Professor W. G. Elmslie, D.D.: Memoir and SermonsElmslie, William Gray
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Professor W. G. Elmslie, D.D.: Memoir and Sermons
Elmslie, William Gray
Elmslie, William Gray, 1848-1889; Sermons, English -- 19th century; Theologians -- Scotland -- Biography
come through this world, at least comparatively unspotted, with a heart
fresh and tender, not eaten up by selfishness and greed, with a clean
conscience, with the benediction in his old age of having made other men
happy and good. Oh, the worst enemies of your dying bed, that will come
to mock you, will be the dreams of your youth, of your boyhood and
girlhood, should they be unfulfilled! But if you can only in part
realise them in your life they will be angels that will come to comfort
you.
There is a great deal more dreaming done in this world than we dull,
prosaic, old people will allow. It is not merely the lads and girls that
dream, for the fact is that we do not know how much we ourselves dream;
both young and old do it, but with a difference: the young folks mostly
dream about themselves, and the old folks are tired of dreaming about
themselves; but there are the wonderful dreams in the hearts of fathers
and mothers, to keep their children pure and good, and to make them
happy. What would the world be without those sweet, loving dreams? Thank
God for them! How much it means for the boy and the girl that their
mother dreamt noble things for them when they were young! There never
was a man yet that came to be a very great or good man in God's world
but his mother dreamt how he was to be brave, true, generous, loving,
helpful to others; and because her dreams came from God, she prayed for
that son that he might be good, and brave, and noble, and the lad grew
great because his mother dreamt great things for him.
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