Blueridge Believer
Puritan Board Professor
Gleanings from the journal of Whitmore Winslow
written at the age of 15.
His journal, which was previously unknown to his family,
was found among his papers after his unexpected death,
at the age of 21. He died in 1856, and was the son of
Octavius Winslow.
A picture repulsive to every refined feeling.
Truly does the world present a picture repulsive to
every refined feeling. It is devoid of all sources of
true happiness to its earnest seekers, and produces
no end of evils, embittering the life of man, and
ensnaring his heedless steps.
It is a field of conflict between two opposite powers.
The one winning his foes to his side by overwhelming
love, and subduing them into perfect submission by the
power of irresistible goodness.
The other, enlisting his adherents by the offer of
false happiness, alluring them by spurious pleasures,
only to disappoint their hopes, and when life has
spun out its last thread of existence to engulf them
in eternal despair.
How it ensnares, and allures,
and taunts, and disappoints!
What a wretched world it is! How it ensnares,
and allures, and taunts, and disappoints!
I am persuaded that a Christian cannot remain
in worldly company, or be engaged in anything
worldly, without his heavenly mindedness being
damaged, and his holy feelings and resolutions
being vitiated and weakened.
written at the age of 15.
His journal, which was previously unknown to his family,
was found among his papers after his unexpected death,
at the age of 21. He died in 1856, and was the son of
Octavius Winslow.
A picture repulsive to every refined feeling.
Truly does the world present a picture repulsive to
every refined feeling. It is devoid of all sources of
true happiness to its earnest seekers, and produces
no end of evils, embittering the life of man, and
ensnaring his heedless steps.
It is a field of conflict between two opposite powers.
The one winning his foes to his side by overwhelming
love, and subduing them into perfect submission by the
power of irresistible goodness.
The other, enlisting his adherents by the offer of
false happiness, alluring them by spurious pleasures,
only to disappoint their hopes, and when life has
spun out its last thread of existence to engulf them
in eternal despair.
How it ensnares, and allures,
and taunts, and disappoints!
What a wretched world it is! How it ensnares,
and allures, and taunts, and disappoints!
I am persuaded that a Christian cannot remain
in worldly company, or be engaged in anything
worldly, without his heavenly mindedness being
damaged, and his holy feelings and resolutions
being vitiated and weakened.
