West Roxbury Sermons; 1837-1848 (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. 1892. Excerpt: ... XII. CHRISTIANITY IN CONTACT WITH HEATHENISM. Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him.--Acts xxviii. 30. 'VERY new thought is a revolution; a great 'thought, a great revolution. Every contrivance of man, a printing press or steam-engine, a church or a State, was a thought before it became a thing. Silently the idea comes out of the obscurity of one man's mind and incarnates itself among powers that be in the world, changing all other things about it. Men try to disguise this fact from themselves and from one another; but it is written by God on the leaf of fate that truth shall displace all falsehood, and therewith bring to the ground whatever rests on such a foundation. Truth builds up its new edifice on its own deep-laid basis, to shelter men and provoke their admiration. It wars with and destroys all not in accordance with itself and its institutions. Examples enough of this truth shall we see everywhere. Jesus stood up, a new fact in the world, just from God, brand new on the earth, and he was a revolution. He stood on the one side, and Judaism stood on the other. The two were mutually contradictory; they could not be reconciled; they could no longer live together. Yet the Jews reckoned themselves the foremost people of the world. They were the foremost to reject Christianity, for they saw that Judaism and Christianity could not dwell safely together; they would not intermingle; the spirit of the two was terribly hostile. The church at Jerusalem never flourished much. Paul and Peter had to beg contributions at Ephesus, Pisidia, Antioch, and even in Corinth, for the mother church at Jerusalem. That was not all. That church clung to Judaism to the last. Christ said, New wine in new bottles. The Christia...