Download or read book Discourses on Special Occasions, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Stephens McAll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discourses on Special Occasions, Vol. 1 In the first place, I believe him to have been in uenced by a sentiment of deeply humble self-annihilation in the pre sence of God - Fully aware of the estimation in which he was held, - of the affectionate and admiring partiality of his intimate friends, he could not but anticipate, in such a life, no little amount of personal eulogy. But whatever might be his estimate of himself in comparison with fellow-men, When he viewed himself in God's sight, so overwhelming at all times was his feeling of conscious unworthiness, - of his infinite distance, his universal failure, his utter nothingness, - that he shrunk from the idea of having either his personal or his official excellencies blazoned. All who ever witnessed the spirit of deep and prostrate reverence, of self-annihilating lowliness and contrition, with which he contemplated and approached the divine Being, will at once be sensible, that, with the thought in his mind of the eye of that Being resting upon him, and searching, with holy omniscience, his heart and his reins, he would have shrunk, with inexpressible sensi tiveness, from any thing in himself being so much as named under the designation of good. 0 could he but find accept ance, unworthy as he was, with his blessed Master! To be held up to the admiration of men, while in his whole soul he was shrinking from the eye of the majesty and the purity of the High and Holy One, was a thought which he could not for an instant have borne. 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."