Category: Sermons

“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 […]

Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.—New Testament. The standing plaint of the world comes from the contrast between that which the ardent and forward-looking mind sees ought to be and that which actually exists. Between thought and deed, desire and performance, prayer and its answer, a […]

Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. NEW Testament. In studying the history of all the nations of antiquity it will be seen that each one made some valuable contribution to civilization. In making this survey the merit of Palestine appears in great clearness. More than any […]

Be ye therefore perfect. Therefore leaving the beginning of the doctrine of Christ let us go unto perfection. In all the historic period there have been those who have dreamed of and tried to picture a perfect civilization. Plato wrote of the Ideal Republic. Jesus spoke frequently of a kingdom of God. Sir Thomas More […]