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The Journey of Life

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Catherine Sinclair

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 - 339 pages

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CHAPTER	1

On the true use and value of time	11

The necessity of looking beyond the present hour to an eternal futurity	27

The real benefit of affliction	41

This world is and ought to be an unsatisfying portion	57

Inequality in the length and in the happiness of mens lives	73

Perfect peace found in perfect resignation	86

The efforts of man to understand his own nature	97

Insignificance of this life except in reference	196

Instinctive conviction of human beings that they	205

Sorrow not only useful but necessary to the welfare	214

On the means of commemorating the dead	226

CONTENTS	244

The selfindulgence of man to be corrected by the dis	248

Identity and recognition of individuals after death	264

A belief in the fall of man accounts for all his	279

The gloom of this world relieved by the cheerful	114

The retrospect of life in advancing years	130

The Christians reverential attachment to the Bible	145

The recognition of friends in another world	159

The influence of Christians and their responsibility	168

The manifestation of God in his works	184

The Christian sustained on earth by the anticipa	300

Present suffering purifies and elevates the Christian	317

CHAPTER XXIV	325

The fear of death alleviated or removed by faith	334

Duty of leaving a final testimony for the benefit	347

The night of this life leads to the morning of another	355

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admirable affections affliction amidst anticipation awful become BERNARD BARTON better Bible BISHOP BUTLER blessed bright calm CHAP CHARLES LAMB cheerful Christ Christian comfort conscience consider consolation David Hume dead death desire Divine Saviour duty dying earth earthly enjoy enjoyment eternity existence expiring faith fear feel felicity friends future glory God's grave grief happiness heart heaven hereafter hope human immortal interest last hour leave light live look Lord Lord Bacon LORD BYRON LORD CHESTERFIELD LORD SIDMOUTH Madame de Maintenon melancholy memory mercy mind mortal mourning nature ness never night once ourselves pain peace PÈRE LA CHAISE perfect PIERSHILL pleasures porch or vestibule prayer prepare PRINCE POTEMKIN prosperity religion remarked rience sacred scarcely scene seems solemn sorrow soul spirit suffering tears thee things thou thought tion truly truth utmost whole wish words worldly young

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Title	The Journey of Life
Author	Catherine Sinclair
Publisher	Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	6 Nov 2008
Length	339 pages

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