Category: Sermons

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 […]

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 […]

“Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.”-PAUL. One of the most interesting chapters of science, as interpreted by Herbert Spencer, is devoted to setting forth the law of alternation or rhythmic force. Nature abounds in that kind of phenomena. The currents of air, the motions of waves and […]

He will judge the world in righteousness.—New Testament. The idea of a coming judgment day, in which all mortals are to be assembled for a final estimate of their earthly life, is so large and so impressive that it may well merit a separate study. It has engaged much of the religious thought of mankind […]

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman; therefore hear the word of my mouth and give them warning from me. Hebrew Prophet. The pulpit sustains so many relations to literature that when a great writer dies it cannot pass the event unnoticed. The preacher is not a literary man, but he is deeply […]

The memory of the just is blessed.—Hebrew Proverb. The human mind can apprehend and enjoy an abstract principle, but its greatest admiration is reserved for a principle when it assumes a concrete form. We all love to see force in action. One may learn something of the power of the sun from a book of […]