Category: Sermons

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 […]

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Be thankful unto Him and bless His name. —Hebrew Poem. That a heart or a nation should sum up its reasons for gratitude and recount the blessedness of existence, seems so rational that the a& easily escapes all fault-finding. Much may be said concerning the […]

We spend our years as a tale that is told.–HEBREW POET. Art is long; time is short.—GOETHE. Man could not have been very long on earth be-fore he began to notice the disproportion between time and the life of each individual. As soon as he began, with earnest purpose, to reflect over the conditions in […]

And Jesus said: I have compassion on the multitude because they continue with me these days and have nothing to eat. Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; they are white already for the harvest. New Testament. We have all become familiar with the statement that we are living in an age of […]

“Lord, I believe; help though my unbelief.” —New Testament. According to the record these words were uttered by a man in great perplexity and mental anguish. His child was sorely afflicted. A victim of convulsions and having lost his reason and power of speech, in harmony with the prevalent ideas of the time, it was […]