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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... XI. THE SPRING-TIME CALL. "for Lo! The Winter Is Past, The Rain Is Over And Gone; The Flowers Appear On The Earth; The Time Of The Singing Of Birds Is Come, And The Voice Of The Turtle Is Hea... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... XI. THE SPRING-TIME CALL. "for Lo! The Winter Is Past, The Rain Is Over And Gone; The Flowers Appear On The Earth; The Time Of The Singing Of Birds Is Come, And The Voice Of The Turtle Is Heard In Our Land; The Fig-tree Putteth Forth Her Green Figs, And The Vines With The Tender Grape Give A Good Smell. Arise, My Love, My Fair One, And Come Away."--Song of Solomon ii. II, 12, 13. 'I "HIS is Christ's spring-time call unto His Bride,----The Church. No Church, of course, has propounded to herself the theory, that all revivals of religion must occur during the winter months. From such a naturalistic hypothesis, the Christian consciousness of every denomination would instantaneously revolt. The whole Christian world would join in crying down a theory so narrow, so materialistic, and so absurd. And yet, although this theory has never been announced in so many words, it is to be feared that it is to a-very deplorable extent influencing the mind, and directing the activity, of very many Christian churches. But whether distinctly announced or unconsciously followed, it is to be reprobated by all who would cultivate and disseminate an intelligent view of religion as a life-governing, life-shaping principle. Nothing too severe can be said against such a narrow and unconsidered view of religion as would shut up within any one part of the year all its marked and important manifestations in the life of Christians, or which would fix the birth-time of souls between the autumnal and the vernal equinox. All this is gross and narrrow, and greatly provocative of sneers and reviling. Religion is a life, and life is continuous and connected, developing. A man might as well set aside three months of the year in which to do his breathing for the whole twelve, as a Christian to se...

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