Category: Sermons

I have called you friends. Jesus. The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair. Emerson. In his entire being man stands related to many things. First, he comes in contact with a material world. With his feet he presses upon the unyielding earth. His hands grasp a hundred tangible objects. The sense […]

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.-Hebrew Proverb. This is what I call debasing the moral currency; lowering the value of every inspiring fact and tradition.-George Eliot. Many of us must have frequently reflected over the origin, the development, the present meaning, and the probable future of the words […]

Whom do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?— New Testament It may be accounted as a misfortune that the world possesses no authentic portrait of Jesus of Nazareth. There is, indeed, one in existence, which is said to have been the product of a miracle. The story is that, on the way […]

For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Paul. To him, who, in the love of Nature Holds communion with her visible forms, She speaks a various language.—Bryant. The attempt to speak in favor of the natural world from a […]

Ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment,, mercy and faith. Jesus. The whole discourse, of which this sentence is a detached fragment, is full of denunciation against those persons who see life only on its smaller side. As a piece of sarcasm, it […]

Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening.— Hebrew Scriptures. The latest gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it.—Carlyle. Work must be numbered among the world’s greatest necessities. Every visible object is a product of some form of activity. From the combination of chemical elements, which […]

He endured as seeing Him who is invisible.— Paul My eyes make pictures when they are shut.— Coleridge. In our present state of knowledge it is impossible to write a natural history of the soul. Many trans-formations may have occurred in its coming. It is very certain that the human body underwent numerous changes before […]

Affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, yet man is born to trouble as the sparks to fly upward.— Job Literature is a mirror of human thought and action. It reflects the world at large. It is at once an expression of the present age and of […]

Behold thy mother. Jesus A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.— Coleridge The woman soul leadeth us upward and on.— Goethe In the early and middle centuries of our era, organized Christianity made many mistakes. It formulated some doctrines that were very unreasonable. Nevertheless, an impartial survey of its history forbids unlimited […]

And when they were come into the house they saw the young child. New Testament Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. Milton The Child is father of the man. Wordsworth Before its full splendor actually arrives, each new day sends forth heralds to announce its coming. While the sun is still eighteen […]