Excerpt from The Loom of Life, and if Christ Were a Guest in Our Home There, thought I, is a type of our lives. Man's free will and God's control are set forth by these wonderful looms. Our free wills, like these shuttles, carry the threads of our choices, our purposes, and our deeds through the divine warp of our lives, - the circumstances and influences that surround as, the laws by which we live, the endowments and powers of our natures. For, choose, determine, and plan all we may, feel we never so strong and wise to control our own destiny and work out our own success, yet God holds the warp of our lives in his own hands, and there are a thousand things in every life as much beyond our control as the march of the stars through the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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