{"id":1253,"date":"2015-03-24T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:41:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:41:48","slug":"covetousness-the-soul-an-immortal-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Covetousness: The Soul\u2014An Immortal Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTwo things a master commits to his servant\u2019s care,\u201d said one, \u201cthe child and the child\u2019s clothes.\u201d It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say at His master\u2019s return:
\n\u201cSir, here are all the child\u2019s clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost!\u201d
\nMuch so with the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day: \u201cLord, here is my body; I was very grateful for it. I neglected nothing that belonged to its content and welfare; but for my soul, that is lost, and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.\u2014Flavel.

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\nIs this silly, laughing, trifling animal, born for eternity? Is this he that was made an incorruptible picture of the God of glory? He that was born to live with angels and arch-angels and all the company of Heaven? And is it thus that he is preparing to meet Him that is coming in the clouds of Heaven? What a fool, what a block-head, what a madman is he that forgets the very end of His creation!\u2014John Wesley.<\/em><\/p>\n

The soul on earth is an immortal guest,
\nCondemned to starve at an unreal feast:
\nA spark, which upwards tends by nature\u2019s course;
\nA stream, diverted from its parent source;
\nA drop, dissevered from the boundless sea;
\nA moment, parted from eternity;
\nA pilgrim, panting for the rest to come;
\nAn exile, anxious for his native home.
\n\u2014Hannah More.<\/em><\/p>\n

These quotations are taken from the book Covetousness<\/a>, written and compiled by Lillian Harvey and published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo things a master commits to his servant\u2019s care,\u201d said one, \u201cthe child and the child\u2019s clothes.\u201d It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say at His master\u2019s return: \u201cSir, here are all the child\u2019s clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost!\u201d Much so with the account that many will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[535,536,537],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}