"Thou Fool!"; And Eleven Other Sermons Never Before Published (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HOW TO DEAL WITH INQUIRERS* "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand." Ecclesiastes xi. 6. SOME one made the remark that our meetings had put Boston ten years back. Thank God if you've got back that far, for I think you were in a better condition ten years ago than you are now. We have made progress if we have got back ten years. I hope you will get back still further. Some one says I've hurt the feelings of a good many by what I said about the Church. My My feelings have been hurt terribly by the conditions I have found here. I think the time has come to have the feelings hurt all round -- so hurt that we shall get up and do something. Last Friday I read an extract from an address by one of the leading ministers of the country. I will read it; it is by Dr. Withrow, Moderator of the last General Assembly. "The Rev. J. H. Withrow, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, preached last Sunday a sermon commemorative of the tenth anniversary of the beginning of his ministry as Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Chicago. (And that is the largest Presbyterian church in the United States.) His text was: 'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.' In his discourse, referring to the changes in Chicago, he said: 'How is it? Is the city better or worse than it was ten years ago? Truly we cannot say.' (I think I can say. It is ten times worse.) When telling of the fact that where there were three thousand rum holes when I came there, and the number has increased now to seven thousand -- (He didn't know whether it had grown better or worse ) 'When we read in the daily papers of people afraid to walk the best-lighted boulevards after dark, lest they be sand-bagged; and when we hear of the Departments of Justice administere...