January 5, 1862

A Psalm for the New Year   But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. -2 Peter 3:18        BEHOLD, beloved, our perpetual dangers. Whither can we go to escape from peril? Where shall we fly to avoid temptation? If …

2 Peter:3:18

January 5, 1862

Cases of Conscience     “For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.” — Psalm xxxviii. 4.     *“This date is an approximation of when this sermon was delivered.”     I HAVE a special purpose before me this evening. I shall endeavour to describe the state of the sinners heart when it …

Psalms:38:4

December 27, 1861

“Now therefore come, end let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.” — 2 Kings vii. 4. OUTSIDE the gates of Samaria, at the time mentioned in our text, you might have seen four miserable beings, gaunt and …

2 Kings:7:4

December 23, 1861

Christ Receiving Sinners   “And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.” — Matt. ix. 10.   *This date is an approximation of when this sermon was delivered.   How strangely different was our Lord Jesus Christ from the philosophers of Greece! They …

Matthew:9:10

December 22, 1861

The Royal Death Bed “Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?"— Amos 3:6 WE have nothing to do this morning with the question of moral evil, and indeed with the awful mystery of the origin of moral evil, we have nothing to do at any time. There may have been …

Amos:3:6

December 22, 1861

     The Two Advents of Christ   And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. —Hebrews 9:27-28        WE must begin …

Hebrews:9:27-28

December 15, 1861

Too Good to be True! A Paradox   "They yet believed not for joy.”— Luke 24:41   THIS is a very strange sentence, but the Christian is a singularly complex being. He is a compound of the fallen and of the perfect. He detects in himself continually an alternation between the almost diabolical and the divine. Man himself is …

Luke:24:41

December 15, 1861

The True Apostolical Succession   “Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.” —Psalm 45:16        THE overwhelming national calamity announced to the citizens of London at midnight, by the solemn tolling of the great bell of St. Paul's, was unknown to most of us until we entered this …

Psalms:45:16

December 15, 1861

New Tokens of Ancient Love   “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.” — Jer. xxxi. 3.   *“This date is an approximation of when this sermon was delivered.”   IT is said that, when the stars cannot be seen, during the day, …

Jeremiah:31:3

December 8, 1861

The Weeding of the Garden   “But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” — Matthew 15:13.   JESUS CHRIST had spoken certain truths which were highly objectionable to the Pharisees. Some of his loving disciples were in great fright, and they came to him and said, “Knowest thou …

Matthew:15:13