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" This I know not how to express otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness, far... "
Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 76
1835
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Lectures on Revivals

Edward Norris Kirk - 1875 - 350 pages
...these things at times came into my heart, and my soul was led away in pleasant contemplations of them. The sense I had of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle an ardor in my soul that I knew not how to express. As I was walking, and looking at the sky and clouds,...
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Literary Essays

William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1878 - 400 pages
...Christ. The whole book of Canticles used to be pleasant to me, and I used to be much in reading it. The sense I had of divine things would often, of a...it were a sweet burning in my heart ; an ardor of BOU! that I know not how to express." — This rapt, exulting vision of the Divine beauty and majesty,...
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The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record: For ..., Volume 30

1880 - 400 pages
...abstraction of the soul from all the concerns of the world ; and sometimes a kind of vision or fixed ideas and imaginations of being alone in the mountains...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt, and swallowed up in God, The sense I had of divine things would often of a sudden kindle up an...
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The Two Fold Life: Or, Christ's Work for Us and Christ's Work in Us

Adoniram Judson Gordon - 1883 - 312 pages
...abstraction of the soul from all the concerns of the world ; and sometimes a kind of vision or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains,...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and wrapped and swallowed up in God." * But let it be carefully observed that these exercises came from...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1883 - 1058 pages
...sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision .... of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God.' We read of such instances of the fruits of prayer, in the blessedness...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 43

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1884 - 952 pages
...mountains, or some solitary wilderness far from all mankind sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine...an ardor of soul that I know not how to express." Illustrations like these, which abound especially in Edwards' earlier writings serve to show that the...
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The New Englander, Volume 7

1884 - 926 pages
...from all the concerns of this world, and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imagination of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense I had of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle up,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 43

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1884 - 882 pages
...from all the concerns of this world, and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imagination of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary...from all mankind sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God. The sense 1 had of divine things would often, of a sudden, kindle up,...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 2; Volume 8

1890 - 754 pages
...him, until he fell into ecstasies and even trances, — " sometimes a kind of vision or fixed idea and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains or some solitary wilderness far from mankind, sweetly conversing with Christ, and rapt and swallowed up in God." And this is what might...
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The Overland Monthly

1889 - 706 pages
...abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains...; an ardor of soul that I know not how to express .... And as I was walking there and looking upon the sky and clouds, there came into my mind so sweet...
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