The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844: Volume 23, Number 4Various
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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844: Volume 23, Number 4
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'He kept on his course, turning neither to the right hand nor the
left, in his MASTER'S service, but he made all ready for the
tempest, and familiarized himself to the worst that might come, be
it the prison, the pillory, or banishment, or death. With a
magnanimity and grandeur of philosophy which none of the princes
or philosophers or sufferers of this world ever dreamed of, he
concluded that 'the best way to go through suffering, is to trust
in GOD through CHRIST as touching the world to come; and as
touching this world to be dead to it, to give up all interest in
it, to have the sentence of death in ourselves and admit it, to
count the grave my house, to make my bed in darkness, and to say
to corruption, thou art my father; and to the worm, thou art my
mother and sister; that is, to familiarize these things to me.'
With this preparation, when the storm suddenly fell, though the
ship at first bowed and labored heavily under it, yet how like a
bird did she afterward flee before it! It reminds me of those two
lines of Wesley:
'The tempests that rise.
Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies!'
So BUNYAN'S bark sped onward, amidst howling gales, with rattling
hail and thunder, but onward, still onward, and upward, still
upward, to heaven!'
EDITOR'S TABLE.
THE INNER LIFE OF MAN.--We are indebted to the kindness of an esteemed
friend who was present at the recent delivery of a lecture before the
'Young Men's Society' of Newark, New-Jersey, by Mr. CHARLES HOOVER, upon
'_The Inner Life of Man_,' for a few passages from that admirable
performance, which may be relied upon as very nearly identical with the
language that fell from the lips of the speaker. We cannot but hope, on
behalf of our citizens, that Mr. HOOVER may be invited to repeat his
lecture in this city. Surely, its enlarged views, its benign inculcations,
its tender remonstrances, are needed among us; nor will the good seed fall
altogether upon stony ground, nor be utterly choked by the tares that
abound in our field of bustling and busy existence. 'But what,' the reader
may ask, 'is this inner, higher life, concerning which we hear so much in
these latter days?' Let Mr. HOOVER make answer: 'IT is that ethereal,
spiritual nature, which by an incarnation only less mysterious than that
of the SON of GOD, is in present temporary alliance and partnership with
our animal nature; which, itself imperishable and immortal, measures the
cycle of its probation burthened with a dead body. It is that in man which
loves the beautiful and the good, which expands and warms to the breathing
and the voice of love; which, like the child listening to the murmuring
sea-shell, catches the far-off sound of the solemn future, and hears
celestial harmonies in silentest hours. It is that which in infancy
gathers in its first excursion the stuff that infant dreams are made of;
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