Category: Sermons

Add to your faith courage and to courage patience.—Peter. Patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth.-Young. When viewing a fine result of nature or art, at first it is not seen how many and what varied qualities combine in producing it. It is after a prolonged view or after repeated visits, […]

I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment.-Hebrew Proverb. There is a statement of religion possible which shall make all skepticism absurd.-Emerson. Geologists can write a history of the earth, botanists of plants, and astronomers can make a map of the sky ; but who can discover and […]

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 […]

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 […]

For the spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.-Paul. Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought.-C. P. Cranch. It is a fundamental law of all just criticism that everything must be judged by its own kind. Painting should be compared with painting, sculpture with sculpture, poetry with poetry, […]

There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.—Paul. If one should undertake to write a history of Unitarianism, as a form of Christianity, he would find his task as delightful and inspiring as would be that of composing a history of any religious sect. There is as […]