Category: Sermons

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. […]

The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together until now. -Paul. Each age manufactures or adopts some word already made that serves to indicate its prevalent character or tendency. As upon rock strata marks are found showing how high the waves […]

The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.—Job. When these words were written the vastness of a thing was fitly described by comparing it with sea and land. Now other means of comparison are needed. The mariner’s compass has converted the unknown and mysterious sea into the known and common. […]

Then the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness and he was there forty days.—New Testament. Bible students all notice how frequently the number “Forty” is employed. In the story of the Flood it is related that the rain fell for forty days and forty nights. When Moses was forty years old he went out from […]