The Record 1922 Classic Reprint

Author : J. F. Burnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267834358
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Annual written by J. F. Burnett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Christian Annual: For the Year of Our Lord, 1922 The Bible is not alone in its testimony to the value of records, but is joined by the evidence of men and the testimony of nature. So far as known, no tribe of savages, no matter how crude in habit, or low in mental power, has ever yet been found that did not in some way keep records; records of travel, of wars, of battles, of victories. And to the Bible, and the testimony of men, comes the facts of nature. In the sandstone can be found a record of the course of the wind, and the drift of the rain for all the centuries that these forces have played upon it. Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and the mighty oak will tell of the deed in centuries to come. Cut a gash in a man's head, it may heal over, but the record of the deed remains until decompo sitiou shall entirely destroy the body. And we should keep in mind that the record of sin in the soul is as eternal as God himself. Smite a soul, and the scar remains forever; no coffin, nor grave, can con ceal it; no revolution, no not even the upturning of the physical universe, can obliterate it; no fire, not even the eternal furnaces of hell can burn it out; and when the Book shall be opened, and all men called to give an account for the deeds done in the body, then, if not before, shall the value, the significance, and the spiritual aspect of records be known and appreciated. Our last word is statistics. Perhaps this is the really emphatic word of the subject. Just plain, dry statistics. The word becomes very attractive and intensely interesting, when we recall that in our encyclopedias, statistics is classed as a science, and that as early as 1853 a great international statistical congress was held in Brussels and that since that time international statistical con gresses have met in nearly all the great cities of the old world. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to give even a creditable enumeration of the multifarious topics which may be the subject of statistical inquiries. One encyclopedia which I consulted classified as follows. 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.