Sermons from the Pulpit (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...devout allegiance, and the exquisite emotions of an approving conscience lost by sin, shall, in every place and nation, be restored to the bosom of man. Earth, heretofore and long the sad theater of curse and calamity, tears and ruin, shall share the sympathy and inherit the blessings of the world to come. Eden's long lost and forgotten glories shall be restored to earth, and God, smiling on his new creation, shall bless it with the visions of his love, until mountain shall shout to isle, and ocean thunder back to main, "The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and his Christ " Utopian and glowing as such a picture may seem to be, it is not the language of unguarded religious warmth, of pulpit extravaganza, but in strict accordance with the assurances of prophecy and the facts of history up to the present hour. Already the broad surface of the moral world, with its ten hundred millions of immortals, is mapped out into one vast missionary diagram, and, throughout all its sections, the question is working out its own solution--from Labrador to Good Hope, and from the Steppes of Tartary to the Caribbean Archipelago Such are the riches accruing to man and earth, in virtue of the poverty of Jesus Christ. But does the narrow-minded, short-sighted infidel start at this, and blinking up to a subject he does not understand, allege, in overthrow of all our faith assumes on the subject, that the system of redemption upon which we insist, is, by its own theory, limited to our world, and does not extend to others--to all--and cannot, therefore, consistently be of God We reply, the objection is perfectly gratuitous, and is shown to be unsound and inapplicable by the whole analogy of Revelation. Let the infidel who thus cavils, ...