The Christ-Filled Life (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Christ-Filled LifeMemory has been taking me back to a summer holi day, years ago, in the pleasant valleys of Nova Scotia. I recall the wonder and delight With Which I saw the ocean tide come up the Bay of Fundy, and fill the empty river-beds. Through the hours of the ebb, the Nova Scotian rivers dwindled and shrank Within their banks. Broad and barren reaches of sand exposed themselves, ships listed heavily on their sides, deserted by the feeble stream trickling in mid-ohannel. Then came the tide up the Bay of Fundy, up from the abundance of the unfathomable sea. You could hear it coming, With a distant sound of motion and life and unmeasured power. You could see it coming, With a pure White gir dle of foam, that looked in sunlight like a zone of fire. You could smell it coming, With the smell of freshness, the breath of coolness, the waft of far-off scents from breeze-blown ocean leagues. You could almost feel it coining, for the heart stirred at the sight of it, and the pulse quickened at the rush of it, and the joy of strength arose in the soul. It came from the mighty fulness that could afford to give so grandly, it came from the opulence of an ocean that could spend itself Without fear of poverty, that could pour itself out to fill a thou sand rivers, yet be not diminished, it came, as Arnold said, with murmurs and scents of. The infinite sea.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.