Guide-Posts on Immortal Roads (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Guide-Posts on Immortal RoadsFrom infancy to age, from the cradle to the grave, we trace our loved ones, and there we seem to leave them. There we take our last farewell of those dearer than our own lives, and the clods heaped on them seem bruising our trembling hearts and bury ing all our hopes.Prayers, tears, and regrets are of no avail, for that which made life seem brightest is blotted out, and henceforth we walk under the cloud of a great sor row, a sorrow too pitiless to kill, but strong enough to make our lives endure.Saints and sinners alike are left utterly miserable in the separation caused by death, and the conscious ness of their loss softens every heart.Bigotry (whose bony fingers strangle so many noble impulses) is forgotten for a time, and we give each other all we have to give, our hearts' full store of sympathy.Creeds skulk away and hide their guilty faces in the Church, while loving human nature puts her arms around the desolate, and comforts them with tender words and deeds, and, smiling through her tears, she points to some bright star of hope.The white angel of death has created wonder and fear in all ages and countries, and heathen and Christian are equally helpless when it appears. All rational beings have some conviction regarding it, but neither civilization nor education can make any Opinion universal.In this Christian country some think it a curse, a judgment, a token of God's wrath, and that He takes the lives of the innocent to punish the guilty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.