DOCTRINE
OF
THE WILL.
BY REV. A. MAHAN,
PRESIDENT OF THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
“Not man alone, all rationals Heaven arms
With an illustrious, but tremendous power,
To counteract its own most gracious ends;
And this, of strict necessity, not choice;
That power denied, men, angels, were no more
But passive engines void of praise or blame.
A nature rational implies the power
Of being blest, or wretched, as we please.
Man falls by man, if finally he falls;
And fall he must, who learns from death alone,
The dreadful secret—That he lives for ever.”
Young.
NEW YORK: