Category: Sermons

Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free. —Jesus. The words truth and free occuring in this famous sentence possess an importance that is almost impossible to overstate. They have been one of the most powerful motives of human progress. To the desire of the mind for truth nearly all the […]

” I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. “—PAUL. The men of science tell us that every form of force comes from some force preceding it. It is the same energy under a new name and with a new application. The power in an engine was in steam before it was in the engine, […]

The letter killeth ; but the Spirit giveth life.—Paul. Last Sunday the attempt was made to point out some of the results that have come to society from the long and powerful administration of the letter of the Bible. History was asked to come forward with the facts bearing upon the case. A somewhat hasty […]

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service.—PAUL. When one contemplates some great object in nature it is difficult to analyze and describe his emotions, but he realizes that he is brought into relation with something greater than himself and by this conta& he is drawn into a […]

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 […]

“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 […]