Collection: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 14

Dying Daily

August 30, 1868

Dying Daily   “I die daily.”— 1 Corinthians 15:31.   IN a certain sense we all do this. The very moment we begin to live we commence to die. We are like hour-glasses; there are fewer sands left to run from the very moment they begin to trickle down. The whole of our life is like an ebbing tide: …

1 Corinthians:15:31

A Cheerful Giver Beloved of God

August 27, 1868

A Cheerful Giver Beloved of God   “God loveth a cheerful giver.” — 2 Corinthians 9:7.   I AM most anxious, dear friends, to make full proof of my ministry, and in this one respect especially, that I may address you upon all parts of God’s word, and not be found guilty of confining myself to one set of …

2 Corinthians:9:7

The Faculty Baffled—The Great Physician Successful

August 23, 1868

The Faculty Baffled- The Great Physician Successful   “And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his …

Mark:5:25-28

The Heaven of Heaven

August 9, 1868

THE HEAVEN OF HEAVEN.   “And they shall see his face." — Revelation 22:4.   THE Italians so much admire the city of Naples, that their proverb is. “See Naples and die;” as if there remained nothing more to be seen after that fair bay and city had been gazed upon. To behold the far fairer sight mentioned in …

Revelation:22:4

The Panting Hart

July 26, 1868

The Panting Hart   “As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” — Psalm 42:1.   THERE is something to be lamented in this state of mind, for if the psalmist had maintained unbroken communion with his God, he would not have been so much panting after him as enjoying him. It …

Psalms:42:1

Hope in Hopeless Cases

July 19, 1868

Hope in Hopeless Cases   “Bring him hither to me.” — Matthew 17:17.   OUR real text will be the entire narrative, but as it seems necessary to select some one sentence, we have chosen that before us as the true hinge of the story.      The kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, while on earth, was so extensive as …

Matthew:17:17

Working Out What is Worked In

July 12, 1868

Working Out What is Worked In   “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” — Philippians 2:12-13.   I HAVE frequently heard these words addressed to an indiscriminate audience, and it has always struck me that they have thereby …

Philippians:2:12-13

The Minstrelsy of Hope

July 5, 1868

The Minstrelsy of Hope   “God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us.”— Psalm 67:6-7.   “GOD, even our own God.” What an exceedingly sweet title! What a loveliness and liveliness of heart must have been in the man who first applied that endearing name to the God of Jacob! Though it be thousands of …

Psalms:67:6-7

The Pleiads and Orion

June 28, 1868

The Pleiads and Orion   “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” — Job 38:31.   MOST of you know that singularly beautiful cluster of stars called the Pleiades — very small, but intensely bright. These are most conspicuous about the time of spring, and hence, in poetry, the vernal influences which …

Job:38:31

The Widow of Sarepta

June 21, 1868

The Widow of Sarepta   “And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarepbath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.” — 1 Kings 17:8-9.   THE prophets taught as much by their doings as by their sayings: they were as truly …

1 Kings:17:8-9