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 […]

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 […]

The flesh lusteth against the spirit.—Paul. Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded and dwarfed ? —Carlyle. Each reader of ancient and middle-age and modern literature is impressed by the continuity and similarity of human thought and expression. Given the same kind of facts and the same kind […]

But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image.— Paul. The doctrine of Evolution makes much of the fact that all forms of life are powerfully affected by their surroundings. Some have thought that the influence thus exerted, if not able to […]

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth endureth forever.—Ecclesiastes. After two more sunsets we shall enjoy a unique experience. We shall witness the departure of an old and the arrival of a new century. Emerson once wished for a condition in which no experience would be repeated. Having suffered or enjoyed […]

Having made known unto us the mystery of His will, that in the dispensation of the fullness of time He might gather together in one all things in Christ.—Paul. The philosophers have always been much perplexed when they attempt to find the right group of words to express their notions of space and time. All […]

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden. Hebrew Scriptures. It is now well known that the story of which these words are a fragment is not peculiar to the He-brew writings, With a few variations it can be found in many places. There may be various portraits of the same […]

Those things which ye have both learned and received, do; and the God of peace shall be with you.—Paul. Religion relates to life; and the life of religion is to do good.—Swedenborg. Human life is so large in itself and so varied in its contents, that it is impossible to include all its meaning in […]

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 […]