The State Of The Blessed Dead Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Blessed Dead Waiting for Us: A Sermon Preached in St. James' Church, Marietta, Georgia, on the Festival of All Saints, November 1st, 1863 Heb. XI, 40 i that they without us shall not be made perfect. Today is all-saints' day. We to day commemorate all those who having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labors. That long line of faithful' ones, of whom St. Paul, in the chapter of which the text is the con: elusion, gives only a few note-worthy Scripture names, has been year by year, rapidly and steadily augmenting. It now includes many familiar to our minds and dear to our hearts. Towards that great cloud of witnesses all living saints are steadily advancing and rapidly passing. A few years and we, too, shall have been numbered with the dead. God grant to all of us, that then we may be reckoned among those, of whom a future generation may take up the strain of Apostolic rapture, These all, having obtained a good report through faith, received n'ot the promise, God having proa Vided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect. 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.