Category: Sermons

Preached the Sunday following the death of the Queen. Many daughters have done virtuously. Hebrew Proverb. The passing years furnish many lessons for all diligent students. Schools and books instruct, but for every mortal, time is the greatest teacher. Only our early years are passed in the common school-rooms and colleges. A period comes when […]

O come, let us bow down, let us worship before the Lord—Hebrew Poet. The spirit, I, which evermore denies.—Goethe. Selected from literature belonging to ages far removed from each other, these sentences invite us to a study of two sides of human life which may be called devotion and doubt or reverence and scepticism. Whether […]

And He that sitteth upon the throne said. Behold ! I maketh all things new. Apocalypse. It is interesting to remind ourselves that in its origin the word Nature describes a process and not an object. It is more a verb than a noun. In its earliest form it signifies that which is “about to […]

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and one soul. The church of God throughout all the world. Some of you may remember that, at our last meeting, we grouped our reflections around the sentiment of reverence. The conclusion was reached that this sentiment is necessary to the completeness and happiness […]

” Ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. “—New Testament. Last Sunday some of the most prominent reasons were cited to account for the existence of the church. Four of these reasons are as follows:—The spiritual sentiment is natural in […]

“He preached the word unto them.” —New Testament. “There are those to whom the question of what shall be believed is the more interesting because they are to proclaim and teach what they believe.”—Emerson. Social custom sets its seal of disapproval upon all personal revelations. It is based upon the reasonable assumption that the public […]

I have finished the work which thou gayest me to do—Jesus Whatever may be thought of the personality of Jesus, all will agree that he was faithful to his life mission. His success was fairly won. Whether persecution or praise attended his efforts, he did not halt until he had done his best. Secure in […]

And he said unto them, how is it that ye sought me ? Knew ye not that I must be about the business of my Father? —Jesus. The story from which these words are taken is one of the most beautiful in the New Testament. It has been celebrated in poetry and has furnished a […]

He that believeth on me, t he works that I do shall he do also; and greater works shall he do, because I go unto my Father. Jesus. Nothing seems to be complete in itself, but points to something else for its fulfillment. Our language has its different degrees running from positive to superlative. These […]

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. —Hebrew Scriptures. All things are conditioned in time. This is true of a world that endures for a hundred ages or a flower that only blooms for a few summer days. The words old and young are relative and vary in their meaning with the nature […]