Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was born in November 1731 in Hertfordshire. His mother died when he was six years old, leaving him a delicate, sensitive child. Soon his father sent him to school, and while there, at the age of nine, melancholy seized him, aggravated by natural tendencies. It was of the sort to leave...
...choir sang "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers," J. Stainer; "Ho! Everyone that Thirsteth," Geo. C. Martin; "A New Heaven and a New Earth" from "The Holy City," by A. R. Gaul. Soloist Mr. W. H. Edgerly...
...every hand. Nothing stands free from the assault of criticism. To maintain our civilization, we must have a science of right conduct and good character. We might have a science of morality which would trace the facts of our moral life, and yet not touch on morality, or Heaven, or God. It is the consideration of this moral life, which will advance ethics. More than discovering the character of good and evil, we must discover our own life character, and the secrets in the development of our moral life. For the sake of clearer knowledge, one is called upon...
There is, however, a heart in the world, and this is love. Any man that loves something outside of himself, be it beauty, truth, religion, God, gets just so much of real life, but he who lives for himself alone gets the husks. As an old Eastern poet says: "Heaven is but one step beyond yourself...
...history there is only one opening through which God has been clearly seen - the life of Christ. He conquered evil and the world is being re-created. To those who do not see that God's thoughts are as far above man's as the heaven is above the earth, sin may seem dying too slowly. To the pessimist it may even seem gaining strength, but to the Christian, God's purposes are revealed in Christ. He sees the beauty and stainlessness of that character gaining the victory in the world and the new creation advancing when the world, concerning...