{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3993", "width": "2876", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Library of Congress.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nChap,\\nShelf", "height": "3768", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3760", "width": "2536", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3801", "width": "2439", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE\\nFOUNTAIN\\nOP\\nLIVING WATERS,\\nSERIES OF SKETCHES\\nA LAYMAN.\\nAnd the Spirit and the bride say, Come.\\nAnd let him that heareth say. Come.\\nAnd let him that is athirst come.\\nAnd whosoever will, let him take the water\\nof life freely.\\nRev. xxii. 17.\\nGEORGE P. PUTNAM.\\nloxdox putnam s American agency.\\nHDCOCL.\\ny", "height": "3784", "width": "2464", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Tip Library\\nof Congress\\nWASHINGTON\\nEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S49, by\\nGEORGE P. PUTNAM,\\nin the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the Southern\\nDistrict of New York.\\nE. O. JENKINS, PRINTER,\\n114 Nassau st.", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nOf one who drank deep of Earth s Foun-\\nPage.\\ntains,\\n5\\nCHAPTER II.\\nJust entering the Desert,\\n11\\nCHAPTER III.\\nThe Desert,\\n24\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nThe Desert still,\\n41\\nCHAPTER V.\\nThe Mirage in the Desert,\\n70\\nCHAPTER VL\\nA Glimpse of the Fountain,\\n85\\nCHAPTER Vn.\\nOn the brink of the Fountain. Hesitat-\\ning to drink,\\n103\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nThe Fountain of Living Waters,\\n124", "height": "3784", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nOP ONE WHO DRANK DEEP OF EARTH S FOUNTAINS.\\nWhile hearts are younjj and hopes are high,\\nA fairy scene doth Jife appear\\nIts sights are beauty to the eye,\\nIts sounds are music to the ear\\nBut soon it glides from youth to age,\\nAnd of its joys no more possessed,\\nWe, like the captive of the cage,\\nWould flee a Way and be at rest.\\nMalcolm.\\nIn life s early morning, when the feel-\\nings are fresh, and the heart is buoyant,\\nand hopes run high when the spirits have\\nan elasticity no weight of sorrow can for\\nmore than a moment depress when only\\nto breathe the air is delight, and living is\\nenjoying how like the gloomy picturings\\nof the misanthropist appear all those rep-\\nresentations of the world, which speak of", "height": "3776", "width": "2532", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "D THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nit as a vale of tears, overshadowed by\\nmany a lowering cloud, swept by many a\\ndesolating tempest which give warning\\nof the thousand hidden pitfalls and snares\\ncunningly contrived by the great adversary\\nof souls, to delude and catch the young\\nand the heedless. How like the peevish\\nrepinings of those who have outlived en-\\njoyment, seem all those heart- wrung ex-\\npressions, which proclaim the vanity of\\nearth-born joys the shallowness of what\\nis called a life of pleasure, the unsatisfying\\nnature of all sublunary things.\\nSo at least it was with me. Life lay\\nspread out before me. one long green vi:\\nall bathed in sunshine, and with a light\\nstep and laughing heart I began to tread\\nit. Many a fall had I at the very outset\\nand when I arose, half bewildered, a confused\\nrecollection of a better way, and the prom-", "height": "3784", "width": "2564", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\nise of a guide therein, came to my mind, and\\nwith it came the half-formed resolve to seek\\nthat way, and to follow that faithful guide.\\nBut He who is emphatically styled the\\nPrince of the power of the air, was ever\\nat hand at such critical moments, and with\\nhis subtle might filled with fair forms and\\nalluring phantoms the broad and beaten\\npath, whispering, as he passed by, Walk\\nin this way, and the delights of the sons\\nof men are yours follow every impulse,\\ndrink of every proffered cup of pleasure,\\nand the end thereof shall not be death.\\nAs thousands have done before me, and\\nas, alas thousand thousands will do after\\nme, I believed the lie and pushed madly\\non fainter and fainter came the warnings,\\nand when they did come they were rudelv\\nthrust aside as unwelcome guests. Of\\nevery cup of pleasure presented to my", "height": "3780", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "b THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nfeverish lips, I drank. I travelled in for-\\neign lands I trod many a scene hallowed\\nin history, and lingered around the places\\nembalmed in song. I walked in kings\\npalaces, and mingled with those the world\\ncall great, and fancy happy came back\\nto my native land\\nUnfound the boon, unslaked the thirst\\nand took up the burden of the wise man s la-\\nmentation, Yanity of vanities, all is vanity.\\nThen, once again, came that whisper, in\\naccents so full of tenderness and love,\\nCome unto me, all ye that labor and are\\nheavy laden, and I will give you rest. It\\nwas the same invitation that had fallen\\nupon my ear in early days, the long-slight-\\ned call again repeated. I paused and lis-\\ntened, and thought and prayed, and the\\nveil passed away from my heart, and Jesus\\nopened my eyes.", "height": "3812", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. V\\nBut youth is gone spent in chasing the\\nshadows and following the illusions of a\\ndarkened imagination and an unregenerate\\nheart. That glorious seed-time all gone\\nthose wasted talents, never again can I\\ngather them up but whilst I look back\\nwith a tearful eye and saddened heart, be-\\ncause those hours can never be recalled,\\nand the influences then exerted never can\\nbe stayed because I have lived my youth\\naway so sadly there is something cheer-\\ning in the hope that I may yet, in some\\nsmall degree, redeem the time in this hum-\\nble attempt to direct those who are just\\nstarting upon life through a dark and\\nthirsty desert where no water is, to a nar-\\nrow path, hidden from the multitude,\\nwhich runs by living streams of sparkling\\nfreshness. We are disposed to smile at\\nthe credulity of the poor care-worn, life-", "height": "3740", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nworn Ponce de Leon, who sold all that he\\nhad, and went to seek, amid the wild flow-\\ners and untrodden groves of Florida, a\\nfountain that would renew his youth but\\nthe old Spanish knight only acted out the\\nlonging of many a weary, world- worn heart,\\nthirsting for something better and higher\\nthan it yet hath known to such then but\\nespecially those who are just entering upon\\nlife a life which will shape the destiny of\\nall when human life shall be no more to\\nthese I speak in the hope, that, by making\\nplain the path by simple illustrations taken\\nfrom the facts that have occurred within\\nmy own observation, I may lead them to\\nthe Fountain of Living Waters.", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 11\\nCHAPTER II.\\nJUST ENTERING THE DESERT.\\nUnthinking, idle, wild, and young,\\nI laugh d, and talk d, and danced, and snng\\nAnd proud of health, of freedom vain,\\nDream d not of sorrow, care, or pain\\nConcluding, in those hours of glee,\\nThat all the world was made for me.\\nPrincess Amelia.\\nAs I have intimated, my aear young\\nfriend, you believe life to be one long holi-\\nday some thorns, of course, in the path\\nwhere flowers are springing now and then\\na cloud to break the flood of sunshine, and\\never and anon a bleak wind to beat back\\nthe gentle summer breeze but these are\\ntoo transient to darken your look into the\\nfuture the delicious blue sky stretches its\\nbeautiful canopy over all, and the light", "height": "3772", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nlooks down and irradiates every untrodden\\nscene. With all the confidence and self-\\nreliance of youth, you are ready to set out\\nit is just here I would take you by the\\nhand and ask you to listen.\\nI know how hard it will be to get your\\nattention but for a moment, to induce you\\nto pause, and just look over the same\\nscene through the clear mirror of revelation\\njust for one short hour to stop and pon-\\nder this question For what purpose was I\\ncreated What end is to be answered by\\nmy living in this world Why am I en-\\ndowed with these glorious faculties, these\\ndeep affections, this capacity for loving,\\nthese lofty aspirations why were they\\ngiven me Was it that I might, butter-\\nfly-like, drink pleasure from every flower\\nthat scents the breeze, bask for a moment\\nin the sunshine, and then moulder away", "height": "3780", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 1 3\\nbeneath the clods of the valley. He\\nlived and died ashes to ashes dust\\nto dust is that all Every feeling of\\nthe undying soul revolts at such a thought.\\nWhat gifted with an intellect that can\\nscale the heights of heaven and explore\\nthe deep abyss of the second death, only\\nfor this Xo my dear voting friend,\\nyou know you were not.\\nThe philosopher, in the dim twilight of\\ncenturies past,, had better thoughts than\\nthese, and with a o*aze of a^onizincr earnest-\\nness sought and hoped to get some o-limpse\\nof the life of the soul beyond the gloomy\\nStyx. But we who live in the full blaze\\nof revelation know that man has a nobler\\ndestiny that he is here but on the thresh-\\nold of his real existence, and that when\\nlife s fitful fever is over he will walk, a liv-\\ning spirit, amid scenes which the Spirit has", "height": "3768", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\ndimly revealed to us, but which no mortal\\npen can describe. I say we know this\\nand yet, to the shame of man be it spoken,\\nhow many actually know nothing of these\\nthings.\\nWhy, the angels, who walk in the un-\\nclouded light of his presence, could not\\nbelieve, did they not witness the strange\\nexhibition of it upon earth, that after the\\nAlmighty had stretched forth his hand and\\ndrawn aside the veil which had shut out the\\nfuture world from the gaze of mortals, they\\nwould pass on to death, and the. things\\nthat are coming after, refusing even so\\nmuch as to glance at those scenes, those\\nawful realities which every child of the\\ndust must behold, and in which every liv-\\ning soul must act a thrilling part. And\\nyet so it is.\\nAnd here is the fatal error in all youth-", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 15\\nful calculations in all their plans, far-\\nreaching though they be, they never stretch\\nbeyond the confines of this passing world\\nto obtain its pleasures and its honors, its\\nwealth and its power, is with them the\\ngreat end of life.\\nNow talk to one thus deluded of the\\nuncertainty of attaining these objects, of\\ntheir unsatisfying nature when within our\\ngrasp tell him how the sated heart will\\nsicken with them, and turn away and weep\\nfor something better say to him, in the\\nlanguage of England s purest poet,\\n~We die, my friend,\\nNor we alone, but that which each man loved,\\nAnd prized in his peculiar nook of earth,\\nDies with him, or is changed and very soon,\\nEven of the good is no memorial left\\nand you will appear like one that mocketh.\\nHe knows there are delights in the path", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nhe is entering, and he does not believe\\nthey are unsatisfactory and it is true that\\nthere are such things as the pleasures of\\nsin. there are delights tasted by the chil-\\ndren of the world, the daughters of music\\nand the dance do rind joy therein and it\\nis contrary to experience, and contrary to\\nScripture, to deny their existence.\\nDid they not exist, Satan s power were\\nwell nio-h gone they are his mightiest\\nweapons, and by them he has slain his\\ntens of thousands it was when our Sav-\\niour had baffled all his temptations that\\nhe showed him all the kingdoms of the\\nworld, and the glory of them, and said,\\nAll these things will I give thee; 9 and\\nthough this lying promise is eighteen cen-\\nturies old. it seems to have lost none of its\\npower.\\nWe grant, then, my young friend, that", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 1\\nthe world has its pleasures but we do as-\\nsert, from the teachings of experience, and\\nthe word of God, that they are as transi-\\ntory as the morning mist upon the moun-\\ntains, and dry up as swiftly as the early\\ndew that they are unworthy the pursuit\\nof an immortal being, and viewed in the\\nglowing light of the eternal day which\\nnever se:s upon our heavenly home, they\\nare poor beyond the power of language to\\nexpress and we do assert that one hour\\noi tearful unclouded communion with Jesus\\nis worth them all and this is not the lan-\\nguage of one religious enthusiast, but the\\nordinary experience of almost every hum-\\nble disciple of the cross. I can assure\\nyou, says one who is now before the\\nthrone, from all that ever I have felt of\\nit, the pleasures oi being forgiven, are as\\nsuperior to the pleasures of an unforgiven", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nman, as heaven is higher than hell. The\\npeace of being forgiven reminds me of the\\ncalm blue sky, which no earthly clamors\\ncan disturb. It lightens all labor, sweet-\\nens every morsel of bread, and makes a\\nsick bed all soft and downy yea, it takes\\naway the scowl of death\\nBut paltry as the pleasures of sin appear\\nwhen estimated aright, they are, as we\\nhave said, the mighty fascinations whereby\\nsouls are lured to ruin they assume every\\ngarb, they sometimes present themselves\\nas perfectly innocent, leading to no results\\nwhatever, and at others as the natural enjoy-\\nments of the young and buoyant and if\\nthey lead to excess, they contend that this\\nis only the extravagance of youth and ani-\\nmal spirits they appeal to the appetites\\nand the senses, and rush into every inlet\\nof the unguarded heart they are present,", "height": "3808", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\n19\\ntangible, while the great transactions that\\nare going on in the spiritual world about\\nus, are all unseen and all unfelt. Being\\nspiritual, they cannot be brought to the\\nvision of the natural man, they can alone\\nbe apprehended by faith. Does this seem\\na strange saying, that the things of the\\nspirit world can only be seen through a\\nspiritual vision, which by the inspired\\nwriters is called faith does this reach\\nbeyond analogy does not the illiterate\\ntraveller pass with a cold, unconscious gaze\\nthat mass of misshapen masonry, the crum-\\nbling ruin full of thrillinsr interest to the\\nother, whose mind is stored with moving\\nincidents, linked in with every stone of that\\ntime -honored and forsaken castle are they\\nthe less real because the other sees them\\nnot?\\nI passed part of a lovely summer in", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nthe Isle of Wight. It was with a feeling\\nalmost of sadness that I went on a pilgrim-\\nage, one genial summer day, to Carisbrook\\nCastle. Slowly and thoughtfully I clam-\\nbered up the hill, from the top of which\\nthe ruins look down upon a beautiful land-\\nscape that was the heavy gateway\\nthrough which the royal fugitive entered\\nhere Charles ascended and this is the\\nkeep, and this dilapidated room, so damp\\nand dark, is where he slept and that is\\nthe very window through which the poor\\nprisoner looked upon the fresh green pic-\\nture, and wept over his fallen fortunes\\nwhatever I may think of Charles Stuart\\nnow, my heart then beat in sympathy with\\nthe fallen monarch and as I plucked a piece\\nof ivy which was clambering round the win-\\ndow where once he leaned, I could almost\\nsee that pale, sad face turn and look at me.", "height": "3804", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 21\\nWe resided in one of those vine- covered\\ncottages which look out upon Southampton\\nwater, and when the sun arose we would\\nmount and away through every lane and\\nby any path that would lead to scenes of\\nbeauty, and it was difficult to go amiss in\\nthat lovely island. Like a gallery of glo-\\nrious pictures set in gold, they rose up\\nbefore my imagination but there they\\nare, with their delicious tint and magical\\nblending of light and shade, and rich green\\nfoliage of grove and forest, and shining-\\nwater, and running stream, and glowing\\nsky so beautiful as to swell the heart and\\nclose the lips I walked amid these scenes\\nas I had often walked amid the scenes of\\nsurpassing loveliness in my own native\\nland. And yet I was looking down upon\\na landscape, hallowed in the memory of\\nevery reading Christian. There stood that", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nold antique church, and beside it the quiet\\ngrave-yard where little Jane first heard\\nthose crlad tidings, and the poor child of\\nand poverty was changed into an heir\\nof a glorious immortality, and where her\\nbody lies waiting for the morning of the\\nresurrection; and there was the humble\\ncottage near Arreton, where the Dairy-\\nman s Daughter lived and died, and a\\nthousand scenes which the pen of Legh\\nRichmond has pain: b enchanting-\\ncolors places to which I would fain make\\na pilgrimage now. But as I had then never\\nread those simple and touching tales which\\nhave crone into all lands a blessino* to all\\nnations those scenes had no neculiar in-\\nterest, had, in fact, no existence to me.\\nJust so is it in the spiritual world.\\nThe unveiled eye of the Christian sees\\nabove and around him things of wondrous", "height": "3808", "width": "2648", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LIVING W A T E B 23\\nloveliness and surpassing glory; the an-\\ngel:: ies; the cloud of witness\\nthe noble army of martyrs the erown of\\nglory the many mansions of his Father s\\nhouse and Jesus there thrilling real::\\nwhich neither the philosophy, nor the ridi-\\ncule, nor the blandishments of the world\\n:heat him out of, or make them other\\nthan they are, living facts. But the be-\\nnighted child of earth, blinded by the god\\nof the world, gropes along as heedless\\nuninfluenced, as unblessed by them as\\nthough they were the wild dreams of the\\nr the beautiful visions of the\\npoet. They gather around him, and ap-\\npeal is noble and undying in\\nhis nature but he discerns them not,\\nbecause the spiritual, and to be\\nseen v?, and this alas! he has", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nCHAPTER III.\\nTHE DESERT.\\nMan hath a weary pilgrimage\\nAs through the world he wends\\nOn every stage, from youth to age.\\nStill discontent attends\\nWith heaviness he casts his eye,\\nUpon the road before,\\nAnd still remembers, with a sigb,\\nThe days that are no more.\\nS0UTHE\\\\.\\nWell, then, you say, since these things\\not the spirit world can only be apprehend-\\ned by faith, and we have not this gift or\\nacquisition, whichever it be, how can we be\\ninfluenced by it in forming our estimate of\\nlife?\\nI would ask in return, what do you\\nmean by saying you have not faith", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 25\\nYou believe the Bible to be the revealed\\nwill of God, for I am speaking to the\\nsons and daughters of Christian parents.\\nAmong- its wonderful revelations are\\nthese that we are fallen creatures that\\nall that are born into the world do sin\\nfrom their youth up and as sinners are\\ncondemned to endure, when this life is\\nended, all that is implied in that fearful\\nexpression, the wrath of the Lamb That\\nGod has no pleasure in consigning his\\ncreatures to such a doom, but that his\\nrighteous law demands the punishment of\\nthe incorrigibly guilty. That Jove is the\\nvery essence of his being, and that this is\\nso, is made manifest by his own declara-\\ntion and the countless exhibitions of it\\nbut revealed chiefly in this, that he gave\\nhis only-begotten and well-beloved Son to\\ndie, that every sinner, however degraded,", "height": "3772", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nhowever vile, might escape the doom of\\nhell, and reap the joys of heaven.\\nThat he came to this earth and the lat-\\nter pages of the Bible tell the story of his\\nlife of sorrow and his death of agony his\\nresurrection and ascension to his Father,\\nand that there, at the Father s right hand\\nhe lives to intercede, and that no prayer\\noffered sincerely in his name will be un-\\nheard, no sinner no, not the veriest cast-\\naway on earth will be turned away if he\\ncomes in penitence and simple faith. And\\nfurther, it depicts in glowing imagery the\\nfuture abode of those who thus come,\\nobey, follow, and sleep in Jesus.\\nAll this you have read, and you believe\\nit to be true. But do you suppose that\\nthis is the faith the apostle speaks of when\\nhe says, By faith ye are saved that\\nfaith which brings the realities of the un-", "height": "3780", "width": "2568", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 27\\nseen world so vividly to view, that we act\\nwith reference to them, and are influenced\\nby them in our daily walk? Does a\\nthought of the life to come, shape one of\\nyour actions does the desire to please\\nHim who died to save us influence you as\\na governing principle Are the commands\\nof Jesus your rule of life You have\\nnever even thought of these things you\\nare, in a certain sense, as I have said, fa-\\nmiliar with the plan God has devised to\\nsave man, and yet with an inconsistency\\nwhich on any other subject would appear\\nto you utter folly, you are quieting your\\nconscience with an indefinable hope of be-\\ning saved in some other way a kind of\\ngeneral notion of the benevolence of God,\\nand a half reliance on your own good in-\\ntentions.\\nA young friend said to me, when urging", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "2 S THE FOFNTAI N F\\nupon him the necessity of following Christ\\nupon earth, if we would reign with him in\\nheaven You have a right to think as\\nyou please on this subject, and you do\\nridit to live in accordance with vour views\\nof the real nature of our existence here\\nbut I walk according to the light I have.\\nI see no harm, as you do, in travelling on\\nthe Sabbath, no necessitv in o-oino; to\\nchurch when I do not feel like it no sense\\nin giving up balls, and routs, and theatres\\nno use in this eternal praying. If a man\\nact up to the light he has, that is all that\\nGod will require of him/ And yet my\\nyoung friend would have little respect for\\na man who did not believe the Bible to\\ncontain the only plan of salvation and he\\nis but one of a vast multitude, who, with\\nthe unclouded light of the gospel to guide\\nthem, turn their backs upon it, and by a", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\ndim msh-Iighi of their own contriving. _\\n.nblingf along in darkness a dark:,\\nthat will grow more intense,, for at death\\nthe rush-light will go out, and they will find\\nthemselves in a region where the black,\\nof darkness broods forever.\\nBut you, my young reader, who are\\nperhaps just budding into womanh\\nyou are little interested in and scar;\\nunderstand the false views which are be-\\nguiling into ruin my amiable and moral\\n:cr friend. You have grown up the\\nindulged and cherished child of fond pa-\\nrents have aad a wish ungra ti-\\nlled, and if care, which comes to all, has\\never visited vou, h has been but the fleeting\\nlow of a summer cloud. You are s\\n1 with the world as it is, and fa\\n:ely ever thought that it was pas-\\nnd though vou have heard of a", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nlife beyond the grave, it has passed through\\nyour mind like some vague story of a far-\\noff land, with which you have no connec-\\ntion, and are in no way interested.\\nFresh as if it were but yesterday is the\\nmemory of the companion of my early\\nstudies the gentle friend whose smile or\\nfrown had much to do with my boyish\\nhappiness. I never thought Fanny Ran-\\ndolph was an angel, for when teased be-\\nyond endurance I had very unmistakeable\\nevidence that she was flesh and blood but\\nto my youthful imagining she was the fair-\\nest creature that ever walked the earth\\nand, so thought some who looked upon\\nher through a colder medium, so guileless,\\nso frank, so glad-hearted, that pleasant\\nface, not so very beautiful, but so very\\nloveable a pity it seems it should have\\npassed away from earth with no record of", "height": "3784", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 31\\nit but what is written on a few loving\\nhearts that will soon have also passed\\naway. As she was the only daughter of\\nwealthy parents, no pains or expense were\\nspared in her education she could read\\nseveral modern languages, draw prettily,\\nplay on several musical instruments, sing\\nsweetly, and we boys thought her the\\nmost graceful dancer that frequented the\\nball-room, and most anxiously did we con-\\ntend for her hand. She went through the\\ncourse of our fashionable school, and was\\nwhat was called thoroughly educated. And\\nyet even were this world all, what a wretch-\\ned preparation for the sober realities and the\\ntrials of daily life But when we consider\\nthis as only a state of preparation for a\\nhigher state of being, as the seed-time for\\neternity, how utterly worthless it had all\\nbeen, the time how lamentably mis-spent", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nHow sudden the transition from the\\nschool-girl to womanhood I was yet a\\nboy when Fanny Randolph, who was a\\nlittle my senior, had entered society as a\\nyoung lady and I well remember my\\nfeeling of indignation when I first discov-\\nered that my early playmate was disposed\\nto treat me as a boy, and slight my society\\nfor those who had seen twice as many\\nsummers as I had.\\nIt was a winter of unusual gayety, even\\nfor New York, for- there were many like\\nFanny, who were for the first time to be\\nintroduced into the fashionable world, and\\njoin that magic circle of which they had\\ncaught but partial glimpses, and whose\\nfascinating round of gayety, of music,\\ndance, and song, was to them the realiza-\\ntion of every thought and dream of hap-\\npiness.", "height": "3816", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 33\\nRich and fair, she was courted, caressed,\\nand flattered. Her hand was sought for\\nevery dance when she sang, applause\\nawaited her and every laughing speech\\nwas echoed by many admirers night after\\nnight she trod the same exciting scene,\\nuntil the winter was well-nigh spent. A\\nslight cold she had taken, she scarce knew\\nhow, and which she laughingly said, she\\nhad not time to attend to till spring, neg-\\nlected, began to assume a more serious\\nform, and when the evening came of the\\nlast rout of the season, she was drooping\\nunder the influence of a slow fever. But\\nas it was the last party, she exerted her-\\nself, and the excitement and effort lent a\\nglow to her countenance which her fond\\nparents mistook for the flush of returning\\nhealth. She was never more admired,\\nnever more gay her sweet laugh never", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nrang more sweetly. At a late hour, jaded\\nand exhausted, she threw herself back in\\nthe carriage, and when she reached home,\\nhad scarcely strength to ascend the stairs.\\nThe next morning she was raving with a\\nbrain fever. At one time she was moving\\nthrough the dance, then a smile would\\npass over her face, and she would take up\\nthe snatches of some familiar song, with\\nsuch a plaintive, half-broken voice, that it\\nwent to the heart of those who watched\\nbeside her and ever and anon a look of\\nterror would distort her features, and then\\nshe would sink into a deep, heavy sleep.\\nFourteen days and nights, marked by those\\nalternations of better and worse which so\\ncheat the hopeful, fearful heart, had passed\\naway, and when again I called, she was\\ndead. Never, never can I forget the\\nstrange, speechless feeling of awe that", "height": "3784", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 35\\nstole into my young heart, as I looked\\nupon that still marble face and the chill\\nthat passed over me as I kissed that white\\nforehead. This was death and I was\\nlooking upon it for the first time\\nIt was one of those days in early spring-\\nwhen the last moan of the winter wind has\\ndied away, and the soft, warm breeze was\\ncreeping on from the south, too gentle to\\nstir the leafless spray, and the grass, with\\nits early coat of vivid green, was springing\\nin every area, and every crevice in the side-\\nwalk, and the sun, with its genial warmth,\\nwas streaming down on such a day it was\\nthat we bore the winter belle to her last\\nresting-place.\\nSome of us had been the playmates of\\nher childhood all of us, who were named\\nto be her bearers, had been the friends and\\ncompanions of her life of gayety.", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nAnd we wept, as the young alone do\\nweep, without control, without reserve.\\nNor did we weep alone for there was not\\na dry eye when we laid Fanny Randolph\\nin the grave-yard of old Trinity.\\nBut what are the sorrows of the young\\nhow soon the wound is closed how soon\\nthe tear is dried away The summer flow-\\ners blossomed and died upon that new-\\nmade grave, and when the falling leaf\\nrustled \u00c2\u00a7ver it, the sleeper beneath was\\nwell-nigh forgotten by the gay companions\\nwho were about entering upon the dissipa-\\ntions of another winter, and not one of\\nwhom had laid to heart the sorrowful\\ntragedy of Fanny Randolph s history.\\nAnd is it not, my young reader, a tra-\\ngedy of the saddest kind, that one so gen-\\ntle and so sweet, and yet so sinful and so\\nlost to whom it was given to live in the", "height": "3804", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 37\\nfull light of the gospel day in whose hands\\nwas placed the Book, which though full\\nof fathomless mysteries, is yet a plain and\\ncertain guide to the humble, prayerful\\nstudent that one so favored, and who\\nmight have walked in white, and tuned\\nher harp, and joined in the chorus of the\\nransomed is it not, I say, a thing so sad\\nthat angels might well weep over it that\\nshe should have walked the earth as if it\\nwere all of life to live, hearing, and yet\\nhearing not, of the danger and the refuge\\nno more impressed with the things of the\\nlife to come than if they were cunningly\\ndevised fables, and in the midst of light\\ngoing down into darkness.\\nBut perhaps you are ready to think that\\nthis foreboding of the fate of one so lovely-\\nis but the narrow judgment of a bigotted\\nreligionist. We have only to say, examine", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nfor yourself search the Scriptures, which,\\nwith me, you believe to be the only re-\\nvealed guide to heaven, and see whether a\\nlife of thoughtless gayety such a life as\\nFanny led, and such a life as thousands\\nare now living is the way to eternal life.\\nIt may be painful to you to think of so\\nmany friends, amiable and exemplary in all\\ntheir conduct, as hastening to a doom too\\nfearful for language to describe and yet,\\nif you read the Scriptures with an honest,\\ntruth-loving heart, you must be convinced\\nthat they have not so much as looked into\\nthe strait and narrow way which alone\\nleads heavenward that instead of denying\\nthemselves, and taking up the cross and\\nfollowing Jesus, they have not even en-\\nrolled themselves among his followers\\nand though they have some confused no-\\ntion of salvation through his merits, have", "height": "3780", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 39\\nno more trust in him, no mure communion\\nwith him, than if he did not actually exist.\\nAnd this class of uncaring dreamers is a\\ncountless throng they press along every\\nlane and avenue of life they people this\\nbroad road, and tread it with as fearless\\nand steady a step, as if it did not lead to\\neternal death.\\nOh, is it not wonderful that in these lat-\\nter days when the veil, which hid from\\nmortal sight the wondrous scenes of the\\ninvisible world around and beyond us, has\\nbeen drawn aside, and we have been per-\\nmitted to catch a look into the bottom-\\nless pit, and a glimpse of the effulgent,\\nunfading glories of the pearly-gated city\\nwhen warnings to avoid the former, and\\ninvitations to seek the latter, are heard\\nupon every breeze when the press is\\nteeming with works on the great theme of", "height": "3772", "width": "2480", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nthe life which is to come, so that the gos-\\npel is pouring its glorious light into every\\ndwelling of every land, from the laborer s\\nhovel to the prince s palace is it not pass-\\ning strange that, thus enlightened, men\\nshould lie down and die like the beasts\\nthat perish", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 41\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE DESERT STILL\\nA pleasing land of drowsy-head it wajs,\\nOf dreams that wave before the half-shut eye\\nAnd of gay castles in the clouds that pas?,\\nFor ever flashing round a summer sky.\\nThomson.\\nIt may be that you, my young reader,\\nhave very little respect for this earth-lov-\\ning, grovelling multitude you can scarcely\\nconceive it possible that the flight of a\\nman s intellect should never reach beyond\\nthis world and its poor concerns, and you\\nbelieve that man s religious nature is that\\nwhich most elevates and ennobles him and\\nI do not know that I can better read to\\nvou vour own character, and describe a", "height": "3784", "width": "2480", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nlarge class, than by telling you a few\\nthings of a very pleasant companion of\\nother days and should this meet his eye,\\nand he recognize the portrait, may He\\nwhose footsteps are not known, make it\\nthe means of leading him away from fail-\\ning, unsatisfying springs of earth, to the\\nFountain of Living Waters.\\nJohn Gordon was what was called a\\nvery promising youth. He was not over-\\nfond of study, but he was quick-witted,\\nand knew how to make the most of what\\nhe knew. He had a great facility in wri-\\nting doggerel verses, which raised him\\ngreatly in the opinion of his young com-\\npanions, and his song, ready at any one s\\ncall, made him a prime favorite.\\nHis easy, indolent father his mother\\ndied when he was an infant took but lit-\\ntle oversight of his education, and his re-", "height": "3784", "width": "2568", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 43\\nligious training was wholly neglected but\\nyoung Gordon s pride led him to apply\\nhimself to his studies, so that he stood very\\nwell in his class in college, and an affair\\nof the heart made him a constant attend-\\nant at church. The habit thus formed\\nhad such an influence on him, even at the\\npresent day, that without knowing exactly\\nwhv, he had a verv uncomfortable feeling\\nwhen he passed a Sabbath away from\\nchurch. But it was something more than\\nmere habit. He frequented one of those\\nbeautiful temples that adorn our city, and\\nwhile his eye is pleased with the exquisite\\nproportions of nave, transept, and spring-\\ning column, seen by the soft and tinted\\nlight of the stained windows, the poetry of\\nhis nature finds delight in the simple and\\nsolemn services, the rich melody of the or-\\ngan, and the heaven-like music of the choir", "height": "3756", "width": "2464", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nNor is his ear entirely closed against the\\npreacher s voice, but often, as he dwells\\nupon the ennobling gospel themes, the\\nSaviour s walk of sorrow here on earth,\\nhis touching sympathy, his tender dying\\nlove, or points beyond, to joys which eye\\nhath not seen, or ear heard, neither hath\\nentered into the heart of man to conceive,\\nthe preacher is unto him as a very\\nlovely song of one that hath a pleasant\\nvoice, and can play well on an instrument.\\nBut like Ezekiel s hearers, they no more\\nstir him than the summer breeze the forest\\noak.\\nVery beautiful and pleasant to his culti-\\nvated imagination is it all and he believes\\nthere is religion in it and when we once\\nventured to express our doubts whether\\nthese outward circumstances of worship,\\nthough they might cause the heart to me] t", "height": "3784", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 45\\nand the eye to dim with tears, had any\\ntendency to produce in the unregenerate a\\ntrue feeling of devotion, anything like the\\nspiritual worship of the broken and con-\\ntrite-hearted, we believe he looked upon\\nus as worse than an infidel.\\nWe have intimated that the sound of the\\ngospel was as familiar to him as household\\nwords, and yet, strange as it may seem,\\nhis apprehension of the plan of salvation is\\nas dim and shadowy as the dreams of his\\nchildhood.\\nHe has a vague notion that there is\\nsomething to be done certain worldly\\npractices to be given up, and some rather\\ndoubtful habits to be reformed and as\\nlife wears away, a little more frequent use\\nof prayers and he fully intends at some\\nindefinite time, very far down into the fu-\\nture, those far-off days when he shall say", "height": "3784", "width": "2464", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nhe has no pleasure in them, to give his\\nattention to this business, which is very\\nbecoming to old age, and the fit employment\\nof the dying hour.\\nThis done, he will be wafted into heaven,\\nor rather into that sort of elysium which\\nhis poetical and dreamy imagination has\\nconjured up a region of rest and happi-\\nness, as unlike the heaven of which the\\nLamb is the light thereof, as is the Para-\\ndise of the Moslem, the Valhalla of the\\nnorthern mythology, or the Spirit-land of\\nthe poor Indian,\\nWhose untutored mind\\nSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind\\nWhose soul proud science never taught to stray\\nFar as the solar walk or milky way\\nYet simple nature to his hope has given,\\nBehind the cloud-topped hills, an humble hea-\\nven\\nSome safer world in depth of wood embraced,\\nSome happier island in the watery waste,", "height": "3784", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "LIVING W ATE 1! S 47\\nWhere slaves once more their native land be\\nhold,\\nNo fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold.\\nTo be, contents his natural desire,\\nHe asks no angel s wing, no seraph s fire\\nBut thinks, admitted to that equal sky,\\nHis faithful dog shall bear him company.\\nThus cheated by a deceitful fancy, John\\nGordon is passing through this brief scene\\nof trial. Sometimes a doubt will disturb\\nhis mind, whether the foundation of his\\nhopes be sure but the general current of\\nhis life runs smoothly, and faint is the hope\\nthat he will ever be led to turn away from\\nthese mirages of the desert, and reach, ere\\nit be too late, the Fountain of Living Wa-\\nters.\\nWere I to foreshadow the last hours of\\none whose views were all so confused and\\ncloudy, representing him with a brow\\nwrinkled with anguish, a cheek blanched,", "height": "3784", "width": "2448", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 t z f o o it t a i n\\nand an eye almost shrii its\\nsocket from very terror. I shov\\nably come near the reality hose ex-\\nperience lias not shown him tfa is no\\nuncommon occurrence, for those who have\\ncome down tc the honi lying, ignorant\\ncharactei :nce\\nlooked in the second death,\\nto be and so b\\n?f ,i with a tone almost cheer-\\nfulness then peac afnl e\\nMy heart sinks within me while I recall\\nthe last hours of one who was ammoned\\naway\\nWe had been friends Eogel\\nour hands first joined in I :n grasp\\nof confiding boyhood. Much we had been\\nseparated, for he had entered the navy, and\\ns constantly at sea. But frequent let-", "height": "3780", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 49\\nters kept the embers of friendship glowing,\\nand ever the first to greet and the last to\\npart were we.\\nWe spent the winter before his last\\nage, at Washington. Young Matilda\\nM Kean was there, whose soft blue eyes,\\nand sunny face, and graceful form, were\\nthe admiration of many and then she\\nsang with such a plaintive voice those\\ntouching melodies which none have written\\nhalf so well as Moore. We sought her\\nsociety, and I was not much surprised\\nwhen William Trelawney imparted to me,\\nwith a hesitation never before exhibited,\\nthe secret of his attachment for her.\\nIt is not true that the course of true\\nlove never did run smooth,* but there\\ncertainly were some counter-currents in\\nthis case what they were was never re-\\nvealed to me. They sang together and\\n4", "height": "3784", "width": "2448", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nwalked together, and when he went to sea\\nin the spring they parted in tears.\\nA summer and a winter passed, and an-\\nother spring was fast verging into summer\\nagain, when I received a letter from Tre-\\nlawney, dated from one of the ports of the\\nMediterranean, saying that he would cer-\\ntainly be home in the autumn, and filled\\nwith raptures as he dwelt on the hope of\\nlooking into Mary s eyes again/\\nI had heard that Matilda M Kean had\\nbeen ill, but was startled to learn, a few\\ndays after the receipt of Trelawney s let-\\nter, that she was failing fast, and was then\\nin New York, travelling for her health. I\\ncalled to see her, and learned that she had\\njust gone into the country.\\nI had been absent from the city about a\\nfortnight, and on my return took up one\\nof the newspapers that had accumulated", "height": "3812", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\n51\\non my table, and the record of her death\\nwas almost the first thing that met my eye.\\nThere is an obscure grave-yard not far\\nfrom the Narrows on Long Island a quiet,\\nlonely spot, where the sunbeams rest\\nthroughout the year, and on which they\\nfling their last lingering radiance as the\\nsun goes down in the west. It lies off from\\nthe road the tall waving grass is seldom\\ncrushed by the foot of man, and no noise\\nbreaks its stillness, save the sighing of the\\nbreeze through a neighboring grove, or the\\ndistant surging of the waves. It is the\\nlast resting-place of one who was very\\ngentle and very lovely. Oh, how lovely\\nMatilda M Kean was and there, when\\nTrelawney returned, he often went to weep\\nalone.\\nFor a time he gave up society, and\\nseemed to be brooding over the past, and", "height": "3784", "width": "2440", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "O Z THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nnone of the arts of friendship could cheer\\nhim, until this mode of life became too\\noppressive, and then, to banish thought,\\nhe plunged into all the gayety and dissi-\\npation of the world the wretched refuge\\nof many an aching heart, and, alas the\\nonly refuge the world has to offer. 0,\\nthat Trelawney had known 0, that I\\ncould have directed him to Him who came\\nto wipe away the tears of the sorrow-\\nstricken, and bind up the broken-hearted\\nFrom the midst of a festive scene I was\\nsummoned to his dying bed. He had\\nruptured a blood-vessel, and his life was\\nebbing fast away. With a noiseless step I\\napproached his side, and gently laid my\\nhand on his, and when his eye met mine,\\nhe drew me to his arms and wept long\\nand bitterly; but after that, though there\\nwas an occasional knitting of the brow, he", "height": "3784", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "LIVING W ATERS,\\n53\\nwas always calm and sometimes cheerful.\\nAt times his mind would wander, and then\\nhe would hum some familiar tune of other\\ndays, and exclaim, Beautiful oh, how\\nbeautiful The physicians gave some\\nlittle hope, provided all excitement was\\navoided but we who watched there night\\nand day, saw that his pilgrimage was\\nended. But yet we had hope, for there\\nwas a gentle female there, and she watched\\nover him with all the solicitude and tender-\\nness of a mother, ministering to his com-\\nfort in those many nameless ways woman\\nalone can devise. And she was one whose\\nheart had been touched by the love of Je-\\nsus, and earnestly she begged that the dy-\\ning youth might be told that his hours\\nwere numbered, and that he might be\\npointed to that refuge which the expiring\\nthief had sought and found.", "height": "3784", "width": "2440", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nThe future was nothing to us who were\\nwatching there, the present everything\\nand long we resisted but when hope had\\nentirely fled, we sent for one whom we all\\nrespected for his consistent piety. He was\\nthen a faithful parish minister in our\\ncity enshrined in many a heart is the\\nmemory of the esteemed Bishop of Massa-\\nchusetts breathless we hung upon his\\ntouching words, the simple gospel, simply\\npreached and though I had heard it from\\nchildhood, I listened to it then for the first\\ntime and when we rose from prayer, poor\\nTrelawney exclaimed Beautiful beau-\\ntiful I But his mind was all unstrung,\\nand ran from scene to scene of other days,\\nwith all the unconnected wandering of\\ndelirium.\\nThe night before he died, as I sat watch-\\ning his moving lips, a slip of paper was", "height": "3812", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "LIVING W A T E B\\nplaced in my hands, with these words\\nThe blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from\\nall sin if he has a lucid moment read it\\nto him. My heart beat quick as I traced\\nthe well-known hand of one who I well\\nknew had himself just learned that precious\\ntruth.\\nLong after midnight the rumbling of the\\ncarriages returning from a ball where we\\nhad been invited guests, broke upon the\\nsolemn stillness of that dimly lighted room.\\nHow hollow the world seemed to me then\\nhow worthless its absorbing pursuits it\\npreached to me a sermon I never have for-\\ngotten never shall forget.\\nWhen every footfall, every sound had\\ndied away, every sound but the h-\\nbreathing of the dying youth, that breath-\\ning grew more calm, and his eye sought\\nmine with a look which showed that reason", "height": "3780", "width": "2452", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nwas restored and then he fixed his gaze\\nupon a bright star which was looking down\\nupon us from a cloudless sky. Closer he\\npressed my hand, and with a smile upon\\nhis pallid countenance, he slowly raised his\\nfinger, and pointing to the shining orb. he\\nsaid: Matilda is yonder in that beautiful\\nworld, and I shall soon follow her there. J\\nA tear chased away the smile, and ere I\\ncould whisper those blessed words, he fell\\nasleep.\\nThose impassioned lines to Mary in\\nHeaven, which ran thus\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Thou lingering star with lessening ray,\\nThat lov st to greet the early morn.\\nAgain thou usherest in the day\\nMy Mary from my soul was torn.\\nMary dear departed shade\\nWhere is thy place of blissful rest\\nSeest thou thy lover lowly laid\\nHear*st thou the groans that rend his breast!\\nhis song of poor Burns was his delight,", "height": "3808", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS 5\\nand from other circumstances I was led\\ngave shape to his dying\\nthoughts. When the morning dawned,\\nWilliam Trelawney had gone to give an\\naccount of his stewardship.\\nTears were shed, and sad words were\\nspoken, but all dwelt cheerfully on his\\npeaceful end, and friends took comfort\\ntherefrom. And why should they not\\nmy reader exclaims would you lake this\\nsource of comfort from the mourning heart\\nwould you not c: priceless bless-\\ning, the peaceful death of those you lov\\nOh, yes, my young friend, we do covet,\\nwe do pray, ever pray for this that those\\nwe love may die the peaceful death of the\\nrighteous bur we as earnestly lat it\\nnot be that false peace which calms\\nthe failing pulse of so many, and which is\\nfounded upon ignoram", "height": "3780", "width": "2456", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nThe poor mariner, who is sailing in un-\\nknown seas, and is unconsciously drifting\\ninto the engulfing whirlpool, may sing\\non his way with the same glad note as he\\nwho, guided by his chart, knows whither\\nhe is going. So the sinner, having no true\\nview of his guilt, no spiritual knowledge of\\nthe law of God, no correct conception of\\nthat heaven of which the Lamb is the\\nlight thereof, and holding some incorrect\\nand partial views of the boundless love of\\nour heavenly Father, may come to the last\\nstruggle with a kind of apathy not unlike\\nChristian peace and yet so unlike it that\\na flash of light from the Judgment-seat\\nwould cause it to vanish like mist before\\nthe whirlwind.\\nWe have alluded to the last hours of one\\nwho was well known in the gay circles of\\nthis gay city, as an illustration of a common", "height": "3784", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "LIVING- WATERS. 59\\nevent, a tranquil death produced by entire\\nignorance of human guilt and of a future\\nstate. We should be compelled to go\\nfurther than our own experience, but not\\nbeyond the information of most of our\\nyoung readers, to show that this tranquil-\\nlity in the hour of death has been found\\nby the sceptic and the infidel. It is not\\nneedful for me to repeat the record of\\nHume s wretched trifling, or Mirabeau s\\nscenic display, or Voltaire s no, not Vol-\\ntaire the poor French scoffer had too\\nmuch liorht and too much knowledge, and\\nhe writhed and shrieked as his wasting life\\nhurried him nearer and nearer the brink of\\nthe second death the awful doom de-\\nscribed in those terrific words, the wrath\\nof the Lamb\\nThere is one other mode by which peace\\nmay be our portion in the hour of death", "height": "3772", "width": "2456", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\neven a peace which passes all understand-\\ning. Yes, my young reader, there is such\\na thing as falling asleep in Jesus. It is\\na blessed reality, and myriads now before\\nthe throne have found it, and myriads yet\\nto come will find it and, cheered by the\\ndoctrine of the atonement, the meanest\\nChristian may learn to depart in peace,\\nbelieving that, notwithstanding his frailties\\nand his transgressions, his omnipotent Re-\\ndeemer is still able and willing to save\\nto the uttermost all that come unto God\\nby him. Do you wish facts to prove this\\nlast assertion, that a simple trust in Jesus\\nin his atoning sacrifice, will fill the soul with\\ngladness as we go down into the dark\\nvalley The history of all ages is full of\\nthem ask those who have closed the eyes\\nof the faithful followers of the cross in\\nevery land, and they will bear the same", "height": "3784", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 61\\ntestimony go yourself to the bedside of\\nthe dying Christian one who has been\\nwalking with his lamp trimmed, and his\\nloins girded, and there, unless error has\\nclouded the spiritual vision, there you will\\nfind peace.\\nAmong the men of a generation now\\npassing away, none was more esteemed or\\nbeloved than William Erenveine. His no-\\nble countenance, his winning smile, his\\nready wit ready to gladden, never to\\nsting his earnest sympathy and open\\nhand I well remember. To the world he\\nwas known as the affluent, upright mer-\\nchant, the courteous gentleman, and gifted\\nscholar. His writings made many a care-\\nworn face relax into a smile, and his wise\\ncounsels in the halls of Congress are still\\nremembered by some but chiselled deeper\\ninto my memory than all else, is that tender\\n4", "height": "3776", "width": "2464", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nsolicitude he manifested in the joys and\\ngriefs of us all, as, a happy band of I ys\\nand girls, we gathered about hi\\nWealth, reputation, friends, children, all\\nwere his and his one of the happiest fire-\\nsides in the city of New York. But in the\\nmidst of it all, his step oh, how many lov-\\ning eyes watched the growing lassitude of\\nthat once elastic step, and the flush e I\\nof the wan cheek But still they scarcely\\nbelieved the spoiler was at work, and trus: e i\\nthat the pure bracing air of the Highlands\\nof the Hudson would revive his failing\\nstrength. The summer passed away, and\\nwhen the autumn winds began to play w\\nthe falling leaf, William Erenveine came\\nhome to die.\\nHis wife, and boys, and girls they had\\nbeen the sunlight in his path, and the joy\\nand the pride of his days, and the", "height": "3808", "width": "2680", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "LIVING W A T\\nthe silken cords which bound him mosfl\\nearth and these cords were to be sev-\\nered and he gathered them all around\\nhis bedside to tell them he was dying and\\ngoing on his long journey. Tears were on\\nhis cheek., and his voice was broken with\\nthe gushings of a father s love and oh.\\nwhat a father he had been no harshness,\\nno stern words or repulsive looks, or what\\nis worse, chilling indifference, had weaken-\\ned the tie that bound them all together.\\nWas it strange that the fountain should\\nw\\nBut his eye grew bright and his voice\\nclear as he spoke to them of the near ap-\\nproach of the hour when his spirit was to\\nbe emancipated. Xo doubts disturbed\\nhim, but his parting words were full of\\nchildlike confidence, and simple trust in\\nthe atoninor sacrifice of Jesus. His loftv", "height": "3772", "width": "2456", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nmind had grown familiar with the doctrines\\nof the cross and accustomed to sit at Je-\\nsus feet as a pardoned sinner, he knew\\nin whom he had trusted, and knew that\\nHe would raise him from the grave in\\nglory at the resurrection of the last day.\\nWith all the eloquence of a father s fail-\\ning voice, he urged his children to seek the\\nfavor of Him who would sustain them in\\nall their trials, cheer them in all their de-\\nspondency, but above all, would support\\nand comfort them in the hour when they\\nshould be called to follow him into the\\ngrave. He took them each by the hand,\\nand as they kissed it, that sweet smile\\nwhich was all his own in its winning love-\\nliness, passed over his face. He closed\\nhis eyes, and in a sleep as gentle and as\\npeaceful as an infant s slumber, without a\\nstruggle, his ransomed spirit passed from", "height": "3808", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "LIVING W\\nearth to the joys of Paradise, and the un-\\nveiled presence of the Master he loved\\nand peace was written on every lineament\\nof his face. Sustained and soothed by an\\nunfaltering trust, he approached his grave,\\nLike one who wraps the drapery of his conch\\nat him. and lies down to pleasant dreams.\\nSo died William Erenveine, a noble\\nspecimen of the upright merchant, the\\ngood citizen, the fast and sympathizing\\nfriend, the Christian gentleman!\\nI heard a voice from heaven, saving\\nunto me. Write, from henceforth blessed\\nare the dead who die in the Lord even\\nso saith the Spirit, for they rest from their\\nlabors. How many a crushed heart have\\nthese heaven-sent words sustained and\\nkept from breaking what a precious\\nlegacv to the dying children of men how\\n5", "height": "3784", "width": "2456", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "00 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nfull of comfort the assurance that those\\nwhom we have loved, as we can never\\nagain love anything on earth, who have\\ndied in the Lord, are now resting from\\ntheir labors in the ever fresh green fields\\nof Paradise\\nBut the memory of one whose death\\nwas so full of hope, has led me away from\\nthe thoughts wherewith I commenced this\\nchapter the number of those who are\\ndreaming of a heaven of their own imagin-\\ning, and who are warming themselves by\\nthe sparks of the fire their own hands have\\nkindled. If you are one of this class of\\nself-deceivers, my dear young reader, I\\nknow how well-nigh hopeless it is to at-\\ntempt to arouse you from your fatal slum-\\nber. You are satisfied with your present\\nstate you see no cause for alarm you\\noccasionally hear, it is true, the muttering", "height": "3808", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 67\\nof the coming storm, but before it bursts\\nyou intend seeking shelter from its fury\\nand though the Bible declares that such a\\nrefuge will prove a refuge of lies, you do\\nnot believe it. Now, I do not ask you to\\nlisten to me on this subject, but listen to\\nthe voice from heaven.\\nYou are an immortal being death is\\nupon your footsteps, and, in spite of every\\ncare and precaution, will soon overtake\\nyou and the body, the gratification of\\nwhose desires is your chief care, will be\\nmouldering beneath the grass but the\\ndeathless soul, where will it be When\\nthe heavens and the earth pass away with\\na great noise, and the elements are melting\\nwith fervent heat, it will be there, unscathed\\nand unharmed, a living, breathing soul,\\nactive with all the energy of an enfran-\\nchised, never-wearying, immortal spirit.", "height": "3784", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nWhen the judgment is set, and the books\\nopened, and the countless throng out of\\nall nations, and kindreds, and people, and\\ntongues, are gathered around the great\\nwhite throne, you will be there and upon\\nthe decisions of that day your endless\\ndestiny hangs. Since, then, the issues of\\nthat day may be, must be, determined\\nnow in this present life is it not reason-\\nable and according to the dictates of com-\\nmon sense and common prudence to devote\\na brief space, say even one day, to search\\nthe Scriptures, and in the light of them to\\nexamine the foundation of your hopes of\\nrest and joy in the life to come to see\\nwhether there is any such heaven as you\\nexpect to dwell in and if you succeed in\\ncatching a glimpse of the golden-streeted\\ncity, and the happy mansions in which\\nthe souls of those who sleep in Jesus are", "height": "3808", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 69\\ngathered, may you have grace to turn into\\nthe narrow way that leads thereto, the\\ndifficult path that leads to the Fountain\\nof Living Waters.", "height": "3780", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "10\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nCHAPTER V.\\nTHE MIRAGE IN THE DESERT.\\nThere be many that say,\\nWho will show us any good\\nLord lift thou up the light of thy countenance\\nupon us\\nPsalm iv. 6.\\nBut while the number is very great of\\nthose who have no thought reaching be-\\nyond the present brief existence, many\\nmore there are among the sons and daugh-\\nters of Christian parents, who have received\\ntoo much light to live in comfort without\\nadopting some of the many substitutes\\nwhich the deceitful heart is ever ready to\\nembrace, in preference to the simple reli-\\ngion of the cross.", "height": "3784", "width": "2568", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 71\\nHow many there are whose lives are\\npassed amid scenes of worldliness and dis-\\nsipation, who find an opiate for their con-\\nscience in the zealous pursuit of eloquent\\npreachers and their unfailing attendance on\\nall those stirring occasions when Christians\\nassemble to consult upon the various inter-\\nests of the church.\\nOthers, as fully sharing in all the follies\\nand vanities of the world, and also craving\\nthat rest for the soul which they know the\\nworld cannot give, and have been told that\\nreligion can procure, are seeking it in the\\noutward forms and ceremonies of religion,\\nand in the repetition of a solemn and beau-\\ntiful ritual. While the heart is moved\\nby the touching music, and the imagina-\\ntion for the time pleased and excited, and\\na sense of duty accomplished is experi-\\nenced, there is something like satisfaction", "height": "3784", "width": "2456", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nfelt. But though it rnav be said of them\\nthat they are not far from the kingdom\\nof heaven/ still, how far are they from\\nthat calm deep peace which a close and\\nhumble walk with God alone can give\\nWhile travelling in foreign lands, how\\nfascinated have I been, how entirely my\\nyouthful imagination has been captivated\\nby those imposing rites and ceremonies\\nwhich there are all that the mass of the\\npeople know of the religion of the cross\\nI had been strolling, one morning after\\nbreakfast, in the beautiful gardens of the\\nRetiri, at Madrid, among refreshing foun-\\ntains, and beneath orange and almond trees,\\nand was returning to the Prado, when I de-\\nscried a friend in the distance. He quick-\\nened his pace when he perceived me, and\\nafter accosting me with his usual salutation,\\nsaid that if I had any curiosity to see a nun", "height": "3784", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 3\\ntake the veil, I would have an opportunity\\nthat morning.\\nI started at the idea, it was like realizing\\na morning dream of childhood for I had\\npictured to myself something lovely, some-\\nthing purely beautiful in a nun a con-\\nnecting link between beings of this world\\nand the angels of light, a guileless maiden\\nbestowing the whole treasury of her affec-\\ntions on her Saviour abandoning the joys\\nand the pleasures of this beautiful world\\nfor the hope of a brighter one of immor-\\ntality to come To me, at least then in\\nthe early morning of life, and as ignorant\\nof spiritual religion as the most benighted\\nHindoo, there was romance about a con-\\nvent and its gentle inmates and the idea\\nof seeing a nun take the veil was deeply\\nfascinating.\\n\\\\Ye turned off when we reached the end", "height": "3772", "width": "2472", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Votwi\\n-\u00c2\u00b1i", "height": "3812", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "LIVING WAIZ-j, O\\nS ;.nish holyday but when the huge door\\ns thrown open, every voice was hushed,\\nevery smile was gone, and the solemn\\ntread of many feet echoed along t\\\\\\\\\\nuntil we reached the altar, when the or-\\ngan s swelling notes burst forth, and in an\\ninstant all were kneeling. On ss-\\ning himself, another counting he:\\nand another breathing an tc some\\nfavorite saml smd on looking round, I\\nfound that I was the only one that\\nidle. The next moment the shrill, unearth-\\nly notes of the choir, hidden far up in one\\n:he nave- 3d the Drgan in the\\npath of melody.\\nThe gilded altar, lighted up with innu-\\nmerable lamps, shining dimly in the golden\\nlight of the sun, the officiating priests, in\\ntheir flowing robes and scarlet mar.\\nprinted with gilt crosses, the bovs clad in", "height": "3772", "width": "2480", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nvestments of white, swinging the glittering\\ncensers to and fro, filling the convent with\\nfrankincense, the rich swelling melody it\\nwas indeed a bewildering scene, and well\\ncalculated to affect and make captive the\\nminds of the young and the ignorant.\\nThe music ceased prayers were then\\nsaid, and so deep was the stillness which\\nfollowed, that the breathing of the peasant\\nbeside me could be heard. When these\\nwere finished, one of the priests struck up\\na monotonous sort of recitative, which last-\\ned about five minutes, and towards the\\nconclusion he advanced to a large gilded\\ngrating of iron, which separates the nuns\\nchapel from the public altar. There was\\na momentary pause. He then modulated\\nhis tone to a deep chant, in which all the\\nfriars joined, their voices swelling and anon\\nsubsiding into a gentle murmur; then a", "height": "3784", "width": "2576", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 11\\nlow querulous chant was commenced by\\nthe nuns it gradually increased in volume,\\nit grew louder and louder one powerful\\nrending peal of the organ, and the vast\\ncurtain was suddenly drawn aside, and\\ndiscovered the nuns in their chapel then\\narose the grand chorus nuns, and iriars,\\nand the boys, and the kneeling crowd all\\njoined in the* universal jubilate, and the\\nconvent seemed to shake with the torrent\\nof sound and melody.\\nThe candidate for the veil was scarce\\nsixteen. Her hair was glossy black, her\\neyes dark, her complexion fairer than that\\nof the generality of Spanish ladies. She\\nwas crowned with a chaplet of white flow-\\ners in fact, she wore a bridal dress.\\nBy her side were arranged her friends\\na little dark-complexioned man proved to\\nbe her father the mother was a tall, ma-", "height": "3772", "width": "2476", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "fcj THE FOUNTAIN OF\\njestic looking woman, with traces of linger-\\ning beauty, and by her side stood her son,\\na tall young man. in the uniform of a\\nlancer of the Royal Guards. He had an\\nopen, intelligent countenance, and appeared\\nto be the only one present who felt for the\\npoor girl for there was a melancholy\\nwatching of the eye, and ever and anon\\na moving of the lips and I fancied I could\\nread his communings with himself, and his\\nbitter reflections upon a ceremony which\\ncould consign one so young, so full of life,\\nso calculated to adorn and bless society,\\nto a living tomb\\nAs the priest entered the chapel, the\\nmusic ceased, and the young girl advanced\\nto him, supported by her mother, for the\\nexcitement and the struggle within had\\noverpowered her. The color had faded\\nfrom her cheek, and a tear trembled in her", "height": "3808", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "LIVING W ATERS.\\n79\\neve. She tottered up to the priest, who\\nchanted forth a few melancholy notes,\\nand gave her his blessing. The lady ab-\\nbess then stepped forward and took off the\\nwreath of flowers which had confined her\\nhair, and her dark locks escaped and fell\\nin rich luxuriance to the ground. One by\\none her ornaments were taken off, and\\nplaced in a box for the benefit of the con-\\nvent the scissors were then applied to\\nher hair, which strewed the pavement of\\nthe chapel. Then burst forth a peal of\\nmusic, swelling higher and higher, and\\nlouder and louder it seemed as though\\nthe vault of the convent would burst with\\nthe volume of sound. It fell upon my\\near like a shout of victory, proclaiming the\\ntriumph of superstition and ignorance over\\none of the loveliest specimens of the Al-\\nmighty s handiwork.", "height": "3780", "width": "2468", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nAgain the music ceased, and for a few\\nmoments there was a silence that was op-\\npressive. The feelings of the brother du-\\nring this spell-like silence, as he gazed\\nupon his young sister still lovely, though\\nshorn of every ornament pale, trembling,\\nabout to give up forever the sweet horjes\\nof youth, its joys and its sorrows, its loves\\nand its friendships, can be imagined.\\nAs he stepped forward to bid her a last\\nfarewell, he hesitated; his eye glistened\\nwith moisture, his lips were for a moment\\nconvulsively compressed, and as he print-\\ned a kiss upon her forehead, a tear fell\\nfrom his eye upon her cheek. It was like\\nan electric touch her pent-up feelings she\\ncould no longer restrain she raised her\\neyes to him, swimming with tears, and\\nexclaimed passionately, Querido her-\\nmano and rushing into his arms, vented", "height": "3784", "width": "2568", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "LI\\\\\\nI X G WATERS. 81\\nthere, in convulsive sobbings,\\nthe anguish\\nof her heart\\nThe priest\\nseparated them,\\nand led her\\ninto the centre of the chapel.\\nShe seemed\\nto struggle to\\nget the mastery\\nof her feel-\\nings, clasped her hands with a nervous\\nattempt at composure, slowly raised her\\nhead, and then sank upon the ground.\\nThe priest advanced, and threw over her\\na black velvet pall, interwoven with a large\\ngolden cross. The novices then struck up\\ntheir querulous notes, and were soon joined\\nby the shriller tones of the nuns. They\\nchanted a sort of dirge, and then was\\nperformed the beautiful ceremony of the\\nburial of the dead, which concluded with\\na low melancholy chant, when all sank\\nupon their knees, and joined in at intervals.\\nThe pall was taken off; the abbess\\ngently raised her and clothed her in the\\n6", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "S 2 T H E F o u y t a i y OF\\nfata] veil. She wned once more\\nh a wreatl e roses,\\ned the Bria\\nof the organ rolled forth aga one\\nand all mingled their voices in the trium-\\nphant hallelujah. A small basket of fresh\\nflowers was placed in hands, and sae\\nwalked to the grating with a slow and\\ntering step 3 and distributed them to the\\nbystanders who knelt there,\\nWhen this was ended, two of her sister\\nnovices came up and kissed her. and then\\nled her away by a dear near the a. tar.\\nAt the end of the chapel, as she went\\nout, she cast one long, lingering look be-\\nhind upon her father and\\ncentred in her brother, in a thrilling glance\\nof devotion and love. The door inter-\\nvened I turned to the brother, but he\\nhad grone. One by one the nuns glided", "height": "3784", "width": "2636", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS,\\n83\\nout, like so many ghosts the music died\\ngradually away, growing fainter, and faint-\\ner, and fainter, and ceased as the last nun\\nshut the door and the chapel was left in\\nsad and deathlike stillness.\\nFew things during my wanderings in\\nthat romantic land, made such a deep im-\\npression upon me as this imposing cere-\\nmony and down the vista of many years,\\nand through a confused memorv of oror-\\ngeous architecture and blended light of\\nlamp and sun, and strange fragrance, and\\nunearthly melody, I can distinctly see that\\npoor young girl, misguided by friends, un-\\nconscious of the high mission of woman\\nupon earth, seeking rest for her soul by\\nabandoning a world she was made to live\\nin and bless.\\nI have related this incident, my young\\nfriend, as illustrative of one of the many", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nways in which the young heart, craving\\nreligion in some form, and casting about\\nfor rest somewhere, is ready to seize any-\\nthing that promises to give it anything\\nsooner than the simple trust and faith of\\nthe gospel.\\nIf you then are seeking that priceless\\nboon, a quiet conscience, trust not to im-\\nposing rites and ceremonies, nor to an\\northodox creed, nor to munificent alms-\\ngiving, or frames or feelings, or to anything\\nshort of entire consecration of yourself to\\nthe service of the Master repenting of the\\npast, and looking for pardon through the\\natoning sacrifice of Jesus, walk in daily\\nfellowship and communion with your Fa-\\nther in heaven and you shall have peace,\\nand He will give you to drink of the Foun-\\ntain of Living Waters", "height": "3784", "width": "2636", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nA GLILIPS3 OF THE FOUNTAIN\\nIn the desert a fountain is springing,\\nIn the wild waste there still is a tree,\\nAnd a bird in the solitude singing,\\nWhich speaks to ray spirit of thee.\\nByron.\\nBut I am speaking to one who has no\\nsympathy with any of those self-deceivers.\\nYou see through those shallow devices of\\nSatan. You know that the path of care\\nand self-indulgence is the broad road so\\ndefinitely pointed out by the Saviour, and\\nyou have no doubt as to whither it leads.\\nYou are seeking salvation earnestly, and\\nare almost persuaded to make every sacri-\\nfice to attain it. Strait is the gate, and", "height": "3772", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nnarrow is the way, that leadeth unto life,\\nis written above the path, and you stand\\nhesitating, glancing now at the gay and\\nlaughing multitude, who jostle each other\\nalong the broad and flowery road, and\\nthen at the little band who, with thought-\\nful brow and careful step are toiling\\nthrough the less frequented, pent-up path-\\nway.\\nAnd if there is a scene on earth upon\\nwhich the angels look down with an in-\\ntense and eager gaze, around which the\\nspirits of departed saints, if allowed to\\ngaze upon the theatre of their former con-\\nflict, linger with an interest and a solicitude\\ncaught from the society and fellowship\\nwith Jesus, and from an unveiled view of\\nthe glories of heaven, it is when a poor\\nchild of sin and death is led by the Spirit\\nof God to desire deliverance from the", "height": "3784", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 87\\ngalling chains of Satan, and to make a de-\\ncision which will shape the destiny for\\neternity.\\nAnd oh, how many make shipwreck\\nhere how many have come thus far and\\nlooked into the peaceful haven, and waited\\njust outside day after day, until the hidden\\ncurrents of life s great sea, and adverse\\nwinds have swept them far away and they\\nhave gone down amidst the blackness of\\nthe tempest. The history of one of these\\nalmost Christians would be, with slight\\nvariations, the history of thousands.\\nGlad-hearted, frank, intelligent, there\\nwere few more fascinating boys than Frank\\nAllison. With the students he was a\\ngeneral favorite. He had nearly finished\\nhis second year, when the village where\\nthe college was situated was shaken to its\\ncentre by one of those noiseless but mighty", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nvisitations of the Spirit of God. which have\\nblessed our country in these latter days.\\nIt came not, as we have said, with obser-\\nvation, but it approached with a step so\\ngentle and so quiet, so free from noise and\\nparade, and yet there was such a full sense\\nof its presence and its power, that the\\nboldest scoffers in the place were awed\\ninto silence.\\nXone were more ready to ridicule the\\nfears of the anxious, than young Allison.\\nAnd as the little band of inquirers in-\\ncreased, he but laughed the louder, and\\nscoffed the more. Few cases seemed more\\nhopeless but to those who watched him\\nnarrowly, and oh how many there were\\nthat he knew not of, who with hearts of\\nprayer and tearful eyes were watching his\\nperilous ways to those it soon became\\nevident that under all his levity, his heart", "height": "3808", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "LI VI X G W A T E RS. SO\\nwas ill at ease. His attendance at church\\nand meetings for prayer became more fre-\\nquent he gradually began to seek the\\nsociety of those he had shunned before,\\nand no longer attempted to disguise his\\ndeep interest in the subject. How many\\nwere gladdened then Many a Christian\\nheart beat quicker with that joy felt alone\\nby God s children, and akin to that which\\nwe are told swells the breast of the pres-\\nence-angels when a sinner repents.\\nIt was one of those beautiful summer\\nevenings, when the winds are laid asleep,\\nnot a leaf stirring, and the moon was pour-\\ning down a flood of light and glory, which\\nI have sometimes thought peculiar to that\\nlovely village on the banks of the Seneca.\\nXot a ripple was on the waveless lake,\\nwhich in its silver sheen reminded the de-\\nvout mind of the sea of glass, like unto", "height": "3760", "width": "2576", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\ncrystal, which laves the base of the great\\nwhite throne.\\nI was walking with Frank Allison along\\nthe street which overlooks the lake. We\\nhad just been listening to the story of a\\nSaviour s love there had been no attempt\\nin the preacher to produce an effect no\\nnourishes of rhetoric, not much of u the\\nenticing words of man s wisdom. It was\\nlittle more than a sketch of the life of the\\nMan of Sorrows and as he led you along\\nwith him as he traced the footprints of\\nJesus on the hills of Judea, i nd across the\\nplains of Galilee, you forgot the speaker,\\nand seemed to hear the very voice of the\\ngentle Teacher rising above the tread of\\nthe following multitude Come unto me\\nall ye that labor and are heavy laden, and\\nI will give you rest\\nWhen the heart is filled with the Sa-", "height": "3776", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 91\\nviour s presence, and a sense of the Sa-\\nviour s love, how natural and how easy it\\nis to speak of him\\nAnd does not this truth afford an ex-\\nplanation of the melancholy fact that there\\nis so little Christian communion upon earth\\nThat one should hesitate to reveal to\\nothers, even to a Christian brother, the\\ninner life of the soul should shrink\\nfrom lifting off the veil from the fierce\\nconflict that has marked his spiritual his-\\ntory, the deadly battle with sin and Satan,\\nthe hopes and fears, the joys and sorrows,\\nwhich can only be poured into the sympa-\\nthizing bosom of our Elder Brother\\nsorrows too sacred to be bared to the com-\\nmon gaze, joys which pass understanding,\\nand with which it was never intended the\\nstranger should intermeddle this is a thing\\nI say I can understand, for I feel it all.", "height": "3776", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nBut that those who are enlisted under\\nthe same banner have the same glorious\\nleader, whose smile and whose love are\\ntheir common strength have the same\\nfoes, the same conflicts, and are looking\\nforward to sit down at the same board in\\nthe sinless and nightless city that such\\nfellow- pilgrims should have nothing to say\\nby the way of their gracious leader, no-\\nthing about the thrilling scenes that are\\nconstantly transpiring as His kingdom rolls\\nonward, scenes which touch chords that\\nvibrate through the courts above nothing\\nof that glorious city whose gates are pearl,\\nand streets are gold nothing of the\\ngatherings within our Father- :;ous\\nmansions that there should be nothing of\\nall this is wonderful It can only be ex-\\nplained by the fact that the paltry pomp\\nand circumstance of a world which con-", "height": "3784", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "stantly appeal to aill the\\nheart, weaken the faith, dim the spiritual\\nhi, until the substantial realities of the\\nrid around ai afar off,\\ns mere sfi tic us, powerless to move\\nthe heart or affect the life. Had we more\\nrrience of what the Berij nder\\ning exr recommend as the\\ncommunion of the saints were these sub-\\nits the love 1 fa miliar household them\\nand had they a place in all our plans, and\\nhopes, and fears the path of the Chri-\\nId be luminous with ligh: h a w uld\\narmed against all the chances and\\nchanges which daily chequer 1\\nfor then he could endure all trials as seeing\\nEfim wh is invisible.\\nnot only t ha: there is strength in\\nknow tl\\nour Heavenlv Father looks down with a", "height": "3756", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nsmile of peculiar approbation upon tfa\\nwho think upon his name, and love to talk\\ntogether over the interests of his kingd\\nand to such he has given one of the most\\nprecious promises that shines out in the\\nWord of life.\\nLong years ago it was, when Zion was\\nsitting in the dust, and the multitude were\\nsaving that it was in vain to serve the\\nLord, that a few turned aside to talk about\\nhim. The record of the event runs thus\\nThen they that feared the Lord spake\\noften to one anotlier and the Lord heark-\\nened and heard it, and a book of remem-\\nbrance was written before him, for them\\nthat feared the Lord, and that thought\\nupon his name.\\nAnd now read the promise And they\\nshall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in\\nthat day when I make up my jewels and", "height": "3784", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\nI will spare them, as a man spareth his\\nown son that serveth him. And later\\ndays have given us a precious illustration\\nof this truth, that the Lord delights to\\nvisit his children when they make him the\\ntheme of their wayside walks, and fireside\\ncommunication.\\nWho has not lingered with a swelling\\nrt about the simple narrative of that\\nntful day s walk to Emmaus, so well\\ndescribed by England s gifted and most\\ngious poet\\n[t happened on a solemn eventide.\\nSoon after he that was our surety died,\\nbosom friends, each pensively inclined,\\nThe scene of all those sorrows left behind,\\nSought their own village, busied as they went\\nIn m rthy of the great event\\nThey spake of Him they loved, of him whose life,\\nThough blameless, had incurred perpetual strife;\\nWhose deeds have left, in spite of hostile arts,\\n_p memorial graven on their h.", "height": "3776", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nThe recollection, like a vein of ore,\\nThe farther traced enriched them still the more\\nThey thought him, and they justly thought him,\\none\\nSent to do more than he appeared t have done\\nTo exalt a people and to place them high\\nAbove all else, and wondered he should die.\\nEre yet they brought their journey to an end,\\nA stranger joined them, courteous as a friend,\\nAnd asked them, with a kind, engaging air,\\nWhat their affliction was, and begged to share.\\nInformed, he gathered up the broken thread,\\nAnd, truth and wisdom gracing all he said,\\nExplained, illustrated, and searched so well\\nThe tender theme on which they chose to dwell,\\nThat reaching home, the night, they said, is near,\\nWe must not now be parted, sojourn here.\\nThe new acquaintance soon became a guest,\\nAnd, made so welcome at their simple feast,\\nHe blessed the bread, but vanished at the word,\\nAnd left them both exclaiming, Twastbe Lord\\nDid not our hearts feel all he deigned to say\\nDid they not burn within us on the way V\\nNow theirs was converse such as it behoves\\nMan to maintain, and such as God approves.\\nTheir views, indeed, were indistinct and dim,\\nBut yet successful, being aimed at him.", "height": "3784", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 97\\nChrist and his character their only scope,\\nTheir object, and their subject, and their hope,\\nThey felt what it became them much to feel,\\nAnd, wanting him to loose the sacred seal,\\nFound him as prompt as their desire was true,\\nTo spread the new-born glories in their view.\\nMay this same gracious Master baptize his\\nchildren everywhere with this spirit, which\\nthus characterized his early disciples, that\\nthe communion of the saints may be some-\\nthing more than a mere name.\\nBut to return to my moonlight walk\\nwith Frank Allison. The surpassing love-\\nliness of the night, the perfect quiet of the\\nhour, its deep stillness, unbroken even by\\nthe faintest whisper of a breeze or shaking\\nof a leaf, were all in unison with that deep\\nfeeling which the recent services had\\nawakened. It required no effort to con-\\ntinue the subject on which the preacher\\nhad dwelt. Long and earnestly we talked", "height": "3772", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "98 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\ntogether. I spoke of the strange love\\nwhich Jesus had manifested for the lost\\nand castaway his willingness to love\\nhim. I showed him how false was the\\nnotion that gloom and sadness brooded\\nover the paths of religion that a joy and\\npeace, a peace which passeth all under-\\nstanding, was the atmosphere which every\\nChristian might breathe, and would breathe\\nso long as he strayed not from the road\\nrunning heavenward that the experience\\nof multitudes had proved the truth of the\\ninspired declaration, Godliness hath the\\npromise of the life that now is, as well as\\nthat which is to come.\\nI spoke of the joy in heaven and the joy\\non earth showed him that he had now\\ncome to the turning point in his destiny\\nthat while it is true, as Shakspeare says,\\nthat", "height": "3808", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 90\\nThere is a tide in the affairs of men,\\nWhich taken at the flood leads on to fortune\\nOmitted, all the voyage of their life\\nIs bound in shallows, and in miseries,\\nOn such a full sea are we now afloat\\nAnd we must take the current when it serves,\\nOr lose our ventures\\nit is especially true in the life of the\\nsoul, that such moments slighted, such,\\ncalls unheeded, there was no reason to\\nexpect that such periods would ever again\\nreturn, or such a call ever again be made\\nthat upon the decision of this hour the\\nquestion turned whether his future life\\nwas to be a blessing or a curse to his fel-\\nlow-men.\\nHe listened with a willing ear spoke\\nsomething of the difficulty of breaking with\\nold companions his lip quivered he\\nturned away his face was silent for a\\nmoment, and then sobbed as if his heart", "height": "3776", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "THE O H T A I B 1 7\\nwould break, as he\\nof ail I had said and thus I Lei: Lira.\\nTha: he Lad gone through a mi.\\n:htv\\nstruggle I knew: thai cons ;ence\\nwas\\nawake and the spirit striving, was evid\\nent\\nand I waited, with prayerful solicitude\\nthe\\nresult.\\nEn^a^ed in :he duties of my p;\\nion,\\nwe did not meet, except to\\nre a\\npassing word, in weeks but wker\\ndid\\nmeet, the fearful truth was told, and I\\nsaw\\nby the levity of Lis m and the\\n[one\\nof his convers:.:i:n. :Lat tLe prince\\nbcss Lad w :1 that he\\nha i\\nturned his back on the path of ii^L: era\\nlife.\\nHe soon became lisgusted with\\nLis\\nLis 1: :.ks,\\nand\\nbecoming weary of lLs i.V\\nt to\\nNew York, as he laughingly said, to i\\ne e k\\nhis fortune.", "height": "3804", "width": "2692", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 101\\nSix months ran by, and I met him\\nthere he was in the company of others,\\nand he actually jeered at religion as an old\\nwoman s superstition. He ran a career of\\nfolly with startling rapidity. Low com-\\npanions became his associates, the wine-cup\\nhis solace and bosom friend, and mortified\\nat the degraded condition to which he was\\nreduced, he shunned society, and under an\\nassumed name shipped as a common sailor\\nfor the islands of the Pacific, and Frank\\nAllison has never been heard of since.\\nThere is nothing uncommon, I grant,\\nmy young reader, in this story. I give it\\nbecause it is common, an every-day tale, and\\nis a simple statement of facts as they oc-\\ncurred a few years since. I might go on,\\nand relate many a story as true and as sad.\\nI might tell you of one tenderly nurtured,\\ngreatly beloved, who, under almost exactly", "height": "3780", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nthe same circumstances, came to the same\\npoint, made the same decision, and whose\\nsudden and dreadful end filled the land\\nwith horror.\\nBut it would be needless to multiply\\ninstances they stand out beacon-like, in\\nevery man s history, to show the danger\\nof turning away from the voice that is\\nspeaking from heaven. But you believe\\nin the Scriptures search them, and there\\nyou will find some of the most terrible\\nwarnings and denunciations, written over\\nthe sin of listening to the free and full\\noffers of pardon and peace, and deliberate-\\nly rejecting them all. Felix and Agrippa\\nhave long since gone to their own place,\\nbut they live in the inspired page, and until\\ntime shall be no more, will tell with fear-\\nful emphasis of the peril of delay, and the\\nruin that awaits the almost Christian.", "height": "3784", "width": "2668", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "LIVING W ATEKS,\\n103\\nCHAPTER VII.\\n.HZ BRINK OF THE FOUNTAIN. HESITATING TO\\nDRIJTZ.\\n[nscribed above the portal, from afar\\nConspicuous, as the brightness of a st?r.\\nLegible only by the light they give.\\nStand the soul-quickening words Believe and live.\\nCowper.\\nBut you, my reader, have no idea of re-\\ntracing your steps you know that there\\nis nothing but darkness and despair behind,\\nwhile before you lie the green pastures of\\nsalvation, and the Fountain of Living Wa-\\nters gurgling up in the midst thereof.\\nYet there you stand, trembling and\\ndoubting-, not far from the kingdom of\\nGod, yet far enough to peril the life of the", "height": "3744", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nsoul your foot upon the very edge of the\\nfountain, and yet you sigh and weep, and\\nsay I cannot drink. You have waited long\\nfor some mysterious change, and it comes\\nnot, and you cast about for the reason, and\\nhaving read much of the anguish of spirit\\nand the agony of tears others have passed\\nthrough to get to Jesus, you fancy you\\nmust pass by the same way, and go\\nthrough the same experience.\\nNow I know that Bunyan, in that beau-\\ntiful allegory which has been read by\\nthousands with tears, and has guided mul-\\ntitudes to the shining city, has placed the\\nSlough of Despond at the entrance to\\nthe path that leads thither but if that\\nholy man meant to show thereby that the\\nonly or the usual way into the kingdom\\nof heaven was through these depths of\\ngloom and despondency, he has made", "height": "3784", "width": "2652", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 105\\nthe entrance narrower than our Saviour\\nmade it.\\nIt is true that there is but one road, and\\nthat so well defined, so carefully pointed\\nout by way marks, that the wayfaring man\\nthough a fool, need not err therein. But\\nthe methods employed by God to bring\\nthe sinner into that path are as various as\\nthe multiform modes of operations in na-\\nture.\\nThe wind bloweth where it listeth, and\\nthou hearest the sound thereof, but canst\\nnot tell whence it cometh, and whither it\\ngoeth so is every one that is born of the\\nSpirit.\\nIt is the same wind that in the summer\\nbreeze sighs softly through the valley,\\nlingers in every shady nook and falls asleep\\nupon a fragrant bed of flowers the same\\nthat, with quicker pace and rougher feet,", "height": "3776", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 i z r o ettaih of\\nbreaks the mirror of the ike, leaps\\nover the mountain-tops md i ins laughing\\nthrough the forest-frees\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the same thai\\nsweepe with a cry ness yv hill and\\ndale, rending and crashing its frantic way-\\nthrough the -_-. lining forest, and, flinging\\nout upon the :r waters, lashes them\\ninto fury, and s::iries tenor into the heart\\nof the tempest-driven mariner.\\nSo b operati: le Spirit.\\nHe leads some through waters,\\nand tempest-toss* n i g h at\\ntheir wits end they wrestle long with the\\npowers of darkness, bright\\nand mo:: r rises a 2 storm-\\ncloud to cheer and to guide them.\\nBut others, and fa th Scri\\nserration show that the most nu-\\nmerous, he wi gentle voice draws\\nthem by the Jesus, and allures", "height": "3784", "width": "2748", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "LIVING- WATERS. 10T\\nthem by the golden visions of the new\\nJerusalem.\\nNow perhaps you have wept long and\\nmuch, and when you think of these things\\nyou weep still but yet no light breaks in,\\nand your soul thus disquieted within you,\\nwith folded hands you are sighing for the\\nhour when the Slough of Despond shall be\\ncrossed, you are waiting for the glad mo-\\nment when some favorable breath of the\\nSpirit shall waft you over.\\nDid He, my young friend, who gave the\\ninvitation, Come unto me all ye that labor\\nand are heavy laden, and I will give you\\nrest, limit the call by adding, after so\\nmany days and nights of weeping, after\\nsuch a measure of mental anxiety and\\nheart-bitterness\\nAs the despised tax-gatherer sat collect-\\ning the tolls on the ^oods landing in the", "height": "3780", "width": "2480", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nharbor of Capernaum, Jesus passed by,\\nand looking upon Matthew, said Follow\\nme and what says the record that the\\npublican asked time to prepare to come\\nIt runs thus And he arose, and followed\\nhim. 7 And so the two fishermen who were\\ncasting their nets in the sea, looked up, and\\nsaw the Lord walking along the shore, and\\nto them he called, Follow me, and I will\\nmake you fishers of men and mark\\nwhat followed. And they straightway\\nleft their nets, and followed him. Is\\nthere any mystery about this They\\nwere poor ignorant men, full of prejudice\\nand wrong notions, but honest-hearted and\\nconvinced that he who spake had a right\\nto be obeyed. They did the one thing ne-\\ncessary they arose, and followed the Mas-\\nter.\\nAnd the gospel now is the same that it", "height": "3784", "width": "2720", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 109\\nwas then the way of salvation the same\\nthe command of the Son of man the same,\\nGo and do likewise arise and follow Je-\\nsus sit down no longer and count your\\ntears, and wait until you are more fit to\\ncome. More fit! you may sit until your\\nsummons to appear before the throne of\\njudgment comes, if you are waiting until\\nyou feel more, until your heart is less sin-\\nful if that is the warrant you want.\\nThe more you look within, if the Lord has\\nmercy upon you, the deeper depths of ini-\\nquity you will discover, and the less of that\\nkind of meetness which you fancy will make\\nyou welcome will you find. But if this\\nlook within will convince you that you are\\na lost, undone sinner, deserving the wrath\\nof one upon whose love you have trampled,\\nand that you can have no hope of escape\\nsave through the unmerited mercy of God,", "height": "3780", "width": "2468", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 THE F N 7 A I N\\nf\\nexhibited in se of his\\ndear S\\non\\nif it will drive y\\nrefuse\\nthe\\n::-:ss i: vrill\\nbe in\\nva:::\\nthat you have looked into your\\nd heart.\\nAs I have said before,\\nis n: raea-\\nsure of sorrow and mental distress\\nlaid\\ndown in the Bible, short of which\\nGod\\nwill not pardon. Go to C\\n::ess:::^\\nj j\\nnem.\\nai sons, determined to]\\nsate 1\\nanxious give them up. seek\\n_ E 3\\nrdon\\nfor them. and. as has I een\\nLere\\nis not an ml ioing w\\nnot\\nrise from his knees thai\\n::.ei\\nsin::: by th\\na me:\\n:i:ul\\nand compass: :::a:e Redeemer\\nhas\\neven now, as he ever fa\\non\\nearth to forgive sin. J\\nAnd it is undoubtedly\\nas thi\\nsad-\\nmirable writ that it\\nis most\\ntre-\\nquently by holding out against\\n1 E l s", "height": "3804", "width": "2700", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. Ill\\nof this forgiveness and the strivings of His\\nspirit, that men work for themselves those\\npangs, and that extreme of wretchedness\\nwhich, although many true children of God\\nunquestionably have experienced, many,\\nwhose adoption is equally unquestionable,\\nhave entirely escaped.\\nAnd I would repeat, on this important\\npoint, that though a sense of sin and some\\nview oi his castaway state is necessary to\\nlead a sinner to apply to the Saviour, still\\nthis, however deeply felt, is not a qualifi-\\ncation warranting him to fly to this covert\\nfrom the storm no particular degree of\\nconviction and alarm is a prerequisite.\\nWhether the measure of conviction be\\ngreat or small, as has been remarked, or\\nwhether it be only a feeling of unhappiness\\nand sorrow, which, though easily con-\\nceived, may not be easily expressed yet", "height": "3752", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nif the sinner be led to go to Jesus, it is\\nenough.\\nYou will not suppose from anything I\\nhave said, that I would remove sincere\\nrepentance out of the narrow way, but I\\nwould place it where the word of God\\nplaces it we cannot sorrow after a godly\\nsort unless we look on him whom we have\\npierced by our stout-hearted rebellion and\\nbase ingratitude. Peter denied his Lord\\nwith an oath, and none can tell the harrow-\\ning thoughts that wrestled with his heart\\nafter this mournful fall the agony of that\\nlong hour as he sat warming himself in\\nthe high-priest s house. But when, after\\nanother denial, the cock crew, and, con-\\nscience-struck, his eye sought the place\\nwhere the Lord stood surrounded by his\\nenemies as his gracious Master turned\\nand looked upon him, his heart was melted,", "height": "3808", "width": "2720", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "LIVING WAT1 11 3\\nand he went out and wept bitterly. That\\nwas true repentance such unfeigned sor-\\nrow as every true child of God will feel,\\nwhen by faith he gets some clear view of\\njwn worthlessness, and the surpassing\\nT esus, which he has all his life long\\ntrampled under his fee\\nBut I hear a re. long\\nired to join the ranks of those wi\\nfaces are heavenward, and I have prayed\\nmuch, and rind, as yet, none of that sur-\\npassing joy and peace of which Christians\\n:.k.\\nBut m to forget that this is\\nportion of those who not only desire to be,\\nbut actually are, the children of God\\nse who have actually come out on the\\nLord s side. Have you, my dear reader,\\nthis You have not, you say. W\\nthen, for you it is, that you ha? ind", "height": "3772", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 i h z f o r t a i x y\\npeace; for there is no condition of the\\nundying soul more perilous, than that\\n1:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 reecf is ::uii In res lives.\\neiy.-iirs: if sires. ;.;::i :re:;uer:: ::r;,T r rs. :r in\\n?.vr: t kin^iirr: iiriven.\\nevery false here refuse lies shall It\\ns e w y and scattered as the stubble\\n:-,~it :;t ;1: :lie -v-ilier-\\nness, none will be more terrible than the\\na _ :1::st i: liJLve filler, asleer\\nh their foot just on the threshold, their\\nhand just on the door of heaven, its rap-\\njus melody falling on the ear, its\\nSt. ^i:ries f;:.:i;:;^ :lif ee, ana :hey\\nfancying themselves within, until the with-\\nering repulse, Depart, ye cursed, I never\\nknew yon, convinces them that they are\\nat\\nand peace are to be coveted, for", "height": "3784", "width": "2700", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "L I V I X G WATERS. 115\\nthey are the Christian s strength, and they\\nare the true atmosphere of the path\\nlife: but thei h Ex static\\nframes and feelings, unutterable and beau-\\ntiful visions, may be the daily history of the\\nsoul pilgrimages may be taken, long and\\nme rivers of tears be shed, yet they\\nwill not place you one step farther off from\\nlake fire. It is i s* to\\nChrist that is saved.\\nShould my :t.: foi r^er flow,\\nShe .1 1 my seal no languor know,\\nT_:s for sin could not atone.\\nThou must save, and thou alone\\nIn my hand no price I bring.\\nSimply to thy cross I clu\\nMuch I have heard and read, you say, of\\nthe simplicity of the way of Salvation so\\nplain, they tell me, that a child may find\\nit Only follow Christ, and 1 own\\ni with an unfading crown in the para-", "height": "3768", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 THE FOUI1 I H F\\ndise above. Now, had Hived over there\\nin Palestine a fei hen\\nthe Son Man walked there could I\\nhave stood by him when he worked his\\nmiracles and heard him speak, as nevei\\nman spake, looked into his pitying eye,\\nand heard his compass; n ite voice, I would\\nhave followed him night and lay, no wea-\\nriness would have hindered, no neglect\\nhave repulsed me not even :he sorrowful\\nscenes Gethsemane, nor the thrilling\\nevents Golgotha, would have driven me\\naway.\\nNow this is all very natural, and I doubt\\nwhether there is a followei Jesus who\\nhas not experienced it I was passing\\ntrough Union Square oof long since; it\\n;mer afternoon, and\\nabove the song of the birds and\\ntling of plash of the", "height": "3780", "width": "2716", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 117\\nil fountain, arc song of chil-\\ndren, who in row afte encircled the\\nmtain. With their many-colored dress-\\nand flying banners, this cratherincr of\\ning and happy fac ely sight\\nto look upon, and I stopped to listen to\\ntheir song every Sabbath-school child\\ncan sine it. but it may be new to yon\\nI think when I read that :~r-: story of old,\\nsua was here among\\nHovr fold,\\nshould like f have eeo ~ith him then\\nI wish thai h _ ban n placed on my b\\nThat his arm had n around\\nAnd then I might have seen his kind L ok when\\nhe said,\\n1 Let the little ones come unto me.\\nfootstool in prayer I may\\nAnd ask for a share in his 1c\\nAnd if II r^k him be]\\nI shall see him and hear him abo", "height": "3784", "width": "2472", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nIn that beautiful place he is gone to prepare\\nFor all who are washed and forgiven\\nAnd many dear children are gathering there,\\nFor of such is the kingdom of heaven.\\nAs I have said, the desire is natural,\\nand when we do not make of it an excuse\\nfor keeping away from Jesus, is innocent,\\nthough many doubtless deceive themselves\\nin supposing that though they are not his\\ndisciples now, they would have been had\\nthey lived when he lived upon earth.\\nHave you forgotten Thomas He had\\nbeen a witness of his wonderful works, and\\nwas acquainted with his promise, that after\\nthree days he would arise from the grave\\nand when told by his friends that they had\\nseen him, he refused to believe until he\\nhad seen in his hands the prints of the\\nnails, and put his finger in the prints of\\nthe nails, and thrust his hand in his wound-", "height": "3784", "width": "2676", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 119\\ned side and the Lord, with a condescen-\\nsion, oh, how wonderful gratified his\\nwish, but added those memorable words,\\nto trie solace of his followers in all future\\ntime Thomas, because thou hast seen\\nme, thou hast believed blessed are they\\nthat have not seen, and yet have belie\\nAnd more than this, the night before\\nhe died, he told his sorrowing disciples\\nthat it was expedient for them that he\\nshould go away, that he might send the\\nComforter, not only to enlighten and guide\\nand comfort them, but every true disciple\\nuntil the trumpet sounds. And now,\\nwherever and whenever the child of sin\\nand sorrow bends the knee to him in peni-\\ntent, believing prayer, the poorest outcast\\nthough he be, there the sin-forgiving Jesus\\nis Jesus of Nazareth not the Jesus of\\nmyth and allegory, a metaphysical abstrac-", "height": "3784", "width": "2472", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\ntion a far-off sometliiiio: which the mind\\ncannot grasp but a present God the Je-\\nsus of fact and history the sanir lesus\\nthat walked the earth his heart as full\\nof love, his breast as full of compassion\\nhis tenderness as deep as when he prom-\\nised, Him that cometh to me I will in\\nno wise cast out.\\nYou have read the story of his life you\\nhave seen that he is the very Saviour you\\nneed you think you desire to enter his\\nservice, and to live to please him, and I am\\nunwilling to believe you insincere. There\\nis something so ingenuous and frank about\\nthe heart of the young it requires years\\nof training, in a false and falsehood -lev; m\\nworld, before they are willing to deceive\\nthemselves.\\nAnd yet there is something very incon-\\nsistent in your present position you s", "height": "3784", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 121\\nyou desire to please him who has pur-\\nchased heaven for you at the sacrifice of\\nhimself, and yet you have not taken one\\nstep for that purpose not one single step.\\nDo you yet plead, you know not what\\nto do He says u Whosoever shall con-\\nfess me before men, him shall the Son of\\nman also confess before the angels of God\\nHere you have a direction accompanied by\\na precious promise. Is there any dark\\nand hidden mystery in this like a response\\nof the Delphic oracle, is it hard to be un-\\nravelled How are you to confess him\\nWhy, in the same way in which the early\\ndisciples did. They that gladly received\\nhis word were baptized But perhaps\\nyou were consecrated to God, in the rite\\nof baptism, in your infancy go. then, be-\\nfore the Church, and in the presence of\\nGod and his people, in any way prescribed", "height": "3768", "width": "2472", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nby that branch of it you may elect to join,\\nrenounce the world and the service of\\nSatan, and consecrate yourself for time\\nand for eternity to the service of our bless-\\ned Master.\\nIn the night in which he was betrayed,\\nhe instituted a feast, which he enjoined his\\nfollowers to keep in memory of his dying\\nlove, until his coming again. Obey the\\ncommand you surely can do this. He\\nonly asks that you come with a broken\\nand contrite heart in childlike simplicity\\nand faith, and in thus confessing- him you\\nwill find a present reward the peace\\nthat passeth all understanding.\\nRemember the fishermen of Galilee\\nStraightway they arose left their nets,\\nand followed him. Again I say, Go and\\ndo likewise. Hesitate no longer on the\\nbrink of the fountain looking into its pure", "height": "3780", "width": "2660", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "l v v a z 123\\nlis will nc ach your\\nthirst panting foi its sool with\\nyour lips will\\nnot the fainting son]\\nonly will be revived.\\nthus saith the Lord\\nWhose 3vei that\\nI shall give him. shall never thirst but\\nthe water that 1 shall give him shall be in\\nhim a well of water springing up into ever-", "height": "3732", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nTHE FOn^TAI^T OF LIVING WATERS.\\nO ye that fain would find the joy,\\nThe only one that wants alloy\\nWhich never is deceiving\\nCome to the Well of Life with me.\\nAnd drink, as it is proffered, free,\\nThe gospel draught receiving.\\nM Cheyne.\\nWelcome, my dear young friend, to the\\njoys and sorrows, the glorious hopes and\\nexalting promises the heritage of those\\nwho are folio wins: the Lamb. With a love\\nwhich has the stamp of immortality upon\\nit, I take you to my heart for though I\\nmay never have crossed your path, and\\nwe may never meet till together we pluck", "height": "3772", "width": "2572", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 125\\nthe flowers that are blooming in the para-\\ndise above, I love yon, whoever and\\nwherever you may be, with an earnest\\nbrother s love, because you are carrying\\nthe cross, and wear the lineaments, and\\nbreathe the spirit of our blessed Master.\\nWas the half told you You knew that\\ncares would be lightened, the clouds of\\nsorrow tino-ed with light, the troubled\\nconscience at rest, the unsettled mind\\ncalmed into quiet, and the sin-fettered\\nspirit freed. But how far beyond all this,\\nthat deep unruffled peace which passeth\\nall understanding How much freer than\\nyou thought, the glorious liberty of the\\nsons of God and the strange paradox\\nof the apostle, sorrowing yet always re-\\njoicing How completely your experi-\\nence has solved it, when in time of trouble\\nyou have lingered about the mercy-seat,", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nuntil you have caught a glimpse of the\\nreconciled countenance which transmutes\\neverything into gold and the precious\\nassurance, all things work together for\\ngood to them that love God, fell like\\nmusic upon your ear\\nHow impossible it is for you to describe\\nthose blissful hours, when with hope in\\nthe heart, and with the steadfast eye of a\\nliving faith, you have looked over the in-\\nheritance incorruptible and un defiled, and\\nthat fadeth not away How faint is the\\npicture even when delineated by one whose\\nwritings show that he drinks deep of the\\nFountain of Living Waters\\nLooking forward to the pearly gates\\nand golden streets of the celestial city, its\\nlove-built mansions and its life- watered\\nparadise, the believer in Jesus delights to\\nremember that they are purely the pur-", "height": "3784", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "LIVING W A T EKS. 127\\nchase, and as purely the gift of Immanuel.\\nTo think that he shall yet have his happy\\nhome on that Mount Zion that with feet\\nno longer sin- defiled he shall tread its ra-\\ndiant pavement, and stand on its glassy\\nsea that with fingers no longer awkward\\nhe shall tell the harps of heaven what once\\nhe was, and who made him what he is\\nthat with a voice no longer trembling he\\nshall transmit along the echoes of eternity\\nthe song of Moses and the Lamb that his\\nshall yet be a brow on which the drops of\\ntoil will never burst, and an eye which\\ntears will never dim that he himself shall\\nwear a form that years shall never bend,\\nand a countenance which grief can never\\nmar that his shall yet be a character on\\nwhich the storms of time will leave no\\ntrace, and his a conscience pure enough to\\nreflect the full image of Him who sits upon", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "I 7 7: 7 7 77 L 7\\n::.t :hr :1:7 ::.::_::.: ill :i:$\\nl7 z:~rii,i 1 Tlnr^ ;i;.:^1.:^\\nthat hi e boars raise the be-\\nl .r--r: t :~L7 :n 77:77= :7::_\\nE 11 tt 7 vitll^ :77 7 full sa. 777775\\nlooking up at me, and a young leader ex-\\nclaims Oh that it were thus with me!\\n7-177 1 :^1:7 7 :77; 1 1. r t7:7:^7 77:7\\n7 life at least I folly intended\\nI openly, and in the presence\\n7 Bounced the devil and all\\n:-r i75 7\\nworld, with all covetous desires of the same,\\nand the sinful desires of the flesh, and\\n7: 1 _,-\\n1\\n_ 11 v 7 777 iriri 1:11:- l.;-\\nthrough good and through evil report, but", "height": "3804", "width": "2676", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "liyib w a i e 129\\ne at times had a\\nt had s me peace and\\n.ristian life is rather char-\\nged by gloom, and ft\\nhopes and when I read the lives of ti\\nwhose peace has flowed as a ri I :her\\ndoubt t. ::pleship. w\\nsnf matter-of-fact _r attaining\\n;n a stature., and having sc much of the\\npilgrim air a em.\\nKbw, m~ ing friend, in your idea of\\nlooked all the analo^ he Bible, and\\n2 hi of those graphic delineations\\nof u have\\n[awning\\nh a faint and\\nstruggling with the darkn orooding\\nover the ear: to gain strength,\\n9", "height": "3784", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nand scattering the clouds, melts them into\\ngolden summer islands -then burnishes the\\ndistant mountain-top, and hill, and valley,\\nuntil the full blaze of its glory glad-\\ndens every spot. Just so, say the Scrip-\\ntures, is the Christian course not full day\\nat once but the path of the just is as\\nthe shining light, that shineth more and\\nmore, unto the perfect day.\\nDo you remember those beautiful lines\\non the subject written by the sweet psalm-\\nist of modern Israel lines which, as has\\nbeen remarked, though written for the in-\\nfant mind, are worthy the perusal of\\nangels\\n11 How fine has the day been, how bright was the\\nsun,\\nHow lovely and joyful the course that he run\\nThough he rose in a mist when his race he begun,\\nAnd there followed some droppings of rain", "height": "3804", "width": "2664", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 131\\nBut now the fair traveller s come to the west,\\nHis rays are all gold, and his beauties are best\\nHe paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest,\\nAnd foretells a bright rising again.\\nJust such is the Christian his course he begins,\\nLike the sun in a mist, while he mourns for his\\nsins,\\nAnd melts into tears; then he breaks out and\\nshines,\\nAnd travels his heavenly way\\nBut when he comes nearer to finish his race,\\nLike a fine setting sun, he looks richer in grace,\\nAnd gives a sure hope, at the end of his days,\\nOf rising in brighter array.\\nNow, you are expecting to enjoy at the\\ncommencement of the Christian day the\\nlight which illumines its noon the free-\\ndom from doubts and fears, the settled\\nassurance of those who have long loved\\nand closely followed the Saviour,, made\\ntrial of his faithfulness, and had much\\nsweet experience of the truth of his prom-", "height": "3784", "width": "2488", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nises. It is true that St. Paul could look\\nup and beyond the limits of natural vision,\\nand exultingly say, not I hope or trust, but\\nthere is laid up for me a crown of right-\\neousness, which the Lord, the righteous\\njudge, shall give me at that day. But\\nwhen was his soul sustained by this calm\\nconfidence It was when he was ready\\nto be offered, and the time of his depar-\\nture was at hand. It was when he could\\nsay, I have fought a good fight, I have\\nfinished my course, I have kept the faith.\\nWe do not mean to say that the apostle\\nhad not always much of this confidence\\nfrom the time when near Damascus, the\\nlight from heaven flashed across his path-\\nway, and dazzled and amazed, he fell upon\\nthe earth, and heard that voice saying,\\nSaul, Saul, why persecutest thou me\\nfrom that hour when melted into penitence", "height": "3784", "width": "2680", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "LIVING- WATERS. 133\\nby that voice of reproachful tenderness,\\nhe cried and said Lord, what wilt thou\\nhave me to do The Lord Jesus was\\nno mere abstraction to him he had seen\\nhim, had talked with him, and walked in\\nunbroken fellowship with him ever after,\\nand loved him with all the self-sacrificing\\ndevo a noble soul. For him hence-\\nforth to live was Christ. His aim was\\nsingle it was the glory of his master\\nthere was no faltering no looking back\\nforgetting the things that were behind,\\nreaching forth unto those that were before,\\npressing towards the mark, was the char-\\nacter of his daily life, and thus walking\\nin the very footprints of his much-loved\\nMaster, though he had much to grieve,\\nperplex, and sadden him, he could say,\\nAlways rejoicing.\\nBut it was when the conflict was over,", "height": "3784", "width": "2496", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nand his mission on earth was accomplished,\\nhis body chained down in a Roman dun-\\ngeon, and a death of torture awaiting him\\nit was then, as he caught a glimpse of the\\nunveiling face of the Master he so much\\nloved, that he could calmly say I am\\nnow ready to be offered, and the time of\\nmy departure is at hand. Henceforth\\nthere is laid up for me a crown of righteous-\\nness\\nIf you were going a long journey, and\\nhad a priceless treasure you were obliged\\nto leave behind your quiet and your com-\\nfort in your absence, and your assurance\\nthat you would find it safe on your return,\\nwould mainly depend upon your acquaint-\\nance with and confidence in the person, to\\nwhom you had committed so great a trust.\\nSo is it with the Christian. Knowing\\nthat the latter days of the earth are wear-", "height": "3784", "width": "2664", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 135\\ning away, and that amid the wreck of\\nworlds his deathless soul will be there, he\\ncan look with an unblenching eye upon its\\nrevelations, and confidently await the issue,\\nin measure as he is acquainted with Him\\nto whom he has committed his interests,\\nand his trust in His truthfulness and love.\\nAnd this fellowship with Jesus all may en-\\njoy the humblest child of earth by faith\\nand prayer may walk daily with him\\nthough scorned and trampled upon by his\\nfellow-men, the Lord of all will not repulse\\nhim, but admit to sweet companionship\\nand thus walking, he will be able to say\\nwith the apostle I know whom I have\\nbelieved, and am persvaded that he is able\\nto keep that which I have committed unto\\nhim against that day.\\nBut while some young disciples of our\\nLord are heavy of heart, because they", "height": "3780", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nhave not that unclouded hope which is the\\nfruit of experience, there are many more\\nwhose want of joy arises from the entirely\\nerroneous view they have entertained of\\nthe Christian life. They supposed that,\\nhaving made a profession of religion, they\\nhad only to sit still, within the sacred en-\\nclosure of the church, in the midst of its\\ngreen pastures, and that its living streams\\nwould come unsought to lave the thirsting\\nlips, and the hidden manna be gathered\\nwithout a care or effort. True, this did\\nnot harmonize with those numerous repre-\\nsentations of it as a race, a conflict, an\\narduous warfare but these expressions\\nwere figurative, and had no particular\\nreference to the present times.\\nCommencing their discipleship with\\nsuch views of the service in which they\\nhad enlisted, is it astonishing that they", "height": "3808", "width": "2656", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 137\\nshould have made no advancement that\\nthey should have dwindled away into spir-\\nitual dwarrlshness, unblessed with the com-\\nforts of the diligent servant, diffusing no\\nlight about them, and giving to the world\\nno evidences of their hio-h calling, save the\\npunctual observance of the outward rites\\nof religion\\no\\nNow, my young friend, if you are one of\\nthat large number who have taken no\\nstep since the first, which introduced you\\ninto the vineyard of the Master if you\\nhave been standing all the day idle, have\\nknown nothing of the conflict or the vic-\\ntory, you have a reason for your present\\njoyless state there may be spiritual life\\nunder such circumstances, as there is life in\\nthe infant, but its powers and its capacities\\nall undeveloped, and very unlike the breath-\\ning glorious activity and energy of manhood.", "height": "3748", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nYou were enlisted by the leader of the\\nsacramental host of God s elect to en-\\ndure hardness as a good soldier, to do\\nbattle with spiritual foes well skilled in the\\nwarfare, and who, by their prowess, have\\nslain men of renown. You have a corrupt\\nheart within to subdue temptations with-\\nout to resist there are sinners to be saved,\\npoor to be succored, ignorant to be taught,\\nmourners to be comforted, weak saints to\\nbe strengthened, a whole world to be re-\\nclaimed and led back to their allegiance to\\nHim who died to save a lost world.\\nThis, my young Christian friend, this is\\nyour mission. Could a higher one be al-\\nlotted you here below Is there not\\nin the work that which should arouse every\\nenergy, fire every heart, and nerve every\\narm And can you not see wisdom in\\nthe arrangement which makes a life of", "height": "3784", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 139\\nself-denying toil and unwearied effort, to\\nmake better and save one fellow-man, the\\nlife of peace and spiritual joy and the\\nverv trials and struggles which are the\\nportion of God s children, the means of\\ndeveloping and bringing to full manhood\\nthe Christian character. How beautifully\\nhas this thought been expressed by one\\nwhose poetry is always fresh and true\\nSo thou, man, of a noble soul,\\nStarting in view of a glorious goal,\\nWert thou never exposed to the blasts forlorn\\nThe storms of sorrow the sleets of scorn\\nWert thou never refined in pitiless fire,\\nFrom the dross of thy sloth, and mean desire\\nWert thou never taught to feel and know\\nThat the truest love has its roots in woe,\\nThou wouldst never unravel the complex plan,\\nOr reach half way to the perfect man\\nThou wouldst never attain the tranquil height\\nWhere wisdom purifies the sight,\\nAnd God unfolds to the humble gaze\\nThe bliss and beauty of his ways.", "height": "3744", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "no\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nA fatal error of the young disciple, as\\nwe have remarked, is to commence a relig-\\nious life with a very inadequate notion of\\nits trials, a very confused conception of its\\nduties, and wretchedly low views of its at-\\ntainments.\\nTheir standard is taken from the meagre\\ncold Christianity around them and where\\nis the earnest pilgrim that has not been\\nsaddened at the present aspect of the\\narmy of the faithful Straggling from the\\nranks, there is one who has gone down\\ninto the world, and in its mad scramble\\nfor wealth none more eager than he the\\ngirdle of truth about his loins has been\\nloosened in the dailv strife of men, and his\\nbreastplate of righteousness has fallen\\noff, and his hopes have waned, and the\\nsmile of peace has been chased away by\\nthe hard look of wordlv care who would", "height": "3780", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 141\\nbelieve him to be what he calls himself,\\none of the pilgrim band\\nHere is another who is hot in the pur-\\nsuit after place and power, using every art\\nto count the popular vote, and in that race\\nthe helmet of salvation which he once wore\\nis laid aside, and his feet, no longer shod\\nwith the preparation of the gospel of peace,\\nare lacerated and torn now and then he\\nlooks around for his neglected helmet, half\\nterrified to find how much exposed he is,\\nand how far from the ranks he has gone\\nbut the gilded mark shines just before him,\\nand on he goes reaching and grasping and\\ngrasping and yet a professed follower of\\none who, when upon earth, had not where\\nto lay his head.\\nAnd there goes yet another with moist-\\nened brow and straining nerve, his flash-\\ning eye fixed upon the glittering bubble", "height": "3748", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nreputation. Though charmed by the mu-\\nsic of Fame s brazen trumpet, he is startled\\nnow and then, and casts a look behind as\\na strain of the sweet songs of Zion falls\\nupon his ear and as he rises higher and\\nhigher up the dangerous steep, and the\\ndarts of the enemy fly thick upon him, he\\nfalters and casts about for his shield, the\\nglorious Shield of Faith, wherewith in\\nather days he had always been able to\\nquench all the fiery darts of the wicked\\nwhere is it now in the time of need far\\nbehind in the dust, shattered and broken,\\nof little avail to him who, in pursuit of a\\nphantom, is exposing himself defenseless\\nto the rage and the subtle arts of the\\nenemy.\\nOthers but it is useless to describe\\nthem how few are there who, in obedi-\\nence to the commands of their great Cap-", "height": "3772", "width": "2596", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 143\\ntain, are engaged in this contest with the\\nrulers of the darkness of this world, with\\nthe whole armor of God upon them and\\nhow has this strange appearance of the\\nChristian hosts stasrsrered and hindered\\nthe young disciple and when struck with\\nthe strange contrast between this, and the\\nglowing description of primitive Christiani-\\nty which breathes through the inspired\\npages of St. Luke, the attempt has been\\nmade to satisfy them and reconcile the\\nstrange incongruity by the remark, We\\nlive in very different times, and should be\\nthought as mad did we imitate their all-\\nabsorbing zeal, as if we should adopt their\\nplan of having all things in common.\\nNow, though the world might deem\\nus insane if we followed closely in the\\nfootprints of the early Christians, showing\\nby our daily life that we felt as pilgrims", "height": "3772", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nand sojourners here, who were looking for\\nanother and a better country the highest\\nwisdom, and the honest voice of every\\ntruly regenerate heart, would commend the\\ncourse.\\nAnd that such a self-sacrificing, pilgrim-\\nlike holy life may be lived in these latter\\ndays -that in the midst of the hurry and\\nexcitement, and seducing influences which\\ncharacterize our age, a disciple of Christ\\nmay keep his hopes as bright, and his faith\\nas strong, and have his peace flowing as\\ndeeply as in primitive times, we know. We\\nhave seen it illustrated in some whom we\\nhave loved, and who have gone to their\\nreward. We have seen it in one who is\\nstill struggling in this vale of tears, and a\\nfew incidents of whose life may explain\\nwhat we mean when we urge the necessity\\nof apostolic walking to have apostolic peace.", "height": "3784", "width": "2644", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 145\\nHow through the dim vista of many years\\nscenes long forgotten will rise up, with all\\nthe vividness and freshness of events that\\nhave just left their footprints upon the\\nsands of time not by any effort of the\\nmind, but conjured up we scarce know\\nwhy.\\nYes there sits young Sutherland, with\\nhis lofty forehead, and his flashing eye, and\\nwinning smile, his hand upon the helm of\\nthe boat, guiding her as we pulled with\\nshouts of boyish fun along the shores of\\nold Crow Nest.\\nWith what earnest eyes we used to try\\nto penetrate the dark gorges that reach\\nfar into the heart of the mountains there,\\nand which our boyish fancies, aided by\\nneighborhood traditions of hair-breadth\\nescapes from prowling bears, infesting the\\nspot peopled with we knew not what\\n10", "height": "3784", "width": "2516", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nand then, as the moon arose and poured\\nher shadowy light upon hill and dale,\\nwhitening the sail of many a vessel as it\\ndrifted through the gorge of the Highlands,\\nand the music from West Point swelled\\nand died away upon the breeze, and as we\\npaddled along far into the night, the sol-\\nemn hush only broken by the cry of the\\nkaty-did, or the sad plaint of wailing\\nwhippoorwill -how lovely it was, and how\\ntruthfully painted by one of the sweetest\\nof our native poets\\nTis the middle watch of a summer s night,\\nThe earth is dark, but the heavens are bright\\nNought is seen in the vault on high,\\nBut the moon, and the stars, and the cloudless sky,\\nAnd the flood that rolls its milky hue,\\nA river of white in the welkin blue\\nThe moon looks down on old Crow Nest,\\nShe mellows the shade on his shaggy breast,\\nAnd seems his huge gray form to know,\\nIn a silvery cone on the wave below", "height": "3784", "width": "2628", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "LIVING W ATERS.\\n14i\\nHis sides are broken by spots of shade.\\nBv th 1 the cedar made\\nWhile through a dark\\nGlimmers and dies the fire-fly s spark,\\nLike starry twinkles that momently break\\nThrough the rift of the gathering tempest rack.\\nThe stars are on the moving stream.\\nAnd fling as its ripples gently flow,\\nA burnished length of wavy beam.\\nIn an eel-like spiral line 1: i\\nThe winds are whist and the owl is still.\\nThe bat in the shelvv rock is hid,\\nAnd naught is heard on the lonely hill.\\nBu r the cricket-chirp and the answer shrill\\nOf the ganze-wii\\nAnd the plaints of the wailing whippoorwill\\nWho mourns unseen, and ceaseless sings,\\nEver a note of wail and w\\nTill morning spreads her rosy wings,\\nAnd earth and skies in her glances glow.\\nI have sat on the banks of the Guadal-\\nquiver. so famed in Spanish song and story\\nwhen the moon was sleeping there, I have\\nwalked and mused where she was looking\\ninto the dark flowing Ta^us and have", "height": "3776", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nseen her silver light bathing the bosom of\\nthe sweet flowing Avon, where Shakspeare\\ntuned his harp and where she looked\\ndown upon other fair and fairy spots of\\nearth, but it always seemed to me that\\nthis was the fairest spot of them all.\\nOh how oft\\nIn darkness and amid the many shapes\\nOf joyless daylight, when the fretful star\\nUnprofitable, and the fever of the world,\\nHas hung upon the beatings of my heart,\\nHow oft, in spirit have I turned to thee\\ndear to me because of thine own surpass-\\ning loveliness, but more dear because asso-\\nciated with boyish holydays, and golden\\nday-dreams, and night-visions, and early\\nfriendships, and the cherished memory of\\nRichard Sutherland.\\nAs we have hinted, he was a boy of\\nwinning countenance, and his mind, though", "height": "3784", "width": "2632", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 149\\nmuch enfeebled by habits of day dreaming,\\nwas of a high order. He entered one of\\nour eastern colleges, where he won the\\nname of a good scholar, and graduated\\nwith honor.\\nHis companions, like himself, grew up\\nin almost total ignorance of religion, and\\nthey began to evince their manhood in the\\nsilly way not uncommon with young men,\\nby speaking of its claims with levity, until\\nthey grew bold enough, and as they fan-\\ncied, manly enough, to profess themselves\\nsceptics.\\nNot that they disbelieved the evidences\\nof our faith for of these they knew no-\\nthing and probably not one of them had\\nread anything on the subject, or ever\\nlooked into the revelation which has come\\ndown from heaven. But then they knew\\nabout as much as most free-thinkers know.", "height": "3764", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nI will not attempt to trace the career of\\nfolly young Sutherland ran. He entered\\ninto business, and for a time was prosper-\\nous but in one of those sudden reverses\\nof trade which have so frequently con-\\nvulsed our country, in a moment every-\\nthing was swept away, and he became\\nbankrupt.\\nHis visions of affluence thus scattered,\\nsick at heart, he turned away from the\\nworld, and went to spend the summer\\namong the haunts of his boyhood. He\\nand with him a small pocket bible, a gift\\nof other days, and as, in his present mood,\\nhe felt no interest in those works of light\\nliterature which had always been his\\namusement, he was led, he scarce knew\\nwhy, to take this Bible with him in his\\nlong strolls among the hills about West\\nPoint.", "height": "3784", "width": "2652", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "LIVING W A TEB6. 151\\nHe would lie for hours in some shady\\nnook, looking out upon the river in its\\nnoiseless course, and listlessly turning over\\nthe pages of the Book of Life. But gradu-\\nally his interest deepened as his fancy was\\ncaught by the glowing imagery of the rapt\\nvisions of Isaiah, or his heart touched by\\nthe tender strains of the sweet Psalmist\\nof Israel, or his soul moved by the affect-\\ning story of his Saviour s love.\\nI need not follow him through the vari-\\nous struggles with his doubts and fears\\nthe conflict with a proud heart before he\\nwas brought to sit, as a little child, at Je-\\nsus feet was long and severe, and he\\nhad many a heavy and distressing trudge\\nthrough the Slough of Despond, which, as\\nwe have before said, man s rebellious heart\\nand not God, has put in the way to recon-\\nciliation and peace.", "height": "3756", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "lo- i h z f o r. i a z\\nlight same at last, and his fetters\\nwere thrown cz\u00e2\u0080\u0094 arm zavirm m; a\\nglimpse cf the glorious ricr.es of :he cos-\\npel, ii became :he zac absorb^ desire\\nbear: maraih i: mhers. He did\\nno: think, as is c:mz\\nconverts. :ba: :be ministry was\\n:he\\ncnly\\nway in which he a. 1 d advance\\np\\nause\\nhis blaster\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he a: a no: aansic\\nlei it\\nthe\\nduiy every mistia:: wheth\\ner a:\\nmag\\ngifts :-r t: devote himself :o\\nthe i\\necu-\\nliar da e ing the gospel.\\nH\\nbe-\\nlieved that :he :a o. si:n :be\\nended much, under God, upon\\n:be zeal-\\nous sel la g labors of the lai\\nhose\\ndaa irere in paths and\\naces\\nthe :az: h\\ni.ssa-\\ndor of the L\\nS abb\\n:he\\ngospel mini ve a", "height": "3784", "width": "2636", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "L I V I N G WATERS. 1 53\\nearthly office, the brightest link that con-\\nnects this earthly scene with the transcend\\nant interests of the life to come and hav-\\ning gifts fitting him for this labor, he\\nprayed that, if the Master willed it, he\\nwould remove the almost insurmountable\\ndifficulties in his path.\\nThe way grew more tangled, obsta-\\ng thickened around, and when, with\\na sorrowful heart, he was about to aban-\\ndon the path across which the Saviour\\nned to frown in a way so singular,\\nthat were I to tell it, the belief of some\\nild be staowred the clouds all van-\\nDO\\ni, and he took up his high commission.\\nWhat must have been his sensations\\nwhen he stood up for the first time before\\nthat vast congregation, many of them the\\ngay and thoughtless companions of other\\ndays, and preached the faith he once de-", "height": "3728", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nrided. Ad gels, while they looked down\\nwith adoring wonder, mus; have struck a\\nlouder note on their gohien harps at this\\nexhibition of the unsearchable riches of\\nthe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and\\nmany will long remember the first sermon\\nof Richard Sutherland.\\nHe was soon called to take charge ot a\\na parish in one oi our villages in the\\nWest. With the earnestness of one who\\nhad looked within the veil and caught\\ntherefrom a clearer view and truer estimate\\nof the passing things of time, he preached\\nChrist crucified/\\nWhile he did not neglect to warn his\\nto seek and save the lost. 9 the ly.r.\\nhis me- _ ii :\u00c2\u00bbn, :A\\nlife eternal, through Christ Jesus, the onlv", "height": "3764", "width": "2596", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS 155\\nSaviour free and full pardon to all who\\nlikable and full\\nglory, not procured by a strict observance\\nbut by a el\\nwalk and abiding fellowship with Jesus\\nand eternal life, the purchas iS\\nsoffc ertain inheritance of\\nry humble follower of .1. wher-\\nfoond, howevei\\nBut what was most striking, and\\n5 the thing I would pre\\nthe i king u this m ::er-\\nof-fa was his humble\\nand heaven-like life the\\nupon all, that th-. in his\\n,;on, and though urning on e\\nfor that his heart was in heav\\nand all his treasui\\nmajority of the young and th e\\nof the village listened to his preach:. _", "height": "3732", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 THE FOUNTAIN OF\\nthe pulpit, and the equally influential\\npreaching of his daily walk and conversa-\\ntion one, and another, and another, bowed\\nat the feet of Jesus noiseless but constant\\nwas the ingathering. It was not in the\\nearthquake, nor in the wind, but by the\\nstill, small voice that the Spirit moved on\\nso many young hearts there were tears\\nof joy sweet out-gushings of feeling af-\\nfectionate, full-hearted greetings, as the\\nyoung disciples gathered together for\\nprayer. Yes, prayer was offered then\\nnot eloquence, not the flow of rhetoric, or\\nthe melody of well-chosen words but\\nthe half-broken utterances, the humble,\\nearnest breathings of the contrite heart\\nlanguage cannot describe it, nor the poet s\\nfancy shadow it forth.\\nPrayer the Christian s vital breath\\nthe gold of Ophir cannot purchase it.", "height": "3776", "width": "2584", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": ":f S..\\nit is be free i I\\nhart panteih a::\\n_ :th\\nSod\\nland\\n:n ._-\\ndie iin\\nwas scarcely bpht heard there few\\n_- i z r. :t :i\\n1 Hang rthy of\\nminister. D jld, and\\n;nnv", "height": "3748", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 r f o r i a 7\\n_ up that laughed and played about that\\nhappy f reside and there was weeping\\nthei r nd a vacant seat a bright angelic\\n777 7 77\\nthere arose contention among the followers\\nof Him who never strove, and some who\\nhad run well began to halt and many\\nperplex but calmly and tearfully he\\nv hiokei :he ::ker.er is his Fa-\\nther s h :7-r jve.\\ngle. and the jarring sounds of a great\\nHe would fain have spent his life in his\\nformer humble rleld, but the Master\\nwork for him to do. But though\\nscene 77s 0777^77. 77 ^hose 7:\\nimperfectly fetched, has not.\\nTrue, a ere has sprinkled his hair with", "height": "3772", "width": "2616", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "lit: ltbbs 159\\ngray, and time has drawn some wrinkles\\nacross his brow but the disentangled pil-\\ngrim look, he has it and even when\\nthreading his way along the ^ed\\nrcasional upward glancing of\\nthe eye, and the abstracts _\\njannot intermed-\\ndle, and, from his uncon sck\\nw I king elsewher e even al ong the streets\\nof the New Jerusalem,\\nNow jron will acknowlecL\\nfriend, that there is nothing marvellous in\\nthis sim\\nthis young nllowerof the Lamb, inae:\\nsible tons, His was a borrowed light,\\nand the same source is still open tc en-\\nlighten d v then I\\nand though the world may ridicule, and\\nr-.rth den I re not to", "height": "3776", "width": "2580", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nbe cheated out of those joys which we\\nknow to be real and soul- satisfying. That\\nthe fruition of them is not the portion of\\nall who bear the name of Christian, we\\ngrant but we unhesitatingly assert that\\nthey are the natural heritage and the\\nabiding possession of those who separate\\nfrom the world, and cherish a close and\\ndaily walk with God. This was the ex-\\nperience of the sweet psalmist of Israel,\\nof the apostles, of a Martyn, a Wilberforce,\\na Payson, and a host of others, and this,\\nmy young desponding friend, may be your\\nexperience.\\nI do not say your heart shall never ache\\nagain, your eye be never dimmed with\\ntears. Oh, no you are still in a a vale\\nof tears, and the Lord hath expressly\\nwarned his disciples that in the world they\\nshall have tribulation prophets and apos-", "height": "3784", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\n161\\nties, the favorites of God in all ages have\\nbeen harrowed with grief, and bore this\\nresemblance to the Man of Sorrows but\\nthen they knew with St. Paul that our\\nlight affliction, which is but for a moment,\\nworketh for us a far more exceeding and\\neternal weight of glory and it is this\\nheavenly alchemy which transmutes all\\nour dross to gold, and enables us to under-\\nstand the seeming paradox Sorrowful,\\nyet always rejoicing. And when trials\\ncome, sit not down with the world, and\\nbrood over them, but that this precious\\ntruth, which gladdened the heart of the\\napostle, may cheer and sustain yours in\\nsuch an hour, you must use it as he did\\nwith your eye fixed, as was his, when he\\nadded, While we look not on the things\\nwhich are seen, but at the things which\\nare not seen for the things which are\\n11", "height": "3784", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "162\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nseen are temporal, but the things which\\nare not seen are eternal.\\nWe live in times of noisy activity, when\\nevery day almost records some wonderful\\nundertaking, some unparalleled results\\nand this spirit of enterprise and constant\\neffort is not unfelt in religion, but has led\\nto the founding of some of the noblest in-\\nstitutions which ever elevated and blessed\\nmankind. But unfortunately, while the\\nChristian of the present day is thus laud-\\nably imitating the earnestness and zeal of\\nthe primitive Christian, he is much less\\ngiven to that calm and holy meditation\\nwhich alone can raise the soul above this\\nearthly scene, and fit it for its homeward\\nflight. The study of the Word of Life\\nand daily communion with God are indis-\\npensable to the growth and peace of the\\nsoul.", "height": "3784", "width": "2620", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS. 163\\nThink much, then, my dear young friend,\\nof your heavenly home with the eye of\\nfaith look far into its untold glories, and\\ngaze and gaze until you can almost catch\\na glimpse of the rapturous smile of the\\nsaints in bliss, until your ear can almost\\ncatch the strains of melody that sweep\\nthrough the courts of the heavenly man-\\nsion, as the ransomed multitude cast their\\ncrowns before the Lamb, and swell the\\nanthem of the redeemed.\\nThe ways of Zion mourn, and the\\nmighty phalanx of the ungodly, who are\\ntreading their way to death is unbroken,\\nbecause of the number of half-way Chris-\\ntians. Be no longer one of these strangely\\nunnatural followers of the Redeemer, but\\nbe in earnest, and with unshaken trust in\\nyour Leader, go forward. Buffeted by\\nstorms, and tossed by the tempest, you", "height": "3772", "width": "2528", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164\\nTHE FOUNTAIN OF\\nmay be as I have said, but like the mar-\\niner, when the gale is howling by, and the\\nseething billows hunting after, with a strong\\nhand upon the helm, and his eye upon\\nthe compass, fears not the raging waters,\\nso you, my reader, with your soul full of\\ntrust, your hand upon the promises, and\\nyour eye fixed on Jesus, may walk calmly\\namid all the chances and changes of earth,\\nand show to the world that the gospel has\\npower to gladden the heart and cheer the\\npilgrimage of earth. And when a few\\nmore suns have set, you and I, my dear\\nyoung reader, may sit together by the\\ncrystal river which flows out of the throne\\nof God and the Lamb, and drink forever\\nof the Fountain of Living Waters.\\nThere is a world we have not seen,\\nWhich time shall never dare destroy\\nWhere mortal footstep hath not been,\\nNor ear hath caught its sounds of joy.", "height": "3784", "width": "2672", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "LIVING WATERS.\\n1G5\\nThere is a region lovelier far\\nThan sages tell, or poets sing\\nBrighter than summer beauties are,\\nAnd softer than the tints of spring.\\nIt is all holy and serene,\\nThe land of glory and repose\\nAnd there, to dim the radiant scene,\\nThe tear of sorrow never flows.\\nIt is not fanned by summer gale,\\nTis not refreshed by summer showers\\nIt never needs the moon-beam pale,\\nFor there are known no evening hours.\\nIn vain the philosophic eye\\nMay seek to view the fair abode,\\nOr find it in the curtained sky\\nIt is the dwelling-place of God\\nTHE END.", "height": "3784", "width": "2600", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3720", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "i", "height": "3736", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3712", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process.\\nNeutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide\\nTreatment Date: Nov. 2005\\nPreservationTechnologies\\nA WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION\\n1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive\\nCranberry Township, PA 16066\\n(724)779-2111", "height": "3784", "width": "2560", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3752", "width": "2540", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n013 987 588 6\\nill\\n\\\\fi nif muff Jii\\nHH", "height": "3932", "width": "2774", "jp2-path": "fountainofliving00irvi_0178.jp2"}}