consideration for a part of the day with some success, but during the greater part of the evening I was employed in a manner contrary to the disposition in which we should he employed at the beginning of a new period of time, and I was thus unfitted for continuing my beneficial train of thought. At this season of the year I have been always inclining to the desponding tone when I think of the small progress I have made in the different studies in which I am engaged. But I never, till this time, felt the disappointment at the past and anxiety for the future, in regard to my religious improvement, so strong as at present. I have, indeed, felt something of the kind formerly, and have formed resolutions of a good tendency, but this feeling was never very strong, of course it was not permanent; and the resolutions, I am ashamed to say, were formed chiefly in a dependence on myself to execute them, and thus made, you well know, only to be broken. It is not so with me now, I hope ; my resolutions, founded on the experience of the fate of the past, are not so extravagant as not to admit of the probability of these being executed. This is well; but I have learned also from what I have already attempted, that in my own strength I can not accomplish my desires ; that the more my dependence is upon myself, the greater the certainty of my failure ; and the more my hope rests on the assistance promised me from a quarter where there is no deceit or weakness to perform, the more the certainty is of my success. It is on this foundation that I now look forwa...« less