The lost hunter: A tale of early timesAdams, John Turvill
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The lost hunter: A tale of early times
Adams, John Turvill
Adventure stories; Indians of North America -- Fiction; New England -- Fiction
"Yes. By the restoration of internal beauty. It is the latter that
shapeth and shineth through the former. But the eyes of men are
blinded, and they cannot, because they will not, see the truth. The
crust of inherited corruption interposeth betwixt them and the light.
Hence, having eyes they see not, and ears, and they cannot hear. There
is a law to control the spiritual, and a law for the material, and it
is by observance of these two laws, that man's first estate is to be
regained. He must, therefore be temperate, and sober, and wise in the
regulation of his appetites and passions, banishing those pernicious
inventions, whereby he degradeth and engendereth disease in a glorious
structure that ought to be the temple of the Holy Ghost, and must
diligently cultivate all noble aspirations, weeding out selfishness
and gross desires, loving his neighbor as himself, and the Lord his
God with all his heart, which latter is the admiration and love of
beauty, and truth and justice, and of whatever is excellent. Thus both
outwardly and inwardly will gradually be transformed, the marred and
defaced image of humanity into the glorious likeness of the Son of
God."
"That day so longed for and so glorious, is far distant I fear," said
Mr. Armstrong.
"Nay, but the signs of His coming are kindling in the Eastern sky,"
exclaimed Holden, "and soon amid the hymns and hallelujahs of saints
shall he establish His benign and resplendent empire. Then shall
commence the upward career of the race, whose earthly goal is the
state of primeval perfection; whose heavenly it hath not entered into
the heart of man to conceive. Then in that bright Millennium, whose
radiance streams through the advancing ages, shall man cast off the
slough of ignorance and sin, and rise like the painted butterfly, on
the wings of faith, into the serene air of truth."
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