Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ll ever witnesssmiling on that scene which all the ties of habitand of affection have endeared to them ; whenthis thought, melancholy as it is, is lost andoverborne in the far darker melancholy of afather torn from their embrace, and a helplessfamily left to find their way unprotected andalone through the lowering futurity of thisearthly pilgrimage,—do you wonder—and ashe speaks the tears come in rain-drops eyes, and his voice is broken with frequentsobs, whilst something like a wail of pity spreadsall through the audience— do you wonder thatth
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ll ever witnesssmiling on that scene which all the ties of habitand of affection have endeared to them ; whenthis thought, melancholy as it is, is lost andoverborne in the far darker melancholy of afather torn from their embrace, and a helplessfamily left to find their way unprotected andalone through the lowering futurity of thisearthly pilgrimage,—do you wonder—and ashe speaks the tears come in rain-drops eyes, and his voice is broken with frequentsobs, whilst something like a wail of pity spreadsall through the audience— do you wonder thattheir feeling hearts should be ready to lose holdof the promise—that He, who decks the lily fairin flowery pride, will guide them in safety FIRST SERMON IN GLASGOW. 95 through the world, and at last raise all whobelieve in Him to the bloom and the vigour ofimmortality ? The flowers of the field, theytoil not, neither do they spin, yet your heavenlyFather careth for them ; and how much morecareth He ior you, O ye of little faith !*. X. THE ASTRONOMICAL SERMONS.
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