Category: Sermons

  • Honorable Womanhood

    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 […]

  • The Mills Of The Gods

    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 […]

  • Lost Paradises

    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 […]

  • Applied Religion

    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 […]

  • Devotion And Doubt

    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 […]

  • Making All Things New

    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 […]

  • The Church Historic

    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 […]

  • The Church Actual

    ” 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 […]

  • The Preacher

    “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 […]

  • Human Faithfulness

    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 […]