Sinopsis
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. 1903 Excerpt: ...up the Sacramental wine question and have induced a large number of their own churches to use the pure juice of the grape. There is a great deal waiting to be done, and the labourers are few, there being only about five hundred women in the Colored State Union. But these are going forward in faith and hope, doing what they are able for the elevation of their race, and assured that whether or not results are manifest, their labour is "not in vain in the Lord." Christina I. Tinling. A NONAGENARIAN'S PROTEST. AT 91 I am taxed with being an aged man. Were the late Dr. B. W. Richardson alive and at hand, he would say I wanted still about nine years to the full age of an old man, under ordinary circumstances. What I think of the matter myself is another thing, but, anyhow, I see the dangers which attend the common belief of 80 years being the proper limit of human life; a belief caused by mistaking what Scripture says as to the fact under the unhealthy habits of mankind, for an announcement that the Creator means us not to exceed the period of fourscore years. People in general labour under this mistake, and it is confirmed and rooted in their minds by another mistake, namely that they are old and ripe for the grave if they have lived about as long as the majority of their neighbours of steady character and good reputation; the same fallacious rule descending from one generation to another. Without contending in favour of longevity in this "vale of tears," I dare not venture to condemn of depreciate what most persons hope for, and what also Scripture describes as a blessing; and therefore I put it to your sensible readers to consider whether they should not calculate the difference between 80 and 100 years, and then contrive every means in the...
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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. 1903 Excerpt: ...up the Sacramental wine question and have induced a large number of their own churches to use the pure juice of the grape. There is a great deal waiting to be done, and the labourers are few, there being only about five hundred women in the Colored State Union. But these are going forward in faith and hope, doing what they are able for the elevation of their race, and assured that whether or not results are manifest, their labour is "not in vain in the Lord." Christina I. Tinling. A NONAGENARIAN'S PROTEST. AT 91 I am taxed with being an aged man. Were the late Dr. B. W. Richardson alive and at hand, he would say I wanted still about nine years to the full age of an old man, under ordinary circumstances. What I think of the matter myself is another thing, but, anyhow, I see the dangers which attend the common belief of 80 years being the proper limit of human life; a belief caused by mistaking what Scripture says as to the fact under the unhealthy habits of mankind, for an announcement that the Creator means us not to exceed the period of fourscore years. People in general labour under this mistake, and it is confirmed and rooted in their minds by another mistake, namely that they are old and ripe for the grave if they have lived about as long as the majority of their neighbours of steady character and good reputation; the same fallacious rule descending from one generation to another. Without contending in favour of longevity in this "vale of tears," I dare not venture to condemn of depreciate what most persons hope for, and what also Scripture describes as a blessing; and therefore I put it to your sensible readers to consider whether they should not calculate the difference between 80 and 100 years, and then contrive every means in the...
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