Carmicael Conference on Future of American Railroads
D. Kirkpatrick
Carmichael Conference on the
Future of American Railroads
St Louis, Mo.
Objective of conference is to create a paper to be presented to the
candidates for the office of President.
Targeting government, industry, advocacy organizations, interested
individuals
D. Kirkpatrick
Sir F. A. Rien <jaS...@gbr.online.com> wrote:
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> Nice to see them considering steam power again ...
My bad.
But even steam hobbists have interest in making current rail better?
D. Kirkpatrick
shown to them, so that they may be confounded by the sight of their folly.
For this is how men reason, when they choose to live in such ignorance of
what they are and without seeking enlightenment. "I know not," they say...
196. Men lack heart; they would not make a friend of it.
197. To be insensible to the extent of despising interesting things, and to
become insensible to the point which interests us most.
198. The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great
things, indicates a strange inversion.
199. Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death,
where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who
remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn,
looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the
condition of men.
200. A man in a dungeon, ignorant whether his sentence be pronounced and
having only one hour to learn it, but this hour enough, if he knew that it
is pronounced, to obtain its repeal, would act unnaturally in spending that
hour, not in ascertaining his sentence, but in playing piquet. So it is
against nature that man, etc. It is making heavy the hand of God.
Thus not only the zeal of those who seek Him proves God, but also the
blindness of those who seek Him not.
201. All the objections of this one and that one only go against themselves,
and not against religion. All that infidels say ...
202. From those who are in despair at being without faith, we see that God
does not enlighten them; but as to the rest, we see there is a God who makes
them blind.
203. Fascina
Sir F. A. Rien
against God has been manifested. Some are convinced especially by a
sense of the sin of unbelief, the opposition of their hearts to the way
of salvation by Christ, and their obstinacy in rejecting Him and His
grace.
There is a great deal of difference as to distinctness here; some, who
have not so clear a sight of God's justice in their condemnation, yet
mention things that plainly imply it. They find a disposition to
acknowledge God to be just and righteous in His threatenings, and that
they are undeserving: and many times, though they had not so particular
a sight of it at the beginning, they have very clear discoveries of it
soon afterwards, with great humblings in the dust before God.
Commonly persons' minds immediately before this discovery of God's
justice are exceedingly restless, in a kind of struggle and tumult, and
sometimes in mere anguish; but generally, as soon as they have this
conviction, it immediately brings their minds to a calm, and unexpected
quietness and composure; and most frequently, though not always, then
the pressing weight upon their spirits is taken away, and a general hope
arises, that some time or other God will be gracious, even before a