Proceedings At The Celebration Of The One Hundred And Sixtieth Anniversary Of The Falling Spring Presbyterian Church And The One Hundredth Anniversary Of Its Existence As A Separate Charge Nov 10 14 1894 PDF Download

Excerpt from Proceedings at the Celebration of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniversary of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church: And the One Hundredth Anniversary of Its Existence as a Separate Charge, November 10th, 11th, 12th and 14th, 1894 As a true man loves his home, and a true patriot his country, so a true Christian loves his Church. Home and country and Church are the Christian's dearest earthly inheritances. Neither pride of ancestry, nor idolatry of stone and mortar, can be mistaken for genuine fruit-bearing love of Zion's "towers and bulwarks and palaces." (Ps. 48:12-13.) "A people who take no pride," says Macaulay, "in remembering and recording the deeds of their forefathers, will not be likely to do anything worth to be remembered or preserved by posterity." And a godly ancestry is more to be desired than a great or wealthy. Thomas Guthrie once wrote, "Through my ancestry, as far as I can trace them, I can claim to be the seed of the righteous, a higher honor than the blue blood of which some boast." And Wni. Cowper well sang: "My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies." The chief value of a study of the past is that we are thereby incited to the work of improving upon that past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.