Category: Sermons

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]