The Black Eagle

Among the minor trials of faith, few, perhaps, are more difficult to contend against than that growing conviction, which, commencing very soon after the holiday happiness of youth has been first tasted, becomes stronger every year, as experience unfolds to us the great, dark secrets of the world in which we are placed--the conviction of the general worthlessness of our fellow-men. A few splendid exceptions, a few bright and glorious spirits, a few noble and generous hearts, are not sufficient to cheer and to brighten the bleak prospect of the world's unworthiness; and we can only reconcile to our minds the fact that this vast multitude of base, depraved, tricky, insincere, ungrateful beings, are the pride of God's works, the express images of his person, by a recurrence to the great fundamental doctrine of man's fallen state, and utter debasement from his original high condition, and by a painful submission to the gloomy and fearful announcement, that 'strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there he that find it.' 9781530950102 1530950104 170 en

• • Author: George Payne Rainsford James
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jul 01, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 170 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1530950104
• • ISBN-13: 9781530950102