Plain Words; Or, Sixty Short Sermons for the Poor and for Family Reading ... (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: portion of the year,?stretching from now till "Whitsuntide,?which is so full of the mighty, heart-stirring- events of our blessed Lord's life. "We enter upon it now, as we entered upon it last year. But let us stop, and look back. Let us examine ourselves. Let us ask, ' Have I gone onward on my heavenward ' journey ? Have I grown in grace and in the knowledge ' of my Lord and Saviour ? Did I last year learn more ' of His love and mercy and delight more to hear of the ' great things He has done for me ? Or did I pass it ' all by as a tale ofttold, which had grown wearisome ' to me ? Was my heart cold and unmoved when the ' seasons, as they passed, spoke to me of the manger of ' Bethlehem, and the cross of Calvary, and the open ' tomb of Eastertide, and the awful throne of the Judg- ' ment-day ?' Oh! let us begin afresh from this day. " Now it is high time to awake out of sleep." " The " night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us there- " fore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on " the armour of light." " "Wash you, make you clean," saith the Lord; " put away the evil of your doinga " from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do " well." Let this be our Advent work. Let us thus keep the season named from the coming of the Lord ; and then, when " the coming of the Lord draweth " nigh," when we hear the voice of the Judge crying, " Surely, I come quickly," we shall be able to say with humble faith, and fervent love,?" Amen : even "so, come, Lord Jesus." SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT. HOLT SCKIPTURE. Horn. Xt. 4. "Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope." Obseeve how our Church gives the very first place it can to the Bible. God's holy Word is the foun...