Fifty Sermons Preached in Immanuel Church, West Broxton (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. 1886. Excerpt: ... Delivered On Sunday Morning, April 18, 1886, By REV. AUBREY C. PRICE, B.A., AT IMMANUEL CHURCH, WEST BRIXTON. "Christ is all, and in all."--Col. iii. 2. We commence to-day some Special Services, to end, if the Lord will, on Sunday Evening next. My desire is that throughout these Services the theme of our praise, and the subject of our meditation shall be Jesus, only Jesus. It is a never ending theme. It is an inexhaustible subject. It cannot grow old. It is always fresh and new. Every loving and devout believer will bear ready and glad testimony to this. To-day, morning and evening, let us think of Jesus Christ as "all and in all in heaven." On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, we will occupy ourselves with Jesus Christ as "all and in all" to the believer on earth. On Good Friday, we will examine Jesus Christ's title to be thus "all and in all." And on Easter Day, we will dwell, I hope with glad and thankful anticipation, upon the future purchased for the believer, by Jesus Christ. May God the Holy Ghost so teach us that our trust in Jesus may be deepened, and our love to Jesus be intensified j and our service of Jesus be made more hearty and entire. The Bible would not tell us that we shall meet again in heaven our dear ones, who have fallen asleep in Christ; that we shall have fellowship there with all God's saints; that sorrow and sighing will flee away for ever; and that there will be no more sin; if it were not God's will that we should think of, and be cheered by, these things. But, after all, they are only the accidents of heaven; they do not make heaven. The unveiled presence of Jesus, and unbroken fellowship with Him for ever; these will make the heaven of the believer. No one can read the Book of the Revelation without feeling th...