Author: E. F. Burr

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Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781331861980

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Excerpt from Ecce Terra, or the Hand of God in the Earth The characters which a divine Hand once traced on the walls of Belshazzars palace have all disappeared The walls themselves are gone. If the broken materials could now be found, it would be quite impossible, by any art or chemistry, or other science known to us, to discover the faintest trace of those radiant words which so dazzled the court of Babylon. Not so with the characters which a divine Hand has traced on the walls of the heavens and the earth. These walls are still standing, apparently as strong and fair as ever. Some of the inscriptions on them are as legible as when first made. Others, like the original writing of some palimpsest, have been thickly overwritten by clumsy later scribes till it is hard to make out the nobler underlying scripture. And others still were originally traced in lines that were never meant to be visible to men, save when warmed by the fires of an earnest piety or touched by the chemistry of a reverent science. But, in one state or another, all these heavenly scriptures are still extant, and may, with suitable pains, be read and interpreted. I am no Daniel. Yet I have ventured, in Ecce C lum, to attempt the reading and interpreting of some of the divine inscriptions on the sky. In the present volume I attempt a similar work for the earth. 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."

Download or read book Ecce Terra, Or the Hand of God in the Earth (Classic Reprint) written by E. F. Burr and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ecce Terra, or the Hand of God in the Earth The characters which a divine Hand once traced on the walls of Belshazzars palace have all disappeared The walls themselves are gone. If the broken materials could now be found, it would be quite impossible, by any art or chemistry, or other science known to us, to discover the faintest trace of those radiant words which so dazzled the court of Babylon. Not so with the characters which a divine Hand has traced on the walls of the heavens and the earth. These walls are still standing, apparently as strong and fair as ever. Some of the inscriptions on them are as legible as when first made. Others, like the original writing of some palimpsest, have been thickly overwritten by clumsy later scribes till it is hard to make out the nobler underlying scripture. And others still were originally traced in lines that were never meant to be visible to men, save when warmed by the fires of an earnest piety or touched by the chemistry of a reverent science. But, in one state or another, all these heavenly scriptures are still extant, and may, with suitable pains, be read and interpreted. I am no Daniel. Yet I have ventured, in Ecce C lum, to attempt the reading and interpreting of some of the divine inscriptions on the sky. In the present volume I attempt a similar work for the earth. 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."