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diff --git a/10116-h/10116-h.htm b/10116-h/10116-h.htm index cc5c41e..a061859 100644 --- a/10116-h/10116-h.htm +++ b/10116-h/10116-h.htm @@ -1,57 +1,25 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html - PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" - "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" /> -<title>All Saints' Day and Other Sermons</title> +<meta charset="utf-8"> +<title>All Saints' Day and Other Sermons | Project Gutenberg</title> </head> <body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 10116 ***</div> <h2> <a href="#startoftext">All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, by Charles Kingsley</a> </h2> -<pre> -The Project Gutenberg eBook, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons, by Charles -Kingsley, Edited by Rev. W. Harrison - - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - - - - -Title: All Saints' Day and Other Sermons - -Author: Charles Kingsley - -Release Date: November 17, 2003 [eBook #10116] - -Language: English - -Chatacter set encoding: US-ASCII - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL SAINTS' DAY AND OTHER SERMONS *** - - -</pre> -<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> -<p>Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines3"><br /><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines3"><br ><br ><br ></div> <h1>ALL SAINTS’ DAY AND OTHER SERMONS</h1> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines3"><br /><br /><br /></div> -<p> “Inheriting the zeal<br />And -from the sanctity of elder times<br />Not deviating;—a priest, -the like of whom<br />If multiplied, and in their stations set,<br />Would -o’er the bosom of a joyful land<br />Spread true religion, and -her genuine fruits.”<br />The excursion—Book vi.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> -<h1>PREFATORY NOTE <a name="citation1"></a><a href="#footnote1">{1}</a></h1> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines3"><br ><br ><br ></div> +<p> “Inheriting the zeal<br >And +from the sanctity of elder times<br >Not deviating;—a priest, +the like of whom<br >If multiplied, and in their stations set,<br >Would +o’er the bosom of a joyful land<br >Spread true religion, and +her genuine fruits.”<br >The excursion—Book vi.</p> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> +<h1>PREFATORY NOTE <a id="citation1"></a><a href="#footnote1">{1}</a></h1> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>The following Sermons could not be arranged according to any proper sequence. Those, however, which refer to doctrine and the Church Seasons will mostly be found at the beginning of the volume, whilst @@ -68,9 +36,9 @@ in the Christian life.</p> <p>“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON I. ALL SAINTS’ DAY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Westminster Abbey. November</i> 1, 1874.</p> <p>Revelation vii. 9-12. “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, @@ -267,9 +235,9 @@ hints and hopes, dim reflected rays of the clear light of that everlasting day, of which it is written—that “the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON II. PREPARATION FOR ADVENT</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Westminster Abbey. November</i> 15, 1874.</p> <p>Amos iv. 12. “Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.”</p> <p>We read to-day, for the first lesson, parts of the prophecy of Amos. @@ -527,9 +495,9 @@ with equity.</p> <p>“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;</p> <p>“As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON III. THE PURIFYING HOPE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1869. <i>Windsor Castle</i>, 1869.</p> <p>1 John iii. 2. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when @@ -648,12 +616,12 @@ very expression of their faces becoming more beautiful, purer, gentler, nobler; so that in them are fulfilled the words of the great and holy Poet concerning the maiden brought up according to God, and the laws of God—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “And she shall bend her ear<br /> In -many a secret place,<br />Where rivulets dance their wayward round,<br />And -beauty, born of murmuring sound,<br /> Shall pass into +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “And she shall bend her ear<br > In +many a secret place,<br >Where rivulets dance their wayward round,<br >And +beauty, born of murmuring sound,<br > Shall pass into her face.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>But if mere human beings can have this “personal influence,” as it is called, over each others’ characters, if even inanimate things, if they be beautiful, can have it—what must be the personal @@ -781,9 +749,9 @@ I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of thy Lord.”</p> <p>To which end may God of His mercy bring us, and all we love. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON IV. THE LORD COMING TO HIS TEMPLE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Westminster Abbey. November</i>, 1874.</p> <p>Malachi iii. 1, 2. “The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple. . . . But who may abide the day of His coming? @@ -1033,9 +1001,9 @@ because He is so unlike us, He will smile graciously upon out feeblest attempts to be like Him. Just because He has borne the sins and carried the sorrows of mankind, therefore those who come to Him He will in no wise cast out. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON V. ADVENT LESSONS</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Westminster Abbey, First Sunday in Advent</i>, 1873.</p> <p>Romans vii. 22-25. “I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against @@ -1314,9 +1282,9 @@ last dread day, when He shall have put all enemies under His feet, and delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, that God may be all in all. Unto which day may He in His mercy bring us all through faith and good works: Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON VI. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley. Quinquagesima Sunday</i>, 1872.</p> <p>Genesis ix. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6. “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish @@ -1594,9 +1562,9 @@ thine own blood shall be required at thy hand. That which thou hast done to God’s likeness in thee, shall be done to that which remains of thee in a second death.”</p> <p>And from that may Christ in His mercy deliver us all. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON VII. TEMPTATION</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1872. <i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1872.</p> <p>St Matt. iv. 3. “And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If Thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”</p> @@ -1841,9 +1809,9 @@ which come before you in your mortal life, keep innocence and take heed to the thing that is right. For that, and that alone, shall bring a man peace at the last.</p> <p>To which, may God in His mercy bring us all. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON VIII. MOTHER’S LOVE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley, Second Sunday in Lent</i>, 1872.</p> <p>St Matthew xv. 22-28. “And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy @@ -2040,12 +2008,12 @@ in severity to the scornful, the proud, the disobedient: infinite in tenderness to the earnest, the humble, the obedient. Let us come to Him, earnest, humble, obedient, and we shall find Him, indeed, a refuge of the soul and body in spirit and in truth.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>Thou, O Lord, art all I want.<br />All and more in thee I find. +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>Thou, O Lord, art all I want.<br >All and more in thee I find. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON IX. GOOD FRIDAY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1856.</p> <p>St. Luke xxiv. 5, 6. “Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen.”</p> @@ -2271,9 +2239,9 @@ of sinners, that He may convert them; the souls of sinners, that He may save them; and they belong to Him already, for He bought them this day with His own most precious blood. Do something, then, toward helping Christ to His own.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON X. THE IMAGE OF THE EARTHLY AND THE HEAVENLY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley, Easter Day</i>, 1871.</p> <p>1 Cor. xv. 49. “As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”</p> @@ -2377,11 +2345,11 @@ the next world was to be turned out into the dark night, into an unknown land, away from house and home, and all they have known, and all they have loved; and they are ready to say with the good old heathen emperor, when he lay a-dying—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Little soul of mine, wandering, kindly,<br />Companion and -guest of my body;<br />Into what place art thou now departing,<br />Shivering, +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Little soul of mine, wandering, kindly,<br >Companion and +guest of my body;<br >Into what place art thou now departing,<br >Shivering, naked, and pale?”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>And so they shrink from death. They must shrink from death, unless they will believe with their whole hearts the good news of Easter day. The more thoughtful and clever they are, the more they will @@ -2445,9 +2413,9 @@ will be but one wonder more in a world where all is wonderful—one more mystery in an utterly mysterious universe.</p> <p>And so, as Easter day has given us strength to live, let Easter day, too, give us strength to die.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XI. EASTER DAY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chester Cathedral</i>. 1870.</p> <p>St John xii. 24, 25. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: @@ -2640,9 +2608,9 @@ of misery, use it for a well, and the pools are filled with water. They will go from strength to strength: and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.” To which may God in His great mercy bring us all. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XII. PRESENCE IN ABSENCE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, <i>third Sunday after Easter</i>. 1862.</p> <p>St John xvi. 16. “A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to @@ -2825,9 +2793,9 @@ is born into the world, that another human being has entered that one true, real, and eternal world, wherein is neither disease, disorder, change, decay, nor death, for it is none other than the Bosom of the Father.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XIII. ASCENSION DAY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley. Chester Cathedral</i>. 1872.</p> <p>St John viii. 58. “Before Abraham was, I am.”</p> <p>Let us consider these words awhile. They are most fit for our @@ -2991,9 +2959,9 @@ Man—oh, wonder of wonders!—slain for us; and let us say with St Paul of old, with all our hearts and minds and souls:—Now to the King of the Ages, immortal, invisible, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, be honour and glory, for ever and ever. Amen!</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XIV. THE COMFORTER</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley. Sunday after Ascension Day</i>. 1868.</p> <p>St John xv. 26. “When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth @@ -3006,10 +2974,10 @@ it must do us harm to look at only one of them. And I think that it does people harm to hear the Holy Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, spoken of in terms, not of reverence, but of endearment. For consider: He is the</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “Creator-Spirit, by whose aid<br />The world’s +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “Creator-Spirit, by whose aid<br >The world’s foundations first were laid,”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>the life-giving Spirit of whom it is written, Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, and things live, and Thou renewest the face of the earth.</p> <p>But He is the destroying Spirit too; who can, when He will, produce @@ -3226,9 +3194,9 @@ co-eternal, because it is a perfect majesty; whose justice is mercy, whose power is goodness, its very sternness love, love which gives hope and counsel, and help and strength, and the true life which this world’s death cannot destroy.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XV. THOU ART WORTHY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1869. <i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1870. <i>Trinity Sunday.</i></p> <p>Revelation iv. 11. “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive @@ -3412,9 +3380,9 @@ love, performs the making of all things; and to God the Holy Spirit, who, out of His boundless love, breathes law and kind, life and growth into all things, three Persons in one, ever-blessed Trinity, be all glory, and honour, and praise, for ever and ever. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XVI. THE GLORY OF THE TRINITY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1868. <i>St Mary’s Chester</i>, 1871. <i>Trinity Sunday.</i></p> <p>Psalm civ. 31, 33. “The glory of the Lord shall endure @@ -3618,9 +3586,9 @@ for ever for His great glory. O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever. O ye holy and humble Men of heart, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XVII. LOVE OF GOD AND MAN</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.</p> <p><i>Eversley. Chester Cathedral</i>, 1872.</p> <p>1 John iv. 16, 21. “God is love; and he that dwelleth @@ -3843,9 +3811,9 @@ then we shall love our brother, and in loving him love God, who made him; and so, dwelling in love, we shall dwell in God, and God in us:—to which true and only everlasting life may He of His mercy bring us, either in this world or in the world to come. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XVIII. COURAGE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1871.</p> <p>Acts iv. 13, 18-20. “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant @@ -4000,13 +3968,13 @@ honoured at last as benefactors by the very men who laughed at them and reviled them. It has made men, shut up in prison for long weary years for doing what was right and saying what was true, endure manfully for the sake of some good cause, and say,—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “Stone walls do not a prison make,<br /> Nor -iron bars a cage;<br />Minds innocent and quiet take<br /> That -for an hermitage.<br />If I have freedom in my thought,<br /> And -in my love am free,<br />Angels alone, that soar above,<br /> Enjoy +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “Stone walls do not a prison make,<br > Nor +iron bars a cage;<br >Minds innocent and quiet take<br > That +for an hermitage.<br >If I have freedom in my thought,<br > And +in my love am free,<br >Angels alone, that soar above,<br > Enjoy such liberty.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Yes; settle it in your hearts, all of you. There is but one thing which you have to fear in earth or heaven,—being untrue to your better selves, and therefore untrue to God. If you will @@ -4066,9 +4034,9 @@ to obey God honestly. No man ever asked earnestly for that spirit but what he gained it at last. And no man ever gained it but what he found the truth of St Peter’s own words, “Who will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good?”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XIX. GOOD DAYS</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1867. <i>Westminster</i>, <i>Sept</i>. 27, 1872.</p> <p>1 Peter iii. 8-12. “Be ye all of one mind, having compassion @@ -4319,9 +4287,9 @@ of lessons without number. And you will see good days; for all days will seem good to you, even those which seem to the world bad days of affliction and distress. And so the peace of God will keep you in Jesus Christ, in this life, and in the life to come. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XX. GRACE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 1856.</p> <p>St. John i. 16, 17. “Of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace @@ -4525,9 +4493,9 @@ life is hid with Christ in God, where death cannot reach it or find it; and therefore their life and their love, and the grace of it, will last as long as Christ’s life and Christ’s love, and Christ’s grace last—and that will be for ever and ever.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXI. FATHER AND CHILD</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 1861.</p> <p>1 Cor. i. 4, 5, 7. “I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ. That @@ -4726,9 +4694,9 @@ for them, brought up to learn Catechisms and hymns which do not belong to the Church, and which terrify little children with horrible notions of God’s wrath, and the torments prepared not merely for wicked men, but for unconverted children, and then teach them to say,—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Can such a wretch as I<br />Escape this dreadful end?”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Can such a wretch as I<br >Escape this dreadful end?”</p> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>so much the worse for them. We, who are Church people, are bound to believe that God speaks to us through the Church books, and that it was His will that we should have been brought up to believe @@ -4757,9 +4725,9 @@ who owe to us their fallen nature?</p> poorest can give to their children abundantly and without stint,—the bread of charity,—human tenderness, forbearance, hopefulness,—cast that bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXII. GOD IS OUR REFUGE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Westminster Abbey</i>, 1873.</p> <p>Psalm xlvi. 1. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”</p> @@ -4846,10 +4814,10 @@ I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world?” I trust not. I trust and I hope that you, or at least some here, believe that Christ is ruling and guiding the world, the church, and every individual soul who trusts in Him toward—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“One far off divine event,<br />To which the whole creation +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“One far off divine event,<br >To which the whole creation moves.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>I hope you do have that trust, for your own sakes, for the sake of your own happiness, your own sound peace of mind; for then, and then only, you can afford to be hopeful concerning yourselves, your families, @@ -4973,9 +4941,9 @@ the same. With such a King over us, how can the world but go right? With such a King over us, what refuge or strength or help in trouble do we need but Him Himself?—His Providence, which is Love, and His Laws, which are Life.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXIII. PRIDE AND HUMILITY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1869. <i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1870.</p> <p>1st. Peter v. 5. “God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”</p> @@ -5099,11 +5067,11 @@ and idiots. What is our knowledge of the world? That of a man, who is forcing his way alone through a thick and pathless wood, where he has never been before, to a place which he has never seen. What is our wisdom—What does a wise man say of his?</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“So runs my dream; but what am I?<br />An infant crying in -the night;<br />An infant crying for the light;<br />And with no language +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“So runs my dream; but what am I?<br >An infant crying in +the night;<br >An infant crying for the light;<br >And with no language but a cry.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Yes. Our true knowledge is to know our own ignorance. Our true strength is to know our own weakness. Our true dignity is to confess that we have no dignity, and are nobody, and nothing in @@ -5160,9 +5128,9 @@ alter the character of God. And sooner or later, in this world or in the next, they will find out that Theology is right: and St Peter is right: that God <i>does</i> resist the proud, that God <i>does</i> give grace to the humble.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXIV. WORSHIP</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, <i>September</i> 4, 1870.</p> <p>Revelation xi. 16, 17. “And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped @@ -5429,9 +5397,9 @@ stranger shall come in, he may say in his heart: Here are people who are in earnest, who know what they are about, and are not ashamed of trying to do it; people who evidently mean what they say, and therefore say what they mean.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXV. THE PEACE OF GOD</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Baltimore</i>, <i>U.S</i>., 1874. <i>Westminster Abbey. November</i> 8, 1874.</p> <p>Colossians. iii 15. “Let the peace of God rule in your @@ -5516,11 +5484,11 @@ to agony—but irresistible still—till what they have really gained by fighting circumstance, however valiantly, has been the <i>moral</i> gain, the gain in character?—the power to live the heroic life, which</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “Is not as idle ore,<br />But heated hot -with burning fears,<br />And bathed in baths of hissing tears,<br />And -batter’d, with the shocks of doom,<br />To shape and use.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “Is not as idle ore,<br >But heated hot +with burning fears,<br >And bathed in baths of hissing tears,<br >And +batter’d, with the shocks of doom,<br >To shape and use.”</p> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Ah! if a man be learning that lesson, which is the primer of eternal life, then I hardly pity him, though I see him from youth to age tearing with weak hands at the gates of brass, and beating his soul’s @@ -5664,9 +5632,9 @@ your own faculties, your own emotions, your own passions—in one word, your own selves? Yes, with the peace of God ruling in your hearts, you will be able to become what without it you will never be—and that is—masters of yourselves.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXVI. SINS OF PARENTS VISITED</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 19<i>th Sunday after Trinity</i>, 1868.</p> <p>Ezekiel xviii. 1-4. “The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the @@ -5831,9 +5799,9 @@ them, and by God’s providence outside them, they are made men of again, and saved. So you will surely find it in the experience of life.</p> <p>No doubt in general, in most cases,</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>The child is father of the man</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>for good and evil. A pious and virtuous youth helps, by sure laws of God, towards a pious and virtuous old age. And on the other hand, an ungodly and profligate youth leads, by the same laws, @@ -5894,9 +5862,9 @@ the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive, and all his transgressions shall not be mentioned unto him, but in his righteousness that he hath done shall he live.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXVII. AGREE WITH THINE ADVERSARY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1861. <i>Windsor Castle</i>, 1867.</p> <p>St. Matthew v. 25, 26. “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary @@ -6100,9 +6068,9 @@ Spirit, the pure spirit of love, which is the Charity of God, that so, self being purged out of us, we may become holy and lively sacrifices to God, parts and parcels of that perfect sacrifice which Christ offered up for the sins of the whole world—even the sacrifice of Himself.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXVIII. ST JOHN THE BAPTIST</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chester Cathedral</i>. 1872.</p> <p>St Luke iii. 2, 3, 7, 9-14. “The Word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. And he came into @@ -6310,9 +6278,9 @@ life, that we may truly repent after his preaching and after his example. May the Lord forgive our exceeding cowardice, and help us constantly to speak the truth, boldly rebuke vice, and patiently suffer for the truth’s sake; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXIX. THE PRESENT RECOMPENSE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chester Cathedral</i>, <i>Nave Service</i>, <i>Evening. May</i> 1872.</p> <p>Proverbs xi. 31. “Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed @@ -6520,13 +6488,13 @@ things foul and mean, if what I say is not true? The child does so, because it is nearer heaven, not further off, than we grown folk.</p> <p>Ah! that we would all lay to heart what one said of old, who walked with God:—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Dear soul, could’st thou become a child,<br />Once more -on earth, meek, undefiled,<br />Then Paradise were round thee here,<br />And +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Dear soul, could’st thou become a child,<br >Once more +on earth, meek, undefiled,<br >Then Paradise were round thee here,<br >And God Himself for ever near.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXX. THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chapel Royal</i>, <i>St James’</i>. 1873.</p> <p>St. Matt. xxii. 2-7. “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his @@ -6787,9 +6755,9 @@ out that that eye is not merely the eye of a just judge, not merely the eye of a bountiful king, but more the eye of a loving and merciful Saviour, in whose presence is life even here on earth; and at whose right hand, even in this sinful world, are pleasures for evermore.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXI. THE UNCHANGEABLE CHRIST</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 1845.</p> <p>Hebrews xiii. 8. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.”</p> @@ -6942,14 +6910,14 @@ out of time and space into the silent night shall we all return into the spirit world—the everlasting twofold mystery—into the light-world of God’s love, or the fire-world of His anger—every like unto its like, and every man to his own place.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Choose well, your choice is<br />Brief but yet endless;<br />From -Heaven, eyes behold you<br />In eternity’s stillness.<br />There -all is fullness,<br />Ye brave to reward you;<br />Work and despair +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Choose well, your choice is<br >Brief but yet endless;<br >From +Heaven, eyes behold you<br >In eternity’s stillness.<br >There +all is fullness,<br >Ye brave to reward you;<br >Work and despair not.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXII. REFORMATION LESSONS</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 1861.</p> <p>2 Kings xxiii. 3, 4, 25, 26. “And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to “walk after the @@ -7072,7 +7040,7 @@ and suddenly, as the Jews were. For forty years they had been, chastised, and purged and humbled for their sins; and then, and not till then, came times of safety and prosperity, honour and glory, which have lasted, thanks be to God, ever since.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>And now, my dear friends, what has this to do with us? If this chapter was a lesson to our forefathers, how is it to be a lesson to us likewise?</p> @@ -7186,9 +7154,9 @@ If God has loved us, if God will receive us, then let us submit loyally and humbly to His law.</p> <p>“Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXIII. HUMAN SOOT</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Preached for the Kirkdale Ragged Schools</i>, <i>Liverpool</i>, 1870.</p> <p>St Matt, xviii. 14. “It is not the will of your Father @@ -7384,31 +7352,31 @@ stream, strip off the ugly, shapeless rags, wash the young limbs again, and you shall find them, body and soul, fresh and lithe, graceful and capable—capable of how much, God alone who made them knows. Well said of such, the great Christian poet of your northern hills—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Not in entire forgetfulness,<br />And not in utter nakedness,<br />But -trailing clouds of glory do we come<br />From God, who is our home.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Not in entire forgetfulness,<br >And not in utter nakedness,<br >But +trailing clouds of glory do we come<br >From God, who is our home.”</p> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Truly, and too truly, alas! he goes on to say—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Shades of the prison-house begin to close<br />Upon the growing +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Shades of the prison-house begin to close<br >Upon the growing boy.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Will you let the shades of that prison-house of mortality be peopled with little save obscene phantoms? Truly, and too truly, he goes on—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“The youth, who daily further from the east<br />Must travel, -still is Nature’s priest,<br />And by the vision splendid,<br />Is +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“The youth, who daily further from the east<br >Must travel, +still is Nature’s priest,<br >And by the vision splendid,<br >Is on his way attended.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Will you leave the youth to know nature only in the sense in which an ape or a swine knows it; and to conceive of no more splendid vision than that which he may behold at a penny theatre? Truly again, and too truly, he goes on—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“At length the man perceives it die away,<br />And fade into +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“At length the man perceives it die away,<br >And fade into the light of common day.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Yes, to weak, mortal man the prosaic age of manhood must needs come, for good as well as for evil. But will you let that age be—to any of your fellow citizens—not even an age of rational prose, @@ -7428,9 +7396,9 @@ will discover, by the irresistible logic of facts, by the success of your own endeavours, by seeing these young souls grow, and not wither, live, and not die—that it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXIV. NATIONAL SORROWS AND NATIONAL LESSONS</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>On the illness or the Prince of Wales.</p> <p><i>Chapel Royal</i>, <i>St James’s</i>, <i>December</i> 17<i>th</i>, 1871.</p> @@ -7622,9 +7590,9 @@ he is safe. For think, my friends, if we, who know him partly, love him much; then God, who knows him wholly, loves him more. And so God be with him, and with you, and with your prayers for him. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXV. GRACE AND GLORY</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chapel Royal</i>, <i>Whitehall</i>. 1865. For the consumptive hospital.</p> <p>St John ii. 11. “This beginning of miracles did Jesus @@ -8005,9 +7973,9 @@ spirit be indeed in us, to alleviate where we can; and believe that by every additional comfort, however petty, which we provide, we are copying the Ideal Man, who, because He was very God of very God, could condescend, at the marriage feast, to turn the water into wine.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXVI. USELESS SACRIFICE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>Preached at Southsea for the Mission of the Good Shepherd. <i>October</i> 1871.</p> <p>Isaiah i. 11-17. “To what purpose is the multitude of @@ -8265,9 +8233,9 @@ work a little—and, alas how little—at lessening the sum of human ignorance, human vice, human misery—even as their Lord and Saviour stooped from the throne of the universe, and from the bosom of the Father, to toil and die for such as curse about the streets outside.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXVII. THE SURPRISE OF THE RIGHTEOUS</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>Preached at Southsea for the Mission of the Good Shepherd. <i>October</i> 1871.</p> <p>St Matt. xxv. 34-37. “Then shall the King say unto them @@ -8380,10 +8348,10 @@ which was famous in our fathers’ time—those two poor negresses, I say, who found the African traveller, Mungo Park, dying of fever and starvation, and saved his life, simply from human love—as they sung to themselves by his bedside—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Let us pity the poor white man;<br />He has no mother to make -his bed,<br />No wife to grind his corn.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Let us pity the poor white man;<br >He has no mother to make +his bed,<br >No wife to grind his corn.”</p> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Perhaps it is such as those, who have succoured human beings they knew not why, simply from a divine instinct, from the voice of Christ within their hearts, which they felt they must obey, though they knew @@ -8507,9 +8475,9 @@ then, indeed, the Cross of Christ must have lost that miraculous power which it has possessed, for more than eighteen hundred years, as the highest “moral ideal” which ever was seen, or ever can be seen, by the reason and the heart of man.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXVIII. THE LORD’S PRAYER</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Windsor Castle</i>, 1867. <i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1870.</p> <p>Matthew vi. 9, 10. “After this manner, therefore, pray ye, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom @@ -8522,10 +8490,10 @@ that we must help to fulfil them. We need to be reminded of this from time to time, for we are all inclined to forget it. We are inclined to forget that mankind has a Father in heaven, who is ruling, and guiding, and educating us, His human children, to</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “One far off divine event,<br />Toward which +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “One far off divine event,<br >Toward which the whole creation moves.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>We are apt to fancy that the world will always go on very much as it goes on now; that it will be guided, not by the will of God, but by the will of man; by man’s craft; by man’s ambition; by @@ -8707,9 +8675,9 @@ is the side of Christ and of God. And so we, with all those that are departed in the faith of His holy name, shall have our perfect consummation and bliss in His eternal and everlasting glory, to which may He, of His great mercy, bring us all. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XXXIX. THE DISTRACTED MIND</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>. 1871.</p> <p>Matthew vi. 34. “Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient @@ -8879,9 +8847,9 @@ is right, and how to train us, and whither to lead us, though we know not, and need not know, save this—that the path by which He is leading each of us—if we will but obey and follow, step by step—leads up to Everlasting Life.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XL. THE LESSON OF LIFE</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>Fifth Sunday in Lent.</p> <p><i>Chester Training College</i>, 1870. <i>Windsor Castle</i>, 1871.</p> @@ -8918,11 +8886,11 @@ the world to come, and on and upward for ever and for ever.—That life is not an easy life to live; it is very often not a pleasant life; very often a sad life—so sad that that is true of it which the great poet says—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>“Who ne’er his bread in sorrow ate,<br />Who never in -the midnight hours<br />Sat weeping on his lonely bed,<br />He knows +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>“Who ne’er his bread in sorrow ate,<br >Who never in +the midnight hours<br >Sat weeping on his lonely bed,<br >He knows you not, you Heavenly Powers.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>You may say this is bad news. I do not believe it is. I believe it is good news, and the very best of news: but if it is bad news, I cannot help it. I did not make it so. God made it @@ -9016,19 +8984,19 @@ to obey Him, while He taught you not to obey your own fancies and your own passions; refining and tempering your characters in the furnace of trial, as the smith refines soft iron into trusty steel; teaching you, as the great poet says—</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p> “That life is not as idle ore,<br />But heated -hot with burning fears,<br />And bathed in baths of hissing tears,<br /> And -battered with the strokes of doom,<br /> To shape and +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p> “That life is not as idle ore,<br >But heated +hot with burning fears,<br >And bathed in baths of hissing tears,<br > And +battered with the strokes of doom,<br > To shape and use.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>Yes, you will learn that, and more than that, and say in peace—“Before I was troubled I went wrong, but now have I kept thy commandments.” And to such an old age may our Lord Jesus Christ bring you and me and all we love. Amen.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XLI. SACRIFICE TO CÆSAR OR TO GOD</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1869. <i>Chester Cathedral</i>, 1872.</p> <p>Matthew xxii. 21. “Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar’s; and unto God the things that @@ -9260,9 +9228,9 @@ is utterly unselfish, and utterly does good, even at the sacrifice of Himself; and that therefore when we are unselfish, and do good, even at the sacrifice of ourselves, we do indeed, in spirit and in truth, “render unto God the things that are God’s.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XLII. THE UNJUST STEWARD</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Eversley</i>, 1866. NINTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.</p> <p>Luke xvi. 8. “And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely.”</p> @@ -9462,9 +9430,9 @@ and above them all, one whose form is as the Son of Man, full of all humanity Himself, and loving and rewarding all humanity in His creatures, saying, “Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <h2>SERMON XLIII. THE RICH AND THE POOR</h2> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p><i>Chapel Royal</i>, <i>Whitehall</i>, 1871.</p> <p>Proverbs xxii. 2. “The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.”</p> @@ -9787,414 +9755,20 @@ in comfort? What use to tell men what they never will confess to be true—that by every crime, folly, even neglect of theirs, they drive a thorn into their own flesh, which will trouble them for years to come, it may be to their dying day? And yet so it is.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> -<p>Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;<br />Though +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> +<p>Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;<br >Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines1"><br ></div> <p>As those who neglect their fellow-creatures will discover, by the most patent undeniable proofs, in that last great day, when the rich and poor shall meet together, and then, at least, discover that the Lord is the maker of them all.</p> -<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br /><br /></div> +<div class="GutenbergBlankLines2"><br ><br ></div> <p>Footnotes:</p> -<p><a name="footnote1"></a><a href="#citation1">{1}</a> These +<p><a id="footnote1"></a><a href="#citation1">{1}</a> These sermons by the Rev. 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