Category: Sermons

A highway shall be there and it shall be called the way of holiness. Isaiah. The philosophers tell us that, in order to produce anything, four distinct influences are necessary. In making a world or in making a flower four causes are present. The first of these is the efficient cause; or that which is […]

Give the King thy judgments, O God, and he will judge thy people righteously. Hebrew Poetry. The many successful and unsuccesful attempts at assassination of those in power and the general unrest in different nations of the earth, at frequent intervals, indicate a lack of harmony between the governments and some of the people. Within […]

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.—Paul. In this sentence, from the writings of Paul, lies the idea that a strict adherence to the mere form of a thing is fatal to its beauty and its usefulness. Everything should be interpreted by its larger meaning. Its literal significance is narrow, partial, and temporary; its […]

Train up a child in the way he should go. Out of the heart are the issues of life. Hebrew Proverbs. In all its many and varied forms, so much has been written concerning education that it would seem as if the subject were wholly exhausted. Taking literature as a guide, we cannot go beyond […]

I meditate on all thy works. Hebrew Poet. The domain of the senses is almost infinitely small in comparison with the vast regions accessible to thought alone which lie beyond them. -Tyndall. O God! I think thy thoughts after Thee. -Kepler. There is nothing more marks the dignity and glory of mankind than the power […]

While I was musing the fire burned; my heart was hot within me. Hebrew Poet. There was a time when a large part of the pulpit’s task consisted in instruction. That time has gone by, because the necessity for that kind of ministration no longer exists. The schoolhouse, the public libraries, the magazines, and newspapers […]

My Father worketh hitherto and I work.—Jesus. The knowledge that will hold good in working, cleave thou to that.—Carlyle. Having considered man as a being possessing thoughts and feelings, it is almost impossible to avoid seeing him as a being capable of many and varied actions. In the former survey, attention was held by the […]

Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them —Jesus. A few years ago it was predicted that our world was about entering an era of great physical and social tumult. The prophecy was largely based upon the fact that this planet, for a group of years, would sustain […]

“The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. We are saved by hope.” —PAUL. The doctrine of evolution possesses a two-fold merit. It is a rational explanation of the method of creation in the past and it is an encouragement and expectation for the present and the future. […]

Till we all come into the unity of faith, that we be no longer children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine. -PAUL. The writer of this sentence was not only an ardent reformer, but he was also in part a philosopher. Beneath all variations, he saw a fundamental unity. […]