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Can The Believing Husband In Heaven Be Happy With His Unbelieving Wife In Hell? Can The Believing Father In Heaven Be Happy With His Unbelieving Children In Hell? Can The Loving Wife In Heaven Be Happy With Her Unbelieving Husband In Hell? I Tell.

The Soul Of A True Christian, As I Then Wrote My Meditations, Appeared Like Such A Little White Flower As We See In The Spring Of The Year; Low And Humble On The Ground, Opening Its Bosom To Receive The Pleasant Beams Of The Sun’s Glory; Rejoicing, As It Were, In A Calm Rapture; Diffusing Around A Sweet Fragrancy; Standing Peacefully And Lovingly, In The Midst Of Other Flowers Round About; All In Like Manner Opening Their Bosoms To Drink In The Light Of The Sun.

It Is God’s Will Through His Wonderful Grace, That The Prayers Of His Saints Should Be One Of The Great Principal Means Of Carrying On The Designs Of Christ’s Kingdom In The World. When God Has Something Very Great To Accomplish For His Church, It Is His Will That There Should Precede It The Extraordinary Prayers Of His People; As Is Manifest By Ezekiel 36:37. And It Is Revealed That, When God Is About To Accomplish Great Things For His Church, He Will Begin By Remarkably Pouring Out The Spirit Of Grace And Supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).

Surely There Is Something In The Unruffled Calm Of Nature That Overawes Our Little Anxieties And Doubts; The Sight Of The Deep-blue Sky And The Clustering Stars Above Seems To Impart A Quiet To The Mind.

Every Christian Family Ought To Be As It Were A Little Church.