Overweights of Joy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...His master in the village knew. His people were ignorant. They did their best. But their doctor, the barber, failed in his efforts to dislodge the bone. The old man slowly starved to death. When the bearers went for him, he was light to carry. Did his master grudge the two rupees it would have cost to hire a cart and take him to the nearest town? " It was not that," and the girl, who had known the old man, her father's servant, smiled, surprised; " my father never thought of it as his affair. Only our own caste people are our affair." " Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name." One such notable reversal is Purely proof that God "weakness Thy Workshop" 151 does completely reverse the things that were, and that He does it without necessarily any very long delay once He has taken the case in hand. Some tell us we must not expect to see such immediate reversal. But how far off must we postpone expectation? We know our Lord bears gently with the ignorant and erring, and it is not for us to judge how far the ignorance and error must reach before it passes the confines of His great lovingkindness. He knows the inner story, the limitations. He loves the weakest and dullest, --we feel in our hearts if this were not so He would not long love us, the weakest and dullest of all; but then we believe, and rejoice to believe, that not through slow processes only, but quickly, as by a word, He can so deal with character that the life changes to something manifestly different from what it was before, strongest where it was weakest, showing forth God's " Instead." Such a life was lived in the sight of all the people by a grand old pastor, who was called by the...