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A Series of Sermons and Lectures on Important Subjects
A Series of Sermons and Lectures on Important Subjects Author:John Nelson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 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 from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Time is also uncertain. We know not what an hour may bring forth. As it concerns our lives, and this world, all before us is precarious. Upon the future part of our journey, if any part remains unperformed, -- clouds and darkness continually rest. Each moment, as though sworn before sent to us, to keep concealed all that is behind, drops not a whisper as to what remains. The exact length of our life, -- the circumstances connected with it, -- and the time, place, and manner of its termination, are all hushed up in profound silence. And should not this induce you to number your days, and apply your hearts unto wisdom. While time is carrying you from point to pomt, -- hurrying you onward like a ship before a strong wind -- while you are wrapped in the greatest uncertainity as to what is before you, and as at any moment, even when appearances are most promising, you may be placed where there is neither work nor knowledge, nor device, should you not be making the best of time, by applying your hearts unto wisdom ? We will argue the necessity of your attending to this lesson. 2. From the distinguished worth of time. -- But who tan estimate its value. Though curious to compute, Archangels fail to cast the mighty sum." But are you willing to make the attempt to form some profitable estimate of the value of time ? Then repair with me to the bed side of a dying sinner. He has had a lofcg life when compared with many around him, and has been favoured with numerous opportunities of obtaining spirtual good. But, alas! he abandoned the thoughts of dying, or if he thought upon that subject at all, these interva...« less