| Daily Meditations Contributor(s): Bowen, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1406725358 ISBN-13: 9781406725353 Publisher: Campbell Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Living - General |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.22 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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| Publisher Description: EDITOR'S PREFACE. GREATLY though the Church of this day, amid all its activities, lacks deep heart experience of religion, yet there are many who hunger and thirst after righteous ness, who desire a fuller work of the Spirit in their souls. Conscious of poverty of soul, they long for manna from heaven. To such, this volume will prove a grateful gift. It is not without good reason added to the number of the books that claim the attention and the time of the Christian. The reader will here find deep, precious and suggestive thoughts made vivid by a glowing imagination and striking inferences. If de siring a higher Christian life, and willing to meditate and pray, he will be edified by the fruits of a profound study of God s word and of a rich experience of the workings of the Spirit. His faith will be strengthened by contact with the Author s faith, and his zeal be kin dled by his passionate jealousy for the glory of God. Of the work, an eminent New York pastor says, is a book of rare merit, marked by deep piety, insight into the Scriptures, original genius and uncompromising directness. I know of no book of its class equal to it.quot The Author, the Kev. George Bowen, formerly of New York, has been for eighteen years a missionary in India. He issued a Volume of Meditations at Bom bay, where there is a considerable English community. This volume was brought to the notice of the Commit tee by the Eev. William Wallace Atterbury, and by him, at the request of the Committee, revised, new pa pers by Mr. Bowen being inserted in the place of some that seemed of less merit. The volume has been stereo typed, and is now given to the Christian public. Let the reader, as he reads, pause to meditate, and ask the blessing of the Spirit upon the truth. Rev. William R. Williams, D. D. ampgt, J. W. D. and in this judgment the Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, D. D., than whom no one is more competent to judge of a spiritual work, concurs. It omy And as thy days, so shall thy strength xxxiii. 25. be. Deuteron This probably means that time, instead of diminishing the strength and crippling the energies of the people of God, shall be commissioned to convey unto them increase of spiritual strength, and to render them day by day, month by month, year by year, more vigorous and more victorious in the conflict with sin, more energetic in faith, more sublime in patience and fortitude, more meek and lowly of heart, more fervent in admiration of Christ, more self-denying and devoted in his service, more generous, more pitiful, more useful. In this view they are delightful words to greet us on the threshold of a new year and we accept them as a sweet and blessed omen. Bring us strength, ye coming days, strength to glorify our Master, to resist evil, to accomplish good, to hasten heavenward and ye shall be most welcome. NOTE. We aim in these remarks rather to indicate the lines of thought, and to make ready the materials of meditation, than to explore the galle ries of wealth that underlie our texts. The reader will, we trust, bear in mind his share of responsibility. 7 8 DAILY .MEDITATIONS. JANUARY 2. quotI am the Lord thy God which tcacheth thee to profit.quot Isaiah xlviii. 17. Sometimes the soul gets angry with the instruction and quot fsays, I will not believe that this is from the Lord my God. The Lord my God is one that loveth me and taketh pleasure in granting the desires of my heart... |