Category: Sermons

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. […]

“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 […]

God formed man of the dust of the ground and he became a living soul.- Jewish Bible. I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on, educe the man.—Browning. At our last meeting the suggestion was made that, at some far off period in our world’s history, a separation took place in […]

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified.-New Testament. Religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good. Swedenborg. In nature dualism is universal. The globe and the atom alike have their north and south poles, one of which attracts the other repels. Tides flow and ebb. The […]

And a book of remembrance was written before him. Hebrew Prophet. So to live is heaven, To make undying music in the world. George Eliot. In common conversation and in literature the term Saint occurs so frequently that it serves to arrest attention and merits a special study. In its singular and plural forms it […]