Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Labors of Rev. George Cooper Gregg

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Excerpt from Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Labors of Rev. George Cooper Gregg: Pastor of Salem Church, Sumter District, S. C., Delivered in Said Church on Sabbath, Jan, 19, 1862 Jesus saith unto her, I am the Resurrection, and the Life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. - (John xi., 25, 26.) These words are taken from that beautiful history of the Resurrection of Lazarus, which dropped, like the dew of the morning from the flowers of spring, softly, and full of sympathy, from the pen of John, the one of all the Twelve the quickest to feel the sorrows of others. He was the readiest, also, to appreciate the human and the Divine in the love of the Son of God, into whose depths he penetrated the farthest, but whose abysses he did not pretend to fathom. It is a lovely picture of domestic peace he spreads before us. "Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" Like the precious and fragrant ointment which descended from the head on the beard of Aaron, is the confiding love of brothers and sisters, is all that dutiful and engaging conduct seen around the domestic hearth, in a family in which there are no bickerings, among those who are of one flesh and blood, who have drank from one breast, and have one and the same fortune in life. In this quiet family of Bethany Jesus had often been. It was his habitual refuge from the din and jostling crowds of Jerusalem, from its ambition, its greed, its hollow pretence of zeal for God, its malignant Priests and Pharisees, its proud, narrow-minded, scowling and angry Scribes. "Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus." Abiding, eternal honor this to that peaceful house, that happy isle amid the raging sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.