Christ In The Christian Year And In The Life Of Man Sermons PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...to strike straight home at the popular delusion. Standing at the gate he sees a multitude of men crowding in to go through the forms of worship. He knows that they have just come from the selfish practice, in their markets, fields, streets and houses, of injustice, cruelty to the weak, overreaching " the stranger, the fatherless and the widow," of every kind of social, commercial, political, and ecclesiastical falsehood, --for he goes on to specify all these, --and what is a great deal worse, that they are privately intending to go back to the same kinds of meanness and outrage after the prayers and sacrificesare over. He also sees that the moment their want of integrity is pointed out, they will, after the Pharisaic fashion, undertake to throw over it the screen of a religious profession. They will answer, at every rebuke of their immorality, "The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord," as if they would make up, by the threefold repetition and noise of their zeal, for their hollow-heartedness. And so, having it for his business as a prophet of God to denounce such corruption everywhere, without apology for his Divine commission, without arguing the matter, without any round-about or imbecile phraseology, he goes to the point at once, and begins," Trust ye not in lying words: amend your ways and your doings." The great instructive fact on which attention is to be fixed is this: that out of the multitude of persons who enter the sanctuary, many have only a formal, external, and ostensible, not a substantial, sympathy, or actual concern, with the holy Reality which is there embodied. and presented. They imagine that, in some strange way, the temple-roof is to shield or excuse their...