Biography and Miscellany

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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: A JOURNEY BABYLON TO JERUSALEM, OR THE ROAD TO PEACE. Fifth Edition." THE ' textit{Journey of Life' is an important theme. All mankind are equally interested in it; and the textit{happiness or textit{misery of every individual, necessarily depends upon it. Time may be considered as the textit{road, and every textit{day may be compared to a textit{mile, cutting off some part of the distance I Eternity is the country to which all are travelling; and sleeping or waking, they progress with unremitting speed. Childhood and Youth is the textit{morning of life; the perfection of manhood is the meridian; and the declension of age, may be called the textit{Evening Shades when the Sun is lowering in the western sky, and sable glooms prevail! The ' textit{Experience of Grace,1 should be connected with the Journey of Life; as in Eternity, there are two textit{places of destination, the textit{slates of which are very different both in their nature and enjoyment one being attended with ineffable pleasure, the other with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth ! As one of the human family upon the great textit{Journey of Life; travelling the road of time to eternity; I am now- upon the way, more than twelve thousand miles are already gone over. The morning of life is passed away. The clp/ck strikes twelve; and the evening shades will soon cornel on apace. textit{J' Are all these things a fancy and but a dream textit{1 Can imagination only suggest all this as credible ? Impossible! textit{life and textit{existence are more than textit{fable. Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling, with talking and walking, are things which cannot admit of proof; being textit{'self-evidence, ' they do not admit of doubt. Sensible textit{existence excites reflection whence te...

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