The Student's Own Speaker

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is a great thing to live in such a period as this; in some respects it is a great privilege; in other respects it involves great peril. For, as might be expected, at such a crisis there is a strange conjunction of the mind's elements, both claim good and evil. It needs a wise judgment to discriminate...
More Description

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is a great thing to live in such a period as this; in some respects it is a great privilege; in other respects it involves great peril. For, as might be expected, at such a crisis there is a strange conjunction of the mind's elements, both claim good and evil. It needs a wise judgment to discriminate between the two; for the counterfeit, coined like silver, and stamped like the genuine, would seem to be more valuable than the genuine, which is abused and bent in its passage from hand to hand, receiving an appearance hardly indicating its value. The glittering falsehood and the homely truth lie together on every side. We see a singular mingling of influences?muddy rivulets empty themselves into the clear river of truth, and of affinity with its waters; phosphorescent meteprs glisten among the eternal stars; mock suns gleam fitfully out, lighting all the horizon with a wild, fictitious, glaring light; spurious revelations throw discredit upon the real doctrine of inspiration; men call themselves after the name of Christ, falsifying His spirit and doctrine, while others, professing to be the real Christ, deny His name. These are strange times, full of peril, full of hope. In one quarter there is a blue sky and glorious sunlight, in another quarter there is a black-draped cloud, crossed and cut with red and jagged fires, and hoarse with thunders. It is such a time as this in which you should be able to combine strong individual forces with a clear individual discernment. You should never rush heedlessly into the strife, neither should you turn aside from the contest of the cause. You should learn to judge between good and evil, and then be ready to strike manfully for the right. It is indispensable that you should put yourself into a wholesome and thorough discipline in ...