Category: Sermons

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 […]

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. […]

“Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts.” —Hebrew Poetry. One of the marvelous qualities of the world and the life of man is that of the beautiful. Difficult to define in exact terms, it may be partly described as something pertaining to nature and the […]

Whose fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his floor.—New Testament. History is a record of names and dates and events, but it is something more than a mere record. Going deeper than the fact, it seeks for its cause. A true history of the Greek Republics and the Roman Empire gives, […]

“And the Lord God commanded man, saying, of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat.” —Hebrew Writings. The story, of which these words are a fragment, is not peculiar to the Jewish writings. With some variations it appears […]

“Behold God is great, and we know him not; touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.”—Jon, The death of Herbert Spencer, whose fame as a writer upon science and philosophy and their relation to life and religion is world-wide, is, in itself, sufficient to arrest the attentions of all thoughtful persons. For making his […]

The foolish man built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it.—Jesus. All readers of philosophy are familiar with the long debate between Fate and Freedom. It is as old as […]

“What is that thee? Follow thou me. “—New Testament. “Space is ample, east and west, But two cannot go abreast.” —Emerson. These quotations, supplemented by common experience, ask us to reflect upon the fact that, for every human being, a separate path is appointed. If this is one of Nature’s decrees, it follows that each […]

When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem they took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him. -New Testament. The fact that we have again reached that portion of time, by many thousands of our fellow mortals called “Holy Week,” is sufficient, of itself, to claim our attention. Whatever else may […]