The main reason I wanted to discuss
William Wilberforce’s 1797 essay, A Practical
View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and
Middle Classes was the following passage, which I found both intriguing and
comforting:
“The Christian is travelling on
business through a strange country, in which he is commanded to execute his work
with diligence, and pursue his course homeward with alacrity. The fruits which
he sees by the way-side he gathers with caution; he drinks of the streams with
moderation; he is thankful when the sun shines, and his way is pleasant; but if
it be rough and rainy, he cares not much, he is but a traveler. He is prepared
for vicissitudes; he knows that he must expect to meet with them in the stormy
and uncertain climate of this world. But he is travelling to a “better country,”
a country of unclouded light and undisturbed serenity.”
This passage along was enough to
make reading this book worth my time and effort, and I look forward to reading
more of Wilberforce’s works in the future.
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