Facts And Incidents In The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Northcote Toller PDF Download

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. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... This partly arose from the depressing nature of the disease under which he suffered, and partly from his recollections of former sins. There was every evidence that God had forgiven him, but he could not forgive himself. And then a little religion would not satisfy him, even real religion. He saw what a Christian should be, and what the Gospel was calculated to make him. Imperfections were great sins with him, though little with others. Breaches in the Christian spirit and temper were great points with him, which others regard as little. Such things will account for the depression he felt. But as he got nearer home these fears and dejections dispersed, and died away before the beams of the Sun of Righteousness, and in the evening time it became light; the sun went down in brightness, and his last hours of life were spent in nothing but thanksgiving and praise. The state of his mind was the most perfect composure and resignation, no will, no wish of his own; and he sank to everlasting rest in the full unclouded exercise of a will, completely and fully swallowed up in the will of God. It must have been a high gratification to be called to witness such a case, and to have been the means under God of promoting such improvement in the divine life, and to have to rejoice over such consistency and Christian excellency even to the end, in one who had been rescued from such a state of depravity and wickedness. His death was improved by the pastor from Isa. xlii. 16, "I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight; these things will I do unto them, and will not forsake them." CHAPTER XII. IMPROVEMENT OF PROVIDENTIAL...