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| Titre : | Morning Meat |
| Auteurs : | Alfred E. Wenham, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Glasgow - Birmingham [GB] : The Hulbert Publishing Co., 1924 |
| Format : | 437 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | LS/B (Recueils annuels de méditations: classés par auteurs) |
| Résumé : |
Ploughing and sowing must be done, if at all, in childhood and youth. Weeding, harrowing and rolling in middle life. Gathering in later life.
The partaking of first fruits is enjoyed in old age. The experience of those who thus occupy, when departing this life will be, then cometh harvest. To be diligent in the use of the four means of grace, God’s Word, his Throne or Footstool, his People and his Day, is to provide meat in the summer. To write in a book what God says to us, and what we say to God is to gather. To everything there is a' season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven ; and the time comes to the believer when failing strength, impaired eyesight, and other infirmities, indicate the ending of summer, and the coming of winter. It then only remains to consider how to pass the remaining time of his sojourning here, whilst waiting till his change come. • The ant, guided by instinct, the Light of Nature, when winter comes, feeds on the meat it has provided in the summer, the bee on the honey gathered when the sun shone. The believer, guided by the Light of Revelation, in old age, when the night cometh, when no man can work, has to, may, and does, feed upon what in childhood, youth, middle, and later life he may have provided, and gathered. To read the Old Testament, with its 929 chapters, from beginning to end, at the rate of a chapter each morning, takes three years. The New Testament, with its 260 chapters, at the rate of a chapter each evening, may be read four times over in three years. The writer, who in early life thus read the Bible through again and again, has during the last six years or more been gathering, and, by writing in a book, has stored up, both meat and honey. An attempt to embark upon another three years course of gathering, has through increasing infirmities proved a failure, and he is driven therefore during the winter time of old age, to take to feeding on the accumulations of the past. As a believer, I would say to my fellow believers, what in the Song of Solomon her Beloved says to the woman beloved, come into my garden, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, T have eaten, my honeycomb avithmy honey ; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends ; drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved. It is in the hope that others may share with me in this honey from the honey-comb ; and be able to say with me, O, how love I thy law ; it is my meditation all the day, that the contents of this Serial are printed and published. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Explanatory preface
- Daily meditations - Author's farewell |
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