Memoir of John Lovering Cooke, with a Sketch of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...and enable me to get rid of it altogether for Christ's sake. So true it is that the sins of youth, often lightly committed and indulged in, are sure in after life to weigh down and sorely oppress the soul in its attempts to attain better and higher things. There are sins, the recollection of which will ever sorely hau nt the memory, so that even those who by God's grace are finally delivered therefrom, bear upon their souls, as it were, the sense of the wounds they have received until their dying hour. CHAPTER IX. Knot of Christians--Meetings of Christian Soldiers--Cooke made an Exhorter--Love Feast--Watch-night at laicknow--Solemn Thoughts--Cooke visits the Hospitals--Work among the Soldiers--Extracts from Journal--Temperance Meetings--Boot of bitterness springing up--Falls into Sin--Dream--Interpretation thereof--Joy in the Holy Ghost--A Tree for a closet--Confined in the Guard-room--Party Spirit--Division in the ranks of Believers--Declension and Fall--Secret Sin--Its fatal influence--Week of Prayer--Defeats and Victories--Besetting sins--Dark clouds overshadowing--Works under declension--Fearful Conflicts and Falls--Lamentations of a Sinner--Reflections--Light in Darkness--Backsliding--Giant Despair's Castle--Leaves Lucknow for Futtehgurh--The terrible Sin--Return to God. At his first setting forth from the City of Destruction Cooke thought that he was alone, but he soon discovered that one of his comrades was a Christian as well as himself, and this little band was soon increased by other additions, so that the number reached some nine or ten professed seekers after God. It has been already mentioned that in the month of July the troops were removed from Lucknow on account of sickness, and encamped, first, in cantonments about two...