A FUNERAL SERMON IT is an awful providence, which hath lately removed from among us a young person, well known to most of you, whose agreeable temper and conduct had gained the esteem of all her acquaintance, whose constitution of body, together with the furniture of her mind, and circumstances in the world, concurred to
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First. What things work for good to their; and here we shall shew that both the best things and the worst things work for their good. I. GOD’S attributes work for their good 1. God’s power works for good. It is a glorious power, Col. 1:11. and it is engaged for the good
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Solitude is a separation from all men for a period of time in order to be enabled to express one’s self more earnestly and freely as one engages himself in seeking after God. We designate this as a separation from all fellowship with men, in order to distinguish it from that type of solitude of
’TIS first the true and then the beautiful, Not first the beautiful and then the true; First the wild moor, with rock and reed and pool, Then the gay garden, rich in scent and hue. ’Tis first the good and then the beautiful,— Not first the beautiful and then the good; First the rough
Luke 18:10, &c. BEHOLD how sinners disagree, The Publican and Pharisee, One doth his righteousness proclaim, The other owns his guilt and shame. This man at humble distance stands, And cries for grace with lifted hands, That boldly rises near the throne, And talks of duties he has done. The Lord their
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If you think about it, God’s value of heaven and yours are very different things. His salvation, when he set a price upon it, was to be brought to men only through the death of his Son. But you think that your good works can win the heaven which Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
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OH, bright will be the waking— The resurrection dawn! The day will soon be breaking, And Christ, His kingdom taking, Will usher in the morn. Oh, sweet the rays we borrow Beforehand from the Light! A few bright hours of sorrow, “Joy Cometh on the morrow:” “Far spent is now the night.” Oh,
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BY THE REV. HORATIUS BONAR, D.D., KELSO. 1854 “Ye are all the children of THE DAY.”—1 THESS. 5:5. Will it ne’er be morning? Will the promised light Ne’er break and clear these clouds of night? Sweet Phosphor, bring the day, Whose conquering ray May chase the fogs; sweet Phosphor, bring the day! Thy light will fray
COME, Lord, and tarry not; Bring the long-looked-for day: Oh, why these years of waiting here, These ages of delay! Come, for Creation groans, Impatient of Thy stay, Worn out with these long years of ill, These ages of delay. Come, for the good are few; They lift the voice in vain; Faith
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THE night shall soon be over, The morning soon shall dawn; The twilight and the darkness Alike shall soon be gone. Soon, soon shall come the day-spring, When we from earth shall rise, To bright celestial glories, Far, far beyond the skies. There joy in all its fulness, And pleasures evermore, Shall fill
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