The Christian Treasury

Author : John Johnstone
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330244685
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Treasury written by John Johnstone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Treasury: Containing Contributions From Ministers and Members of Various Evangelical Denominations On Tuesday the 15th of September, in company with three friends, I left Paris for Blois. On the road I had an opportunity of remarking that Frenchmen are not always inaccessible on the subject of religion. A French gentleman in the same railway carriage with ourselves, gave us courteously the information which we asked respecting his country, and received in return, with equal readiness, the remarks which were made to him on the subject of personal religion; acknowledged the duty of reading the Word of God; and accepted, with thanks, a copy of the New Testament. Another gentleman, superintendent of one of the railway stations, and an old sailor, jovial, sceptical, and light-hearted, who professed never to read any book whatever, still, after some religious conversation, accepted a New Testament with tears in his eyes; and at parting, expressed his regret that we were obliged so soon to separate. Till within a few years there was no French Protestant in Blois. It has now its excellent minister, M. Cadier, supported by the Evangelical Society. A few converts only meet in the humble room which is set apart for Protestant worship. But in a beautiful site, which looks down upon the picturesque town, with its lofty castle on the right, and its equally proud cathedral on an eminence to the left, a Protestant temple is rising. In that cathedral superstition has chained the minds of its devotees: in that castle, pride and power have held their revels over the prisoners, whose groans from the dungeons below might mingle with the laugh, and the dance, and the song, in the halls above. There solemn treaties, parliamentary debates, and splendid tournaments, had alternated with deeds of darkness - there, in 1588, Henry Duke of Guise fell dead at the door of Henry III., pierced by the daggers of forty-five assassins, who acted under the orders of the king; and there Henry IV. celebrated his nuptials with Margaret of Anjou. Atrocities and gaieties have alike vanished; but in its place a Protestant Church is forming, and a Protestant temple rising, which may give to Blois and its thirteen thousand inhabitants more honour and advantage than ever it derived from its castle and its cathedral. A merry party on Wednesday morning, to whom the motion of the railroad was a novelty, laughed and chatted, as the vineyards seemed to flit past us, and the dragon of an engine hurried us along the banks of the glittering Loire, with a speed which might make the pigeon and the swallow envy our rival flight. Yet this gay-hearted family welcomed some religious tracts which were put into their hands; and when they had satisfied their curiosity by thrusting out their heads to see the new bridge over the river in the neighbourhood of Tours, and expressed their admiration of its magnitude and beauty, they listened with more than willingness when it was explained to them that the only safe bridge across the abyss of death, is that simple faith in Christ which alone can conduct us safely to the opposite shore of heaven. 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.