All Travellers to Eternity. WITH A RECOMMENDATORY PREFACE BY THE REV. B. PHILPOT, M.A., RECTOR OF GREAT CRESSINGHAM, NORFOLK, FORMERLY LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO., 21 BERNERS STREET. MDCCCLII. 141. 06.129. PREFACE. THE following treatise reached me from an unknown hand, with a simple request that I would read it, and decide its fate-Nisbet or the fire. Putting from my mind, with some difficulty, the latter half of the last verse of St John's Gospel, I cast my eye over the MS.; and finding in it much precious Scripture truth, and some vigorous thought, on a subject of infinite importance to us all, I decided to send it to Berners Street. To the lover of pleasure more than of God, I would earnestly commend this little work of counsel, from one who (as I have since learned) moves in the higher circles of life, but is enabled, by Divine grace, to "keep herself unspotted from the world." The solemn issue of our journey through are life is the one great concern to us all ;-for all, with various speed, but equal certainty, "travellers to eternity." "Once" only "is it appointed for man to die ;" and if he does that wrongly, there's no mending the matter-no help for him, no hope for ever. The voice which affectionately bids us weigh this position, and see what manner of journey we are making, is the voice of a real friend; and I deem it an honour to be in any degree the channel of its utterance. May the Lord graciously own and bless this endeavour of a young, earnest, and practical Christian to honour His name, and obey His command. GREAT CRESSINGHAM RECTORY, June 14, 1852. B. PHILPOT. |