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48349Should the King command not to fear the Lord, it is better to endure all that he can inflict, than to do what he commands?
48349TO call any one King, and at the same time to rebel against his authority, what is this but to mock him with an empty title?
36332But where shall we find words to express the depth of our affliction?
36332Where shall we find language to depict the character of the dear departed-- or to administer comfort and support to the beloved survivors?
25900***** FOOTNOTES:[ A]"Will chloroform make the operation less beneficial?"
25900How, but as a man of principle, shall he stand for- ever in our memory and in the human mind?
25900What is the reason of the wide consequence of this event?
25900Who shall say such as Agassiz and Sumner are dead?
25900_ Cold_ was he indeed?
36694How has Heaven declar''d that he is resolv''d not to bless this immoderate Generation?
36694If any man ask me why these men shou''d not perfect the Nation Peace as well as other men?
36694The Grand dispute in this Quarrelsome Age, is against our Brethren who Dissent from the Church; and from what principle do we act?
36694Where''s all our prospect of success Abroad, or prosperity at home?
36694_ S----_ was kill''d by the like Accident, and he must be singl''d out for Extortion; But think ye that he was a Sinner above all the_ Gallileans_?
36351***** Had our deceased friend the weakness-- the comparatively pardonable weakness of vanity?
36351***** What might be expected of such a one as parishioner?
36351***** What might be expected of such a one as pastor''s wife?
36351Had the characteristic infirmity of old age come upon her,--a fondness for recounting earlier or more recent labors and successes?
36351Have you ever known one who walked more nearly in the steps of our Lord and Saviour, one who did less to please self?
36351What now might be expected of one, with such a character and such antecedents, on becoming our city missionary?
36351While interested in providing employment for each scholar during the session, her chief thought seemed to be,"How can I benefit these immortal souls?"
36351Who ever suspected her of vainglory?
36351Who will say that she was not accustomed to give all glory and praise to God?
20446Are we a nation of foreign drunkards?
20446I ask myself, Who drinks this rum?
20446Native Americans?
20446Now the question, and a serious one, is, Who are those that come?
20446Recognized how far?
20446What are the two great declarations of which England is proud?
20446What is the term now?
20446What is there in this charmed circle, in this favored zone, that brings national power?
17273Doest thou come to heare the sermon?
17273For if he must be praised in all his creatures, how much more in his new creatures?
17273If these be Saints, I pray you who are Scythians?
17273If these bee Catholikes, who are Canibals?
17273_ as in original: short for_"intellege"?
17939And after all, what courage would it take, save that long since displayed by our fathers in this church?
17939And where did this logic hold me, if not to the church?
17939But if this is the case, why should we retain the form?
17939Is it not time, now, that we left this"outgrown shell,"and became at last the full and free community institution of which I speak?
17939To this announcement of my decision in this case, may I make, in closing, some two or three supplementary remarks?
17939Was I wrong when I ventured the assertion at the meeting of our Society, that in this church we have already moved far in this direction?
17939Where could I make plain my spiritual position, or bring to bear my spiritual influence, apart from the church?
17939Why not stay, therefore, in the church, as Theodore Parker stayed, and fight capitalism, as he fought slavery, in the garb of a minister of Christ?
17939Why should I turn elsewhere for the fulfillment of hopes which may be as surely if not as swiftly realized here?
48370And was not this exactly the Case of our_ Royal Sufferer_?
48370But did they enjoy that_ Liberty_ any otherwise than in Name?
48370Did the_ Authors_ of those Troubles find their Account in''em?
48370Was not the nefarious Business in Agitation dignified with the specious Title of_ the Lord''s Work_?
48370Was the Course of the_ Law_ more free and undisturb''d, or_ Justice_ more equitably and impartially Administer''d?
48370Was the Freedom of_ Parliament_, and Right of_ Elections_ more inviolably kept?
48370Was there a greater_ Liberty of Conscience_, when the prevailing Sect for the Time Condemn''d the_ Toleration_ of the rest as_ Anti- christian_?
48370Was there not a Day of_ Humiliation_ appointed?
48370Were there fewer_ Executions_,_ Fines_ and_ Imprisonments_?
48370Were they able at last quietly to Establish their own Way of Worship, and had they not many contending Rivals?
48370Were they less under the Terror of an_ armed Force_?
10517We come now to the question,_ What constitutes rebellion against good government_?
10517What is mine as a citizen, a Christian, a minister of God-- as a man?
10517What is our duty?
10517What is yours?
10517What then, we ask,_ is the duty of all citizens when good government is assailed by rebellion_?
10517Where is our government?
10517_ What constitutes rebellion against such government?_ III.
10517_ What is a good government_?
10517_ What is good government?_ II.
10517_ What is the duty of each citizen when rebellion exists?_ I.
26035[ 11] Where is it not always the true, even if not the prevalent type of religion, to be good and pure, and to approve the things that are excellent? 26035 Am I less a sinner, or less weary with the burden of my own weakness and folly? 26035 Are the latter worse or better Christians on this account? 26035 But are our spiritual wants to wait the solution of such questions? 26035 In what way and by what means does divine grace operate? 26035 Is Christ less a Saviour? 26035 Is there less strength and peace in Him whatever be the answer given to such questions? 26035 What is the Church? 26035 What is the divine nature? 26035 What is the soul? 26035 What is the true meaning of Scripture, and the character of its inspiration and authority? 26035 Whence has man sprung, and what is the character of the future before him? 26035 Who will undertake to settle which is the truer Christian? 27316 Are not even ye, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, at his coming?
27316BUT HOW IS HE GOING TO COME?
27316But some will say:"Do you then make the grace of God a failure?"
27316How did he go up?
27316I will send an angel after you?
27316If I go away I will send death after you to bring you to me?
27316Jesus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
27316LOST OR SAVED?
27316Now let the question go round,"Am I ready to meet the Lord if he comes to- night?"
27316Peter asks the question about John:"Lord what shall this man do?
27316Take 2 Peter 3:4,5:"There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming?
27316Then in 1 Thessalonians, 2:19, he says:"For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?
27316They do not want sinners to cry out in their meeting,"What must I do to be saved?"
27316Were the early Christians disappointed then?
27316What does Christ say to them?
27316Where do you get it?
27649Why?
27649You are n''t going to leave me, Mammy?
27649Having settled and agreed on that fact, how are we to effect that separation so as to do justice to the negro?
27649How did this change affect his religious position?
27649In our own Diocese of East Carolina, the negroes are formally and legally on the same basis as the whites; but is that satisfactory?
27649Of what race should be the Bishop of this negro Missionary Jurisdiction?
27649What are we doing now?
27649What is to become of the negro for the next fifty years?
27649What more shall we do?
27649What of the religious affiliations of the negroes?
27649What ought we to do to meet these conditions?
27649What was the religious condition and teaching of the negroes before the Civil War?
27649Why?
25894And then how many fingers are busily at work in all classes, rich and poor alike, to provide for the comfort of those who go?
25894Are you afraid that your sons and brothers will be cowards merely because they are not duelists?
25894But is it so?
25894But is it well, or right, or tolerable, in times like these, to look round for side motives, when the motive avowed is reasonable and probable?
25894But will our men_ fight_?
25894Did Cromwell''s soldiers flee before the cavaliers because they were sober and God- fearing men?
25894When has religion interested men the most, and the most generally?
25894Who will say that the happiest moments of his existence have not been those in which he was conscious of living for others, and not for himself?
25894because prayers were made at their departure?
25894because they have never been engaged in a street- fight?
25894or because they have carried their bibles with them?
31670And is there any one fact, which the progress of events is now making, more manifest than the oneness of all mankind?
31670But though we will not meddle with public affairs, who shall answer for it that public affairs will not meddle with us?
31670How can it be otherwise?
31670Who can help having his attention arrested and engrossed?
31670Who shall define the circle and the sphere of the private individual?
31670Who would not rather suffer with the Right than prosper with the Wrong?
31670what heart, hitherto cold, will not consecrate itself to the work of its abolition?
31670what if I am political?
31670what if every pulpit in the land should be ringing in these days with political events?
13824And are you diligently preparing for that day?
13824And is not this treating the Gospel as_ foolishness_?
13824And with what scornful hatred are those churches avoided by many, where nothing is heard but_ Jesus Christ and him crucified_?
13824Are any of you conscious of disgust and aversion, produced by such doctrines?
13824Are you escaping for your life?
13824Are you working out your salvation with fear and trembling?
13824Are you_ agonizing_ to enter in at the strait gate?
13824Do any of you habitually hear the preaching of the cross with heartless indifference-- with a light and trifling temper?
13824Do not_ they_ esteem them_ foolishness_?
13824How chilling is the effect, when such discourse is attempted, in many circles of refinement and elegance?
13824In such circumstances, what are worldly honours, or wealth, or all your hopes of enjoyment here?
13824What connexion will it have with our future and eternal condition?
13824What objects is it designed to accomplish?
13824When, if not at that deeply interesting crisis, will all things be ready for the great trial?
13824_ When will the universal Judgment take place?_ The precise time, God has wisely concealed from every intelligent creature.
13824where is it?
18329And all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
18329And shall these varied powers of resistance and aggression be circumscribed by the walls of individual churches?
18329And where is the strength of our Republic, if not in our cities and large towns?
18329And wherefore so heavy a curse, unless the power of their example was great?
18329But what is that to the present and eternal elevation of these thousand minds?
18329But where are these insuperable difficulties to be found?
18329Do you ask more particularly, how this shall be done?
18329Indeed, what is the book of the Acts, but one continued history of revivals in cities and populous places?
18329Is not this elevation worth more than all the necessary expense, even leaving out of the account all the eternal results?
18329Shall not new temples be opened for their reception?
18329Shall not the tide of dissipation, and crime, that would overflow and mar every thing sacred, be met and turned back?
18329Shall they not rather be combined for raising a higher and higher tone of moral feeling, and Christian enterprise?
18329Shall they not send a strong, concentrated light into every dark retreat of wickedness?
18329Should we not then exult in the privilege of lifting all the degraded portions of our city, and of our land, into intellectual and moral grandeur?
18329What field then offers so rich and large an harvest to faithful labour?
18329What object of ambition could there be, equal to that of thus creating an empire of righteousness-- a world of intellect?
18329What was Babylon?
18329What was Jerusalem in its latter days, when given up accursed of God?
18329What were Sodom and Gomorrah?
18329What were Tyre, and Sidon, and Ninevah?
18329What were they, but sinks of pollution and fountains of ruin?
18329Where the strength of Greece, if not in Athens, the mother of arts and refinement?
18329Where was the strength of Italy, if not in Rome, once mistress of the world?
18329Wherefore should so much stress be laid upon cities, unless it was peculiarly important that they should be converted?
18329Why then should Christians leave to Satan the quiet dominion of cities?
18329Would you see the power of Satan in cities?
18329and shall not"God, even our God, be a wall of fire round about them, and a glory in the midst of them?"
4052And is not this threatening, at least in part, already put into execution?
4052And what has been the event?
4052And why is it that others who see all those things, do not take warning by them, to prepare for their own latter end?
4052And will you still persevere in the road of misery?
4052And, When will the sabbath be ended?
4052But how can you reconcile these prohibitions to your conduct; or your consciences?
4052But to whom?
4052Can it be a question with you, whether the God who made heaven and earth, or Satan, the god of this world, is the best master?
4052For should they be found so at last, what will become of you, if you live and die impenitent?
4052For who amongst us can dwell with everlasting burnings?
4052From whence proceed the infidelity, blasphemy, lying, theft, sabbath- breaking, slandering and the many horrid evils, which every where abound?
4052Have not many of you, for the sake, perhaps, of a few shillings, unjustly obtained, plunged yourselves into misery for the remainder of your lives?
4052Hence the thought of many is, What a weariness is it?
4052Is not this the language of your hearts?
4052Is this acting like rational or accountable creatures?
4052My brethren, what shall I say?
4052Now what must be the end of these courses?
4052Shall not I visit for these things, saith the Lord?
4052Such are all his posterity: for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
4052The great point is, how we shall die?
4052Thus it is said, God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son For what purpose?
4052Was it not God?
4052What would a stranger think, who regards the sabbath, if he visited every part of this colony on the Lord''s day?
4052Whence is it that so many in this colony, labour under such sore and complicated disorders, pains, and miseries?
4052Whence is there so much ignorance and contempt of God?
4052Who gave you the powers of reason and speech?
4052Why are so many, both young and old, taken away by death?
4052Why do mankind so eagerly, so universally pursue the vain pleasures and follies of the world, while they seldom think of God their Maker?
4052Will you not pray to be delivered from it?
4052Will you still prefer the chains of your own depraved inclinations, to the service of God, which is perfect freedom?
272801, 22_] Brethren_, and by and by he saith:|_ Shall I praise you in this?
272801. and accomplish?
2728013, 30._] Burnings[x]?
2728013._] But what?
2728014._] from Ouerthrowing[s]?
2728016._] Great Treasure_[o]?
2728027._] because it is_ A fountaine of| Life_[y]: wherefore?
272803._] by such a One) what is the Root| that beareth it[l]?
272804._] Mercifull Lord God?
272808._]| But O my Soule what dost thou?
272809._] Praised in respect of her Parents?
27280And can any haue the heart| to heare her groaning pangs,| without renting his owne heart from| his darling pleasure?
27280Or| morer Frater?
27280Paul._] Death?
27280Quicquid est Good of them that haue it,& of| circa te vel in te unde possis their children after them?
27280Quis animæ Dominator, nisi Not that feare which is Worldly,| Deus solus?
27280Quis enim n[=o]_ Feare_ from time to time, and| timet?
27280Quis iste, nisi ignium for this is wicked selfe- Loue, when| comminator?
27280Quod| quid est aliud quàm talis ac tantus| erit Timor meus, quem dabo in cor| eorum, vt mihi perseuerantèr| adhæreant?
27280S. Cyprian Lord?
27280Sed quid ego te( Honourable Lady) any longer?
27280She shall be so; but may not that| labour be spared?
27280Vnde autem timor?
27280Vntill such an| causa est, nisi fortè ea, quia alia Humble Soule be found in Her, She| in specie sunt, Homo in occulto?
27280We haue| not found Her yet; and why not yet?
27280_ Nihil laudabimus these and the like of Hers are| nisi quod proprium est& de commended?
27280_ When she shall be Praise and of whom?
27280as if while I held my peace| and were busied in Her Praises, Her|[ Note m:_ Neq, par[=u] distat inter Death could be deferred?
27280in Vitâ D. Ministers[e]?
27280l. 3._]| I demand then what doe you count|[ Note: The Excellencie of Godly Excellent?
27280quid expectem?
27280remnant of thy Heritage[g]?_ Who|_ Prayer for Godly Feare._] would not Feare Thee such an|_ Almightie, All- seeing, Iust,|[ Note f:_ Reuel.
27280true fruit of Euangelicall| ibid._] Repentance?
27280vt what doe you( Beloued) expect more?
27280| laudabis Homin[=e] prius quàm in| stationem mortis successerit?
27280| nostra tecum c[=o]moriatur et quasi That our speech also should Die| consepeliatur oratio?
27280| quis nefarius?
10326And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain?
10326And what if he were indignant, and what if he expressed that indignation?
10326And what of his sons?
10326And what was the fact?
10326And why?
10326And why?
10326And yet, what did he say to the scribes and Pharisees:''Ye go about to kill me, and therefore I am bound to say nothing harsh concerning you''?
10326Are we therefore to say that these utterances of David are uninspired?
10326But crushed by what?
10326But some may ask, What has all this to do with us?
10326But what right have we to use these words?
10326By the discovery that he has offended God?
10326Do we find a hint of any similar conduct on the part of David?
10326Do you think that the Scripture says in vain,''All these things are written for our example''?
10326For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the pit?
10326From whence then came that strength?
10326How can he command them when he has not commanded himself?
10326How so?
10326Is this notion uninspired?
10326My soul also is sore troubled: but, Lord, how long wilt thou punish me?
10326Passing the love of woman?
10326Special and extreme?
10326The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom then shall I fear?
10326The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid?
10326The whole question turns on this, Are we to believe in a living God, or are we not?
10326To do with us?
10326What he did say was this:''Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?''
10326What is it which gives life and reality to the magnificent imagery of the seventh and following verses?
10326What is that but the likeness of Christ?
10326What is the element in that ode, which even now makes it stir the heart like a trumpet?
10326What is there that they may not do, and dare not do?
10326What love can pass that, saving the boundless love of him who stooped from heaven to earth, that he might die on the Cross for us?
10326What love can pass that?
10326What protects such words from the imputation of mere Eastern exaggeration?
10326What wonder?
10326Why should they put restraint on theirs?
10326what hath he done?
16979Auntie, may I say God bless dear mother?
169796"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?"
16979All this, you say, is the concern of the State; certainly, but what is the State?
16979Am I retaining my dominion over my body, or is it gradually pushing itself into my place?
16979And now, how stands it in regard to the War?
16979Are you making things any better by neglecting your duty?
16979But can we not get a more evangelical, and at the same time more catholic, view of the matter?
16979But may we not go a step further and try to see Christ, in a measure, in all suffering, even that of the animals?
16979Can we close better than with the thought of the saints in Paradise?
16979Could 1_s._ in the £ income- tax take the place, morally, spiritually, or ethically, of the rich profusion of voluntary aid now being poured forth?
16979Could there be a more ghastly parody on the word honour?
16979Do you suppose that all those who are joining the Services like leaving home, wife, friends, comforts?
16979First of all what is the significance of"I"?
16979God seems to be saying to us, in no uncertain tones,"Is not this the fast that I have chosen?"
16979Have you ever attempted to gauge the mystery, to sound the depth of meaning implied in the simple sentence"I will"?
16979Have you ever read a book to, or written a letter for, anyone else?
16979Have you honestly tried to be reconciled; are you willing to forgive and bury the past?
16979Look at your life, ask yourself the question, boldly and honestly, what is the principle upon which it is being lived, God or self?
16979Now remains the question, Are the results to be permanent?
16979Of what value or power is my feeble little life among the teeming millions that go to make up the nation?
16979Our question to- day is: How shall we discipline that spirit which enables us to realise religion as a fact?
16979So long as I can enjoy myself and get my own way, why should I vex myself with the outworn question,"Am I my brother''s keeper?"
16979Some of the immediate effects are obvious; but what are the lasting results to be?
16979The prayers omitted, curtailed, said carelessly, said or attempted in bed, instead of on your knees: what a grievous failure, is n''t it?
16979The question is often asked:"How often ought I to receive the Holy Communion?"
16979The soul of the nation needed discipline, and it has come suddenly, sharply, but, who shall dare to say, not mercifully?
16979There is a ceaseless temptation to echo the cry of the disciples in regard to the few loaves and fishes:"What are they among so many?"
16979There was no time for argument or explanation, for facing the inevitable"If not, why not?"
16979To whom do you turn in your times of difficulty, doubt, trouble?
16979Vain confidence, for how could One Who had died as a malefactor, Who could not save Himself, rescue His nation from the tyranny of the Roman power?
16979Very practically, then, we must ask ourselves such questions as these: What proportion of my time is spent for others?
16979What hast Thou done for me, O Mighty Friend, Who lovest to the end?
16979What necessity?
16979What''s that to you?
16979Who are the morally strongest?
16979Who can be giddy and careless with darkened streets, trains, trams, all telling of the awful possibilities of the new development of aerial warfare?
16979You may say,"What good will my abstinence do to people with whom I never come in contact?"
45272And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind, shall they not both fall into the ditch?
45272How oft shall I or my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
45272_ How oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? 45272 A passage from the Bible comes immediately to mind, does it not? 45272 And what nation has ever become so enslaved in the process? 45272 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? 45272 Blind men may be excellent guides,( and in the last analysis are n''t we all blind?) 45272 But do n''t you see? 45272 But has n''t it? 45272 But have these curses disappeared from the earth? 45272 But since that time how can man plead ignorance? 45272 But who is there among us now that does not feel the burden of human war and peace? 45272 But will they go through with the whole story? 45272 Ca n''t the welfare of our children be a matter of united action? 45272 Difficult to forgive ourselves? 45272 Do we try and cultivate our ability to agree when we can, to see the scope of our common aims, or are we consistently developing our divergences? 45272 Do you as an individual want to grow in wisdom and stature? 45272 Does n''t the Lord''s prayer set a condition to his forgiveness of trespasses that we forgive those who trespass against us? 45272 Does that come from the suppression of the demands of labor or the abolition of the guidance of management? 45272 Does that signify the end of suffering, or is there here an Easter meaning for these times more potent and impelling than ever Lent has brought? 45272 Finally, will they depart into their own country another way or will they return to Herod? 45272 Have they come primarily to get or to give? 45272 Have they not in many respects grown worse? 45272 Have they the courage of their convictions? 45272 How far do you think you can get without the insights and understanding of others? 45272 How many good people were duped by Franco merely because he proclaimed allegiance to the church and Christianity? 45272 How many of us spoke enthusiastically of Mussolini because Italian trains began running on time and beggars disappeared from the steps of cathedrals? 45272 How many well meaning people are fooled by the devil in all his guises? 45272 How much wisdom have you acquired all by yourself apart from the experiences of humanity that you have met in books or face to face? 45272 Is it just a coincidence that there were two blind men in this story and not just one? 45272 Love''s work is done? 45272 Serfdom and slavery were evil, so men broke away and became free; but free for what? 45272 The battle won? 45272 This being the case, where are man''s unifying efforts particularly needed today? 45272 Till seven times?_When Peter asked this leading question he may have been trying to seem magnanimous.
45272Visions of peace and a world made new-- what greater need today has the strife- ridden world than this?
45272We have proclaimed the magnificence of our reception but have we ever really received him?
45272What then is peace?
45272Who is there that has not needed friendship to take the place of loss, that has not looked for counsel and strength beyond the limits of his own life?
45272Why is it that such extraordinary acts of fortitude in plain can take place in wartime?
45272Why not spend more time and thought rejoicing in and applying the unity that already exists instead of magnifying our differences?
45272Will they come in a spirit of humility or will they come with pride in their own might and sovereignty?
45272Would he be recognized in his true colors?
44071***** And why else are these caveats in the scriptures, but to warn the godly that they be not tainted herewith?
440711. did he himself turn ungodly also?
4407144. plead, that others did nothing for them?
44071And canst thou see other of thy brethren toil their hearts out, and thou sit idle at home, or takest thy pleasure abroad?
44071And live they not most easily?
44071And thus much I will say for the satisfaction of such as have any thought of going hither to inhabit?
44071And what if others will do nothing for thee, but are unkind and unmerciful to thee?
44071And what is my father''s house?
44071And_ Paul_ sought no man''s gold nor silver, but though he had authority, yet he took not bread of the churches, but labored with his hands: and why?
44071Are they not also for the most part, best fed and clad?
44071Believe it, God can not lie, nor be deceived; He that made the heart, doth not he know it?
44071Did not Satan, who was not content to keep that equal state with his fellows, but would set his throne above the stars?
44071Doth God ever commend a man for carnal love of himself?
44071How is he clad?
44071How is he fed?
44071If all men be evil, wilt thou be so too?
44071If all men were kind to thee, it were but_ publicans''_ righteousness to be kind to them?
44071Is his labor harder than mine?
44071Is this then a time for men to begin to seek themselves?
44071Knowest thou not that they which will be the children of God must be kind to the unkind, loving to their enemies, and bless those that curse them?
44071May you live as retired hermits?
44071Nay, you must seek still the wealth of one another; and enquire as_ David_, how liveth such a man?
44071Remember the example of_ Uriah_, who would not take his ease nor his pleasure, though the King required him, and why?
44071What shall I say?
44071Who then will follow a multitude?
44071Yea_ What is man?
44071_ Obj._ But doth not the Apostle elsewhere say?
44071and look after no body?
44071but who, I pray thee, brought this particularizing first into the world?
44071or dreamest thou that thou art made of other, and better mettle than other men are?
44071or the son of man that thou so regardest him?_ Psal.
44071surely I will ease him; hath he no bed to lie on?
44071that thou shouldest thus bless me?_ 2 Sam.
44071why, I have two, I''ll lend him one; hath he no apparel?
34632Is it?
34632Lord,says he,"why can not I follow thee now?"
34632What is the gentleman''s name?
3463211,"How much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to them that ask him?"
3463213,"How much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?"
3463216,"How dieth the wise man?
3463219, 20,"For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing?
34632Am I then become your Enemy, because I tell you the Truth?
34632And one of them, viz., Peter, asked him where he was going; verse 36,"Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou?"
34632And what could he mean by those"wondrous things"?
34632Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
34632Are not your souls as precious as the souls of the people at Suffield,[15] where they are flocking from day to day to Christ?
34632Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom,"Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?"
34632Do n''t you see how generally persons of your years are passed over and left in the present remarkable and wonderful dispensation of God''s mercy?
34632God is for them; who then can be against them?
34632How can you rest for one moment in such a condition?
34632Is not my word like as a fire?
34632Might he not have resort to the law and see every word and sentence in it when he pleased?
34632Shall all sorts obtain, shall every one press into the kingdom of God, while you stay loitering behind in a doleful undone condition?
34632Shall every one take heaven, while you remain with no other portion but this world?
34632Upon what account should it seem unreasonable, that there should be any immediate communication between God and the creature?
34632Was he ever blind?
34632Was it the wonderful stories of the creation and deluge, and Israel''s passing through the Red Sea, and the like?
34632Were not his eyes open to read these strange things when he would?
34632What could the Psalmist mean when he begged of God to open his eyes?
34632What is the chaff to the wheat?
34632What reason can be offered against it?
34632Whence then cometh wisdom?
34632Where is then the Blessedness ye spake of?
34632Who is there that has an immortal soul so sottish as not to improve such an opportunity, and that wo n''t bestir himself with all his might now?
34632Why have ye not that savor of the things of God, by which you may see the distinguishing glory and evident divinity of me and my doctrine?
34632Why have ye not that sense of true excellency, whereby ye may distinguish that which is holy and divine?
34632Why should not he that made all things, still have something immediately to do with the things that he has made?
34632Will any mortal amongst us be so unreasonable as to lag behind, or look back in discouragement when God opens such a door?
34632Will you be so stupid as to neglect your soul now?
34632You have followed them in sin, and have perhaps followed them into vain company; and will you not now follow them to Christ?
34632and where is the place of understanding?
34632saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?"
20430Couldst thou not watch with Me one hour?
20430Why are ye fearful? 20430 And as we face it what are we to do? 20430 And do we not constantly see that most unjust tyranny which the ill- tempered or ill- controlled member of the family has over the rest? 20430 And so, once again, looking out upon our ordinary life, what shall we need to put backbone into life? 20430 And what is the secret of that? 20430 And yet, who shall deny that there was an awe about it all? 20430 And, therefore, the whole question is this: Have we got, or do we believe we have got, Jesus in the ship with us? 20430 Are we in the habit of boasting, are we in the habit of lying, are we in the habit of being insincere? 20430 Are we prepared, as a great Christian city, to rise to the self- sacrifice which it involves? 20430 Are we so hopeless and helpless as to have no other power to bring in upon them? 20430 But can we as Christian citizens be content with the arm of the law? 20430 But the point is this: Whatever plan is fixed upon by the experts and those responsible, are we ready to rise to it? 20430 Can any man name the real secret of influence, or analyse the strength of personality? 20430 Can we not in this coming reign, and the century just begun, try and plant in the heart of every Christian worker truth in the inward parts? 20430 Can we not transform them as boys? 20430 Do we hear His voice saying,Be of good cheer; it is I, be not afraid?"
20430Does the law of kindness touch us in our municipal work?
20430For the good of the cause or to see our name in the paper?
20430Have we such a perpetual spring within us, ready and accessible for use in our home lives?
20430How are we, then-- that comes to be the last question-- how are we to attain this wonderful gift, the secret of a strong character?
20430How can we help him, that poor wounded man brought across our path?
20430How often during the past week have you thought of God?
20430How then are we to gain the secret?
20430If the heavenly rainbow is not produced by the light shining upon the tears of human penitence, where is hope for the world?
20430Is such a one seated among us in this church to- day?
20430Is there no other arm, no other law that we are bound to try before these young lads grow up indeed ruffians who must be dealt with by the law?
20430Must we be content to transport them as men?
20430Not"What did we do?"
20430Shall I be liked for this?"
20430That is the one last trial-- be it so; Christ was forsaken, so must thou be too: How couldst thou suffer but in seeming else?
20430Was it done from a true and pure motive?
20430What are we to say to anyone we see who is under that most terrible trial?
20430What are we to say to ourselves if such a misfortune and trial comes to us?
20430What can we say to light up in any degree so vast a problem?
20430What do we need to give a little more strength to it, to enable us to be braver and firmer and stronger?
20430What do we understand by a rainbow?
20430What does he need?
20430What is the secret of moral courage?
20430Why did we do this thing?
20430Why did we give that donation to something?
20430Why?
20430Will you give it?
20430but"Why did we do it?"
20430how about our characters?
20430how about our thoughts?
20430how about our words?
20430what about our lives today?"
20430where is the pristine purity of youth?
22821''How do you men dare talk to me about going home? 22821 And what is that?"
22821But, officer, are n''t you going to give me a chance to enlist?
22821Children, what is the greatest country in the world?
22821How did I feel?
22821How did you feel, purser, when you heard that cannon roar this morning against that submarine?
22821Is drowning very painful?
22821Should there ever be, children, a vacancy in the Trinity, who is best fitted to fill the position?
22821What could be more wonderful than the heroism, the endurance of the British at Vimy Ridge? 22821 What did Sister Julie say?"
22821What is the greatest city in the world?
22821What is the trouble with the Emerald Isle?
22821Who are the chosen people of the good old German God?
22821Who is the greatest man in the world?
22821Why Are We Outmanned By the Germans?
22821Why Are We Outmanned by the Germans?
22821Why Did You Leave Us in Hell for Two Years?
22821Why Did You Leave Us in Hell for Two Years?
22821Why do you say that?
228214. Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper?
228214. Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper?
22821Aliens began to say,"What will come next?"
22821And this foul thing forced upon her a superior right?
22821And what about Dutch cities and seaports?
22821And what shall be the verdict then pronounced?
22821And where are young McConnell and Rupert Brooke and young Asquith?
22821And where is Shelley?
22821But since that time, all France and Belgium and the lands where there are refugees are discussing the question-- Where does the right lie?
22821But what if Ludendorff gets to Paris?
22821But who is at the head of it?
22821But who succeeded?
22821Can you see that they are at the station to meet him?
22821Each farmer began to ask himself:"Has any one quoted me?"
22821Every visitor to that ruined town asks himself this question:"Why did the Germans allow this building to remain?"
22821Has the French mother, cruelly wounded, no right?
22821How can I go home?
22821How did he find out that there had been a secret meeting of the Germans immediately after war had been declared against Germany?
22821How is it that he celebrates his ancestor, Frederick?
22821Macbeth killed Duncan and went to live in the palace of the dead king, but did Macbeth succeed?
22821Must German Men Be Exterminated?
22821Must German Men Be Exterminated?
22821Now why did the Kaiser over and over again proclaim his allegiance to Frederick the Great?
22821Of course, says Harden, at first that was good diplomacy, but now that we are successful,"Why say this any longer?
22821Or the steel door before your dungeon?
22821Or was it the bad air in your cell?
22821The heart of the question is, Has he any moral right to accept an exemption?
22821Thirty- nine years more to recover ruined France and Belgium, Poland and Rumania?
22821To be sure the old Romans had to become soldiers, but, later, did not each Roman soldier live in the rich gardens around Thebes, Ephesus and Corinth?
22821Two thousand years ago Cicero, sobbing above the dead body of his daughter Tullia, exclaimed:"Is there a meeting place for the dead?"
22821Was This Murder Justified?
22821Was This Murder Justified?
22821Was he a Secret Service man?
22821Was it the cold water or the corn bread?
22821Was not his palace a brief halting place in his journey towards remorse, insanity and the day when Duncan''s friends in turn slew Macbeth?
22821What becomes of our soldier boys who died on the threshold of life?
22821What chance has a babe born of a beast, abhorred and despised, when it comes into the world?
22821What could these things mean?
22821What has regenerated you?
22821What if Paris must decrease?
22821What if the Kaiser does boast of his successes to- day?
22821What illuminated manuscripts?"
22821Where also is that young Carpenter of Nazareth, dead at thirty years of age?
22821Where does the Lord of Right stand?
22821Where is that young Tullia so dear to that gifted Roman orator?
22821Where is that young musician Mozart?
22821Where is young Keats?
22821Which path for the bewildered girl leads to peace?
22821Who can be stupid enough to hesitate in answering this question?
22821Who can explain the obsession?
22821Who can praise sufficiently the heroes of Canada, Australia and New Zealand?
22821Who shall explain to us the reason why German barbarism is not barbarism to the Germans?
22821Who was this Attila who has captured the imagination of the Kaiser?
22821Who was this stranger who was coming into the community?
22821Why are we outmanned?
22821Why not tell the world that we will have failed in the one thing for which we set out if we evacuate Belgium?
22821Why not?
22821Why should n''t we?"
16856And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
16856Is there anything in my life--so the question comes to us in our self- examination--"which could be so described?
16856Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, that the Holy Ghost dwelleth in you, and that God''s temple is holy? 16856 What doest thou here, Elijah?"
16856What doest thou here, Elijah?
16856What doest thou here?
16856What doest thou here?
16856What is the aim and purpose of his life?
16856Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? 16856 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?"
16856And do we not acknowledge that this revelation fails, so far as we are concerned, if it gives us no such_ power_?
16856And the question of all questions for each of us to consider is,"How am I to make my life the home and embodiment of this power from above?"
16856And the question rises:"On which of these lines is my life travelling at the present time, and towards which side of the impassable gulf?"
16856Are we to follow the world with its conventions and laws, or to live in personal communion with God?
16856Are we, then, to trust to some sudden visitation from above, for which we make no preparation, to break down or overthrow a power of this kind?
16856But if this be so, what will your share be in this coming life?
16856But is it so very certain that this would be the case?
16856But the question to- day is, What assurance do you feel that this will continue?
16856But then there rises the question, How are these Divine influences to become powerful in us also?
16856But what if sometimes you feel that you are not equal to all this?
16856But why, you may ask, do I dwell on all this?
16856Do we ask despairingly how it is that we have not been able to cast it out?
16856Do we desire to cast any evil influence or any weakness out of our life?
16856Do we not recognise this as the end of the New Testament revelation?
16856Do you ask why I dwell on this familiar history, or desire that you should contemplate and realise this change in the young man Jacob?
16856Do you wonder at your lack of power over the diseases of the soul?
16856Has any one of us ever shrunk from any post of duty in life, or strayed from any straight course?
16856How are we to account for this?
16856How comes it that you remain in this pitiable condition?
16856How does my common life fit with all this?
16856If the Spirit of God dwelt in them, how does He not dwell likewise in you?
16856If they were God''s husbandry, or God''s building, are not you?
16856In all this there was grief, disappointment, bitterness; for did they not prove that his work was threatened with failure?
16856Is there anything of the spirit or enthusiasm of sacrifice visible in the ordinary tenor of his actions?
16856Is there to be seen in it anything that tends towards the lowering of common standards?
16856Or shall we drift on as the world drifts, a little better, or a little worse?
16856Shall we contribute anything to raise the common type?
16856Then if God has in His mercy visited us with the warning call,"What doest thou here?"
16856Thereupon His disciples came to Him with this inquiry--"Why could not we cast him out?
16856This is indeed a question which never sleeps, and to- day we ask, What is your Whitsuntide answer to it?
16856This voice, following us with the question,"What doest them here?"
16856WHAT DOEST THOU HERE?
16856What if I do not flee from it?"
16856What if I do not pray to be delivered from it?
16856What if I do not resist any fault that has a hold upon me?
16856What is it?
16856What is to be the mission of our generation here?
16856What, then, are our Advent hopes?
16856What, then, are we learning of its practical lessons, and gathering into our life?
16856What, then, are we to say of our hopes?
16856When we go elsewhere, what habits, what tendencies, what fixed bent of spirit and character shall we exhibit?
16856Which is to prevail in it, and fix its character-- traditional custom, or personal inspiration?
16856Who can read unmoved these noble and generous outpourings?
16856any foolish or vulgar estimate of the higher things of life?"
16856any influence, spreading from my conduct, of which men might truly say that it also is helping to debase the moral currency?
16856any misuse of things sacred or holy?
16856if when the voice cries,"What doest thou here?"
16856striving for your growth in holiness and good purpose, and for your salvation from sin and its defilements, as he strove for theirs?
16856you have no answer to give?
26097Have my Children died in the Morning of their Days, and can I promise myself that I shall see the Evening of mine? 26097 _ I said, I was desolate and bereaved of Children, and who hath brought up these?
26097_[*]Could I wish, that this young Inhabitant of Heaven should be degraded to Earth again?
26097And am I now to complain of him, because he has removed not only a Creature of his own, but one of the Children of his Family?
26097And do we now blame ourselves for this?
26097And had I been as diligent as I ought, who can tell what Progress it might have made in Divine Knowledge?
26097And may not that Hope be greatly confirmed from whatever, of an amiable and regular Disposition, we have observed in those that are taken away?
26097And shall We object against the Force of it?
26097And what if he hath chosen to bestow the distinguished Favour on_ that one_ of my little Flock, who was formed to take the tenderest Hold of my Heart?
26097And what shall we say?
26097And when GOD hath done all this for me, is he rashly to be suspected of Unkindness?
26097And, Lord, wilt thou_ open thine Eyes on such a one, to bring_ it_ into_ strict_ Judgment with thee_[c]?
26097Answer, Oh my Heart, dost thou not love thy GOD much better than all the Blessings which Earth can boast, or which the Grave hath swallowed up?
26097Are not the Administrations of his Providence wise and good?
26097Art thou under these Obligations to him, and wilt thou yet complain?
26097Can we tax him with Injustice?
26097Can we then imagine that our dear Children fall into their Graves without his Notice or Interposition?
26097Can we_ teach him Knowledge_[i]?
26097Did I mean in effect to say,_ Lord, I will give it up, if thou wilt not take it?
26097Did I say, Lord, I absolutely insist on its Recovery; I can not, on any Terms or any Considerations whatsoever, bear to think of losing it?"
26097Did he think the Life of this Child too great a Good to grant, when he thought not Christ and Glory too precious?
26097Do I need additional Reasons to justify the Divine Conduct, in an Instance which my Child is celebrating in the Songs of Heaven?
26097How did it learn Language so soon, and in such a Compass and Readiness?
26097How shall we express our Affection to them?
26097I was left alone, and these where have they been?_[k] Was this my Desolation?
26097Is it in the Coffin?
26097Is it in the Grave?
26097Is it not our Language while we can not, like the pious_ Shunamite_ in the Text, bring our afflicted Hearts to say,_ It is well?_ III.
26097Is it well with the Child?
26097Is it well with thine Husband?
26097Is it well with thine Husband?
26097May we not then hope that many little Children are admitted into it?
26097Must you not acknowledge_ it is well_, that you enjoyed so many Years of Comfort in them?
26097My Brethren and Friends, what shall I say to you, who are lamenting over your_ Absaloms_, and almost wishing_ you had died for them_[m]?
26097Nay, are there not many abandon''d Sinners who would tremble at such Expressions?
26097Or have We any new Right to_ reply against GOD_[a], which those eminent Saints had not?
26097Or shall I pretend, after all, to set up a Claim in Opposition to his?
26097Or what if it had been otherwise?
26097Or would it thank me for that With?
26097Shall I then complain of it as a rigorous Severity to my Family, that GOD hath taken it to the Family above?
26097THESE are surely convincing Reasons to the Understanding: Yet who can say, that they shalt be Reasons to the Heart?
26097To borrow the Words of the sacred Writer, in a very different Sense?
26097Was it a Reason to_ David_, and to_ Eli_, and is it not equally so to us?
26097Was there Unkindness in that?
26097What are my narrow Conceptions, that they should pretend to circumscribe infinite Wisdom, Faithfulness, and Mercy?
26097What if that strong Attachment of my Heart to it, had been a Snare to the Child, and to me?
26097Whence does such a Thought come, and whither would it lead?
26097Where is now our Delight?
26097Where is our Hope?
26097Who might not claim the like Exemption?
26097With what Grace, with what Decency canst thou dispute this, or any other Matter, with thy GOD?
26097Would this, my Friends, be the Language of a real Christian?
26097_ He that spared not his own Son_[w], he that gave me with him his Spirit and his Kingdom, why doth he deny, or why doth he remove, any other Favour?
26097gone from our Embraces, and all the little Pleasures we could give it, to everlasting Darkness and Pain?"
26097that you reaped so much solid Satisfaction from them?
26097this my Sorrow?
3150Must we then, forgetting our own interest, as it were go out of ourselves, and love God for His own sake?
3150And can love of power any way possibly come in to account for this desire or delight?
3150And if we go no further, does there appear any absurdity in this?
3150And the sum is no more than this:"Why should we be concerned about anything out of and beyond ourselves?
3150Balak demands,_ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord_,_ and bow myself before the high God_?
3150But allowing that mankind hath the rule of right within himself, yet it may be asked,"What obligations are we under to attend to and follow it?"
3150But disgrace in whose estimation?
3150But it may be said,"What is all this, though true, to the purpose of virtue and religion?
3150But, allowing all this, it may be asked,"Has not man dispositions and principles within which lead him to do evil to others, as well as to do good?
3150But, supposing these affections natural to the mind, particularly the last;"Has not each man troubles enough of his own?
3150Can not this question be answered, from the economy and constitution of human nature merely, without saying which is strongest?
3150Consider, then, what is the latitude and compass of the actions of man with regard to himself, his fellow- creatures, and the Supreme Being?
3150Could the utmost stretch of their capacities look further?
3150Does he less relish his being?
3150Does not every affection necessarily imply that the object of it be itself loved?
3150Does not passion and affection of every kind perpetually mislead us?
3150Does the benevolent man appear less easy with himself from his love to his neighbour?
3150For did ever any one act otherwise than as he pleased?
3150For does not everybody by compassion mean an affection, the object of which is another in distress?
3150Honour in whose judgment?
3150Is desire of and delight in the happiness of another any more a diminution of self- love than desire of and delight in the esteem of another?
3150Is fear, then, or cowardice, so great a recommendation to the favour of the bulk of mankind?
3150Is his mind less open to entertainment, to any particular gratification?
3150Is it certain, then, that there is nothing in these pretensions to happiness?
3150Is it good, or is it evil?
3150Is it possible that it should never come into people''s thoughts to suspect whether or no it be to their advantage to show so very much of themselves?
3150Is it that he went against the principle of reasonable and cool self- love, considered_ merely_ as a part of his nature?
3150Is not the middle way obvious?
3150Is there any peculiar gloom seated on his face?
3150May she not possibly pass over greater pleasures than those she is so wholly taken up with?
3150Must we invert the known rule of prudence, and choose to associate ourselves with the distressed?
3150Nay, is not passion and affection itself a weakness, and what a perfect being must be entirely free from?"
3150Now what is it which renders such a rash action unnatural?
3150Or how does so various and fickle a temper as that of man appear adapted thereto?
3150Or how otherwise can such a character be explained?
3150Or is it not plain that mere fearlessness( and therefore not the contrary) is one of the most popular qualifications?
3150Or need this at all come into consideration?
3150Or that such a person has not consulted so well for himself, for the satisfaction and peace of his own mind, as the ambitious or dissolute man?
3150That the issue, event, and consummation came out such as fully to justify and answer that resignation?
3150Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?
3150True; but the question is, which ought to have the preference?
3150We own and feel the force of amiable and worthy qualities in our fellow creatures; and can we be insensible to the contemplation of perfect goodness?
3150What are their bounds, besides that of our natural power?
3150What sign is there in our nature( for the inquiry is only about what is to be collected from thence) that this was intended by its Author?
3150Whence come the many miseries else which men are the authors and instruments of to each other?"
3150Whence come the many miseries else-- sickness, pain, and death-- which men are instruments and authors of to themselves?
3150Whence is all this absurdity and contradiction?
3150Whence, then, I say, is all this absurdity and contradiction?
3150Which is to be obeyed, appetite or reflection?
3150Whoever felt uneasiness upon observing any of the advantages brute creatures have over us?
3150Would they be any longer to seek for what was their chief happiness, their final good?
3150Yet let any plain, honest man, before he engages in any course of action, ask himself, Is this I am going about right, or is it wrong?
3150_ How shall I curse_,_ whom God hath not cursed_?
3150_ My soul is athirst for God_,_ yea_,_ even for the living God_:_ when shall I come to appear before Him_?
3150_ Or how shall I defy_,_ whom the Lord hath not defied_?
3150_ Shall I come before him with burnt- offerings_,_ with calves of a year old_?
3150_ Shall I give my first- born for my transgression_,_ the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul_?
3150_ Who can count the dust of Jacob_,_ and the number of the fourth part of Israel_?
3150_ Whom have I in heaven but Thee_?
3150_ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams_,_ or with ten thousands of rivers of oil_?
3150does He not fill heaven and earth with His presence?
3150must he indulge an affection which appropriates to himself those of others?
3150or, allowing that we ought, so far as it is in our power to relieve them, yet is it not better to do this from reason and duty?
3150which leads him to contract the least desirable of all friendships, friendships with the unfortunate?
3150{ 30} But is He then afar off?
16423And shall hee that is all spirit( for whom the Angels are slow and colde enough) take pleasure in thy drowzie and heavie service?
16423Are Idolatries, blasphemies, prophaning of Saboths, no sinns?
16423Are not kings of the earth charg''d to render double to the bloody strumpet of Rome?
16423But what?
16423Can one coale alone keepe it selfe glowing?
16423Can tinne, or hot iron choose but hisse againe, if cold water be cast on it?
16423Can wee suppose worme- wood without bitternesse, a man without reason?
16423Consider and reason thus with thy selfe( O man) canst thou brooke a sluggard in thy worke, if thou bee of any spirit thy selfe?
16423Doe men choose the forwardest Deere in the heard, and the liveliest Colt in the drove?
16423Doe we thinke he will ever digest us, in the temper wee are in?
16423Doe wee love Christ more then ordinary?
16423Doth it not flourish in all those shires and townes, where the Word and Sword doe joyntly cherish it?
16423Doth not_ Paul_ adjure us before him that shall judge the elect Angels, that we preach instantly, in season, and out of season?
16423For singularity, Christs calls for it, and presseth& urgeth it; What singular thing doe you, or what odde thing doe you?
16423For whom doest thou reserve the top of thy affections?
16423Hast thou any sharpnesse of wit, is not dulnesse tedious unto thee?
16423Hee that shall despise or neglect prophesie, must hee not needes quench the spirit?
16423How neare were wee going in 88. and in the powder treason?
16423I can not be a better sacrifice then to God, and for you, if I waste my selfe, so you may have light& heat; what else is the end of my life?
16423If any shall say, friend, what doest thou professe a religion without it; how can hee choose but bee strucke dumb?
16423If fire bee set upon the Beacons, will not the whole Countrey soone be warned and enlightned?
16423If hell bee in an Ale- house, who cryes out of it?
16423If wee should make good their resemblances, how then should wee please the stomacke of God?
16423In others which are the greatest number, how doth it languish and wane away, and hang downe the head?
16423Is it comely what ever we do, to do it with all our might?
16423Is it good to be earnest for a friend,& cold for the Lord of hosts?
16423Is meane and mediocrity, in all excellent Arts excluded, and onely to be admitted in religion?
16423Is not all his delight in the quickest and cheerefullest givers and servitors?
16423It is good to bee zealous in a good things: and is it not best, in the best?
16423May not wee goe too far on the right hand?
16423Or is it not for the sake of the quality of the creature; which hath ever among the Heathens beene an_ Hieroglyphick_ of heavinesse and tardity?
16423Ought not all the springs and brookes of our affection, to runne into this Maine?
16423Shall Gods peculiar people, doe nothing peculiar?
16423Shall all the indignity which hell can cast upon it, make it vile in our eyes?
16423Such as forsake the best fellowship, and wax strange to holy assemblies,( as now the manner of many is) how can they but take colde?
16423The other is_ Cowardice_ and_ Fearfulnes_: which how unfit, and base a quality did_ Nehemiah_ thinke it for a man of his place?
16423This fire may goe out divers wayes: first by subtraction of fewell; if a man forbeare his accustomed meales, will not his naturall heat decay?
16423Wee therefore that know the terrour of that day, What manner of persons ought we to bee?
16423Were it not better to forbeare_ Poetry_ or_ Painting_, then to rime or dawbe?
16423What ayleth the world?
16423What daunger can there bee, of an honest, peaceable, religious forwardnesse?
16423What man would not spue to see God thus worshipped?
16423What manner of persons ought we to bee, burning in spirit, fervent in prayer, thundring in preaching, shining in life and conversation?
16423What would you have us doe?
16423Who would not now wonder, how ever this royall vertue should have lost it grace with the world; how ever any should admit a low thought of it?
16423Who, or what can bee sufficient for him our Maker and Saviour?
16423Why are ther any tounges that dare speake against often or zealous preaching?
16423Why are there yet remaining any Mutes amongst us?
16423Why then doth the hurtfull pitty of our times imbolden and increase their numbers?
16423Why?
16423Will God blesse such, as bid him not so much as good- morrow and good- even?
16423Will true Christianity allow us to beare with any sinne?
16423Will you have us runne before our neighbours, or live without example or company?
16423[ Sidenote: 3] For this present assembly of Ministers, could all the choice and time in the world have better fitted mee then mine ordinarie Lot?
16423_ Herod_ for his pleasure, cares not for halfe his kingdome; what will not some Gentle- men give for hawks and hounds?
16423_ Mine eyes are dimme with wayting: how doe I long for thy salvation?_[ Sidenote: Feare.]
16423and is the backwardest man fittest for God?
16423and were it not better to bee of no religion, then to be colde or lukewarme in any?
16423are not all they punished with death in the Scriptures, as well as breaches of the second table?
16423are not some thinke you, too straight laced, that dare not use their Christian liberty in some recreations?
16423beyond which, if any step a little forward, do not the rest hunt upon the stop?
16423can a righteous soul choose but vexe it selfe at open evill?
16423doth hee not threaten for all that to spue them out of his mouth?
16423for thy gold?
16423for thy_ Herodias_,& c. O yee adulterers and adultresses, can yee offer God a baser indignity?
16423hath not God left many things indifferent, wherein some shew themselves more nice then wise?
16423is not a slothfull messenger as vinegar to thy teeth, and as smoake to thine eyes?
16423may not hee justly disdaine, that the least Riveret should bee drained another way?
16423onely uncomely when wee serve God?
16423or is there any better then God, or the kingdome of heaven?
16423out of what misery, into what happinesse, by what a price, to what end; but that thou shouldest bee zealous of good workes?
16423shall hee not curse those that doe his worke negligently, fearfully& partially?
16423sware by small oathes, or lend money for reasonable use?
16423what love hath hee shewed thee in thy redemption?
16423where is it in diverse places of the land to bee seene?
16423who art thou that condemnest thy brother?
16423would wee give proofe of our trebble love to him?
26441''But where is your stove?'' 26441 Am I my brother''s keeper?"
26441Am I my brother''s keeper?
26441''And may I ask what you were thinking about?''
26441''But where do you cook your food?''
26441''It must be very hard work?''
26441''Well, Annie, how do you make a living now?''
26441--can anybody well get along with all this, without Religion?
26441And are they not both struggling with the realities of life, and moved by quenchless desires, and looking up into the same infinite mystery?
26441And have n''t I been working all the time to fetch in something to eat, and for the fire, and for clothes?
26441And have you ever looked into this matter of crime?
26441And if it is asked--"Why are they not equal?"
26441And what are we, that we dare to cherish this exclusive horror, this pitiless, unrelenting scorn?
26441And whither do they retire at night?"
26441And who can estimate their influence over these busy tides of action, all day long?
26441And who does not perceive how much the character of that influence must depend upon the condition of those homes?
26441And why delineate the features of that other class of homes, whose most significant word is"_ Privation_?"
26441And will not its votaries find now, as then, that it entices with the embrace of death and the fascination of hell?
26441And, doubtless, you have sometimes busied yourself with the speculation--"Where do all these people come from?
26441And, surely, it becomes each of us to consider the tendencies of his own example, and ask--"Is it toward the right or the wrong?
26441And, surely, it is no vain speculation that inquires--"What are they?
26441And, therefore, is not any practice which serves these, a service of God?
26441And, with all this, may we not expect that fierce instinct of selfishness which overwhelms every other impulse, and breaks out in crime?
26441Are not the just, the useful, the beautiful, from God, as well as the good and the holy?
26441Art thou become like unto us?"
26441Art thou become like unto us?"
26441Ask_ Yourself_--"Need he have gone outside this very door to find temptation?"
26441But are these forms of life, is your presence here or mine, any more substantial than those that have sunk away?
26441But how can we regulate an irregularity?
26441But is there nothing but this to explain the power which evil has upon men, in the midst of the great city?
26441But is this really the best plan?
26441But suppose we make the system a strict one, what process should be employed?
26441But what is the precise sentence to be passed upon this prevalent luxury?
26441But, my friends, what do we mean by"public sanction,"or"public neglect?"
26441But, really, one of the most practical questions that can be asked is--"_Why_ is this one, or that one, a criminal?"
26441China, India, Africa, will you not find their features in some circles of the social world right around you?
26441Did it not bear the same Circean cup through the halls of Nineveh and Babylon, and fling CÃ ¦ sars and Alexanders to the ground?
26441Did it not wear the same seductive smile and harlot tinsel when it walked the streets of Tyre, and reclined in the decorated chambers of Egypt?
26441Did n''t He take away my father since before I can remember him?
26441Do I say that the guilt should be imputed to the condition-- that it is all owing to circumstances?
26441Do you think these were made of better texture than those who blacken and fester yonder?
26441For, let me ask, who among these crowds of citizens are really honored?
26441For, whence issues any such thing as_ virtue_, except out of the temptation and antagonism of vice?
26441How can you regulate an obstruction that is involved with the springs of a machine, or the works of a clock?
26441I ask-- what made our Revolution legitimate?
26441If, on the other hand, they are a benefit to mankind; a good gift of Providence, as some seem to think; why should we hamper their circulation?
26441In other words, let us inquire-- in what way do respectable and harmless people, as they deem themselves, become Allies of the Tempter?
26441Into what retreats do the elements of this busy crowd dissolve, night after night?"
26441Is it for, or against the good?"
26441Is it not the same old guilt, the same sophistry and foolishness, here in New York, that it always has been?
26441Is not all the spring of benevolent effort, then, in this single proposition of Religion?
26441Is not the effect of miracle in the electric wire?
26441Nay, all this splendid civilization, what is it but a sparkling ripple in the calm eternity of God?
26441Need I paint the costume and the scenery, and describe the sad and awful drama in which these children play their parts?
26441On the contrary, is not Freedom that old truth, that conceded premise that does_ not_ agitate?
26441Or do you know it only as a monstrous fact in the social mechanism, and in the records of human nature?
26441Or, take the following instance, which I extract from the Records of one of the Benevolent Societies of our own city:"Can you read or write?
26441Shall it be so with this Republic, because false to its ideal?
26441Stepping up to him I said--''Well, my boy, you seem to enjoy the fun very much; but why do n''t you lay down your load of sticks?''...
26441Strike it out of existence to- day, and what would be the condition of the world to- morrow?
26441Sufficient evidence of sin and folly in those who do this, to be sure; but in what way do these allurements present themselves?
26441The bell beats; and what old bugle- strain, what pibroch, what rattling drum, ever sounded a more perilous call?
26441The field for precedence is it not a broad one, and close at hand?
26441The printing- press was not absolutely necessary to Nimrod, or to Julius CÃ ¦ sar, but is it not absolutely necessary now?
26441The printing- press, is it not the gift of tongues?
26441There are times when our thoughts rise above all specific instances, and we take up humanity and existence as a whole, and ask--"What means it all?"
26441War and Captivity in the midst of peace and refinement-- is it not, my friends?
26441Was it not for freedom, based upon the conception of the right and supremacy of freedom?
26441What are the resources and entrenchments of these vices, by which they act upon human appetite and passion?
26441What interpretation should we obtain from the dark creed of the skeptic, what inspiration from the philosophy of annihilation, and of fate?
26441What shall stay it?
26441What were the central ideas that throbbed in the breasts of its heroes and martyrs?
26441Who does not see that not only the interest of the common humanity in its most intimate experiences attaches to them, but the interest of community?
26441Why should we allow one man the privilege of distributing such a blessing, and forbid another who, no doubt, is equally zealous for the public good?
26441Why, who needs to be told of the potency of this our earliest school, to say nothing of other influences, if only a faithful_ mother_ presides there?
26441You may ask--"Who has tempted even my very child?"
26441and do we not discover a counterpart to that saddest feature of all in such circumstances-- a desecration even of the parental instinct?
26441did the Jew behold any hosts more terrible pressing into Jerusalem, than you and I might see if we looked about us?
26441does it not make Dives look very much like Lazarus, and show our common weakness, and reveal the common marvel of this"harp of thousand strings?"
26441were men ever bound by a darker chain, or trampled by a harder heel, than those victims of destitution and of their own passions?
60915AM I THEREFORE BECOME YOUR ENEMY, BECAUSE I TELL YOU THE TRUTH?
60915Am I therefore become your Enemy, because I tell you the Truth?
60915And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come unto his servant?
60915HAVE I BEEN SO LONG TIME WITH YOU, AND YET HAST THOU NOT KNOWN ME, PHILIP?
60915Hath CHRIST, then, been so long time with thee, and yet hast thou not known him?
60915Have I been so long Time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
60915Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
60915Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done?
60915To whom shall I go?
60915To whom shouldst thou go, but to JESUS CHRIST? 60915 What kind of a Saviour then is it, for whom all nature thus cries aloud, through all her works?
60915Why WILL YE die, O house of Israel? 60915 Will ye also go away?"
60915--Is it so, thou Blessed Apostle?
60915Against the united efforts of such formidable enemies, where shall we find armour of sufficient proof?
60915And are these the blessings, by which thou art to be distinguished from the rest of thy sex?
60915And can these men be said to"prosper in whatsoever they do?"
60915And canst thou not, O Christian, have as much Faith in thy SAVIOUR, as one frail mortal has in another?
60915And now, my brethren, is not such a Knowledge of GOD worth possessing?
60915And what is it that hinders us from having such a view of our real misery?
60915Are not their souls as much bowed down by the weight of their sinful nature, as their bodies by temporal evils and infirmities?
60915Are they not often destitute of spiritual as well as of worldly comforts?
60915But are not many good men afflicted inwardly, as well as outwardly?
60915But didst thou ever attend to the true and only means, by which the Scriptures have assured thee this conquest may be obtained?
60915But here the grand question may be asked-- How doth GOD manifest himself to his creatures?
60915But how is this privilege to be obtained?
60915But if GOD is willing to save all, Why are not all saved?
60915But in what manner was the appearance of this illustrious Babe made known to the world?
60915But shall their conduct have the least influence upon yours?
60915But what could oppress or afflict the heart of the Meek and Innocent JESUS?
60915But where are the ensigns of royalty?
60915But where is his happiness all the while?
60915For, who that looks upon his work as already done, will chuse to labour any longer?
60915Hast thou never coveted, been jealous, angry, revengeful, bitter, and implacable?
60915Hast thou never felt thyself swoln with pride, or burning with envy?
60915Hast thou so?
60915He cries aloud for help?--"What shall I do to be saved?"
60915Here then a serious and inquiring mind may be ready to ask-- How is this BLESSED REDEEMER to become my Righteousness?
60915How sayest thou then, shew us the Father?"
60915I then concluded with asking you, whether such a Knowledge of GOD as I had been describing, was not worth your possessing?
60915In a conflict so long and arduous, where shall we meet with such supplies of strength, as will enable us to contend and finally to overcome?
60915Indeed,"to whom shall we go?"
60915Is this to be"highly favoured?"
60915Must thy spotless Babe, at the very instant of his birth, enter upon his Labour of Love?
60915My business was to plant, Apollos''s to water; but what could it avail to plant or to water, unless GOD gave the increase?
60915Need I, therefore, now call upon you to put in your claim to this vast inheritance?
60915Now, what is Faith?
60915Now, who can deny, that sickness, pain, sorrow and affliction, have in their very nature this tendency?
60915O why, my brethren, why will ye"spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not?"
60915Shall we suffer the Child of GOD, the Redeemed of the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, to be taken captive by the armies of aliens?
60915Shall we then tamely suffer these Rights of Heaven to be invaded by the powers of darkness?
60915THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?
60915THEN SAID JESUS UNTO THE TWELVE, WILL YE ALSO GO AWAY?
60915TO WHOM SHALL WE GO?
60915TO WHOM SHALL WE GO?
60915The awakened sinner"looks up and lifts up his head, for his redemption draweth nigh"--looks up to Heaven-- For what?
60915The plain and obvious meaning of which is undoubtedly this: Hath GOD favoured me with such an astonishing deliverance?
60915Then Simon Peter answered, LORD, to whom shall we go?
60915Then said JESUS unto the Twelve, Will ye also go away?
60915Thus, for instance, the covetous man grasps, and saves, and fills his coffers-- for what?
60915Was each of us to be asked, in a serious and solemn manner, Are you really happy?
60915Was it not by those very sufferings, which seem so diametrically opposite to this triumphant state?
60915Well, but say some, How can this be?
60915What a senseless doctrine this, that would shut us out from all the joys, which earth holds forth for our acceptance?"
60915What have we to do with evil spirits, or possessions, at this day?
60915What was it, but an humble acknowledgment of his own spiritually helpless and indigent condition?
60915What, but that fascinating charm, which these very spirits throw before our eyes to deceive us?
60915When"all things are yours,"why will you take up with the scanty provisions which a poor perishing nature can give?
60915Whence is it then, O sinner, that, though thy SAVIOUR hath been so long time"with thee, yet hast thou not known him?"
60915Whence is it, though he has made thee such frequent offers of his Love, thou hast still slighted or rejected them?
60915Who amongst us, let me ask, hath not, in innumerable instances, given such a rash and impatient answer to the Servant of GOD within us?
60915Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers, by whom ye believed, even as the LORD gave to every man?
60915Who told thee, that GOD created thee for this world; and that thou art to take up thy rest in that visionary happiness, which thou findest here?
60915Who would not wish, then, to become a votary, a pupil, a child of Wisdom?
60915Why shouldst thou despond in the hour of trial?
60915Why then, O Christian, shouldst thou despair of success?
60915Will ye be intimidated by their flight?
60915Will ye suffer your fidelity and perseverance to be shaken by their evil example?
60915Would you know what these fruits are?
60915and must the stable at Bethlehem be the first scene of that awful drama, which was afterwards closed on the trembling top of Calvary?
60915art thou so strangely blind to thy best interests, so amazingly neglectful of thy real happiness?
60915to whom shall I go?"
60915to whom shall we go?
60915to whom shall we go?
60915we are ready to exclaim-- is it thus, that the promises of the Angel are to be accomplished?
60915what conduct must we observe, that will entitle us to be members of her illustrious household?
60915what kind of sensibility was awakened in you at that happy season?--Was it not a sensibility of Love intense, and Meekness unutterable?
60915what path must we pursue, that will lead us to her delightful mansion?
60915where are the tokens of thy illustrious birth?
60915who told thee, that GOD had given thee such corrupt passions, as now solicit for indulgence?
60915why, with deluded Esau,"will you sell your birth- right for a mess of pottage,"an heavenly for an earthly inheritance?
23096And you believe in God, do you?
23096But_ when_?
23096By whose authority?
23096If God be for us who can be against us?
23096Is Jesus divine?
23096Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
23096Then one of the twelve called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? 23096 What can I do for you, dear?"
23096What have they seen in thy house?
23096Why must I have this trial or pain or trouble?
23096( Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
23096After all, it is not so much a question of the knowledge of the day, or the hour, or the month of one''s conversion as"Do we now know Christ?"
23096And so for those of us whose lives have been such a struggle we cry,"Is there no deliverance?"
23096And then the question came to him as from God,"What do you believe?"
23096And they said, What is that to us?
23096Are there not hundreds and thousands of other men waiting, as the chief justice waited, for some one to speak or write?
23096As has been indicated, the text proves that we may choose life if we will, but I have more especially in mind the question,"Why should we do it?"
23096At the day of Pentecost people were saying,"What do these things mean?"
23096But how about the sins of the past?
23096But on the other hand, what if we should simply be faithful?
23096But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
23096But"Is there no deliverance that is complete?"
23096Could anything be more inspiring than to know that we have the approval of the Holy Ghost of the things we say or think?
23096Did n''t you notice a fresh little grave near the one with the stone?
23096Do I know when I was converted?
23096Do you reject hell, because it seems to you to be inconceivable?
23096Do you think for a moment that those who gaze at us would imagine that we had the least conviction that people away from Christ were lost?
23096Does your life parallel God''s law or cross it?
23096Finally they met, and the infidel with a sneer said,"So you believe the Bible, do you?"
23096For the angel had said,"The Lord is with thee, Gideon,"and Gideon had said,"If the Lord is with us, then how can these things be?"
23096For this day we hope and pray and cry aloud,"O Lord, how long, how long?"
23096For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?
23096God seemed to say to him,"Have you ever taken that stand where you would say,''I am committed to the right even if it ends in death''?"
23096Has he not said,"Ye shall receive power"?
23096Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
23096Have we failed to take both?
23096Have you ever seen a perfect rainbow-- that is, a rainbow in a perfect circle?
23096Have you ever stopped to think what is really associated with the full acceptance of the third Person of the Trinity?
23096He granted Saul of Tarsus a vision of himself as he approached Damascus until he cried,"Who art thou?"
23096He then lying on Jesus''breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
23096How about your living?
23096How about your testimony?
23096How could we expect them to have the same experience in coming to Christ?
23096How may I be converted?
23096How may I know certainly?
23096How may we know that he is striving?
23096How may we know that the Bible is the word of God?
23096How may we secure such a possession?
23096How then ought we to live?
23096How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
23096I The natural question that comes to every student of the life of Judas must be,"Why was he chosen?"
23096I What is conversion?
23096I What is the striving of the Spirit?
23096I ask you the question, Do you believe in heaven as a place of rewards?
23096I doubt not the question has often come to us,"How can God be just and be the justifier of them that believe?"
23096I found myself becoming unscrupulous in my business life and now I am wrecked, certainly for time-- oh,"said he,"can it be for eternity?
23096I looked the other day into the face of a man who said to me,"Do you know me?"
23096II Have you really taken all that God meant you should have?
23096II How may I be converted?
23096II Why are we not having revelations to- day as we know they have been given at other times?
23096III Did you ever realize that you were standing in the way of the conversion of your friends?
23096III Do you know when you were converted?
23096III Oh, is there no hope?
23096III What would be the consequences of the Spirit ceasing his work?
23096IV How may we know that we have passed from death into life?
23096IV Why should he cease his striving?
23096If these things are true of us-- and they are, according to the Word of God-- then what prospect is there for us but that of eternal punishment?
23096If this is true then what is consecration?
23096In the twenty- first chapter of John the fifth and sixth verses we read,"Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat?
23096Is it not like this with our sins?
23096Is not this written in the book of Jasher?
23096Is such a deliverance as this from individual sins possible?
23096It is indeed a black picture, and with whitened faces and rapidly beating hearts we ask, Is there any hope?
23096It is not giving God something, for how could we give him that which is already his own?
23096It is true that we shall go on from light into darkness, from morning into the night, but is there no final deliverance?
23096It may be that some will say,"Why insist upon conversion when my life is a moral one?"
23096Just what is the burden of this prayer of Paul''s?
23096Man tells the depraved man to change his surroundings; but how about the heart that is unclean?
23096Man tells the sinner to do his best; but how about the will which has been weakened by sinful practices, and which seems unable to act?
23096Napoleon once was asked,"What is the greatest need of the French nation?"
23096Oh, if it be true that the_ way_ of the transgressor is hard, in the name of God what shall we say of the end?
23096Oh, may I say that it is a great sin to be untrue?
23096One man called my attention to it and said,"It is amusing, is n''t it?"
23096Second: Just what, therefore, is this work of sanctification?
23096THE MORNING BREAKETH TEXT:"_ Watchman, what of the night?
23096That is, do you know the exact time?
23096The biography of Helen Kellar[ Transcriber''s note: Keller?
23096The great temperance leader went to speak to him and said"Edward, why do n''t you pray?"
23096The old minister looked at him and said simply,"Well, is that anything to be proud of?"
23096The rest of the verse is a question,"God that justifieth?"
23096The thirty- fourth verse reads,"Who is he that condemneth?"
23096The words"unto them"are in italics, so not in the original, and we ask"added to what?"
23096Then said I, O my Lord, what are these?
23096Then the question for the moralist is this,"Have you ever offended in one point?"
23096Then why not now?
23096They spent the night in the kirk in prayer, when the minister said,"Why not ask God to restore his body?"
23096This appealed to the dying man and he said,"Where shall I read?"
23096V But what must I do to take advantage of all this gracious offer of God?
23096V What is meant by the Spirit not striving?
23096V"_ And the host ran, and cried and fled._"What hosts are against us to- day?
23096Was there ever such a catalogue of mercies?
23096Watts[ Transcriber''s note: Watt?]
23096What hope is there for the moralist when Jesus said,"Except ye be converted"?
23096What if God''s will should be done for but one year in all things in any of our cities; would the result be anything else than perfect joy?
23096What if I had said,"I will decorate the well house that I may change the water?"
23096What if he had hidden behind some great rock and simply waited?
23096What if he had tarried behind some one of those great trees near the city along the way which he should walk, or, possibly on the Emmaus way?
23096What if instead of going out to the scene of his disgraceful death he had waited until after Jesus had risen?
23096What is it, therefore?
23096What should he do with it?
23096When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman?
23096When the minister said to the old sea captain,"Why do you do this?
23096Who ever heard of a boy growing in this way?
23096Who ever heard of a doctor who had a prescription for growth?
23096Who knows but one could speak and the other could sing?
23096Who was that Robert?
23096Who, then, would be without it?
23096Why have we not this power of his?
23096Why is not some one in our own land especially working out some of the great plans and purposes of God?
23096Why should God continue when we only spurn his offers of mercy?
23096Why take such a risk?"
23096Will you not come while he calls to- day?
23096With such a work as this, who shall lay anything to the charge of God''s elect?
23096Would God that justifieth do it, or Christ that died consent to it?
23096and he said,"Yes, sir; do you?"
23096and in thy name done many wonderful works?"
23096and in thy name have cast out Devils?
23096and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?
23096who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
33515And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 33515 I say then, hath God cast away His people?
33515Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
33515_ And what shall I more say? 33515 _ Behold we count them patient which endure._"And who are they?
33515_ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in._Who is this King of Glory?
33515_ Render unto CÃ ¦ sar the things which are CÃ ¦ sar''s._Why?
33515_ This do, and thou shalt live._What claim can CÃ ¦ sar have on man then, which is not also God''s claim?
33515_ What are these which are arrayed in white robes? 33515 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? 33515 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? 33515 And what did Jacob win by his birthright-- his rights of the firstborn? 33515 And what does this constructive creative toil imply? 33515 And what has been the history of the kingdom? 33515 And what has been the long and bitter cry of man''s sad history? 33515 And why? 33515 Are slaves and beggars the chief subjects of Messiah''s kingdom? 33515 Are these words part of a curse, or part of a blessing? 33515 Art Thou a king then, poor, worn, tear- stained Outcast, forsaken of every subject, of every friend, in the hour of Thy bitter need? 33515 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst not thou agree with me for a penny? 33515 But were there truly twelve or thirteen in each case? 33515 But what good did the birthright do to the supplanter who bought it, and filched the blessing with it? 33515 But what matters? 33515 But why should it not end here? 33515 Can anything which is ordained of God be abrogated? 33515 Can the Messiah, the kingly Son of David, be come, while those who follow Him are the world''s outcasts, spoiled, persecuted, and slain? 33515 Can the living God suffer shame, anguish, and death, for such beings as we are, for such a kingdom as this Crucified One maybe able to win? 33515 Can this be the beginning of the kingdom? 33515 Did David, think you, ever look coldly or carelessly on his bold soldier''s bloody grave? 33515 Do not men in all ages tremble as they rejoice in prosperity? 33515 Do not the proverbs of all nations warn us that trouble in such moments is near? 33515 Does God know nothing of them? 33515 Does not Christ in this place seem to recognise some divided allegiance-- man under two masters, owing duty to CÃ ¦ sar, owing duty to God? 33515 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? 33515 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 33515 Give us hearts of fire, fire that kindles and flashes from heart to heart, from peak to peak of the human; and what work will wait long for gold? 33515 Have we an eye for that inner glory? 33515 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? 33515 Here is a clear and simple principle: but is it a sufficient guidance? 33515 How about John Hampden''s refusal of the ship- money, and the grand and glorious struggle which it inaugurated, by which our liberties were won? 33515 How about the right of resisting CÃ ¦ sar, when he rules unrighteously? 33515 How did the offence arise? 33515 How does the text decide? 33515 How far am I in contact with idolatry in this eating of meat offered to idols? 33515 How far is the conduct of this great Christian teacher to be regarded as giving the rule to us? 33515 How many Christians understand Christianity better than the Jews understood the Judaism of their times? 33515 How much the pain enters into and exalts the joy, who shall tell? 33515 How say you, careworn, toiling, but rejoicing mothers? 33515 If he is to be counted blessed who works in the vineyard, if his work gladdens, enriches, and ennobles him what room is there for the thought of pay? 33515 If it pleases God to make some men to be saved and other men to be damned, who shall question His rights? 33515 Is it malign or benignant? 33515 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? 33515 Is it, in its very essence, a curse or a blessing to man? 33515 Is not God the sole Lord of his being and of his life? 33515 Is patience no longer beautiful, divine, when it is heaven which has to be waited for, a royal sceptre, an everlasting crown? 33515 Is that tear- stained path He trod, beautiful, transcendently beautiful, in our sight, as it is to the angels and the white- robed choir on high? 33515 Is the solution to be found in the body of the parable, or must we seek it outside in a general study of the ways of God? 33515 Is the symbol of this splendid empire a cross? 33515 Is there not a manifestation of the same law in the history of the universal Church? 33515 Is thine eye evil, because I am good? 33515 Lord, we have seen the seed corn cast into the ground, we have seen it lie there, we have seen it rise, and where is the harvest? 33515 On whom shall we spend our regrets and sorrows? 33515 One would be tempted to ask passionately in that case, Why was not the dire experiment of liberty ended in the hour of the first transgression? 33515 Sons of God, brethren of Christ, citizens of the heavenly state, heirs of everlasting joys and glory, what matters it? 33515 The one question is, Hast thou faith? 33515 The power and the will, said I? 33515 The question is, in which verse of the parable are we to find the key to it? 33515 The tree falls, and who can foresee when it may fall? 33515 Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? 33515 There being this law of calamity at work, defying all calculation and all defence, what is the true policy of life? 33515 Toil may be borne, pain may be borne; but who in his own strength can wrestle with and master care? 33515 Was it not a betrayal of duty to God to consent to it? 33515 Was it not right to suffer any extremities rather than yield to the imperial claims? 33515 Was there no sad shadow, to his eye, around the beauty of Bathsheba''s child, which no murmuredJedidiah"could chase away?
33515Was this His meaning?
33515We may well feel with a wise one of old,"Such knowledge is too wonderful for us: it is as high as heaven, what can we do?
33515What can be CÃ ¦ sar''s, in contradistinction to that which is God''s?
33515What can the pennies in this case mean?
33515What eye can foresee, what brain can forecast, its destiny?
33515What glance can follow it?
33515What good did the birthright do to him?
33515What hand can touch it?
33515What is it which is ordained of God in government?
33515What is its work?
33515What is the Papacy but an endeavour to realize this splendid and prosperous reign of Christ, of which Judaism dreamed?
33515What king''s command could have wrought this miracle?
33515What then?
33515What things are CÃ ¦ sar''s?
33515What things are God''s?
33515What took them there?
33515What tribute can one pay to CÃ ¦ sar, which is not also paid to God?
33515What was the difficulty?
33515Where are the throngs?
33515Where is the kingdom?
33515Where is the throne?
33515Where lie the springs of your sweetest pleasure, where lie the treasures which you would guard with life?
33515Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?_"( Jer.
33515Who are the pitiable ones here?
33515Who has not known something of the agony with which one dark deed of passion, lust, falsehood, knavery, baseness, can torture a human heart?
33515Who has the right to demand it?
33515Who knows the pathway of the storms, the earthquakes, the lava floods, the drought, and the deluge?
33515Who ordains it?
33515Who would not"rather be a dog and bay the moon,"than such a creature?
33515Who would recognise an usurper because he occupies the palace and assumes the signet of the rightful king?
33515Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
33515Why were these men standing in the market- place?
33515Why were they not lounging idly about the fields, or sleeping at home?
33515Will he not be puzzled perpetually to determine their limits, and to settle what is secular and what is sacred?
33515and whence came they?"
33515does it provide for all the possible exigencies of social and political life?
33515it is as deep as hell, what can we know?"
33515what can withhold the waters from rotting it, and burying the promise of the seed and the hope of the husbandman in their depths?
33515where is it?
33515who can trace it?
33515who knows and rules their times?
33515why was not the free universe, parent of such wrongs and miseries, strangled in its birth?
16309How can these be in a Society that is Divine? 16309 Why is not the religion of you Catholics more in accord with the happy world in which we live?
16309Am I even within an appreciable distance of the saints who knew not Christ?
16309And could religion possibly be made a more intimate, private, and personal matter between the soul and God than the Carthusian or Carmelite makes it?
16309And what can the moderate, self- controlled, self- respecting man of the world know of either?
16309And yet, after all, what is the Contemplative Life except precisely that which the world just now recommended?
16309Are any kings remembered as is the beggar Labrà © who gnawed cabbage stalks in the gutters of Rome?
16309Are there any criminals in history so monumental as Catholic criminals?
16309But the Catholic system has the appearance of enslaving men?
16309But the world does withhold its wealth sometimes?
16309Can this, it is asked, be a follower of the Man of Sorrows?
16309Can you explain away,_ reasonably_, on any other grounds than those which I state, the phenomena of My life?"
16309Certainly human circumstances have developed her, yet what but Divine Providence ordered and developed those human circumstances?
16309Certainly there have been appalling scandals, outrageous sinners, blaspheming apostates-- but what of her saints?
16309Death is certain; is life as certain?
16309Did He not call Himself_ a Door and a Vine_?
16309Did He not speak in metaphors and images continually?
16309Did Newman cease to think when he became a Catholic?
16309Did Thomas Aquinas resign his intellect when he devoted himself to study?
16309Did not Christ Himself sit in bodily form at the table as He spoke them?
16309Earthly kings speak from their thrones and what happens?
16309For how can God be weary by the wayside, labour in a shop, and die upon a cross?
16309For what does the world know of such passions as these?
16309For when is my hand most itself?
16309Granted that one Pope has reversed the policy of his predecessor, then what has saved him from reversing his theology also?
16309Has her policy, then, been so suicidal after all?
16309Has my religion, that is to say, ever inspired me beyond the low elevation of joy into the august altitudes of pain?
16309Have I done anything except hinder the growth of Christ''s Church, anything except drag down her standards, so far as I am able, to my own low level?
16309Have I ever wrestled like Jacob or wept like David?
16309Have your religious, careful, timid lives ever exhibited anything resembling that depth of self- abjection to which the Younger Son has attained?
16309He echoes from the Gospel,"_ What manner of man is this that even the winds and the sea obey Him_?
16309He was too worldly when He allowed His disciples to rub corn in their hands; for does not the Law of God forbid a man to make bread on the Sabbath?
16309He was too worldly when He healed men on the Sabbath; for is not the Law of God of more value than a man''s bodily ease?
16309How can Truth make men anything except more free?
16309How can she modify what she believes to be her Divine Message?
16309How can the Eternal Word be silent for thirty years?
16309How can the Infinite lie in a manger?
16309How can the Source of Life be subject to death?
16309How is it conceivable, then, that she should be content with any standard short of perfection?
16309How is it that she has preserved a unity of which all earthly unities are but shadows?
16309How is it that tales are told of the iniquities of Catholicism such as are told of no other of the sects of Christendom?
16309How should there be, since she is Divine?
16309How then could He hold Himself in His hand?
16309How, after all,"he asks himself,"could a man be born without a human father, how rise again from the dead upon the third day?"
16309How, then, is this Paradox to be reconciled?
16309If Christ be God, how can He proclaim that_ His Father is greater than He_?
16309If Christ be Man, how can He say,_ Before Abraham was, I am_?
16309If Christ be man, how can He say,_ My Father and I are one_?
16309If a marble palace is fit for the President of the French Republic, by what right do men withhold it from the King of kings?
16309If an earthly king wears vestments of cloth of gold, must not a heavenly King yet more wear them?
16309If music is used by the world to destroy men''s souls, may not she use it to save their souls?
16309If she is Divine, whence comes her obvious Humanity?
16309If she is Human, why is she so evidently Divine?
16309If she is merely European, how is it that she alone can deal with the Oriental on his own terms?
16309If she is merely human, why do not the laws of all other human societies appear to affect her too?
16309If she is merely mediaeval, how is it that she commands such allegiance as that which is paid to her in modern America?
16309If this Man were man only, however perfect and sublime, how is it that His sanctity appears to run by other lines than those of other saints?
16309In His Person and His teaching alike there seems no rest and no solution--_What think ye of Christ?
16309Instead of this miserable past, then, what is to come?
16309Instead, have you not had a kind of gentle pride in your religion or your virtue or your fastidiousness?
16309Is Reason, then, to be silent henceforth?
16309Is it any wonder that the world thinks both her Faith and Reason alike too extreme?
16309Is it possible that with me the old is not put away, the_ old man_ is not yet dead, and the_ new man_ not yet_ put on_?
16309Is that New Sacrifice the light of my daily life?
16309Is there a single soul now in the world who owes, under God, her conversion to my efforts?
16309Is there any nation with so fierce a patriotism as she who is Supernational?
16309Is this the kind of talk that we hear from modern leaders of religious thought?
16309Now is it not in accordance with Reason that you should grant My claims?
16309Or,"How even could such marvels be related at all of one who was no more than other men?"
16309She is human?
16309So men ask now, If Christ be Man, how could He cast out devils and rise from the dead?
16309So years ago men asked, If Christ be God, how could He be weary by the wayside and die upon the Cross?
16309Was there ever anything more arrogant?
16309Was there ever so mean a Procession as this?
16309Was there ever such a Paradox, such perplexity, and such problems?
16309Was there ever such meekness and charity?
16309Were men less free when they learned that fact?
16309What is it but Catholicism that lies at the heart of the divided allegiance of France, of the miseries of Portugal, and of the dissensions of Italy?
16309What is that power that so often fills us with delights before we have begun to labour, and rewards our labour with the darkness of dereliction?
16309What is the use of saying,_ Blessed are the Meek_, when the whole world knows that"Blessed are the Self- Assertive"?
16309What is the use of speaking of Heavenly Bread when it is earthly food that men need first of all?
16309What kind of life is that which must always be checked and stunted in this fashion?
16309What kind of salvation can there be that can only be purchased by the sacrifice of so much that is noble and inspiring?
16309What of that amazing scene when He threw the furniture about the temple courts?
16309What, after all, can the sensualist know of joy, or the ruined financier of sorrow?
16309What, then, is Religious Liberty?
16309What, then, is the reconciliation of the Paradox?
16309What, then, is the reconciliation of this Paradox?
16309What, then, is this foolish cry about the slavery of dogma?
16309When does He not?
16309When separated from the body, by paralysis or amputation?
16309Where is there, in me, the New Wine of the Gospel?
16309Who that has suffered can ever doubt it again?
16309Whose Son is He_?
16309Why can He not wait till to- morrow?
16309Why has not she too split up into the component parts of which she is welded?
16309Why is it that she alone shows no incline towards dissolution and decay?
16309Why, then, should your theologians seek to penetrate into regions which He did not reveal and to elaborate what He left unelaborated?
16309Would such language as this be tolerated for a moment from the humanitarian Christian pulpits of to- day?
16309Yet is there in me, up to the present, even one glimmer of what is meant by Sanctity?
16309_ Which of you convinceth me of sin?...
16309_ Whom do you say that I am?...
8191What is that?
8191Who is that-- what did you do?
8191Why did you kiss me? 8191 _ His death?_"Has not the thought more often before us been to conform to_ His life_?
8191_ His death?_Has not the thought more often before us been to conform to_ His life_?
8191_ My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?_Here is a great mystery.
8191A gentle reproach was certainly implied in the words,"Could ye not watch with Me one hour?"
8191A life of selfish ease, or a life of following the Son of Man?
8191Ah, Colonel, Captain, Sergeant, leaders all, whatever name you bear, do you want to lead and rule the people whom God has given you as a charge?
8191All the powers and qualities of your nature growing towards maturity,_ except the powers of your soul_?
8191Am I wrong when I say that JESUS IS THE COMING KING?
8191And did not both the former come out of the latter?
8191And is it not in this same fashion and for this same purpose that Christ is to be formed in us?
8191And is the Lord a man, that He should be behind us in loving with an everlasting love those who thus give up and deny their own loves for Him?
8191And we who know what it means to be loved of Him, what can we say?
8191And would it not transform many of the darkest stretches of our earthly journey into bright memorials of the infinite wisdom and goodness of our God?
8191Are they not buried with Him?
8191Are they not gone on before?
8191Are they not ours still?
8191Are we found asking the old question about sitting on the twelve thrones, judging those around us, and sharing in some way the royal glory of a King?
8191Are we not theirs as really as ever?
8191Are you a self- denying disciple?
8191Are you appointed to serve in what seems like a den of beasts?
8191Are you chained fast to some strange trial?
8191Are you labouring to be a king without the Divine anointing?
8191Are you made to feel helpless and useless without the support of those around you?
8191Are you seeking thus after reasons for making the wrong done to you appear pardonable?
8191Are you so journeying?
8191Are you striving to be a prophet without possessing the spirit of the prophets?
8191Are you trying to be a priest without the priestly baptism?
8191Are you under the compulsion of some injustice?
8191Are you"bound"in some way?
8191Are_ you_ in either of these classes?
8191At My girdle hang the keys of life and death; I, even I, was dead; yes, really, cruelly dead; but I am alive for evermore"?
8191But how, and in what, are we to grow?
8191But is there not also here a suggestion of something more?
8191But what is this sin, the consciousness of which is thus forced upon all-- this determined, persistent, active evil?
8191But what of His rule?
8191By what agency does He extend His_ authority_ until it becomes_ control_?
8191By what, then, does He rule?
8191Can they give peace when it is too late to undo what sin has done?
8191Can they silence the clamours of the night?
8191Can you ever be again content to remain little and narrow, with interests and affections that are little and narrow also?
8191Can you ever be again the same since you learned that He loved you?
8191Can you say He is thus dwelling in you, and working in you, to will and to do of His good pleasure?
8191Comrade, what are you?
8191Conscious of advance, but not of victory?
8191Dear comrade and friend, are you taking care that the Divine Life in you shall grow after this Christ- like fashion?
8191Dear friend, are you"becoming conformed unto His death"?
8191Did I say that sorrow was the commonest of all human experiences?
8191Did ever babe open eyes on such a topsy- turvy condition of affairs?
8191Did we think it would be otherwise?
8191Did we, do we, sometimes wonder why the road is so rough, and the burden so heavy, and the sky so dark?
8191Do I, then, discourage good works?
8191Do you ever pray?"
8191Do you know any of them?
8191Do you really believe it?
8191Do you think it has strength to hold_ them_?
8191Do you think, then, that He will leave them behind?
8191For what says the Apostle?
8191Has man no part to play in his own deliverance?
8191Has not that been the chief influence which has drawn men to Him, and held them in His service?
8191Has not your freedom in prayer, and your desire for it, wavered between this and that until you have not known what to think of yourself?
8191Has not your joy been often so quickly turned to sorrow that you have wondered how you yourself could be the same person?
8191Have I forgotten that"faith without works is dead"?
8191Have you come to this?
8191Have you, my friend, not had to mourn over some strange changes?
8191His exalted throne?
8191His majesty?
8191His royal lineage?
8191How do they meet remorse?
8191How do they treat with guilt?
8191How is it possible we should ever be conformed to such a wonder of love and power?
8191How much of gloom and shadow has come down on hearts and households I have known, from the persistency of that"Why?"
8191How shall he withstand temptation?
8191How, then, is it with you?
8191If Calvary and the Resurrection reveal His power, does not Bethlehem make manifest His love?
8191Indeed, might we not say of a great deal in us, which to- day is, that to- morrow it will be cast away for ever?
8191Is he, after all, only an animal-- the mere creature of circumstance and natural law?
8191Is it His divine purity, His kingly holiness, His might as the supreme Sovereign whose law is good?
8191Is it for any human thing we seek?
8191Is it not to something of the same kind we are called?
8191Is it ours?
8191Is not that the lesson of His burial for every one who sorrows for the loss of loved ones called up higher?
8191Is there no appeal to you to- day from that hill side, without the city wall?
8191Is there not a lesson here for us, my comrade?
8191Is there not a lesson in her example?
8191Is there not a point for us, also, at which we may pass over the line of uncertainty or reserve in our offering, saying for ever-- it is finished?
8191Is there not something here for us?
8191Is there not something that should answer to this in the lives of many of His disciples?
8191Living, so to speak, out of your element-- like a fish out of water?
8191May I offer one or two thoughts on the subject, which, though quite simple, have proved of blessing to my own heart?
8191Nay, what is it all but to tread in the very steps that the Master trod?
8191Now, when we are called upon to suffer in the same way, may we not be brought into very intimate fellowship with Jesus?
8191Of what use could it be to become an Officer, in order to seek the many, if God did not hearken to her cry for the few?
8191Oh, why should it be?
8191On what is His_ rule_ based?
8191Ought I not to have said_ temptation_?
8191Ought he to offer himself for Officership in The Army?
8191Shall we complain because the servant is not above his Lord?
8191The devotee of your own self?
8191The real question for us then is, Can our religion-- does our religion, when tried by the test of human experience-- afford any remedy for these?
8191The servant of a high ideal, but without_ liberty_?
8191To many, even among the chosen spirits of the household of faith, approaching death also starts the great"_ Why_?"
8191To what does He owe the influence He exercises in the minds and hearts of multitudes of these little ones?
8191To whom, then, did our Lord speak on the tree, and what spake He?
8191V. Are_ you_ dead?
8191Was it His dominion from sea to sea?
8191Was it His sovereign throne of power?
8191Was it even His victory over death and His kingly conquest of the grave?
8191Was it her affair?
8191Was it worth while, after all, troubling about sinners?
8191We are, I know, saved by faith; but how shall we believe unless we hear?
8191What about you?
8191What are they in their actual effect on the memories and consciences of men in relation to their sin?
8191What avail is it to contradict those who can answer,"Hereby we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit"?
8191What do we need?
8191What is it in Jesus Christ that calls the sorely- tempted one to Him?
8191What is the crying agony of our prayers?
8191What is the secret longing of our hearts?
8191What of the thing itself?
8191What special thoughts and beauties of His soul do His words reveal?
8191What was the secret of His influence over them?
8191What, then?
8191Who can think, even now, without a thrill of unmixed delight, of the reunions of those who for long weary years were separated here?
8191Why should she care?
8191Will not you?
8191Will they ever be quite the same?
8191Will they not have lost something?
8191Will you be one?
8191Will you come and join in our great world- mission of making His atonement known?
8191Will you learn of Him?
8191Will_ you_ not have His Cross?
8191With those blessed words of hope and peace in my ears, how can I ever fear that one could be so vile, so far away, so nearly lost, as to cry in vain?
8191Would not this add a whole world of joy to the glory which shall be revealed?
8191You see the lesson?
8191_ Is it not by His compassion_?
8191_ Is it not so_?
8191_ Is it yours_?
8191_ What, then, shall it be that is finished_?
8191and how shall we hear without a preacher?
8191and is there an echo of murmuring at these bonds and infirmities and drudgeries of daily duty and common sorrow?
8191depend upon it, the twentieth century will cry aloud,"_ What shall be done with our sin_?"
8191in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin"?
44441And what, forsooth, have you there? 44441 How,"he asks,"can a man be born when he is old?
44441Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
44441Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,''Why hast thou made me thus?''
44441Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?
44441Should I have been better prepared, sir,the sailor answered,"if I had shirked my duty?"
44441Tell me, father-- tell me, mother, what is there beyond the sky?
44441Were you ready to die that you jumped into the stormy sea to save that child''s life?
44441What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? 44441 What is liberty?"
44441Again, young men go that they may get forward faster than in old communities-- and who can wonder?
44441Am I to pray for physical blessings and deliverances?
44441Am I to pray only to be made wise, and good, and pure, and true, and holy?
44441Am I to pray then( for men do tell me that I may pray) only for spiritual and for moral gifts?
44441Am I to pray to a law?
44441Am I to pray to a system?
44441Am I to pray to the winds, or to the waves, as men prayed of old?
44441And are you and I exceptions?
44441And does He give comfort to His creatures in order to torment them by its removal?
44441And if He was more than a man shall we not take His own testimony as to His dignity and mission?
44441And is it not so in the spiritual world?
44441And is that all?
44441And now we have seen these, we turn to the third portion of our story; and what is that we see there?
44441And now we turn to the second scene, and what have we there?
44441And the bewildered soul sings:-- And can this mighty King Of glory condescend?
44441And what caused this calamity?
44441And what have we got?
44441And what is equal in persuasive power to the simple utterance of your own intense conviction?
44441And what is the record of our race since?
44441And what mean those wonderful words of His, telling of His intimacy, His sonship, His oneness with the invisible and eternal God?
44441And will He write His name My Father, and my Friend?
44441Are we pilgrims and strangers, worn and weary in our search for the home from which we are exiles?
44441Are we soldiers, beset with foes and required to endure the shocks of battle?
44441Are we voyagers upon a troubled and a dangerous sea?
44441As, then, we turn over the pages of the Bible, must we not say,"The wind of heaven bloweth where it listeth"?
44441But are we, after all, so very helpless before the aggregate of these mighty forces, as materialism loves to represent?
44441But attempt to tell him that beyond is nothing, and not even room for anything, and will he believe you?
44441But can we lay down directions about this and offer suggestions?
44441But how is it in foul weather?
44441But is this any reason for a fierce arraignment of nature, as tho she were execrably ruthless, and execrably indifferent?
44441But is this any reason why we should look on ourselves as victims of dead irresponsible forces?
44441But the Bible asked the question, more than thirty centuries ago,"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades?"
44441But the question may arise, can we know the precepts and the statutes that God has given to us?
44441But what beyond?
44441By what arithmetic is such a balance cast?
44441Can he enter a second time into his mother''s womb, and be born?"
44441Can we do no better, after so long a time?
44441Can we wonder if the Judge should say to them when they appear at His seat,"I never knew you"?
44441Could it be, perhaps, that such an one might bring us nearer to the inaccessible Light-- might help us to draw nigh as seeing Him who is invisible?
44441Did He not know it all a hundred thousand ages ago, or ever the earth was?"
44441Did the stranger go with the man to the pool, and keep his eye upon him while he was there?
44441Did the stranger who told the tale know the beggar who was said to have been cured?
44441Do I need to describe these bad ways to you?
44441Do we delight in what strengthened Him?
44441Do we then complain in affliction?
44441Does God, then, build up in order to destroy?
44441Does it not gather all the world in the sweep of its mighty purpose of mercy?
44441Does our work rest upon the basis of inward fellowship with God which underlay His?
44441Does the Bible care about weary people?
44441Does the wind then obey no rule; is it a mere symbol of unfettered caprice?
44441Dost Thou sleep, Lord?
44441For each of us, my hearers, this is the question of questions,"What shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ?"
44441For what reason was there this unusual emotion ere He spoke the word which cleansed?
44441For what reason was there this unwonted slowness in Christ''s healing works?
44441Had Bartimeus considered all these difficulties?
44441Had the stranger examined his eyes the very morning of the day on which he received sight?
44441Have we obeyed or have we disobeyed?
44441Have you ever pondered that dark mystery of human nature, the origin of the frightful idolatries of India?
44441Have you ever realized, with heartfelt gratitude to God, the priceless boon which He has granted to this generation in the diminution of pain?
44441Have you not sometimes wished that you could have had that hundred and fifty- fourth fish?
44441He knoweth it altogether?
44441His voice pierced then into the dull cold ear of death, and has it become weaker since?
44441How can we do it?
44441How do we talk?
44441How is that?
44441How is that?--the words exactly the same, the notes identical-- how?
44441How long has it been since the doctrine of the rotundity of the earth has been settled by scientific men?
44441I must do the one or the other; and yet how many are seeking, like Pilate, to evade the question?
44441If God afflicts, how foolish it is to go to the world for relief?
44441If He was only a man, how shall we explain them?
44441Is he to cease to believe in Christ?
44441Is it less mighty or less loving now?
44441Is it upon the misers and the miscreants and the murderers of the race merely?
44441Is the world greater than God?
44441Is there not the most complete demand for the punishment?
44441Is there the slightest claim in us for the reward?
44441It seems as if we might apprehend either of these things singly; but both together-- how can it be?
44441Might not one man have been sent to the pool, and another man have come back to Jerusalem?
44441Now, speaking roughly, what has been the motive for the great Western wave, which is making this garden out of that desert?
44441Now, ye scientific men, what made that gourd wither?
44441On whom does the Judge show his indignation?
44441On whom does the fire fall?
44441Perchance we explain the immediate antecedents of the phenomenon; but can we explain our own explanation?
44441Say, will you learn it?
44441Shall I reject Him and live precisely as if I had never heard His name?
44441Shall we neglect it and pass it by, or shall we take it, study it, seek it, as the verse expresses it, and make it the rule of our lives?
44441The criticism may be vigorous; he may be wholly unable to answer it: but what then?
44441The question of Pilate,"What shall I do, then, with Jesus which is called the Christ?"
44441The sending of the blind man to wash at the Pool of Siloam was suspicious: what could that washing have to do with a miracle?
44441Then, if we are not to pray, may we at least praise?
44441Thou art a ruin, but a grand one,--the majestic ruin of a majestic edifice, for knowest thou not that thou wast the temple of God?
44441To what am I to pray if I see no living God to pray to?
44441To whom is it that we pray?
44441Was it certain that the man was blind?
44441Was it certain that the vision was not gradually returning?
44441Was it not more probable that the stranger''s story should be false than that the miracle should be true?
44441Was it quite certain that the blind beggar who was sent to Siloam was the man who came back to the city and declared that Jesus had healed him?
44441Well, is that all science can say?
44441What did the Spaniards find there?
44441What do we need, then, but Christ the Son of God, the Heart of God, the Love of God?
44441What do we need, then?
44441What is it we see in the first scene?
44441What is it, then, that we see?
44441What is the distinction of the race to which we belong, that it succeeds where these have failed?
44441What is the need of flowers?
44441What is the secret of this influence of Scripture?
44441What proportion of our property should we devote to God?
44441What shall we do with His word?
44441What sin in the whole catalog of sin has been omitted by man?
44441What was it that drew that sigh from the heart of Jesus?
44441Wherefore, then, this unwonted squeamishness of conscience?
44441Why all this reluctance on his part to send Jesus to the cross?
44441Why are the cities of Europe horrified no longer by the hideousness of medieval leprosy?
44441Why can you sing?
44441Why did He do it if there was no need of it, if it were even possible that it should be wrested from its meaning?
44441Why do we not have pestilence, like that great plague of London, which destroyed 7,165 persons in a single week?
44441Why does the Black Death rage no longer, as it raged among the monks of this Abbey four centuries ago?
44441Why has jail fever disappeared?
44441Why has smallpox been stayed in its loathly ravages, and deprived of its hideous power?
44441Why should he?
44441Why so?
44441Why then, again we ask, was his perplexity?
44441Why?
44441Will he pay-- will he''make good''--on the investment if he becomes a drinker?
44441Would it not be well for Bartimeus to suspend his faith in Jesus until he had made further inquiries about the miracle?
44441Yet what do we really know about it?
44441You would lay before God your wretched plight to move His pity?
44441behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?"
44441or shall I accept Him as the Lord from heaven in human nature, trust in Him as my Savior, and obey Him as my King?
44441says science; drag God in to explain anything?
44441to Him to save us, and He has seemed to sleep and to refuse to save?
22482Do you think him beyond further effort?
22482If ye love them who love you, what do ye more than others?
22482Is Saul also among the prophets?
22482Know ye not that whoever will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God?
22482To you is it nothing, all ye that pass by?
22482What is there in him or about him to explain his success?
22482What must I do to be saved?
22482What must I do to be saved?
22482You have been told,says Jesus,"to love your neighbour"; and to the question,"Who is my neighbour?"
22482''WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?''
22482A DEVIL''S TRINITY"Know ye not that ye are a temple of God?"
22482And how are we to get it into our possession?
22482And how is it redeemed, even in the case of the latter?
22482And is it not true?
22482And so when the people exclaimed in astonishment:"Is Saul also among the prophets?"
22482And then the further question forced itself-- Why, in so many cases, and to all human seeming, is it just that-- nothing?
22482And what about feeling or emotion, which is usually represented as a vital part of the driving power of Christian life and conduct?
22482And what can not love do?
22482And what does God love in us?
22482And what does it mean when these men are, by the acknowledgment of public sentiment, the representatives of what is called"legitimate business"?
22482And who is responsible for it?
22482And why are they so patient?
22482And why do they not choose?
22482Are they always sure of that?
22482As we can settle nothing but ourselves, why not settle ourselves as comfortably as we can?"
22482But does that which wakes love put it there?
22482But how far is that?
22482But how few people, past a given age, ever do quite conquer the inward foes whose sinister power is of their own cultivation?
22482But how much may have been done, for better or for worse, before we realize that the angels have gone away only because they were never here?
22482But some one must speak, and to whom does the duty fall, if not upon him whose calling it is to stand between the quick and the dead?
22482But this is the question: Have they who compose this lonely and sombre procession no claims upon their Maker in the meanwhile?
22482But what proportion do they bear to the legions who, once in Ur of the Chaldees, have neither thought nor desire for a better country?
22482But what, in the next place, is our part in this matter?
22482But what, you ask me, are we to say about sudden conversions, of which we once heard so much, and which we are still taught to seek and expect?
22482But when this is said, the surest and simplest answer to the question, What is it in ourselves we are to love?
22482But who is thy neighbour?
22482But why pile up the odds, that start you never will; or that you will not go far if you do?
22482Can I help you?
22482Can we conceive of it as having any part in the economy of the Kingdom which Jesus came to establish on the earth?
22482Can we marvel why the Christ is still despised and rejected?
22482DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY?
22482Do we desire life?
22482Do we think that God wills it?
22482Do we want to be saved?
22482Do you believe the first part of this statement?
22482Do you say that you have felt nothing of this convicting and convincing power?
22482Does any one say, I ask again, that he has never had this impulse?
22482For what?
22482From what, I repeat, are we to be saved?
22482Has God been faithful to us; and if so, are we justified in assuming that the same faithfulness is the experience of others?
22482Have we never known lives changed, and indeed transformed by a new affection?
22482Have we to explain to a child the mechanism of its limbs before it can attempt to walk?
22482Have we to wait for something, or have we to do something to make it a real experience?
22482Have you ever tried to know yourself even as you are known?
22482How is this power to come?
22482How many of us have read this man''s life- finish?
22482How may we give the words a useful setting, as a remembrancer and a call to the young men of to- day?
22482How often is it that their chance has been and gone, without their knowing it?
22482How, to use a better term, are we to realize it?
22482I may not be able to explain His grace to the satisfaction of others; but will others explain me to my own?"
22482IX''WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?''
22482If as the beginning is, so must the end be, what are we to say of a man''s will?
22482If it be asked:"Why the possibility at all?"
22482If this is so, how are we to read those old words that"chance happeneth to them all"?
22482If, then, these latter remarks can carry the weight I want them to bear, what of those that have preceded them?
22482In the meantime, then, instead of asking, how can God be God and permit wrong to be in the world?
22482In weariness and despair we ask:"Why should we war with evil?
22482In what sense is a man to love himself?
22482Instead of multiplying words to no profit over the old question, Why all this misery and suffering?
22482Is it possible to do it?
22482Is it possible, then, to bring down this command and incarnate it in our daily life?
22482Is it wrong to cultivate and indulge a habit that inevitably leads to bad results?
22482Is some new thing added to life?
22482Is there anything mysterious in this; anything we may not understand?
22482It is because we can do wrong that we can do right; and if we think about this, may we not think hopefully?
22482It is to take the sting of death out of the old evil question:"Who does it?"
22482It was a message, so he felt, to shake men, to arouse them, and make them turn on one another and cry:"Men and brethren, what must we do?"
22482Long as men are willingly in their sin-- which means selfishness in all its deadly forms-- can we wonder at the unbelief portrayed on that canvas?
22482May I counsel you to think about what has been said?
22482Must it annex the whole low plane of such a squalid disposition?
22482Must my love for my neighbour include one callous enough, not only to do a thing like that, but to boast about it?
22482Now is your accepted time--"Are you in earnest?
22482Put religion out of the question, and do we find that the prizes of the world offer us easier terms?
22482Rather will it be, Who can afford not to do it?
22482SELF- RESPECT AND COMPANIONSHIPS"Is Saul also among the prophets?"
22482Should any one ask,"Who does it?"
22482So long as men are indifferent about the very question, Why that anguish?
22482Strong in what sense?
22482Take any wrong that happens to appeal to your sense of indignation, and ask why it continues?
22482That circumstances may use him, but they shall not make him?
22482That sounds formidable, but to what does it amount?
22482The battle is hard, at times very hard, but what battle is not hard that is worth winning?
22482Their meaning is better represented in a question like this:"How comes a person of such distinction to find himself in such disreputable company?"
22482Then I ask: Have you ever passed through an hour of serious inquest with your own soul?
22482Then about feeling: Is there one of us who can say, that he, or she, has never had the impulse that should lead to Christian decision?
22482Then what about the end?
22482This hints to us the answer to the question, Have we to do something that salvation may become a known and felt reality?
22482Unless this be so, what are we to say of the multitudes which sit in darkness and the shadow of death?
22482Very well, take the initial letter from the word, and what have you left?
22482Was He original in His teaching, as we use the word, or was He eclectic, gathering together the most luminous things that had been said?
22482We are to be saved from what?
22482We say:"How does this come to pass?
22482Were not the mighty men of the great nineteenth century aged men, if we count age only by shadows on the dial?
22482What are we to say about the power and working of divine grace?
22482What can make me whole again?
22482What is the difference between the two?
22482What is the explanation?"
22482What of that?
22482What other proof of wrong does a right- minded person ask?
22482What was that cause?
22482What was the fashioning hand behind the effect?
22482What, I ask again, can not love do?
22482What, I ask in all faithfulness, are we doing to make real and living to men the presence of a Lord who is ever suffering in their sin and for it?
22482What, or where, is the wrong in such a transaction?"
22482What, then, is our testimony?
22482While always trying to think fairly, and even generously about others, have you the right to think well of yourselves?
22482While there is life, does there ever come a time when it is no longer true to say that out of it can pass the old, or into it can come the new?
22482Why is it that a few have so much more than they can use, and so many have less than they need?
22482Why is it that they do not come unto Him that they may have life?
22482Why should they be so chronically patient?
22482Why should they be so long ignorant?
22482Why should you not?
22482Why wait, then, for what is waiting for us?
22482Why?
22482Will he show that kicked he may be, but ball he is not?
22482Would you hold me true in saying that anybody might have anticipated the discovery of wireless telegraphy?
22482X DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY?
22482X DOES GOD HAVE FAIR- PLAY?
22482and into what are we to be saved?
22482in what does it get its lease of existence?
22482they did not mean:"How is it that such a worldly- minded man finds himself in the company of such pious people?"
22482vain is the appeal,"To you is it nothing your Saviour should die?"
12746And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
12746Dear Dick, pr''ythee tell by what passion you move? 12746 The Dean and his merits we every one know, But this skip of a lawyer, where the de''il did he grow?
12746( 3) Which is the way to stop an offence?
12746( 7) Of what?
12746***** And behold a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
1274613 For He the artillery directs, What''s that charge?
127462 And see who would His being own, What other way is And Him, as God, adore: there of adoring?
127462 Lest, like a ravenous lion, they What sort of lions are My captive soul devour, they that devour souls?
127462 Sincere, and just, who never lie;_ 3 And so their neighbour ne''er deceive, How_ so_?
127462 True mutual kindness they pretend, Did ever any man pretend mutual kindness to another?
127468 And to the world from thence ordains( 7) Did anybody ever Impartial equity:(7) hear of_ partial_ equity?
12746And hears when I( 4) complain:( 4) If your requests be granted, why do you complain?
12746And how little good ground would there be to take it?
12746And must these two articles be added henceforward in our national quarrels?
12746And so St Paul concludes,"The powers that be are ordained of God:"For what?
12746And then, for whose sakes do you think it is, that your leaders are so industrious to put into your heads all that party rage and virulence?
12746And why should God be deprived of this right over a Catholic''s conscience any more than over that of any other Dissenter?
12746And, if it should here be objected, Why does not Christianity still produce the same effects?
12746Are the secrets of our families betrayed, and evil repute spread of us?
12746Are they not the majority of both Houses of Parliament?
12746Are they seduced to lewdness or scandalous marriages?
12746Are we engaged in quarrels and misunderstandings with our neighbours?
12746Are we robbed and murdered in our beds?
12746Are_ they_ more just in their dealings?
12746But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
12746But of Thy face to us do Thou What is it, to The favour still dispense; dispense the favour of his face?
12746But, from what motives?
12746But, if they have a preacher, and make it a point of wit or breeding not to hear him, what remedy is left?
12746Did any of them ever shew the least reluctance, or make any exception against their officers, whether they were Dissenters or Churchmen?
12746Did ever any conforming gentlemen, or common people, refuse to be arrayed, when the militia was raised, upon the invasion of the Pretender?
12746Did they ever refuse the oath of abjuration, or support any conforming nonjuring teachers in their congregations?
12746Do false accusers rise up against us( an evil too frequent in this country)?
12746Do on themselves return:( 4)( 3) If the mischiefs be in their mind, what need they return on themselves?
12746Do our children discover folly, malice, pride, cruelty, revenge, undutifulness in their words and actions?
12746Do they consider how mixed a thing is every audience, whose taste and judgment differ, perhaps, every day, not only from each other, but themselves?
12746Do_ they_ lead better moral lives than a good Christian?
12746Does not this sound like a demand of the repeal of the Test, at the peril of those, who dare refuse it?
12746Does this mystery of the Trinity, for instance, and the descent of the Holy Ghost, bring the least profit or power to the preachers?
12746Feed me with food convenient for me; lest I be full and deny thee, and say,''Who is the Lord?''
12746For God, Whom I adore, Why then does he tell us just before that he has prayed in vain, and is afraid of becoming a prey to his enemies?
12746For can there be a more ungrateful thing to a man, than to find that upon a nearer view he is not that person he took himself to be?
12746For first, what can be a greater honour than to be chosen one of the stewards and dispensers of God''s bounty to mankind?
12746For instance: Ask any of those who differ from the worship established, why they do not come to church?
12746For we all know what it is to repent, but whether he repents him truly of his sins or not, who can know it?
12746For what end?
12746For where are there more cloudy brows, more melancholy hearts, or more ingratitude to their great Benefactor, than among those who abound in wealth?
12746For, why do men love darkness rather than light?
12746Had they not at that time a mental reservation for power and employments?
12746He said unto him, What is written in the law?
12746How many great princes have been murdered by the meanest ruffians?
12746How many grow considerable by breach of trust, by bribery and corruption?
12746How many have sold their religion, with the rights and liberties of themselves and others, for power and employments?
12746How many obscure men have been authors of very useful inventions, whereof the world now reaps the benefit?
12746How much of the seed then sown would be found to fall by the way- side, upon stony ground or among thorns?
12746How readest thou?
12746However, in personal dislikes of a particular preacher, are these men sure they are always in the right?
12746If I then your Lord and Master wash your feet, how much more ought ye to wash one another''s feet?"
12746In lively verdure still appear; verdure, beside the Such blessings always shall attend leaves?
12746Is it not to make you the tools and instruments, by which they work out their own designs?
12746Is our house burnt down to the ground?
12746Is this to deal like a judge,( I mean like a good judge) to listen on one side of the cause, and sleep on the other?
12746Knock him down,& c."And, when this is over, we''ll make him amends, To the Dean he shall go; they shall kiss and be friends: But how?
12746Knock him down,& c."What care we how high runs his passion or pride?
12746Lice from your body suck their food; But is a louse your flesh and blood?
12746Now, sir, in answer to your question, whether if an attempt should be made here for repealing the Sacramental Test, it would be likely to succeed?
12746Or has the man sinned out of custom?
12746Or, lastly, has a false opinion betrayed him into a sin?
12746Or, suppose I share my fortune equally between my own children, and a stranger whom I take into my protection; will that be a method to unite them?
12746Qu: Whether stupidity makes men devour saints, or devouring saints makes a man stupid?
12746That a very little pain, for instance, putteth him out of patience, and as little pleasure softens and disarms him into ease and wantonness?
12746That he had neither the courage, nor the honesty, nor the piety, nor the humility that he dreamed he had?
12746That he has been at more pains, and labour, and cost, to be revenged of an enemy, than to oblige the best friend he has in the world?
12746That practice such iniquity,( 3) What is the meaning of For Thou wilt punish those that word,_ such_, in this place?
12746The great question, long debated in the world, is, whether the rich or the poor are the least miserable of the two?
12746Therefore, Why should the rights of conscience, whereof God is the sole lord, be subject to human jurisdiction?"
12746Thus are the last efforts of reforming mankind rendered wholly useless:"How shall they hear,"saith the apostle,"without a preacher?"
12746Thus, for instance; does the ill he knows of a man proceed from an unhappy temper and constitution of body?
12746To make the poor( 6) their prey: Does this verse end according to the more modern art of poetry, as the author speaks in his preface?
12746Was this their course of proceeding during the dominion of the saints?
12746What if I had produced their absurd notions about God and the soul?
12746What is there, that can give a generous spirit more pleasure and complacency of mind, than to consider that he is an instrument of doing much good?
12746What methods shall we take to hold open his eyes?
12746Where then is this matter likely to end, when the obtaining of one request is only used as a step to demand another?
12746Whether the Dissenters ever pretended, until of late years, to desire more than a bare toleration?
12746Whether the bishops and clergy will be content to give up Episcopacy, as a point indifferent, without which the Church can well subsist?
12746Whether the sectaries will ever agree to accept ordination only from bishops?
12746Whether the sectaries, whenever they come to prevail, will not ruin the Church as infallibly and effectually as the Papists?
12746Whether, by necessary consequences, the several expedients among the sectaries to constitute their teachers, are not absolutely null and void?
12746Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?
12746Who are these absurd politicians?
12746Who first passed, and secondly continue the Sacramental Test, in all the preceding attempts of the Dissenters to repeal it?
12746Why?
12746Will he be moved by considerations of common civility?
12746Would you have it stopped like a bottle, or a thief?
12746Yet critics may object, why not?
12746_ To conclude:_ These considerations may, perhaps, have some effect while men are awake; but what arguments shall we use to the sleeper?
12746are they not there already?
12746more chaste, or temperate, or charitable?
12746says he,"is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?"
12746that great numbers owe to him, under God, their subsistence, their safety, their health, and the good conduct of their lives?
12746very sublimely?
11760Children, have ye any meat?
11760Hast thou not known? 11760 Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven?
11760Seekest thou great things for thyself?
11760A man says:"Ca n''t I do as I like with my own?"
11760A ransom must be paid to somebody-- to whom was this ransom paid?
11760About His dying-- how did He die?
11760And Faraday, weeping, said:"Why will people go astray when they have this blest book to guide them?"
11760And I put it to you this morning whether you can any longer tolerate that omission?
11760And what did they mean?
11760And what is the object of connecting man with God?
11760And what to him is the resultant enfranchisement?
11760And where is Christ?
11760And who are Christ''s?
11760And why is it greater than charity?
11760And why not?
11760Are there any in whom the immortal hope burns low?
11760Are there any merchants here who are despondent?
11760Are there any parents whose children have wandered far?
11760Are you anxious for your children?
11760Are you hopeless and despondent because of your fainting strength?
11760Are you sick with hope long deferred?
11760Are you weak, oh, patriot?
11760Art thou one of the old prophets of Israel, escaped from his rocky tomb?
11760Besides, do we know whether voices that seem to be lost, are so in reality?
11760Brethren, does our common thought of redemptive glory reach back into this august and awful presence?
11760But are we right?
11760But has reverence no relationship to the practical?
11760But how did you destroy it?
11760But what is the fact?
11760But what made Luther?
11760But when the thrones of Rome were occupied with men who held the same opinion of the Bible as he does today, what was the freedom of the race?
11760But: What end have you in view?
11760By Thomas DeWitt Talmage Moody, Dwight Lyman, What Think ye of Christ?
11760By what interest are you led?
11760By whom have you been bought?
11760Can the trees of the field, as they clap their hands and sing in the freshening breeze, do other than refer it to heaven?
11760Can we safely exile it from our moral and spiritual culture?
11760Can you tell me anything that is going to last?
11760Christianity does not ask:"What think ye of the Bible?"
11760Did you ever notice how continually John associates love and faith with eternal life?
11760Did you ever think what he meant by that?
11760Dine on what?
11760Do you find yourselves face to face with the fact that Christ died for our sins?
11760Do you recall those wonderful sentences, scattered here and there about the apostle''s writings, and beginning with the words"but now"?
11760Do you think that that is a fair explanation?
11760Do you wonder that from that day to this the"carpenter''s son"of the Bible has been scoffed at by this infidelity?
11760Do your days of service seem short, until your life is scarcely longer than the flower that blooms to- day and is gone tomorrow?
11760Does the thought of the modern disciple journey in this distant pilgrimage?
11760Everyone has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the_ summum bonum_--the supreme good?
11760Has slavery worn man''s strength to nothingness until he is as weak as the broken reed and the withered grass?
11760Hath not God pledged His strength to the worker, that God whose arm strikes out worlds as the smith strikes out sparks upon the anvil?
11760Have the sons of the fathers never heard of the everlasting God, the Lord, Creator of the ends of the earth?
11760Have troubles driven happiness from thee, as the hawk drives the young lark or nightingale from its nest?
11760Have we not here, on the contrary, the image of human life?
11760Have you ever noticed how much of Christ''s life was spent in doing kind things-- in merely doing kind things?
11760How did it go?
11760How does that touch you as a revelation of magnificence in strength?
11760How does the Roman Catholic Church do it?
11760How is it that she pursues her conquering way, in spite of stupidities and blunders that would have killed any other institution?
11760How is it that this prophet and poet has become companion of the great ones of the earth?
11760How many of you will join me in reading this chapter once a week for the next three months?
11760How shall he care for these, when he returns to his ruined estate?
11760How then are we to have this transcendent living whole conveyed into our souls?
11760How?
11760I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are?
11760If Christ was indeed a ransom, the question naturally arose, who paid the price?
11760If we could have forecast the training of such a life, how should we have pictured it?
11760If you and I could have imagined the introduction of this life of lives to the world, how should we picture that?
11760In the event of death, what arm shall lift a shield above these little ones?
11760Is any one prepared to dissociate this contemplation from the apostle''s cheery optimism?
11760Is it not a complete justification of our plea?
11760Is it not significant of what a great man of affairs found needful for the enkindling and sustenance of a courageous hope?
11760Is it the delusion of the sleeper, or the whisper of God?
11760Is life not full of opportunities for learning love?
11760Is not man''s helper that God who dippeth up the seas in the hollow of His hand?
11760Is not rather the thought of coming glory one of its abiding springs?
11760Is not that yet more pathetically significant?
11760Is the Shepherd and Leader of His little flock unequal to their guidance across the desert?
11760Is the ladder set up from the earth, or is it let down from above?
11760Is the way long and through a desert?
11760Is there one of us long tossed on sunless seas of doubt, long conscious of failure and disappointment in life?
11760It asks:"What think ye of Christ?"
11760It is David singing:"Why art thou cast down, O my soul?"
11760It is Jesus saying to Mary, and, in her, to all those whom grief afflicts:"Why weepest thou?"
11760Man''s hand unequal to the task of rebuilding Jerusalem?
11760Now how?
11760Now, what are the secrets of this courageous and energetic optimism?
11760Oh, brother, is it true of you, that after all the painful years happiness is not yours?
11760Oh, how can I fulfil it?
11760Or art thou perchance He whom we await?
11760Or do we now regard it as unpractical and irrelevant?
11760Roaming then through the entire records of his life and teachings, do we discover any significant emphasis?
11760Roman Catholics go to mass; what is the mass?
11760Shall I tell you what the cause is?
11760Shall we discard it as an irrelevant factor in the purposes of common life?
11760Shall we go forward with our Bible or backward without it?
11760The wisdom of the ancients, where is it?
11760There is the root, there the stem, and there are the leaves, and there is everything; but where is the flower?
11760They had toiled all night and caught nothing; is not that a significant description of many human lives?
11760They no longer say to any one who now lifts up his voice: Who are you?
11760Thine enemies too strong for thee?
11760To all this wretched state of man what offers came from Seneca, whom skepticism quotes as a moralist?
11760To what shall we refer this sublime, transfiguring dream?
11760We have the boat and the nets, all this elaborate organization of the Church, but have we caught anything this year?
11760We men and women sometimes feel burdened because of the sin we see around us; shall not the heavenly Father be as sensitive and responsive as we men?
11760We must arise with courage undismayed, and join in the cry of the ages: When wilt thou save the people, O God of mercy, when?
11760Well, pray, what is practical preaching?
11760What are the spacious issues of the glorious work?
11760What are the things in this Man''s life?
11760What are these, arrayed in white, Brighter than the noonday sun?
11760What can we do with that which is the true life of man?
11760What can we say of that which is the highest wisdom, the widest sympathy, the divinest love, and the mightiest power in human history?
11760What do you think of that?
11760What does this prophet on the Isle of Patmos see and hear, as he looks out into future ages and coming worlds?
11760What good are we if it is good for nothing, since it is at the root of all our institutions?
11760What if their language had decayed and their institutions had perished?
11760What is behind it?
11760What is it made of?
11760What is life?
11760What is the Lord''s Supper?
11760What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?
11760What is the secret of the strength of the Roman Catholic Church?
11760What is the soul of that amazingly beautiful and seemingly fantastic mythology of the Greeks?
11760What is the truth?
11760What is the use of having faith?
11760What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician?
11760What makes a man a good cricketer?
11760What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer?
11760What party do you serve?
11760What was Christ doing in the carpenter''s shop?
11760What was His spirituality?
11760What was that?
11760What was this spirit in him?
11760What will be the joy of that harvest?
11760When did it go?
11760When you go into the average church to- day, what great idea meets you?
11760Where are the men and women saved by our triumphant effort?
11760Where did He get it?
11760Where is the draft of fishes?
11760Wherever we look, this gospel is the master light of all our seeing; and once more, is it not light from heaven?
11760Who believed in freedom then?
11760Who is Christ?
11760Who then art thou, mysterious preacher?
11760Who weighs the mountains with scales and the hills in the balance?
11760Whose program for the production of intellectual and spiritual liberty can liberals accept?
11760Why did they not know Him?
11760Why do they worship Apollo and Aphrodite, Hermes and Athene?
11760Why do we want to live tomorrow?
11760Why is love greater than faith?
11760Why?
11760Why?
11760Why?
11760Why?
11760Will you come?
11760Will you observe what its elements are?
11760Would he ever dream of taking His name in vain if he loved Him?
11760Would he not be too glad to have one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively to the object of his affection?
11760You could only insult him if you suggested that he should not steal-- how could he steal from those he loved?
11760but"How have I loved?"
11760that is, to bring Christ down; or who shall descend into the abyss?
21987Charity thinketh no evil,but how is it with you?
21987How live ye as Christians?
21987I am come,said Christ,"to send fire on the earth: and what will I, if it be already kindled?"
21987What knowest thou, O wife,says S. Paul,"whether thou shalt save thy husband?
21987What shall I do to inherit eternal life?
21987What think ye of Christ?
21987What think ye of Christ?
21987What think ye of Christ?
21987What will ye? 21987 Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?"
21987Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
21987Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
21987Whose is this image?
2198725"What shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
21987All these little springs of vigorous life are bubbling up round us, and whither shall they flow?
21987Am I drawing a fanciful picture?
21987And here is a goodly picture; of whom is it?
21987And if I have done anything towards it, how has it been done?
21987And is the time just measure?
21987And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou?
21987Any assurance of His goodwill towards you?
21987Are not these rockets figures of the life of man?
21987Are we likely to do it if half- hearted?
21987Are we likely to keep His commandments, if we care just a little to please Him, but only a little?
21987Are we likely to win our wage, Eternal Life, if we do not work zealously, but waste the time of work in half- hearted trifling with our task?
21987Are you at all aware?
21987Are you docile to His will?
21987Are you eager that all should be beautiful and seemly in the temple of God?
21987Are you grateful?
21987Are you thankful?
21987Are you thankful?
21987Are your thoughts at all taken up with God''s church, God''s altar, God''s worship?
21987Ask any little boy whom you see in rags,''My child, why are you in rags?
21987Ask yourself each day, What have I done to- day towards this work set me?
21987But consider, do you always act justly with your employers?
21987But do you act thus to God?
21987But where is your Christianity in the week?
21987But why do I say the preacher?
21987Can I see anything like Christ in you?
21987Can he not leave us alone?
21987Could He make better promises?
21987Did he send them hunters, expert in killing lions?
21987Did he supply them with snares, and teach them how to make pitfalls for the lions?
21987Do I not hear angry words and quarrelling?
21987Do I not see an eager following of your own wills?
21987Do they last?
21987Do you eat that heavenly food He has prepared for you in the pastures of his Church?
21987Do you know the fable of the crab and his children?
21987Do you know what that meant to the early Christians?
21987Do you mean to tell me it is not a delight, a joy to you, to have this little bit of iniquity to talk about?
21987Do you not always suspect that the motives of people are bad, do you not always think people are worse than they really are?
21987Do you notice the words of S. Peter?
21987Do you show any fruit of the Spirit?
21987Do you want any token of the love of Christ?
21987Do you want them to be God- fearing, pious, consistent Christians?
21987Do you want them to be quiet, to stay at home, and be neat, modest, unselfish girls?
21987Does any desire sustaining food by the way?
21987Does any man need direction, guidance, help in the way of life?
21987Does it pain you above every other pain when you know of something which is to the dishonour of God and of His Church?
21987For what?
21987Have you any self- forgetfulness in what concerns His honour, like that of the nameless wife of Phinehas?
21987Have you any such zeal in you?
21987Have you any zeal at all like that of David?
21987Have you ever seen fireworks?
21987How are we to acquire this?
21987How do you show your thankfulness?
21987How does God deal with those who have gone beyond this measure?
21987How he was tormented with questions, When was the great boat to be launched?
21987How is it with you?
21987How many are there now who act like Abraham?
21987How many who fear lest it should be said of them that they had been enriched by those whose money they had no right to take?
21987How much prayer?
21987How much self- restraint?
21987How much thought of God?
21987How should they know without a teacher?
21987How was he to bring the sea up to it?
21987How will the hearers like that?
21987How would you like to be paid in clipped coin, that was not full weight?
21987How, then, were they false witnesses?
21987I say to you: when you are inclined to cast blame, even when just, think,"Am I without sin, that I should judge and condemn another?"
21987INTRODUCTION.--David says in the 8th Psalm,"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him: and the son of man that Thou visitest him?
21987If He loves us, will He not care for us?
21987If I were to go into a Temple of the Hindoos, or into a Synagogue of the Jews, and were to ask,"What think ye of Christ?"
21987If I were to put the question to you,"What think ye of Christ?"
21987If we knew that an inheritance of a thousand pounds was ours if we applied for it, should we not apply?
21987In what did this sanctification consist?
21987In your manhood, what have you done in your family, what example have you set?
21987Is God not our Father?
21987Is God short of Names that He should be thus designated?
21987Is all done?
21987Is all done?
21987Is any in sorrow, and heart sore?
21987Is it a wonder and grief to a mother that her girls become giddy, frivolous, and unsteady, and perhaps cause her shame?
21987Is it in any degree so with you?
21987Is it not very much the same with us?
21987Is it not with you as with Balaam?
21987Is it sad?
21987Is it those who are conscientious and scrupulous to drive away evil thoughts?
21987Is it wasted in lounging about, ferreting rabbits, idle talking?
21987Is not this enough to make man proud, to exalt him in his own conceit?
21987Is not this very much like what takes place among men?
21987Is such a battle to be won when we go into it without any desire to be conquerors?
21987It was Cain who said,"Am I my brother''s keeper?"
21987Might He not be better termed Almighty, Everlasting, Jehovah?
21987Nature even in its decay is beautiful, and what was it in spring?
21987Now I want to know further, are you Christians in heart and affection?
21987Now for you!--Whither are you going?
21987Now if this be so, how ought we to live?
21987Now what are some of these effects?
21987Now, how did Hanun act?
21987Now, what should Hanun have done?
21987Now, what would he say?--He would lift up his hands in horror, and say,"What is this?
21987On whose side was the laugh now?
21987On whose side was the laugh then?
21987Or dogs to drive them?
21987Or is there much idling and talking when you are unobserved?
21987Or those who allow their heads and hearts to be hives in which they dwell?
21987Ought it to disquiet us in our work?
21987Ought it to mar our happiness?
21987Ought we to thrust the thought away from us as horrible?
21987She was a good kind- hearted woman, who had shown much hospitality to the prophet Elijah[ Transcriber''s note: Elisha?].
21987Some while after, Philip said to his courtiers,"How does Nicanor speak of me now?"
21987Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
21987The master has a strong suspicion where they have been: however, he asks,"Why were you not at school this morning?"
21987Then David answered,"Why speakest thou any more of thy matters?
21987Then Philip said,"Do you not see?
21987Then!--how was it with those men and women who had made fun of Noah?
21987Then, what do you suppose Metabus resorted to?
21987This seems a curious proceeding, does it not?
21987To Life or to Death?
21987To the right or to the left?
21987To whom should it apply?
21987Toss it away on your road home, and make no use at all of it?
21987Was he with his three sons to put their shoulders to it, and push it down to the seashore?
21987Was it so?
21987Was there any such pride of place in the angel host?
21987Were they very eager to gather up the Angels''food?
21987Were they very grateful?
21987What became of them?
21987What chance was there for them?
21987What could He have done more?
21987What course did Shalmanezar adopt, on hearing this?
21987What dearer to a mother than the little infant to whom she has given life?
21987What do you do with your Sunday?
21987What followed?
21987What follows from all this?
21987What good father will neglect his child, and deny it those things that are necessary for it?
21987What is His purpose in bringing back the straying sheep?
21987What is that but a mark- stone or memorial that God''s Good Spirit has been given you to be a guide?
21987What is the meaning of this?
21987What is to be done?
21987What next?
21987What said the people in return for the blessing?
21987What says S. Paul?
21987What says the sacred text?
21987What should he do?
21987What then is it that you should do?
21987What then ought Hanun to have done?
21987What use do you make of it?
21987What use do you make of the talent committed you?
21987What was the consequence?
21987What was the purpose of this?
21987What was to be done?
21987What will you do to get a new suit?
21987What will you do with it?
21987When Christ comes and searches among the leaves of your profession, does He find any fruit of good works there?
21987When a child is hungry, whither should it go?
21987When you are hired for a day''s work, do you give good work?
21987Where are the traces of the divine image?
21987Where is this quietness and unobtrusiveness in you?
21987Where is this readiness to submit to the will of God?
21987Where is your meekness?
21987Whither are you being led?
21987Whither?
21987Who feeds them?
21987Who is dead?
21987Who is it?
21987Who is this?
21987Who speak thus?
21987Whose is the image?
21987Why is this?
21987Why then do not we trust our Heavenly Father as any little child will trust its father on earth?
21987Why when falsely?
21987Why?
21987Will He not then care for us far more, who are His noblest creatures?
21987Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell?
21987Your actions when young,--did you yield to your passions or conquer them?
21987how do we show that we love God''s worship?
21987or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?"
21987or what shall we drink?
21987or wherewithal shall we be clothed?
21987shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?"
21987who is to beheld accountable for them?
14497Is it easy or is it hard, this religion of yours?
14497Must I believe this doctrine in order that I may be saved?
14497Oh, but,you say,"is not this slavery over again?
14497What is it that you can not believe in?
14497What shall I do about this?
14497Again I say, The child of God, and this which you have been, what is it?
14497An unseen presence?
14497And if He came to- morrow morning, would not this whole world lift itself up and answer Him?
14497And if you want me to, is there any possibility of my doing it?
14497And where is that?
14497And why should not you, my friends, why should not you?
14497And yet am I not their servant?
14497And yet their servant?
14497And yet, have you never seen a breathless man, a man in whom the breathing was almost stopped, a drowning man, an exhausted man?
14497Are you and I going to be such creatures of our senses that we shall not believe that there are powers that touch us that we can not see?
14497Are you living that life now?
14497But does he stop?
14497But does not it come to seem to us so strange, so absurd, if it was not so melancholy, that man should say such a thing as that?
14497But the years between?
14497But what, then, is the Christian religion?
14497But when did sin begin to be wise?
14497But where is the sceptical soul?
14497But who doubts that among us the spirit of slavery lived and thrived?
14497Can I, can you, have Christ in human history, Christ in the world, and live as if He were not here?
14497Can it be that so wise a devil was so foolish here?
14497Can it meet all these human problems, and relieve all these human miseries, and fulfil all these human hopes?
14497Can not we contribute something that it has not to- day?
14497Can not we make its life diviner?
14497Can we give it as we draw toward our last moment?
14497Can you do this which the world unmistakably needs to be done?
14497Do I doubt-- I, who see myself called upon to be the slave of these conditions which are around me-- to do this thing?
14497Do I want to believe anything that can not be proved to be true, anything that my intelligence shall not receive?
14497Do n''t you know it?
14497Do we worship God?
14497Do you not think how full of hope it is?
14497Do you wonder at the patriot, the hero, when he rushes into the battle to do the good deed which it is possible for him to do?
14497Does not the baser part of him cling to the old prison, to the ease and the provision for him, to the absence of anxiety and of energy?
14497Does that sound to you all unreasonable?
14497Has it not manifested itself in the experience of mankind?
14497Have you ever thought of how the world has stood in glory and honor before the sinless humanity of Jesus Christ?
14497How about the sins that you did when you were young men?
14497How about the time when they plunged into baseness and made their soul like a dog''s soul?
14497How did the sun rise on our city this morning?
14497How do you get within the power of any force, my friends?
14497How do you get within the power of any force?
14497How does all this affect that which we are continually conscious of, urging upon ourselves and upon one another?
14497How does it affect the whole question of a man''s sins?
14497How is it now?
14497How shall he do it?
14497How will you make that storm a true thing for yourself?
14497I go to a certain man and ask him,"Why do you not believe in Christianity?"
14497I know you say;"Is this all in the clouds?
14497If I asked a man where he was going and he told me he was not going to Washington, what could I know about where he was going?
14497If he can not, if he can not, what business have you to be doing them?
14497If he can, what business have you to be doing them so poorly, so carnally, so unspiritually, that men look on them and shake their heads with doubt?
14497Independent of them?
14497Is it a throne from which a ruler utters his decrees?
14497Is it not clear and simple, whether it be true or not?
14497Is it not glorious, this absolute simplicity of the Christian faith?
14497Is it not written in the historical record?
14497Is life a hard thing for him?
14497Is there anything I can do in the right way?"
14497Is there no lingering?
14497Is there the man alive who thinks that Abraham Lincoln was shot just for himself; that it was that one man for whom the plot was laid?
14497It is the old story over again, when John the Baptist, puzzled in his prison, said to Jesus,"Art thou He that should come?
14497It seems to me that the Christian Church is hearing that cry in its ears to- day:"Art thou He that should come?"
14497May I read to you a few words from the eighth chapter of St. John?
14497Must it not have been the act of one poor madman, born and nursed in his own reckless brain?"
14497Not until the soul says,"What will come if I do obey Jesus Christ?"
14497Now, a question that comes in the Christian''s mind is"Why do n''t people believe this?"
14497Read an old story that my life in these new days shall be regenerated and saved?
14497Shall I believe that God has nothing to do with him until he acknowledges God?
14497Shall I care about how they criticise the outside of my life?
14497Shall I care about their little whims and oddities?
14497Shall I peer into their faces as I meet them in the street, to see whether they approve of me or not?
14497Shall I say it?
14497Shall I throw away my truthfulness simply for the sake of holding what I want, what I choose to call the truth?
14497Shall I trust myself to the ship merely because I have refused to examine its timbers, when men tell me that it is unsound?
14497Shall a man cultivate himself?
14497Shall a man serve the world, strive to increase the kingdom of God in the world?
14497Shall he simply think of himself as one who has crushed this passion, shut down this part of his life?
14497Shall he simply think of himself as one who has taken a course of self- denial?
14497Shall not man bring his nature out into the fullest illumination, and surprise himself by the things that he might do?
14497Shall not they open themselves somehow to us to- day, my friends?
14497Shall there be no Christ for the strong men who have before them the duties of their life, and who want the strength with which to do them?
14497Shall there be no Christ for the young men, the young men standing in danger, but also standing in such magnificent and splendid chances?
14497Shall there be no Christ for those who for the moment seem to need no comfort?
14497Therefore, not"Must we believe?"
14497They answered Him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest Thou, Ye shall be made free?
14497They answered Him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest Thou, Ye shall be made free?
14497They answered him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
14497They answered him, We be Abraham''s seed, and were never in bondage to any man; how sayest Thou, ye shall be made free?
14497They are asking everywhere this question:"Is it possible for a man to be engaged in the activities of our modern life and yet to be a Christian?
14497To have outgrown the boy''s faith, and not to have come to the man''s faith?
14497Was ever man so independent in Jerusalem as Jesus was?
14497Was it he for whom the murderer lurked with a mere private hate?
14497What are they?
14497What can keep you from committing that sin?
14497What do you think of your young men of fifteen, twenty, twenty- five, and thirty years old?
14497What evidence is there of it?"
14497What has become of my personality, of my independence, if I am to live thus?"
14497What has become of that boy to- day?
14497What has happened to that man?
14497What is a liberal faith, my friends?
14497What is easier than for a man to breathe?
14497What is my impression in regard to him?
14497What is the Christian?
14497What is the glory of that world?
14497What is the meaning of this sort of talk that we hear about a faith that they held once, but they have outgrown?
14497What new life has come into him?"
14497What ruler ever won it like this dead President of ours?
14497What shall I say to my friend who is an atheist?
14497What shall be our universal law of life?
14497What shall he do who is to my humanity what the perfect is to the absolutely and dreadfully imperfect?
14497What shall the divine man do?
14497What shall we think about those sins?
14497What then?
14497What time is there for me to be a Christian?
14497What time is there, what room is there for Christianity in such a life as mine?"
14497What, read a book to save my soul?
14497When did the fool stop saying in his heart,"There is no God,"and acting godlessly in the absurdity of his impiety?
14497When did wickedness learn wisdom?
14497When he says,"God,"shall I not believe Him?
14497When my friend turns over some new leaf, as we say, and begins to live a new life, what shall we think of him?
14497Where is the ruined woman whom you sent forth into the world out of the shadow of your sin years ago?
14497Who dares to dream that human life has lived its completest and shown the noblest power of receiving God into itself?
14497Who dares to think that these few thousand years have exhausted this majestic and mysterious being that we call man?
14497Why do I believe in God?
14497Why should I believe it?
14497Why should they not?
14497Will you call it free?
14497Will you know it?
14497Will you let Christ teach it to you?
14497Will you let Christ tell you what is the perfect man?
14497Will you let Him set His simplicity and graciousness close to your life, and will you feel their power?
14497Will you not give yourself to that of Him which you know to- day?
14497Wonderful?
14497You say,"How can a man believe that?
14497You say,"Must I?"
14497You say,"What can I do?"
14497but"May I believe?"
14497or look we for another?"
14497what are you?
11713Beloved, what manner of love is this,wherewith God hath loved us?
11713Shall we receive good at the hand of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil?
11713What pledge dost thou give for the performance of these conditions?
11713When wilt thou perform them?
11713Where,and Justice,"is the Son of God?"
11713Why canst thou not enter?
11713Addressing Himself to Justice, He said:"What are thy demands?"
11713After so long a preparation of goodness, could He mean to deny forgiveness to the penitent and the humble?
11713Again: Had there been neither natural nor moral evil in the world, what must have become of patience, meekness, gentleness, long- suffering?
11713Age may perhaps have calmed your passions, but what was your youth?
11713Age, disgust, and establishment for life, fix the heart and withdraw it from debauchery: but where are those who are converted?
11713And can you now say from your heart Lord, thou mayest justly damn me for the best duties that ever I did perform?
11713And did He not know the baneful consequences which this must naturally have on all his posterity?
11713And is not an inveterate evil very difficult to cure?
11713And is this sentiment combined with a sacred resolution to go and sin no more,--to devote yourself to the service of your divine Benefactor?
11713And now stand forth ye righteous:--where are ye?
11713And pray what is that?
11713And this effeminate habit I have of refining on pleasure, will it render me only the more sensible of my destruction and anguish?
11713And what a glorious spectacle is this?
11713And what can be my hopes in eternity?
11713And what is still more awful, does He not daily come without either warning or messenger?
11713And what is that?
11713And who can censure this delay?
11713And why then did He permit that disobedience?
11713Are these the only benefits you can receive without gratitude, and suffer to pass unregarded How, then, can any love of God dwell in your bosom?
11713Are we in our senses, my dear hearers?
11713Are you innocent?
11713Are you penitent?
11713But I again ask you-- Where, among us, are penitents of this description?
11713But are we not mistaken concerning Felix?
11713But do sinners owe nothing beyond this?
11713But is the"kingdom of God within you?"
11713But is there no mercy?
11713But what are we to conclude from these awful truths?
11713But what became of the Church?
11713But what would it serve to limit the fruits of this instruction to the single point of setting forth how few persons will be saved?
11713But where are her tyrants, and where their empires?
11713But who can here supply the brevity of the historian, and report the whole of what the apostle said to Felix on these important points?
11713But who has assured me that at a future period I shall have opportunities of conversion?
11713But who has told me that God at a future period will accompany His word with the powerful aids of grace?
11713But who has told me that I shall ever desire to be converted?
11713But who has told me that I shall live to a future period?
11713But with what am I taking up time?
11713Canst thou look upon that scene and not pity?
11713Canst thou pity, and not relieve?"
11713Could you ever say, My sins are gone over my head as a burden too heavy for me to bear?
11713Did He excite in the hearts of His creatures such encouraging hopes, without any intention to fulfil them?
11713Did Jesus Christ ever convince you in this manner?
11713Did Jesus Christ ever give Himself to you?
11713Did ever any such thing as this pass between God and your soul?
11713Did he ever convince you of your inability to close with Christ, and make you to cry out to God to give you faith?
11713Did not the speech of St. Paul make a deeper impression upon him than we seem to allow?
11713Did peace ever flow in upon your hearts like a river?
11713Did you ever close with Christ by a lively faith, so as to feel Christ in your hearts, so as to hear Him speaking peace to your souls?
11713Did you ever experience any such thing as this?
11713Did you ever feel that peace that Christ spoke to His disciples?
11713Did you ever feel the want of Jesus Christ, upon the account of the deficiency of your own righteousness?
11713Did you ever feel the want of a dear Redeemer?
11713Did you ever see that God''s wrath might justly fall upon you, on account of your actual transgressions against God?
11713Do not habits become confirmed in proportion as they are indulged?
11713Do you believe that the number would at least be equal?
11713Do you believe that there would even be found ten upright and faithful servants of the Lord, when formerly five cities could not furnish that number?
11713Do you not see that this was the very ground of His coming into the world?
11713Does he not assail the prince in his palace and the peasant in his cottage?
11713Does not death advance every moment with gigantic strides?
11713For it is possible to believe that such great operations, as I have endeavored to describe, were carried on by the Almighty in vain?
11713For who could have returned good for evil, had there been no evil- doer in the universe?
11713Has not your heart, and probably your lips too, joined in the general charge?
11713Hath he said it, and will he not do it?
11713Hath he spoken it, and shall it not come to pass?"
11713How can you ascend to the very sun itself, when you can not enjoy even the faint reflection of its glory?
11713How could it be otherwise?
11713How had it been possible, on that supposition, to overcome evil with good?
11713How shall this phenomenon be explained?
11713How, then, do you regard these decided followers of God?
11713If God so loved us, how ought we to love one another?
11713If I can not bear the excision of a slight gangrene, how shall I sustain the operation when the wound is deep?
11713If the features of holiness and grace in the creature are not attractive to your view, how can your affections rise to the perfect essence?
11713If you could only be exempt from its afflictions, would you wish it to be your lasting home?
11713If you could surround yourself with all its advantages and enjoyments, would you be content to dwell in it forever?
11713If, on the contrary, Paul had truth and argument on his side, why did Felix send him away?
11713In all these traits, do you not recognize the Christian walking in the narrow way, the way of tribulation, marked by his Master''s feet?
11713Is the Lord Jesus"in you the hope of glory?"
11713Is there no means of salvation?
11713Long and habitual infirmities may perhaps have disgusted you with the world; but what use did you formerly make of the vigor of health?
11713Might we not thence infer that the truths discust by St. Paul were not of serious importance?
11713My dear friends, were you ever married to Jesus Christ?
11713My dear friends, what is there in our performance to recommend us unto God?
11713Now are they penitent?
11713Now permit me to ask where are the penitent?
11713Now who would not rather be on the footing he is now; under a covenant of mercy?
11713Now, can anything be more capable of alarming a soul, in whom some remains of care for his salvation shall exist?
11713Now, my dear friends, did God ever show you that you had no faith?
11713Now, of which party are you?
11713Now, who are the just and faithful assembled here at present?
11713Of wicked men?
11713Or, rather, far from finding in them occasions of penitence, do you not turn them into the objects of new crimes?
11713Our persons are in an unjustified state by nature; we deserve to be damned ten thousand times over; and what must our performance be?
11713Shall I have neither delicious meats nor voluptuous delights?
11713Shall I, accustomed to indulgence and pleasure, become a prey to the worm that dieth not and fuel to the fire which is not quenched?
11713Shall I, who avoid pain with so much caution, be condemned to eternal torments?
11713Shall it not expand our views, and warm our hearts, and nerve our arm in our efforts to exalt His fame?
11713Tear it to pieces, and scatter it to the winds?
11713That all must despair of salvation?
11713The angels asked,"Why wilt thou not suffer Mercy to enter?"
11713The question is not whether you have any sins,--none can admit a doubt on this point; the only inquiry is, how you are affected by those sins?
11713The simple question, then, to which I would call your attention, is this:"Am I, or am I not, a sincere lover of the Author of my being?"
11713Transfer this representation to your conduct in relation to God:"If I,"says He,"am a father, where is my fear?
11713Unto which of them said he, at any time, Thou art my son?"
11713Upon what claim?
11713Was ever the remembrance of your sins grievous to you?
11713Was it ever the language of your heart, Lord, give me faith; Lord, enable me to lay hold on Thee; Lord, enable me to call Thee my Lord and my God?
11713Was it not easy for the Almighty to have prevented it?"
11713Was it not to remedy this very thing that"the Word was made flesh"?
11713Was the burden of your sins intolerable to your thoughts?
11713We are all desirous of peace; peace is an unspeakable blessing; how can we live without peace?
11713We are, at the present moment, witnesses of the fact; but who can unfold the mystery?
11713Well, and is it not, to our sorrow, with the new life that is like Christ''s resurrection life?
11713Were you ever in all your life sorry for your sins?
11713Were you ever made to bewail a hard heart of unbelief?
11713What am I doing for heaven?
11713What are the causes which render salvation so rare?
11713What consolation amid their losses and their sufferings, but that of the fellow- sufferers plunged in the same abyss of ruin?
11713What did He do with it?
11713What do I say?
11713What hast thou done unto Him?
11713What hour?
11713What is a penitent?
11713What is the necessary consequence of this?
11713What reception will they meet with, and where?
11713What room could there be for trust in God if there was no such thing as pain or danger?
11713When the sinner is first awakened, he begins to wonder, How came I to be so wicked?
11713When they had thus given an account of who others said He was, Christ asks them, who they said He was?
11713Whence proceeded this fear, and this confusion?
11713Where are those who expiate their crimes by tears of sorrow and true repentance?
11713Where are those who, having begun as sinners, end as penitents?
11713Where can you find such an assemblage of high virtues, and of great events, as concurred at the death of Christ?
11713Where so many testimonials given to the dignity of the dying person by earth and by heaven?
11713Where, then, is the man that presumes to blame God for not preventing Adam''s sin?
11713While Paul may plant and Apollos may water, is it not God who gives the increase?
11713Who am I?
11713Who are they?
11713Who can look for pure water from such a fountain?
11713Who even knows them?
11713Who has assured me that God will continue to call me, and that another Paul shall thunder in my ears?
11713Who might not say then,"The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?"
11713Who of us would not immediately apply to his conscience, to examine if its crimes merited not this punishment?
11713Who of us, seized with dread, would not demand of our Savior, as did the apostles, crying out,"Lord, is it I?"
11713Who shall be daunted by difficulties, or deterred by discouragement?
11713Who shall be saved?
11713Who shall be saved?
11713Who shall be saved?
11713Who will merit salvation?
11713Who would wish to hazard a whole eternity upon one stake?
11713Who, indeed, will pretend to salvation by the chain of innocence?
11713Why was he so weak as to admit this panic of terror?
11713Why, then, do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
11713Why, then, do you hesitate to yield yourselves and your interests to the guidance of your Maker?
11713Will you say,"But all these graces might have been divinely infused into the hearts of men?"
11713You are penitent to the world, but are you so to Jesus Christ?
11713always to remain immersed in the shadows of time-- entombed in its corruptible possessions?
11713canst thou not enter?
11713how little are the terrors of Thy law known to the world?
11713if I am a master, where is my honor?"
11713is Thy ear heavy, that Thou canst not hear?
11713never to ascend up on high to God and Christ and the glories of the eternal world?
11713or Thy arm shortened, that Thou canst not save?
11713or are you?
11713or, with the beloved disciple,"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren"?
11713that he was destitute of extraneous aids?
11713that"as in Adam all died, so in Christ all might be made alive"?
11713where is thy sting?
11713where is thy victory"?
11713who fulfils them?
11713who thus livest so tranquil?
11713who will deliver me from this body of death, this indwelling corruption in my heart?"
11713who will give them a welcome when they enter an eternal state?
11713will be entitled to salvation?
28464But,you may say,"shall evil go unpunished?
28464Did one ever hear of such a thing,they might exclaim,"as children born of God?
28464Oh yes,you say,"but where would we be then?"
28464Who is weak, and I am not weak?
2846420 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently?
2846420 For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently?
2846421 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
2846422 Are they Hebrews?
2846423 Are they ministers of Christ?
2846424 Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
2846429 Who is weak, and I am not weak?
2846430 Howbeit what saith the scripture?
2846432. Who revealed to Peter the nature of Christ''s thoughts upon the cross?
2846435 But some one will say, How are the dead raised?
284645 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
2846455 O death, where is thy victory?
284646 They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?
284647 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilæans?
284648 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?
284649. Who can prevent our office being vilified?
28464Again, when you see one living in great splendor, in pleasure and presumption, following his own inclinations, think thus:"What has he?
28464And again,"Or what man is there of you, who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone?"
28464And it is just and right, for why did we not honor the Gospel by accepting and preserving it?
28464And must this mighty apostle, O merciful God, be subject to trials lest he exalt himself because of his great revelations?
28464And what can it harm me to suffer when I know it is God''s will?
28464And what is the extent of his forgiveness?
28464And who knows but it may, in the Greek, have been altered to harmonize with Galatians 5, 22, where Paul speaks of the"fruit of the Spirit"?
28464And why should we complain?
28464Are they Israelites?
28464Are they the seed of Abraham?
28464Are they to hear his Word?
28464Are we to live utterly idle, practically dead?
28464Are you mad or foolish?"
28464But how are we born?
28464But how are we to flee the world?
28464But how does Paul make this text prove the resurrection of Christ?
28464But how is indifference to this life to be accomplished?
28464But in the case of one who endorses and honors the Gospel, observe Paul''s comment( Rom 14, 4):"Who art thou that judgest the servant of another?
28464But tell me, where do the Scriptures speak thus of Christians?
28464But what are we to do?
28464But what cause has Paul at heart that he dares so boldly condemn the judgment of these exalted officials?
28464But what does Paul teach?
28464But what does the resurrection advantage us?
28464But what is the significance of Paul''s phrase"with grace"?
28464But what is the use of multiplying words on the subject when the evil prevails to such extent as to be common custom in the land?
28464But what manner of love has God manifested toward us?
28464But where is this perfect man, and what is his name?
28464But where would be forthcoming a sermon forcible enough to restrain the shameful sottishness and the drink devil among us?
28464But who can fully portray this blind, perverted, abominable folly?
28464But who is vigilant enough to elude such knavery and to make the children of the devil honest?
28464But who would care to recount the full extent of this vice in all dealings and interests of the world between man and man?
28464But you may say:"What?
28464Can you locate the failure of such an individual?
28464Christ testifies( Jn 5, 44),"How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?"
28464Could I be said to suffer innocently if I am obliged to confess I am well treated?
28464Dear man, what but his own blindness can lead him to such a conclusion?
28464Did they but regard it, what need have they of books, teachers or laws?
28464Do not even wicked knaves and opposers of Christians often suffer at the hands of one another what they are not pleased to endure?
28464Do you ask, What is the great necessity therefor?
28464Do you imagine yourself able to endure that wrath of God, or to withstand it if you will not consider this and accept it?
28464Do you wish to have assurance of eternal life?
28464For what could they benefit if one possessed not the Word of salvation and eternal life?
28464God says in Isaiah 66, 1- 2:"What manner of house will ye build unto me?...
28464Had he been mere man, what would have been the occasion for saying that he became like a man and was found in the fashion of other men?
28464Has a king of David''s glorious rank occasion to speak thus?
28464He says( 1 Tim 3, 5):"If a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?"
28464How and from what was creation effected when there was nothing to start with?
28464How can it be otherwise when they who should restrain and punish commit the same sins themselves?
28464How can one be under obligation when he does not, and can not, possess anything?
28464How can one whom the fire of heavenly love and grace can not melt, be rendered cheerfully obedient by laws and threats?
28464How can there be unity of mind concerning spiritual offices and blessings with people so at variance upon trivial, contemptible worldly matters?
28464How can these Corinthians be as true, unleavened wafers, or sweet dough, when they have yet to purge out the old leaven?
28464How can they pray one for another who feel no interest in a neighbor''s wants, who rather are enemies, entertaining no good will toward one another?
28464How can we be dead and at the same time risen?
28464How can we live here with wives and children, houses and lands, and being citizens under a temporal government, and yet not be at home?
28464How can we make the two claims harmonize?
28464How could Christ approve such malice?
28464How could he speak plainer and more forcibly?
28464How could he utter anything more severe, more terrifying?
28464How does the offering of a penny compare with that of the body?
28464How else should we gentiles get the idea of cakes on Easter, when at our Passover we, by faith, eat the Paschal Lamb, Christ?
28464How is a dead man profited, however much life may be preached to him, if that preaching does not make him live?
28464How is it consistent with royal citizenship in a celestial country to be a pilgrim on earth?
28464How is it possible to reconcile these seeming inconsistencies?
28464How is it, then, Paul speaks as if faith without love were possible?
28464How is that?
28464How is this paradox to be explained?
28464How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein?
28464How should he do otherwise, knowing that his persecutors treated him unjustly and yet maintained the contrary?
28464How will it compare with the death and shed blood of the Son of God, with the power of his resurrection?
28464How will it divide honors with him in having merit to secure remission of sin and redemption from death?
28464How will you fare with God if you do not love your neighbor?
28464How would this read,"I am signified by a spiritual vine"?
28464I will behave peculiarly, smashing windows and turning things upside down, for this is not my abiding- place"?
28464If it is not too humble to be honored with his presence, why should we his servants not honor it?
28464In the text Paul deals with the question, How are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?
28464Is it merely a doctrine of words, or one of life and operating power?
28464Is it not wonderfully comforting to the beggar to have servants and lovers of such honor?
28464Is not this a superior, a noble, commandment, which completely levels the most unequal individuals?
28464Is that what you mean, Paul, when you say we are not to seek the things of earth, though all these are essentially incident to life?
28464Is the truth not to be preached at all?
28464It is said of them( Ps 14, 4- 5):"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon Jehovah?"
28464Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
28464Must we be silent and permit all mankind to go direct to hell?
28464Now, how could God have pointed you to an example dearer, more pleasing and more to the purpose than this example-- the deep instinct of your nature?
28464Now, how was it with them?
28464Now, if you yield to him, suffering yourself to be seduced, what will it profit you to boast of the Gospel faith?
28464Now, since God has so greatly blessed you as to make you his own begotten children, shall he not also give you every other good?
28464Now, what is the process of the life and death mentioned?
28464Now, who is to judge and decide the question?
28464O death, where is thy sting?
28464One hundred years ago, what were you and I and all men now living but absolutely nothing?
28464Or of what use is it to preach righteousness to a sinner if he remain in sin?
28464Paul would say:"What will you do, beloved Christians?
28464Paul''s admonition begins:"Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?"
28464Shall he be their God?
28464Shall they believe?
28464Similarly, also:"What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
28464Such a course is essential to the honor of God and the salvation of souls; for if the truth were to be ignored, who would come to God?
28464Tell me, what would you think of such a one?
28464The test is, are we risen in Christ-- is his resurrection effective in us?
28464Then how should others, how should such infirm beings as we, be free from self- exaltation?
28464Therefore, James says:"Why trouble yourselves about earthly blessings, which though God- given are transitory?
28464We read in a book of the ancient fathers that on a certain occasion of their assembling, the question was raised, which is really the noblest work?
28464What are death, the devil and all creatures as a match for Christ?
28464What are the means and process the Spirit employs to change and renew the heart?
28464What are we to do?
28464What are we to understand here?
28464What can be said for us?
28464What can it advantage me for them to burn eternally in hell?
28464What can you say to the fact that Christ the Lord is, himself, with us on earth?
28464What greater love and blessing could be shown?
28464What human heart would not melt at the joy- inspiring thought?
28464What injury can the world render, what help can it offer, so long as you hold the treasure of the Word?
28464What is a slight injury or the loss of some temporal blessing in comparison with these?
28464What is meant here?
28464What is the need of further inquiry and investigation or discussion of this theme?
28464What is the sum of all suffering and misfortune compared to this light?
28464What is their theory?
28464What matters to us the insignificance of the seat the Lord chooses?
28464What meaneth this?
28464What more can we do?
28464What more could be desired?
28464What more would one, or could one, offer than himself, all he is and all he has?
28464What shall we say to these things?
28464What sort of foolish, perverted individuals are they who so teach?
28464What would be the result were all evil to be tolerated and covered up?
28464What, according to the world''s construction, is implied by the statement,"Whatsoever is begotten[ born] of God overcometh the world?"
28464What, then, is the teaching of the commandment?
28464Whence, then, do you derive sonship?
28464Where would be the sense in my saying to you,"You are like a man, are made in the fashion of a man, and take upon yourself the form of a servant"?
28464Where would the wealthy and powerful be if there were no poor and humble?
28464Where, then, does Paul stand, who says( Rom 3, 31):"Do we then make the law of none effect through faith?
28464Who could be worthy such service from such a one?
28464Who could or would heap upon himself the guilt of such negligence?
28464Who ever heard of weak strength?
28464Who is so daring and haughty he will not be restrained and humbled by so remarkable an example of divine judgment?
28464Who would have thought to find so much precious virtue and power ascribed by Paul to this one excellence as counterpart of so much that is evil?
28464Who would not shrink from occupying the uppermost seat and from lording it over others when he sees the Son of God humble and eliminate himself?
28464Who would not suppose the Holy Spirit to dwell visibly where such wisdom, such discernment of the Scriptures, is present?
28464Why does he so?
28464Why not much rather rejoice in the comforting prospect of the great heavenly blessings already abundantly yours and which can not be taken from you?"
28464Why should Paul reverse the seemingly proper order?
28464Why, then, did the Jews persecute and crucify him-- put him to death?
28464Why, then, need you take any account of the world, and anything it may do, whether good or evil?
28464Why, then, should I be impatient or desire revenge?
28464Why, then, should you complain of your suffering or refuse to suffer what your sins really deserve?
28464Why, then, yield to the devil, allowing yourself to be robbed of salvation and eternal life?
28464Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
28464Will you live in the world and not encounter any persecution because of your good deeds?
28464Will you rage at the wickedness of the world, and in your rage become wicked yourself and commit evil?
28464Would it not encourage them in their wickedness until life would not be safe to anyone?"
28464Would not that be giving the wicked opportunity to carry out their evil designs?
28464Would not that be the natural rejoinder to such a foolish statement?
28464Yes, and have we not further reason for checking the evil when even the young practice it without fear or shame?
28464Yes, what would be his judgment of those who in public preaching clinch and claw, attack and calumniate each other?
28464and that he assumed the form of a servant though he was in form divine?
28464and with what manner of body do they come?
28464or more absurd still, that strength is increased by weakness?
28464or to an erring, factious individual if he forsake not his error and his darkness?
28464or to have instruction enabling me rightly to interpret a single psalm?
28464that to his sores and wounds are subject the crown of wealth and the sweet savor of royal splendor?
28464who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
28464wonderful that his poverty commands the services of a king in his opulence?
17122Can a woman forget her sucking child?
17122Except a man be born of_ water_, and of the spirit,& c. What is here meant by"_ water_"?
17122Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into_ his death_? 17122 --that you was born of faith, and by faith was in the kingdom of God? 17122 16 And now why tarriest thou? 17122 All the fear lies in the first, and thunders out to ever sinner,cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the law to do them?"
17122And except those days should be shortened there should no flesh be saved;"[ Saved from what?
17122And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
17122And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"
17122And if we are_ scarcely saved_ from this impending destruction, by fleeing to the mountains of Judea, where will our thoughtless and sinful appear?
17122And if we the righteous are scarcely saved from this long- predicted destruction, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?
17122And if we the righteous who are innocent, have to endure so many"fiery trials,"what will the dreadful punishment be of our disobedient persecutors?
17122And now, my young friends, which will you choose?
17122And that he should again, as suddenly, drop this subject, and hasten right back to the coming of Christ at the destruction of Jerusalem?
17122And why?
17122Are her children exposed to danger, and full in her view?
17122Are they racked with pain?
17122Are they sick?
17122Are you not satisfied without arguing that they ought to suffer endless misery in addition to their woes?
17122But In what sense are they unbelievers?
17122But admit that it is; we would further inquire, did the last judgment begin as early as the days of Peter?
17122But asks the objector, are we not to_ realize_ our pardon in this world?
17122But asks the reader, what matter is it which is first in order, whether_ love, faith_ or_ works_?
17122But can not a man be justified_ here_?
17122But can not a man be_ sanctified_ while_ here_?
17122But can not a man pass from death to life while on earth?
17122But can their unbelief make God''s promise of none effect?
17122But can we not enjoy it here?
17122But can we not enjoy it_ here_?
17122But do you believe that he will exert his power so as to accomplish it?
17122But do you not perceive that by so doing you would give the king the lie?
17122But does not the objector see that he has stated no fact for them to believe in order to make Christ their Saviour?
17122But how can God give you what he has not himself?
17122But how can he be the Saviour of a man, he never saves?
17122But how did Peter know that it was at hand?
17122But how good is he?
17122But if we make a wrong application of any scripture, why do not our opposers point out the error?
17122But in what sense do they experience it?
17122But inquires the objector, does God punish for the good of his creatures?
17122But inquires the objector, how do you know that God has promised eternal life to all?
17122But inquires the reader, where do the scriptures teach that Christ was ever born again?
17122But inquires, the reader, why do you pray that God would pardon our sins?
17122But is the_"last judgment"_ to begin at them?
17122But shall their unbelief make God''s promise of eternal life of none effect?
17122But suppose they should all reject it saying we do not believe one word of it, would their_ unbelief_ make the promise or record false?
17122But the question arises, in what sense can the violation of that_ condition_ have any effect upon the length of life?
17122But the question presents itself-- were any of the human family raised immortal before that period?
17122But what consolation can you impart, if you are yourself ignorant of the doctrines of the gospel of Christ?
17122But what is all this compared with the character that thousands ascribe to the God, who rules above?
17122But what is that perfect work, which faith produces?
17122But what is the_ record_?
17122But what prize was this?
17122But where, I again ask, is revealed a_ third_ coming of our Saviour?
17122But will the sinner''s love make God his friend-- will it cause his Creator to love him?
17122But, asks the youth, shall I live longer for subduing my passions and doing good, for seeking peace and pursuing it?
17122But, inquires the reader, were those who died in the cause of Christ raised immortal at his coming?
17122By what then are we to be saved?
17122Can he look upon the beautiful objects of creation, or contemplate these countless wonders of the Almighty before he is born into being?
17122Can it put that truth out of existence and make it a falsehood?
17122Can this be true?
17122Can you call yourself the saviour of those two men from temporal death?
17122Could we now say-- if there be no resurrection, he is fallen asleep in Christ and perished?
17122Do not the Scriptures declare that God chose us_ in Christ_ before the foundation of the world?
17122Do they endeavor to effect this, by ceasing to mind high things, and by condescending to men of low estate?
17122Do we then make void the law through faith?
17122Do you ask why not?
17122Do you grant, that God has given eternal life in Christ to every man?
17122Do you intend to make him kind, tender, and forgiving_ here_, but unkind, unforgiving, and hard- hearted to a part of his offspring_ hereafter_?
17122Do you say because he disbelieves the truth of God''s promise?
17122Do your kindness, tenderness, and forgiveness extend to all, and desire the happiness of the universe?
17122Does God command us to do more than he is willing to do himself?
17122First, I ask, what do you call a believer?
17122From what source, then, did you derive so much tenderness and love?
17122From whom did you receive all those compassionate feelings of heart?
17122God calls upon men to believe, what-- That Christ is their Saviour?
17122God is kind to the evil and to the unthankful, and ought we to be unkind to them?
17122Has God given the mother all these noble affections, and does he feel less to his helpless, sinful and erring children?
17122Have any of you thus far spent your days in striving to find perfect bliss in the various pursuits of life?
17122Have you aspired to one object, abandoned it, and taken up another?
17122Here let the question be asked-- Was this sheaf called the_ first- fruits_ because it was ripe before the whole harvest?
17122Here let the question be asked;--how do we establish the law by_ faith_?
17122Here then we see the beauty and propriety of our text:"What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good?
17122How can you extricate yourself from this difficulty?
17122How do you know that-- who told you so?
17122How is that-- To hold a grudge one day, and if they ask our pardon, to forgive them the next?
17122How many did he love?
17122How many does God forgive?
17122How many is that?
17122How then can their eternal salvation be denominated_ scarce_?
17122How then could Paul tell his brethren,"by the word of the Lord,"that they were to be thus changed?
17122How would you preach to such persons?
17122How, we ask, are all those_ sincere_ opposing petitions to be answered?
17122How?
17122I ask what does God call upon them to believe?
17122I would then ask whether eternal life was not promised, and given in Christ to the_ believer_ before he believed it?
17122If God promised his creatures eternal life before the world began, will they not obtain it?
17122If so, can you say that you have found the happiness you anticipated, and so earnestly sought?
17122If so, how are we judged in the present day?
17122If the judgment day, which_ then_ commenced, has not yet ended, why may not the resurrection day be still progressing?
17122If the objector will not allow these facts unalterably to exist_ previous_ to believing, what then will he call upon us to believe?
17122If you insist that he has given it to you, has he not in such case, given you more than he originally possessed?
17122In view of news, what is the first thing necessary?
17122Is he detected?
17122Is he stretched upon a bed of pain?
17122Is not this the day of redemption when we are set free?
17122Is such a father absent-- far distant on land or ocean where duty calls?
17122Let God answer--"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
17122Let us do good in our day and generation, and render ourselves blessings to mankind, by living soberly, righteously and peaceably in the world?
17122Must not man be born of a woman in order to see this world?
17122Must they believe that Christ is their Saviour, or that they have an eternal life in him?
17122Now if we disbelieve the record will that make it false?
17122Now will public conduct place them on an equality?
17122Now, where did you get it?
17122Our object is happiness; and amidst all the various pursuits of life, what is the reason so many fail of obtaining it?
17122Perhaps someone may feel disposed to ask-- whether faith is all that is necessary?
17122Reader, do you not love the Lord for his wonderful goodness to his children?
17122SERMON II"What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good?
17122SERMON V"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
17122SERMON VI"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
17122SERMON VII"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
17122Should they propose a public measure for the good of the town, would the one be listened to, with the same attention as the other?
17122Suppose, further, that some of us had rejected it; would this circumstance have prevented our being born?
17122The disciples immediately asked him saying,"tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?"
17122The gospel being good tidings, or news, are you satisfied that thing necessary?
17122The next thing, to be determined, was, what doctrine do you believe, and what church will you join?
17122The question here arises, how many does God command us to forgive?
17122The question now arises, when does this new birth take place?
17122The question now arises; do not some experience the new birth in this life?
17122The question returns, are our sins washed away in a stream of water?
17122The reader may, perhaps, here inquire whether the scriptures do not clearly describe the resurrection of all mankind to be at one instant of time?
17122Then, let the question be put to him-- from whence did you derive all those noble qualities of love, mercy and goodness?
17122This being granted, we would ask, whether they will not come in possession of it, if God''s promise stands?
17122This was his_ second_ coming; but where but where is there a_ scrap_ of scripture to prove his_ third_ coming at the end of time?
17122This would be believing a lie, because you say that God has not made them that promise?
17122To whom does this"_ all_"refer?
17122Very well; the judgment was to be at the coming of Christ to the destruction of the Jewish state, and does not this designate some particular period?
17122Was it not a_ reality_ that the three disciples saw Jesus transfigured, and though in that condition was it not still their_ identical_ Lord?
17122We ask-- till he believes what?
17122We here inquire of the objector-- do you then grant that he is the Saviour of all men-- the Saviour of the world as the scriptures declare?
17122We now ask the reader, whether it would not be folly to give to the word_ birth_ such an explanation?
17122We then ask, what truth do you wish him to believe, so that he may obtain this eternal life?
17122We then ask-- are our sins to be wished in a stream of water?
17122We will now introduce the question-- If God has not forgiven a man today, will he ever forgive him?
17122We would ask the objector, what will they not believe?
17122We would then inquire, what is it that constitutes him an_ unbeliever_?
17122Well do not_ redemption, remission, and forgiveness_ mean the same thing?
17122Well, could we be chosen_ in Christ_ without being pardoned?
17122Well, has God the power to do it?
17122Well, shall his unbelief make the king''s promise of none effect?
17122Well, what can be assigned as the reason, why this rich man stands so far above the other in the public opinion?
17122Well, what was he at that time?
17122What is the meaning of gospel?
17122What is the reason?
17122What propriety is there in saying,"_ when all things are subdued unto him_,"after he has resigned his kingdom?
17122Where are they?
17122Where is sudden destruction to come upon any in that day?
17122Where is thy sting?
17122Where is thy sting?
17122Where is thy sting?
17122Where is thy victory"?
17122Where is thy victory?
17122Where is thy victory?
17122Where then is revealed that_ third_ coming of our Lord, at the end of time, to raise the dead?
17122Where then?
17122Where then?
17122Who can tell the value of existence, or number its countless joys?
17122Why are they then baptized for the dead?"
17122Why do you call him an_ unbeliever_?
17122Why is it when misfortune falls upon the rich, that they, so often, resort to the intoxicating draught?
17122Will God change in some future day?
17122Will God?
17122Will they both be treated with the same politeness and attention by their neighbors?
17122Will they both move in the same social circle?
17122Would he possess so much influence in society?
17122Would not then the record prove true?
17122Would they run such an awful risk, unless, by a certain course of education, they had been made to believe that there was happiness in transgression?
17122Would you forgive all, and bring them home to glory?
17122Would you live long that you may see good days?
17122Would you now go and tell that man- sir, because you will not_ believe_, you shall never come forth from prison?
17122Would you save all men from sin and its attendant misery if you could?
17122[ Why?
17122[ Why?
17122xv:29"Else what shall they do, which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all?
30657''I fast twice a week;''''I give tithes of all I possess;''I am a wonderfully good man, am I not, Lord?
30657Are you lost?
30657Did you not honor the draft?
30657Do you not know,replied the Emperor,"that he honors me and my kingdom by making a large draft?"
30657Do you not remember when Mr. Rainsford called to see you, you were very rude to him? 30657 Dost thou remember me,"said the Quaker,"how I had thee fined for swearing?"
30657For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace?
30657Has not God answered your prayer?
30657How many do you want?
30657Indeed,I said,"how is that?"
30657My child,he said,"what are you crying about?"
30657Tell me,said he,"what did that man say to you?"
30657Well, but what do you suppose I would think?
30657Well, did it do thee any good?
30657Well,he says,"if you will give me$ 500, I will be careful about it; but how can I be careful in spending what I have not got?"
30657What do you do when the devil tempts you?
30657Whence to me this tranquil spirit-- Me all sinful as I am? 30657 Where are you, then, if you are neither saved nor lost?"
30657Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? 30657 Why do you say that?"
30657Why, I always thought that if I kept on trying, God would save me at some time; and now you tell me to stop trying: what, then, am I to do?
30657You can not do that: for my treasure is laid up on high, where you can not get at it?
30657And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
30657And what have we that we can offer to God in return for His free gift of salvation?
30657Are there any thirsty ones here?
30657Are you hungering to get rid of your sinful selves?
30657But you will ask, What is the law given for?
30657Can Christ save him all at once?
30657Can there be hope for me?"
30657Can you conceive of the loving Saviour sending away a poor troubled one who comes to Him?
30657Certainly the attempt to work our way up to heaven is"climbing up some other way,"is it not?
30657Dear friend, do you not need rest?
30657Dear friends, let me put this question to you: Are you full of grace?
30657Did He tell them to go and feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to visit the widow and the fatherless in their affliction?
30657Did the Lord ever say anything similar to what the hymn says?
30657Do we thirst for a deeper work of grace in our hearts?--for the anointing of the Spirit?
30657Do you say you are sinners?
30657Do you think Christ would have gone?
30657Do you think God is going to reason with a man whose hands are dripping with blood, and before he asks forgiveness and mercy?
30657Do you think the great God will do less than He commands us to do?
30657Does God intend to mock us, and make game of us?
30657For what?
30657God has given us Christ; and He has given us His Spirit, and His Word: what need is there to wait?
30657God invites you to come and take it: will you come?
30657Have they, ever done their very best?
30657He addressed them and said"Children, have ye any meat?"
30657Hear you now His loving voice?
30657How can we be emptied?
30657How can you work out what you do not possess?
30657How would the Queen feel, if I were to insult her in that way?
30657How would you deal with him?
30657I CAN imagine some one asking: What does that passage mean--"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling?"
30657I am afraid if some of us had been in her place we would have answered somewhat in this fashion:"You call me a Gentile dog, do you?
30657I can imagine they said to each other,"What good is that going to do?
30657I could in that case turn round and say:"Great God, why did you expect me to believe a promise that was not true for me?"
30657I said to a man one day,"Does the well never run dry?"
30657I said to him:"My friend, does the devil never tempt you to doubt God, and to think He is a hard master?"
30657I said to the mother:"How is it with your skepticism now?"
30657I want to ask you this question: If sin needs forgiveness-- and all sin is against God-- how can you work out your own forgiveness?
30657If He could set a table for His people in the wilderness, and feed three millions of Israelites for forty years, can He not give us our daily bread?
30657If I am going to live perhaps for fifteen or twenty years, what do I want with dying grace?
30657If I stole$ 100 from a friend, I could not forgive myself, could I?
30657If I told you, Mr. Moody, that I had found a hymn- book last night you would believe me, would you not?
30657Is He a liar?
30657Is it not a time of need now?
30657Is it the fault of the minister?
30657Is it thus descends the merit Of the sin- atoning Lamb?
30657Is not this our own comment and reflection on life''s retrospect?
30657Is there grace for me?"
30657Is there room for me?"
30657It has been a hard battle, has it not?
30657It is offered to all: who will have it?
30657MR. MOODY-- What is it to be a child of God?
30657Many of you have tried hard to save yourselves; but what has been the end of it all?
30657May I be saved by Him?"
30657Mr. M.--A good place to start in would be the kitchen, would it not?
30657Mr. M.--All the sinner has to do is to repose in the promises of God?
30657Mr. M.--Are there not many who give an intellectual assent to all these things; and who yet have no power, and no divine life?
30657Mr. M.--Believe what?
30657Mr. M.--Can a drunkard or a blasphemer be saved all at once?
30657Mr. M.--Can all these friends here believe the promises?
30657Mr. M.--Can he get that to- day if he repents?
30657Mr. M.--Do we get any help by believing that?
30657Mr. M.--Do you not think there are a good many here who believe that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world; and yet they are not saved?
30657Mr. M.--Does not the Scripture say that the devils believe?
30657Mr. M.--For whom, then, did Christ die?
30657Mr. M.--Has a man the power to believe these things, if he will?
30657Mr. M.--Have these friends the power to believe?
30657Mr. M.--How are they to begin?
30657Mr. M.--How are we"cleansed by_ the Blood?_"Mr. R.--"The blood is the life."
30657Mr. M.--How do you get faith?
30657Mr. M.--How do you get the Holy Ghost?
30657Mr. M.--How do you obtain that?
30657Mr. M.--How long does it take God to justify a sinner?
30657Mr. M.--How may a man know if he has eternal life?
30657Mr. M.--How much is there in Christ for us who believe?
30657Mr. M.--I understand, then, that if a man rejects Christ to- night, he passes judgment on himself as unworthy of eternal life?
30657Mr. M.--If a man is forgiven, will he go out and do the same thing to- morrow?
30657Mr. M.--If a man receives the word of God into his heart, what benefit is it to him, right here to- night?
30657Mr. M.--If any one here wants to please God to- night, how can he do it?
30657Mr. M.--If people say they are"going to try,"what would you say to them?
30657Mr. M.--If the friends here do not come and get this salvation, what will be the true reason?
30657Mr. M.--If they truly come, will they have the desire to do the things they used to do before?
30657Mr. M.--Is it available now?
30657Mr. M.--Is it not said that if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth,"there remaineth_ no more_ sacrifice for sins?"
30657Mr. M.--Is salvation within the reach of every man here tonight?
30657Mr. M.--Is the Word of God addressed to all here?
30657Mr. M.--Is unbelief a sin?
30657Mr. M.--Should a man not break off from some of his sins before he comes to God?
30657Mr. M.--Should not a man repent a good deal before he comes to Christ?
30657Mr. M.--Some say they have no power to overcome a besetting sin?
30657Mr. M.--Suppose a man say he is not"elected?"
30657Mr. M.--Suppose the people do"come,"and that they fall into sin tomorrow?
30657Mr. M.--To whom are we to confess our sins?
30657Mr. M.--Was the blood shed for us all?
30657Mr. M.--What about those people who say their hearts are so hard, and they have no love to Christ?
30657Mr. M.--What do you consider to be the great sin of sins?
30657Mr. M.--What do you mean by the New Birth?
30657Mr. M.--What do you mean by the Word of God?
30657Mr. M.--What do you mean by"coming"to Christ?
30657Mr. M.--What if any of them should fall into sin after they have come to Christ?
30657Mr. M.--What if he should fall into sin after he has believed in Christ?
30657Mr. M.--What is it to be born of the Spirit?
30657Mr. M.--What is it to believe God?
30657Mr. M.--What is it to believe on His name?
30657Mr. M.--What is it to"receive the Kingdom of God like a little child?"
30657Mr. M.--What is it to"trust?"
30657Mr. M.--What is meant when we are told that Christ saves"to the uttermost?"
30657Mr. M.--What is the Gospel?
30657Mr. M.--What is the best definition of Faith?
30657Mr. M.--What is the meaning of being"saved by the Blood?"
30657Mr. M.--What is the means by which the New Birth we were speaking of is effected?
30657Mr. M.--What is the salvation He comes to proclaim and to bestow?
30657Mr. M.--What is there between the sinner and Christ?
30657Mr. M.--What is your meetness for heaven?
30657Mr. M.--What is your title to heaven?
30657Mr. M.--What is"the gift of God?"
30657Mr. M.--What reason does the Scripture give tor the Gospel being hid to some?
30657Mr. M.--What would you advise your converts to do?
30657Mr. M.--What would you say to a man who says he has tried a good many times and failed; and who has become discouraged?
30657Mr. M.--What would you say to any one who thinks he has no power to believe?
30657Mr. M.--What, then, should they wait for?
30657Mr. M.--Who is it that judges a man to be unworthy of eternal life?
30657Mr. M.--Why is salvation obtained by faith?
30657Mr. M.--Will Christ crowd out the world if He comes in?
30657Mr. M.--Would you advise people to come to God as they are, with their unfeeling, treacherous, hard hearts-- with any kind of heart?
30657Mr. M.--Would you make a distinction between Christ''s work for us and the Spirit''s work in us?
30657Mr. M.--You mean it is just as powerful to- day as it was eighteen hundred years ago when He shed it?
30657Mr. M.--You would advise them, then, to trust in the Lord, whether they have the right kind of feeling or not?
30657Mr. R.--A gentleman asked me that in the inquiry- room;"What do you mean by the shed Blood?"
30657Mr. R.--Do you remember the story of the woman of Canaan?
30657Mr. R.--How long?
30657Mr. R.--They believe the truth, do they not?
30657My brother, my sister-- are you hungry?
30657No; what do I want with martyr''s grace?
30657Paul said, when he had that famous interview with Christ on the way to Damascus,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
30657Paul says to the Galatians:"Is the law then against the promises of God?
30657Rainsford, how can one make room in their heart for Christ?
30657Rainsford.--First, do we really want Christ to be in our hearts?
30657Say"Lord, I come to thee as a poor sinner; wilt Thou not save me and help me?"
30657She held up her hands and exclaimed,"Was that you?
30657Suppose he swears or has a bad temper, should he not get a little control over his temper, or stop swearing, before he comes to Christ?
30657Suppose you wish to get the air out of this tumbler; how can you do it?
30657Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
30657That is plain language, is it not?
30657The cry of the world is,"Where can rest be found?"
30657The king said,"What are you going to do with such a fanatic as that?"
30657The last time I was in Chicago, I said to him,"Are you still lingering around Sinai?"
30657The law of works?
30657The little fellow said he would not,"Charlie, do you know what that word means?"
30657The question is: Will you let Christ come in and save you?
30657The rest of the class looked on in amazement; and one of them said:"Teacher, you do n''t mean that the watch is his?
30657The river of God''s grace flows on without ceasing; why should we not partake of it, and go on our way rejoicing?
30657Then they asked Him,"What shall we do that we may work the works of God?"
30657Therefore on the cross He cried out,"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
30657We have been fishing here all night, and have got nothing?
30657What did Jesus tell them to do?
30657What does this Gentile woman say?
30657What fills the places of amusement-- the dance houses, the music halls, and the theaters, night after night?
30657What had Paul ever done that could merit salvation?
30657What is God''s command?
30657What is it to be converted?
30657What is the best way to get full of grace?
30657What is the first step?
30657What is the trouble?
30657What kind of feeling should they have?
30657What says Christ?
30657What will become of me, think you?"
30657What would you say of a man dying of thirst on the banks of a beautiful river, with the stream flowing past his feet?
30657What would you say to such?
30657When a man gets to that point, do you tell me that God can not use him to build up His kingdom?
30657Who will accept it now?
30657Who will come and take it?
30657Who will come?
30657Who will open their hearts, and let the Saviour come in?
30657Who would not feel highly honored if they were invited to some fine residence, to the wedding of one of the members of the President''s family?
30657Why do we not believe Him?
30657Why do we not believe him?
30657Why may I not expect the same when pain and anguish are upon me?"
30657Why not a Demas or a Judas?
30657Why should we go on asking and beseeching God to have mercy upon us, when He has already given His Son, and given His Holy Spirit?
30657Why should we go reeling and staggering under the burdens and cares of life when we have such prospects before us?
30657Why, this woman and her boys have been carrying vessels into the house all day; what can be the matter?
30657Will God reason with a man living in rebellion against Him?
30657Will you let Him?
30657Will you let him do it?
30657Would not the same thing move the heart of any parent here?
30657Would you advise any one who wants to become a Christian to start right here by confessing Christ with the mouth?
30657Would you insult the Almighty by offering Him the fruits of this frail body to atone for sin?
30657Would you not show him the document signed in the name of the President?
30657Would you not take him to your bosom and forgive him?
30657Yet the moment he said,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
30657You do n''t mean that he has n''t to give it back to you?"
30657You say you are not fit to come?
30657are you not longing to see your children won to Christ?
30657granting that there_ might_ be a chance for them if they had, was there ever a time when they could not have done a little better?
30657has Abraham Lincoln pardoned me?
30657what did he mean?
30657why shouldst thou wander From such a loving Friend?
7786''What''s that?'' 7786 But if it should rain?"
7786How do you know?
7786How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?
7786Is it dark without you, darker still within? 7786 What is it?
7786What is there then?
7786What meanest thou, O sleeper? 7786 11] What does an abundant entrance mean? 7786 1] The victory is sure, but whose victory? 7786 6] What will be the result of their preaching? 7786 A little girl named Molly said to her aunt who was teaching her about Jesus,How can I be sure that my sins are forgiven?"
7786A very long time ago the question was asked,"Canst thou by searching find out God?"
7786A young man whom I know described it as follows:"I heard the voice of God saying to me,''Who told thee that thou wast naked?''
7786And I fell to the ground and I heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
7786Are we preparing for it?
7786Are you asking, What must I do?
7786Are you constantly thinking to yourself, Can God?
7786Are you living in the reality of it?
7786Are you longing to find God?
7786Are you not surprised that none of these men ever thought of finding out the real value of that pearl?
7786Are you quite sure?"
7786Are you saying,"My soul thirsteth for God, for the Living God"?
7786But is it not stranger still that scarcely any one ever stops to inquire who Jesus Christ really is, and the meaning of His death on the Cross?
7786But what if God''s heart_ was_ broken?
7786But_ why_ did He show them the wounds in His hands and side?
7786By and by you will have to face another question,"What will He do with me?"
7786Can you reply,"This is my Beloved Saviour and He is everything to me"?
7786Can you say the same?
7786Can you say,"God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into my heart,"and now I can call Him my Father?
7786Can you say,"He is the Son of God"?
7786Can you say,"Thy Word hath quickened me"?
7786Can you say--"O GOD, THOU ART MY GOD"?
7786Can you think of any other as wonderful?
7786Did God fail him?
7786Did you ever hear about Moody''s torch?
7786Do the children speak of it as"Mother''s book"?
7786Do we make it a habit to be constantly referring to God about everything?
7786Do we not read in the 69th Psalm,"Reproach hath broken my heart?
7786Do you ask Where?
7786Do you believe in God?
7786Do you ever doubt God''s love?
7786Do you ever doubt His wisdom and think you might have been treated better?
7786Do you feel anxious to know whether you will have a share in the glory?
7786Do you feel that you are like a lost sheep?
7786Do you find your faith failing sometimes?
7786Do you judge things from His standpoint?
7786Do you keep your Bible where you can take it up whenever you have a few spare moments?
7786Do you know?
7786Do you offer Him your heart''s devotion and praise, or is it only lip- worship?
7786Do you turn to it for strength and comfort?
7786Do you value it?
7786Does it all seem too good to be true?
7786Does not this simple testimony teach us all a lesson?
7786Does the child need the mother''s constant, watchful care?
7786First, What think ye of Christ, whose Son is He?
7786First, where did He come from?
7786God is now willing; are you willing?
7786God is still saying,"Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing?"
7786God knows just what you are and what you have been, and He Himself has asked the question,"How shall I put you among the children?"
7786Had you any idea that there are as many as five thousand precious promises for the believer in God''s Word?
7786Has your name been entered in the Book of Life?
7786Have we ever felt this need of drinking into that One Spirit?
7786Have we learnt to depend only on the Power of the Holy Ghost?
7786Have you claimed them?
7786Have you ever asked whether there has been a beginning of His life_ in your heart_?
7786Have you ever been conscious of the Presence of the living God?
7786Have you ever grasped that truth?
7786Have you ever put your weak hand into God''s strong loving Hand so as to let Him do the holding up?
7786Have you ever thanked Him for the unspeakable gift of His dear Son?
7786Have you ever tried to understand why the Church is called"the Body of Christ"?
7786Have you ever watched the battleships on a dark night, anchored a little way off from the coast?
7786Have you received Him?
7786Have you received them?
7786He spoke openly of His Kingdom to Pilate, for when Pilate asked Him,"Art Thou a King then?"
7786Holding it up in his fingers, he looked round and asked,"Will any one give me a penny for it?"
7786How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God?
7786How can you and I know what the Lord Jesus found in His Father''s love?
7786How did this love of God show itself?
7786How do we know this?
7786How does God commend His love?
7786How does God speak to us now?
7786How does He do it?
7786How does the Holy Spirit prepare our hearts?
7786How is it that you say your prayers and yet you do not expect to get an answer direct from God?
7786How many does it number now?
7786How was it done?
7786How was it started?
7786How?
7786How?
7786How?
7786I said,''What do you want me for?''
7786If not, why not?
7786If not, why not?
7786If so, what for, and for how much?
7786Is Christianity a failure?
7786Is God''s presence so real to you that it makes you control your temper and keeps you from saying unkind things?
7786Is He real to you?
7786Is He so close to you that it is like speaking into His ear?
7786Is His compassion for sinners beaming in your eye?
7786Is His purity seen in your daily life?
7786Is it a_ living_ book to you?
7786Is it grace you need for some special trial?
7786Is it only what you read about, or is it a personal experience in your soul?
7786Is it precious to you?
7786Is it ready at hand so that you can read it before you go to bed at night?
7786Is it so with you?
7786Is it trusting God, or is it doubting God?
7786Is it victory over temptation you long for?
7786Is the link on?
7786Is there this link between you and God?
7786Is this searching necessary for every one?
7786Is this true of you?
7786Is this your happy portion?
7786Jesus said to Nathaniel,"Because I said unto thee I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou?
7786Let me ask you one more question, Has God''s Voice ever stopped calling?
7786My heart fell broken at His feet, Who could such love withstand?
7786Now, therefore, why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back?
7786Only a touch-- is it not like the touch of faith?
7786Perhaps you ask me,"Who is God?"
7786Perhaps you ask, Will God really come and dwell in me for I am so unworthy?
7786Perhaps you ask,"How can I know?"
7786Perhaps you wonder, how can the death of One atone for the sin of the many?
7786Secondly, When did He come?
7786Still God is looking for His friend and calling him,"Where are you?"
7786THE SON OF GOD IS COME_ Where_ did He come from?
7786The LORD said,"Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?"
7786The fountain is still flowing-- has it cleansed you?
7786The great question for each one in life is, What is my relation to God?
7786The great question is, What is God to me?
7786The other question which you have to answer is,"What shall I do with Jesus?"
7786The question is sometimes asked, Has the Gospel lost its power?
7786The question was once asked at a meeting,"Can you point to any text in the Word of God which makes you sure you are saved and safe?"
7786The question was raised,"Who was to rule, Satan or God?"
7786The sheep knows the shepherd''s voice; the child is quick in recognizing its mother''s voice; why do we turn a deaf ear to God''s Voice?
7786Think of the cost of this great salvation, and then ask yourself, how much is it worth to me?
7786Thirdly, Why did He come?
7786Trusting or worrying?
7786Unbelief asks,"_ Can He?_"Faith says,"_ He can._"Dear friends, let me ask you to stop and ask yourself, Where do you put that little word"can"?
7786Unbelief asks,"_ Can He?_"Faith says,"_ He can._"Dear friends, let me ask you to stop and ask yourself, Where do you put that little word"can"?
7786Was Christ going into the cave?
7786Was it not wonderful that she was the first to tell the good news that He is"the Saviour of the world"?
7786We have heard how the sun shines over the whole world, but is it not wonderful that every little drop of water can reflect the whole of its light?
7786We limit God''s power to save, by asking,_ Can_ God?
7786We listen to the good news about peace and forgiveness, but are we willing to make Jesus King in our hearts?
7786We look on and on into the Eternity that is coming( and it is a wonderful outlook) and what do we find?
7786What answer will you give?
7786What did Jesus do?
7786What has been going on during all these years?
7786What is His Name?
7786What is faith?
7786What is friendship?
7786What is righteousness?
7786What is the Church?
7786What is the natural man?
7786What is this new experience, this seeking after God?
7786What is this personal experience of the life of Christ in the soul?
7786What shall we say?
7786What was it that changed this man?
7786What was the price to be paid?
7786What will be the final winding up of Earth''s suffering and struggles?
7786What will it all be like?
7786When Blondin came down he went up to the lad and said to him,"You saw me carry that big man across, do you believe I could take you?"
7786When did He come?
7786When did He come?
7786When did this special"_ calling out_"begin?
7786When was the beginning?
7786When you pray do you realise His Presence?
7786When you speak to God, is it an effort, or do you look up into His face with confidence and tell Him all?
7786When your child wants you to hold him up he slips his little hand in yours, does n''t he?
7786When?
7786Where is the Bible?
7786Where were they wounded?
7786Where?
7786Which are you doing, dear friends?
7786Who can inspire them with faith and hope?
7786Who can point them to the Rock of Ages which can not be moved?
7786Who can speak a word of cheer and encouragement?
7786Who can tell how precious?
7786Who can tell the good news so well as these restored and converted ones?
7786Who is the Word?
7786Who is this Some One?
7786Who will be the preachers?
7786Why did He call to the crowds so earnestly to repent?
7786Why did He die?
7786Why did He show them the nail prints in His hands and the deep wound in His side?
7786Why did you give up listening?
7786Why does He invite the weary ones to come to Him?
7786Why has this Gospel been written?
7786Why is the Bible like no other book?
7786Why is there so much unrest, so much ungodliness, and lawlessness in our midst?
7786Why was His blood poured out?
7786Why?
7786Why?
7786Why?
7786Will you ask yourself, Have I received Him?
7786Will you say it now very solemnly in your heart to God?
7786Would you neglect getting these priceless gifts if you believed they were the real offers of a real Person?
7786Yea, they spake against God, they said,"Can God furnish a table in the wilderness; can God give bread also; can He provide flesh for His people?"
7786You first put the speaking tube to your mouth and then you say"Are you there?"
7786You have prayed many years perhaps for the conversion of some one near and dear to you, but are you limiting God because you doubt His power to do it?
7786_ When_ did He come?
7786_ Why_ did He come?
7786you say, but I am so far off, how can I find my way to Him?
2458He which spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all, how shall he not with him give us all things also?
2458What manner of card is this?
2458What?
2458When?
2458Which way?
2458Who think you is a wise and faithful servant? 2458 And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
2458And in those days, what did they when they helped the scholars?
2458And now I would ask a strange question: who is the most diligentest bishop and prelate in all England, that passeth all the rest in doing his office?
2458And what a deputy must he be, trow ye?
2458And what had our blessed lady been the worse for this?
2458And what shall we in this case do?
2458And wherefore are magistrates ordained, but that the tranquillity of the commonweal may be confirmed, limiting both ploughs?
2458And who will sustain any damage for the respect of a public commodity?
2458And will ye know who it is?
2458As Cain said,"Have I the keeping of my brother?
2458At length the king asked him,"Sir, how liketh you your fare?"
2458Be all things here so without abuses, that nothing ought to be amended?
2458Be not all things well done, that are done with good intent, when they be profitable to us?
2458Be these the Christian and divine mysteries, and not rather the dreams of men?
2458Be these the faithful dispensers of God''s mysteries, and not rather false dissipators of them?
2458But I pray you, how much is this supper of Christ regarded amongst us, where he himself exhibiteth unto us his body and blood?
2458But I pray you, what sauce had David, how was he humbled?
2458But I pray you, wherefore was it ordained principally?
2458But at the last, what became of so good a constitution?
2458But here some man will say to me, What, sir, are ye so privy of the devil''s counsel, that ye know all this to be true?
2458But how cometh this regeneration?
2458But how hath this truth over- rusted with the pope''s rust?
2458But how shall I speak well of them?
2458But now methinketh I hear one say unto me: Wot ye what you say?
2458But now you will ask me, whom I call a prelate?
2458But what doth the people on these holidays?
2458But what shall be their reward which refuse to come?
2458But what the devil mean I to go about to describe particularly the devil''s nature, when no reason, no power of man''s mind can comprehend it?
2458But who are these callers?
2458But who be those now- a- days that can clear themselves of these manifest murders used to their children and servants?
2458But you will say to me, Why make ye all these interrogations?
2458But you will say,"I pray you, tell me what is my cross?"
2458But, I pray you, what is to be looked for in a dispenser?
2458But, I pray you, what thanks had they for their calling, for their labour?
2458But, peradventure, you will say,"What, shall a preacher teach foolishness?"
2458Can there be any mirth, where these two courses last all the feast?
2458Can you find in your hearts thus to abuse my goodness, my benignity, my gentleness?
2458Do they evermore correct vice, or else defend it, sometime being well corrected in other places?
2458Do they evermore rid the people''s business and matters, or cumber and ruffle them?
2458Do they give themselves to godliness, or else ungodliness?
2458Do they not more regard now a testoon than Christ?
2458Do ye see nothing in our holidays?
2458Do you think that this preferring of picture to picture, image to image, is the right use, and not rather the abuse, of images?
2458Doth this noble doctor doubt therein?
2458For Christ saith,_ Quis putas est servus prudens et fidelis_?
2458For what have ye done hitherto, I pray you, these seven years and more?
2458For what man will let go, or diminish his private commodity for a commonwealth?
2458For what shall I look for among thorns, but pricking and scratching?
2458For who can offer him but himself?
2458Had it not been better we had not been called together at all?
2458Have I not five wits?
2458Have not our forefathers complained of the ceremonies, of the superstition, and estimation of them?
2458Have ye thus deceived me?
2458Have you thus deceived me?
2458Here is my appetite, my lust, my will: but what must I do?
2458How came it thus?
2458How can that be found that was not lost?
2458How chanced this?
2458How many be there, think ye, which regard this supper of the Lord as much as a testoon?
2458How many receive it with the curate or minister?
2458How many sentences be given there in time, as they ought to be?
2458How much, I say, is it regarded?
2458How shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard?
2458How shall they hear without a preacher?
2458How then hath it happened that we have had so many hundred years so many unpreaching prelates, lording loiterers, and idle ministers?
2458I would here ask one question: I would fain know who controlleth the devil at home in his parish, while he controlleth the mint?
2458If men say truth, how many without bribes?
2458If the apostles might not leave the office of preaching to the deacons, shall one leave it for minting?
2458In court, in cowls, in cloisters, in rochets, be they never so white; yea, where shall ye not find them?
2458Is all well here?
2458Is it a labour?
2458Is it a work?
2458Is it so hard, is it so great a matter for you to see many abuses in the clergy, many in the laity?
2458Is there any man that will feed upon me, that will eat my flesh and drink my blood?
2458Is there never a wise man in the realm to be a comptroller of the mint?
2458Is this a meet office for a priest that hath cure of souls?
2458Is this his charge?
2458Is this their calling?
2458Is this their office?
2458Last of all, how think you of matrimony?
2458Lo, what false pretence can the devil send amongst us?
2458Nothing to be amended?
2458Now if your forefathers made this constitution, and yet thereby did nothing, the abuses every day more and more increased, what is left for you to do?
2458Now then, seeing thou art a christian man, what shall be thy answer of this question,"Who art thou?"
2458Now then, what is Christ''s rule?
2458Now what is it to be our God?
2458Now what manner of meat was prepared at this great feast?
2458Now what saith he?
2458Now what shall we say of these rich citizens of London?
2458Now, I pray you in God''s name, what did you, so great fathers, so many, so long a season, so oft assembled together?
2458O Lord, whither shall we flee from them?
2458Oh, what hear I of you?
2458On the contrary, a slothful servant, when his master commandeth him to do any thing, by and by he will ask questions,"Where?"
2458Or if all things be well done there, what do men in bishops''Consistories?
2458Or why are they not sent to the universities, that they may be able to serve the king when they come to age?
2458Ought we to thank you, or the king''s highness?
2458Ponder, whether yet many of them be as they should be or no?
2458See ye nothing, brethren?
2458Shall I call them proud men of London, malicious men of London, merciless men of London?
2458Shall we evermore in ministering of it speak Latin, and not in English rather, that the people may know what is said and done?
2458Shall you often see the punishments assigned by the laws executed, or else money- redemptions used in their stead?
2458Should we have ministers of the church to be comptrollers of the mints?
2458So that he must at all times convenient preach diligently: therefore saith he,"Who trow ye is a faithful servant?"
2458So this feast, this costly dish, hath its sauces; but what be they?
2458So, England, I speak it to thy shame: is there never a nobleman to be a lord president, but it must be a prelate?
2458St. Paul saith,_ Qui proprio Filio suo non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum, quomodo non etiam cum illo omnia nobis donabit_?
2458Then further we must say to ourselves,"What requireth Christ of a christian man?"
2458Then to pope Alexander''s holy water, to hallowed bells, palms, candles, ashes, and what not?
2458Then why happened this?
2458Then you must again ask unto yourself, What Christ requireth of a christian man?
2458These benefits I gave you, and do you give me these thanks?
2458Think you not that the king doth use justice unto him, and all his posterity and heirs?
2458Think you not that this our enemy, this prince with all his potentates, hath great and sore assaults to lay against our armour?
2458This rich man called his steward to him and said, What is this that I hear of thee?
2458To what end have we now excelled other in policy?
2458To whom was he married?
2458Was not he vexed?
2458Well, well, is this their duty?
2458Were it not the office of good prelates to consult upon these matters, and to seek some remedy for them?
2458What among stones, but stumbling?
2458What do they there?
2458What fruit is come of your long and great assembly?
2458What have we brought forth at the last?
2458What have we to do then but_ epulari in Domino_, to eat in the Lord at his supper?
2458What have ye brought forth?
2458What have ye engendered?
2458What is done in the Arches?
2458What is that?
2458What is that?
2458What is this but a new learning; a new canker to rust and corrupt the old truth?
2458What man hath any thing, I pray you, but he hath received it of his plentifulness?
2458What manner of masses saw they, trow ye?
2458What of baptism?
2458What other oblation have we to make, but of obedience, of good living, of good works, and of helping our neighbours?
2458What other service have we to do to him, and what other sacrifice have we to offer, but the mortification of our flesh?
2458What priests saw they?
2458What saw they that made this decree?
2458What saw they, that made this constitution?
2458What say ye by these images, that are so famous, so noble, so noted, being of them so many and so divers in England?
2458What say ye?
2458What shall I say of them?
2458What shall we do now or imagine to thrust down these Turks and to subdue them?
2458What substance, what virtue, what goodness art thou of, by thyself?"
2458What think ye of these mass- priests, and of the masses themselves?
2458What was the chiefest dish at this great banquet?
2458What was the feast- dish?
2458What went you about?
2458What would ye have brought to pass?
2458What( I had almost said) among serpents, but stinging?
2458What, not one of all that can judge between brother and brother; but one brother goeth to law with another, and that under heathen judges?
2458When should she go far off to these famous images?
2458Whensoever it shall happen you to go and make your oblation unto God, ask of yourselves this question,"Who art thou?"
2458Whereas you might say, What was the cause that Christ declared more the pains of hell by these terms than by any other terms?
2458Whether stirred other first, you the king, that he might preach, or he you by his letters, that ye should preach oftener?
2458Which thing when Astyages heard, what doth he?
2458Which words are as much to say in English,"Who art thou?"
2458Who is a true and faithful steward?
2458Who is so blind but he seeth this clearly; except perchance there be any that can not discern the children of the world from the children of light?
2458Who made thee so bold to meddle with my silly beasts, which I bought so dearly with my precious blood?
2458Who should be his spouse?
2458Who was Abraham''s seed?
2458Who was he now that was married?
2458Who was the bridegroom?
2458Why are they not set in schools where they may learn?
2458Why do ye divide him?
2458Why make you of him more sacrifices than one?
2458Why then mingle ye him?
2458Why, I pray you?
2458Ye have oft sat in consultation, but what have ye done?
2458You, that ought to be my preachers, what other thing do you, than apply all your study hither, to bring all my preachers to envy, shame, contempt?
2458_ Tu quis es_?
2458and why, in these your demands, do you let and withdraw the good devotion of the people?
2458had he not sauces?
2458or have ye rather deceived yourselves?
2458or shall I answer for him and for his faults?
2458or what derogation is this to heaven?
2458or what dishonour was this to our blessed lady?
2458shall we company with them?
2458shall we not company with them?
2458that is to say,"Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall be saved: but how shall they call upon him, in whom they believe not?
2458will some say:"Why, what have I to do with my neighbour''s or brother''s malice?"
44420And is this the doctrine which men call a contracted one? 44420 Doth he not speak parables?"
44420Doth he not speak parables?
44420Is not this written,they have said,"for the ages to come?
44420May we not speak of eternal blessedness?
44420May we speak in the pulpit of slaves?
44420Monotonous is this theme? 44420 Now, what is the meaning of this plain term''Christ''?
44420Shall we not converse, then, on endless misery?
44420Understandest thou what thou readest?
44420--this is the reply--"and you consider this topic a limited one, whose height, depth, length, breadth, no finite mind can measure?
44420All else might go-- it were little;"Why hast thou forsaken me?"
44420And have you still a favorite theme which you have not suggested?"
44420And he said unto me,"Son of man, can these bones live?"
44420And how can this be said?
44420And meantime what is becoming of the countries in which these different confessions are established?
44420And on whom does Jesus pronounce His beatitude?
44420And the first that you hear of him as a penitent man is:"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
44420And what are all these aspirations?
44420And what are they?
44420And what is it to sleep awhile if I am Christ''s?
44420And what is the burden of her strain?
44420And who have they to assist them?
44420And yet when such trial has been passed we involuntarily say-- has not a foundation been laid?
44420Art thou thyself saved?
44420As the Pharisees said:"Who can forgive sins but God only?"
44420As they said to the apostles so they will say to us:"If this be triumph, what can be defeat?
44420But has such a Church been realized?
44420But how can I verify this assertion?
44420But how can we appreciate the King, unless we learn the nature of the beings over whom He rules?
44420But if Christ desired that His Father''s name should be glorified, how was this to be accomplished?
44420But is the human mind an end worthy of all the contrivances in nature?
44420But is this an ultimate object?
44420But still was He not our brother; the son of man, as we are; the son of God, like ourselves?
44420But the question is further suggested, What is this qualification?
44420But what if this should take place?
44420But when we are long gone to our rest, who can say what shall be the great draft of souls which shall be miraculously taken in England?
44420But who are you?
44420By what medium, or means?
44420Can I not die, since Christ died?
44420Can I not suffer, since Christ suffered?
44420Can the visible Church indeed afford to do without these motives?
44420Can these bones live?
44420Can we by searching find out the whole of atoning love?
44420Can you not speak of Medes and Parthians, Indians and Arabians?
44420Could it ever be renovated?
44420Deliverer?
44420Did you not dispute with the Roman sergeants, plead your cause before the Roman courts?
44420Do they exist for elucidating His power?
44420Do we adopt a Ptolemaic theory in morals, that man is the center of the system, and other worlds revolve round him?
44420Do you appreciate Christ''s matchless excellences?
44420Does the load of earth above me and beneath which I am placed press upon me?
44420Does the present generation believe that which its fathers believed?
44420Does the sun, with all its retinue of stars, pursue its daily course with no aim ulterior to man''s welfare?
44420For how is pure and undefiled religion defined?
44420For if He were not a man, but a god, what are all these things?
44420From what?
44420Had he not told them the plan and method of His own government?
44420Has there ever been a visible organized body of men who carried out this sublime purpose?
44420Have they, or have they not, immortal souls?
44420Have you experienced such a change?
44420Having cast away every sin to embrace him, do you set him above your chiefest joy?
44420His excellence-- was it not human excellence?
44420His knowledge?
44420His love?
44420His wisdom, love, piety,--sweet and celestial as they were,--are they not what we also may attain?
44420How can you prove that there ever was a book called the Word of God?
44420How could they help themselves?
44420How do you know the Scriptures were ever written?
44420How long shall human power exalt itself?
44420How long shall the powers of darkness hold jubilee?
44420How low down in a man sometimes( not always) lies the fundamental motive which sways his life?
44420How will persons sacrifice themselves to their objects?
44420I hear them say"How long shall man triumph?
44420If I might so speak, would you be proud to carry His shoes?
44420If Paul and Jesus could read our books of theological doctrines, would they accept as their teaching what men have vented in their name?
44420If this be triumph, what is defeat?
44420In how much more respect, in how much holier veneration should we hold this body?
44420Is Christianity then to perish out of the heart of the nations, and vanish from the memory of the world, like the religions that were before Abraham?
44420Is all this preaching a mere idle theory of life?
44420Is he like a follower of the Lamb who is raging like a roaring lion?
44420Is he like a pardoned criminal who sits moping with a cloud upon his brow?
44420Is he like an heir of heaven, like a man destined to a crown, who is vexed and fretted with some petty loss?
44420Is he like one in whose bosom the dove of heaven is nestling, who is full of all manner of bile and bitterness?
44420Is it an unspiritual motive?
44420Is it cold?
44420Is not this one of parables concerning the kingdom of God?"
44420Is there some keen passion connected with this world at the bottom?
44420Is there such a heart in you?
44420It is this:"Should a Christian minister out of the pulpit, as well as in the pulpit, know nothing save the Crucified One?
44420It is well to know Christ, but in all the varying scenes of life is it well not to know anything else?
44420Must not everyone conduct business, and sustain cares, which draw his mind away from the atonement?"
44420Must we not call in our minds from Christ and Him crucified, so as to concentrate all our emotions on the simple fact of Christ crucified?"
44420My soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land"?
44420Nevertheless, there is a triumph in the Christian world and there is a triumph in the anti- Christian world; and what is it?
44420Of what would you speak?"
44420Of what, then, would you speak?"
44420Oh grave, where is thy victory?"
44420One had asked him,"Father, do you remember me?"
44420Or if not, where is the life itself?
44420Our first inquiry would be:"Is not your theme too contracted?
44420Rather than part with Him, would you part with a thousand worlds?
44420Sent whom?
44420She bends over him, and as her tears fall thick upon his face, she cries,"Do you not remember me?"
44420She stood wondering, when she heard a voice behind her which said,"Woman, why weepest thou?"
44420Since these notions are so fleeting, why need we accept the commandment of men as the doctrine of God?
44420The errors which were once dominant, lordly, confident, and persecuting-- where are they now?
44420The first that you hear of him as a convicted man is in the words:"Who art thou, Lord?"
44420The way in which man bears temptation is what decides his character; yet how secret is the system of temptation?
44420Then, again, unless man received a new nature, how could he sing the new song?
44420There is an accusation which is repeated from age to age against the Catholic and Roman Church; and what is it?
44420They have piled their own rubbish against the temple of truth where piety comes up to worship; what wonder the pile seems unshapely and like to fall?
44420They may well have said to him,"What is this triumph you speak of?
44420This may be latent, not at first sight apparent, nor suspected, but how soon does it appear when put to the proof?
44420To die, if I am like Christ in dying?
44420Too large a theme is the atonement?
44420True, it may not emerge from the struggle of bare endurance here, but has not the seed been sown?
44420Vile in one sense it may be; yet what, although it be covered with sores?
44420Was He ashamed of the lowly and the down- trodden, and those who have become the reproach of men and the despised of the people?
44420Was Jesus, or was He not, crucified for them?
44420Was it possible even for that country which God had blest above all others and man had curst above all others, to breathe and live again?
44420Was there ever a life of less ease and security, yet of more buoyant and rejoicing spirit than his?
44420We are then perhaps at first surprized at the sternness of their sentence, and are ready to say with the trembling disciple,"Who then shall be saved?"
44420Well might He still say,"Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known me?"
44420Were He now on earth, would you leave a throne to stoop and tie His latchet?
44420What His words, His life, His excellence of achievement?
44420What are these men who are rising up to purify the Church?
44420What could all this mean?
44420What do they believe?
44420What else, then, do you prefer for your topic of conversation?"
44420What hath produced such a wonderful difference in public feeling?
44420What is meant by this oneness, or this union?
44420What is the cause of this great change?--how brought about?
44420What is the meaning of it?
44420What is the secret of their power?
44420What is their appeal?
44420What is this which men must possess in order to accomplish Christ''s purpose of inducing the world to believe?
44420What its issue was?
44420What populations are growing up in them?
44420What the real ordeal has been?
44420What then?
44420What tie of home or nation did he not break, that he might join in one of the whole family of God?
44420What was to occur?
44420What weight did he not cast aside, to run the race that was set before him?
44420What wonder the fabric is in peril when tried by fire?
44420What would you have, then, for your theme?"
44420What would you have, then, what can you think of for your choice topic of discourse?"
44420What, although it be clothed in rags?
44420What, although, in unseemly decrepitude, it want its fair proportions?
44420What, for example, can we know in its most important bearings, unless we know the history and office of our Redeemer?
44420Who dared dispute it?
44420Who knows what is going on?
44420Who told you all these things?
44420Why not then of Africans?
44420Why send a message to him?
44420Why this change?
44420Why?
44420Will he not be thus led to"believe the record that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son?"
44420Will not the pulpit become wearisome if, spring and autumn, summer and winter, it confine itself to a single topic?
44420Will the next generation believe anything?"
44420Will you not be a slave to your unswerving purpose?
44420Will you propose, then, some other theme for your remark?"
44420Would not those modest writers themselves be confounded at the idolatry we pay them?
44420Would you leave father, mother, wife, children, to follow Him, with bleeding feet, over life''s roughest path?
44420You speak of taking your stand, adhering to your decision; but this dry, stiff resolve- comes any genial spirit from it?
44420You speak of your stern purpose, but can you depend upon the continuance of it?
44420Your inflexible rule, will it not be a hard one, wearisome to yourself, disagreeable to others?
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44420a thirsting for the presence of Jesus Christ upon the altar--"Where can I find Him?"
44420and be buried, if I am like Christ in being buried?
44420death is passed forever; we shall then put our feet on the neck of the monster and shall be able to say:"Oh death, where is thy sting?
11981And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters?
11981For the Lord Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What wilt ye that I shall do unto you? 11981 Again, what eyes did He look for when He spake to those who saw indeed, but who saw only with the eyes of the flesh? 11981 Also Christ saith,I am a very vine; wherefore then worship ye not the vine God, as ye do the bread?
11981And He answered and said,"Woman, thou wottest not what thou asketh; then He said to them, May ye drink of the cup that I shall drink?
11981And how is it possible, you ask, not to grieve, since I am only a man?
11981And how wretched do they seem who can not see this light?
11981And if thou choosest to take him, why dost thou command me to slay him and to pollute my right hand?
11981And to the angel you say as Balaam said:"What wilt thou that we should do?"
11981And what are the two blind men by the wayside but the two people to cure whom Jesus came?
11981And what is it that disorders the eye of the heart?
11981And what said the Lord to him who now confest and said,"My lord, and my God?"
11981And what then, beloved hearers?
11981And wherefore?
11981And why did He not suffice?
11981And why was He not seen?
11981Are not other men Christians?
11981Are these the men who reason about a resurrection?
11981Are we so delicate as to be unwilling to endure anything?
11981Art Thou not cast out from comfort of all creatures?
11981As an infant He was suckled; is He suckled always?
11981As such a trifler with holy things how should I dare rise up?
11981As the smitten beast asked Balaam, so I ask you:"Tell me, am I not your ass?
11981Because he was a bad man?
11981Because he was a youth?
11981Because he was an aged man?
11981Because he was good and kind?
11981Brethren, do you see my meaning?
11981But Jesus was willing to die for the truth of what He said; should we forsake the truth in order not to displease men?
11981But do you miss his society, and therefore lament and mourn?
11981But here, perhaps, thou wilt say, what is needful to be done?
11981But how is it possible, you ask, that a bereaved person, being a man, should not grieve?
11981But if God can not will us to Himself by gentle means, must we not be mere blocks if His threatening also fail?
11981But now I shall ask you a word; answer ye me, Whether is the body of the Lord made at once or at twice?
11981But reason asks, Was darkness created with the world?
11981But since we know that believers are blind, ought we not to have better eyes than they?
11981But we must believe that there is a mysterious reason for this?
11981But what were those who have trodden the path before us?
11981But when Balaam beat his fallen beast, it said to him:"What have I done to thee?"
11981But when we see that Jesus Christ is our pattern, ought we not, without inquiring further, to esteem it great happiness that we are made like Him?
11981But where is a father or a mother that can say I have led their son into sin; one that can say I have ruined her husband or his wife?
11981But whose eyes?
11981By what means shall I become righteous and acceptable to God?
11981By what reason then say ye that are sinners that ye make God?
11981Can the Papists assure me, or any other man, which were the forty days that Christ fasted?
11981Concerning Christ, however, he did not speak thus; but how?
11981Could not the Lord have risen again without scars?
11981Did Christ fast those forty days to teach us superstitious fasting?
11981Did I for this exhibit every parental virtue, that they should endure such a death?"
11981Didst thou not promise me that from this son thou wouldst fill the earth with my descendants?
11981Do I not teach you according to the Gospel?
11981Do we think it has been said in vain that if we die with Jesus Christ we shall also live with Him?
11981Do ye not know how I explained the revelation of St. John?
11981Do you ask me still what you ought to do?
11981Does this Spirit mean the diffusion of air?
11981Either make they again the spiritual body which is risen from death to life or make they the fleshy body as it was before he suffered death?
11981For Christ saith, What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where He was before?
11981For He took bread and blest, and yet what blest He?
11981For he did not say, Concerning them that are dead: but what did he say?
11981For how are our eyes made whole?
11981For of what advantage was it to him that he had many children?
11981For on what account, tell me, do you thus weep for one departed?
11981For what bitterness is there in this cup which He hath not drunk?
11981For what will they not say?
11981For who are we, I pray, to be witnesses of the truth of God, and advocates to maintain His cause?
11981For who was standing before Him without his bodily ears?
11981For who would not have then thought that the promise which had been made him of a numerous posterity was all a deception?
11981For whom do you imitate and emulate?
11981Forasmuch as Thou hast said,"He who hath seen Me hath seen the Father also?"
11981Furthermore, if they say that Christ made His body of bread, I ask, With what words made He it?
11981Has he done so?
11981Have they His cognizance?
11981Have we any cause then to decline the struggle?
11981He did not give way to dejection, nor ask,"What does this mean?
11981He ran through the successive ages of life until man''s full estate; doth He grow in body always?
11981He was born of the Virgin Mary; is He being born always?
11981How can it therefore be that our hearts should not hear this cry and testimony of the Spirit?
11981How can we worthily praise light after the testimony given by the Creator to its goodness?
11981How dost thou promise me a posterity, and yet order me to slay my son?
11981How great is thought to be the unhappiness of men who do not see this bodily light?
11981How may ye then say that ye are worthy to make His body, and yet your works bear witness that ye are less than the prophets?
11981How shall I attain to this perfect justification?
11981How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
11981How wilt thou give the fruits, then, if thou pluck up the root?
11981How, then, did the Spirit of God move upon the waters?
11981How, then, is it that the heavens are perfect whilst the earth is still unformed and incomplete?
11981How, then, was it that no part of the earth appeared through the water?
11981If I go about with lies, then I have Christ against me; therefore I have heaven and earth against me, and how then could I stand?
11981If I had wished to deceive you, why should I have given you as the chief of my gifts the means of discovering my fraud?
11981If good is the stronger, what is there to prevent evil from being completely annihilated?
11981If they so endured for the truth which was at that time so obscure, what ought we to do in the clear light which is now shining?
11981If, then, evil is neither uncreated nor created by God, from whence comes its nature?
11981In a word, not to dwell long on this, He was crucified; is He hanging on the cross always?
11981In one word, what was the unfinished condition of the earth and for what reason was it invisible?
11981Is it not because He wished to employ them for such a purpose?
11981Is it older than light?
11981Is not this to cast pearls before swine?
11981Is the Father such as I see Thee to be?
11981Is this the recompense for my kindness?
11981Make they the glorified body?
11981May it not be said that we do not think we have to do with God?
11981May not this consideration alone well inflame us to offer ourselves to God to be employed in any way in such honorable service?
11981No doubt the apostles said: How can we believe these women?
11981Now what is it, brethren, to cry out unto Christ, but to correspond to the grace of Christ by good works?
11981Now what thing more precious can we have than the eye made whole?
11981O man, why wander thus from the truth and imagine for thyself that which will cause thy perdition?
11981O wise man, do you think the poor fishermen were not clever enough for this?
11981Of whom spake He, brethren, but of us?
11981On the contrary, I ask, how is it that being a man he should grieve, since he is honored with reason and with hopes of future good?
11981Or dost thou believe?
11981Others run together thither, but perhaps they are heathens or Jews?
11981Philip might, of course, have answered and said, Lord, do I see Thee?
11981Preach first of all to your knowledge, and say to it: If you draw near this truth, you will have much faith; wherefore do you hesitate to use it?
11981Since, therefore, in all other things we differ from them, shall we agree with them in our sentiments respecting death?
11981So I say to you:"Come here and tell me: what have I done to you?
11981Some will say, What do we gain by confessing our faith to obstinate people who have deliberately resolved to fight against God?
11981Tell me, pray, whether in so doing are we worthy of having anything in common with Him?
11981There are some who say, What will our death profit?
11981Therefore man is able only imperfectly to know an incorporeal substance; how much less can he know the uncreated infinite being of God?
11981Therefore, to you also I say: If you believe, where are your works?
11981They are not at this hour in the hands of tyrants, but how do they know what God means to do with them hereafter?
11981To whom did He say this?
11981Was it for this that I opened my house, that I might see it made the grave of my children?
11981Were God to deal with us according to our desserts, would He not have just cause to chastise us daily in a thousand ways?
11981What do ye fear?
11981What do ye say to that, ye wise men of this world?
11981What do you intend to do?
11981What is invisible?
11981What is meant by"Jesus passeth by?"
11981What is meant by"Jesus passeth by?"
11981What is this"passing by?"
11981What is"the deep?"
11981What language can describe his fortitude?
11981What means"the divinity standeth still?"
11981What other ears, then, did He seek for, but those of the inner man?
11981What shall we say, then?
11981What should prevent us from making the confession which He requires?
11981What then should be done in order to inspire our breasts with true courage?
11981What was that?
11981What will they not declare concerning us?
11981What wilt thou have of us, brother?
11981What wilt thou?
11981What, then, is that light which disappeared suddenly from the world so that darkness should cover the face of the deep?
11981When and at what time?
11981When we do not take it into account, and are intent on a brutish life, which is worse than a thousand deaths, what can we allege for our excuse?
11981Where are the signs of His love?
11981Where are thy works?
11981Where then becometh your ministrations?
11981Wherein was Christ a very vine, or wherein was the bread Christ''s body, in figurative speech, which is hidden to the understanding?
11981Which of them was in the better light?
11981Who could have trusted that, so many torments as Job suffered, he should not speak in all his great temptation one foolish word against God?
11981Who ever saw such things, or heard of the like?
11981Who is he that crieth out unto Christ?
11981Who is there, you ask again, that has not been subdued by this weakness?
11981Who then are the two people?
11981Who will dare to try to gain access to the innermost shrine?
11981Who will look into its secrets?
11981Why do ye not come to serve Christ?
11981Why do you beat me?
11981Why do you hesitate and go not into the service of the Lord?
11981Why does Scripture say"one day,"not"the first day?"
11981Why dost thou delay about them?
11981Why dost thou wish to live according to the remonstrances of the multitude who would hinder them, and not after the steps of the Lord who passeth by?
11981Why is this?
11981Why is this?
11981Why not rather as the Gospel ordains?
11981Why now did he use the term death in reference to Christ, but in reference to us the term sleep?
11981Why standest thou so uncertain and irresolute?
11981Why, in spite of its inferiority, has it preceded it?
11981Why?
11981Will it not rather prove an offense?
11981Would not the symmetry in light be less shown in its parts than in the pleasure and delight at the sight of it?
11981Would you hear of a sixth stroke?
11981Yet doth He call them dead; where but in the soul within?
11981You suffer emotions and shed tears at merely hearing of these things: what must he have endured at the sight of them?
11981and will not the heavenly life compensate for this?
11981and, how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
11981and, how shall they hear without a preacher?
11981and, how shall they preach except they be sent?"
11981is there such a company of priests, monks, and nuns, and is not faith known?
11981who knoweth not what he ought to believe?
33340But, Mr. Moody,you say,"how can I check myself?
33340Do you swear when you get angry?
33340Does not your Bible say that if your ass falls into a pit on the sabbath, you may pull him out?
33340How did you stop?
33340How do I know whether a man or a camel passed my tent last night?
33340Oh,I said,"tell me, have you ever sworn since that night you knelt in your drawing- room, and asked God to forgive you?"
33340Then,I asked,"are you ready to meet God?"
33340Well, what is it?
33340What do you mean?
33340What law of justice forgives the obscene bird of prey, while it kicks out of its path the soiled and bleeding dove?
33340Where is the crime,he asked,"of turning a few ounces of blood out of their channel?"
33340Why did you send your daughter out of the room before you said this?
33340Why, you do n''t swear now, do you?
33340Would you come up and see my wife?
33340_ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 33340 --that is splendid reading for Sunday, is n''t it? 33340 ARE YOU GUILTY? 33340 ARE YOU READY? 33340 After he prayed he got up and said:What shall I do now?"
33340After the meeting I said to a gentleman:"Who is that man who drives up here every night?
33340Again, what does John say?
33340And what is it used in connection with?
33340And why?
33340And you,_ employee_, have you been honest with your employer?
33340Are n''t they vanity?
33340Are there not men whose characters have been utterly ruined for this life through this accursed sin?
33340Are there not wives who would rather sink into their graves than live?
33340Are we obeying God with all our heart?
33340Are you fit for the kingdom of heaven?
33340Are you guilty of adulterating what you sell?
33340Are you innocent or guilty?
33340Are you like those who said:"When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?
33340Are you ready to step into the scales and be weighed against this first commandment?
33340Are you ready to step into the scales?
33340Are you trusting Him alone?
33340Are your advertisements deceptive?
33340Are your cheap prices made possible by defrauding your customers either in quantity or in quality?
33340As a child said, when reproved by her mother and told that she ought to do right:"How can I do right when there is no''right''in me?"
33340But does this mean that the detailed precepts of the Decalogue are superseded, and have become back numbers?
33340But have you kept them?
33340But if a man makes money, and yet his sons are ruined and his home broken up, what has he gained?
33340But if he wins her affection and ruins her, and then casts her off, is n''t he worse, than a murderer?
33340But some one says:"Mr. Moody, what are you going to do?
33340But you ask,"What are we to do?
33340Ca n''t a man read enough news on week days without desecrating the sabbath?
33340Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
33340Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
33340Can pleasure or riches fill the soul that is empty of God?
33340Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
33340Can we not all recall cases where men and women have died under the wounds of calumny and misrepresentation?
33340Can you draw a picture of your own soul or spirit or will?
33340Can you step on the scales and take that harlot with you?
33340Can you, young man?
33340Can_ you_ say that you observe the sabbath properly?
33340Christians have tried to paint the Trinity, but how can you depict the Invisible?
33340Come, are you killing them?
33340Come, now, are you ready to be weighed?
33340Did He not set an example of true filial love and care when in the midst of the agonies of the cross He mode provision for His mother?
33340Did it not bring fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah?
33340Did n''t David fall into foolish and hurtful lusts?
33340Did you ever get so angry that you wished any one harm?
33340Did you ever in your heart wish a man dead?
33340Did you ever stop to think that the world has not a single picture of Christ that has been handed down to us from His disciples?
33340Do n''t selfish riches always bring hurt?
33340Do we keep the law, the_ whole_ law?
33340Do we render Him a full and willing obedience?
33340Do you believe that God will allow this infernal thing to go on,--women bearing all the blame while guilty men go unpunished?
33340Do you call them old- fashioned, and sneer at their advice?
33340Do you disobey them just as much as you dare?
33340Do you ever think how those little stealings may bring you to ruin?
33340Do you give short weight or measure?
33340Do you know how often the word"reverend"occurs in the Bible?
33340Do you love Him above father or mother, the wife of your bosom, your children, home or land, wealth or pleasure?
33340Do you substitute inferior grades of goods?
33340Do you teach your clerks to put a French or an English tag on domestic manufactures, and then sell them as imported goods?
33340Do you tell them to say that the goods are all wool when you know they are half cotton?
33340Do you try to deceive them?
33340Does a father cease to give children rules to obey because they love him?
33340Does a nation burn its statute books because the people have become patriotic?
33340Does he have peace of mind?
33340Does n''t it look as if Christ left no relics lest they should be held sacred and worshipped?
33340Does n''t that touch sabbath travel?
33340Does that look as if the law of Moses was becoming obsolete?
33340Doth a fountain send forth at the same time sweet water and bitter?
33340God''s statutes are just, are they not?
33340Has n''t the church to contend with the same difficulty to- day?
33340Has n''t the time come to call a halt if men want power with God?
33340Has the human heart ever been satisfied with these false gods?
33340Have we fulfilled all the requirements of the law?
33340Have we not had the desire to increase our possessions or to change our lot in accordance with what we see in others?
33340Have you been taking God''s name in vain to- day?
33340Have you defrauded the hireling of his wages?
33340Have you fulfilled, or are you willing to fulfil, all the requirements of this law?
33340Have you no other God?
33340Have you paid starvation wages?
33340Have you robbed him of his due by wasting your time when he was not looking?
33340His master heard of it, and sent for him, and said:"I understand you are preaching?"
33340How about the atheist, the deist, the pantheist?
33340How are we to get to church?"
33340How are you treating your parents?
33340How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?
33340How could God order something that broke this second commandment?
33340How did he learn to beware of covetousness?
33340How did you spend it?
33340How do you treat that venerable father and praying mother?
33340How does He begin?
33340How long is it since you wrote to your mother?
33340How many sons treat their parents with contempt, and make light of their entreaties?
33340How would the president feel if Americans made such hideous objects to resemble him as they make of their gods in heathen countries?
33340I asked him:"Do you ever get angry?"
33340I began to tell him about Christ in the heart; how that would take the temptation to swear out of a man,"Well,"he said,"how am I to get Christ?"
33340I have been thinking, Where did Moses get that law?
33340I stepped up to him and said:"This is Mr.--, I believe?"
33340I want a little more time to prepare, to turn the matter over in my mind?"
33340If Christ is in our hearts, why need we set Him before our eyes?
33340If God should summon you into His presence now, what would you say?
33340If God should weigh us by them, would we be found wanting or not wanting?
33340If God should weigh you against this commandment, would you be found wanting?
33340If Paul was alive to- day, could he have described the present state of affairs more truly?
33340If a man will sell his principles for gold, is n''t he making it a god?
33340If he saw the streets of our large cities filled with harlots, would he believe that the worship of Venus had ceased?
33340If he trusts in his wealth to keep him from want and to supply his needs, are not riches his god?
33340If some old Greek or Roman came to life again and saw men in a drunken debauch, would he believe that the worship of Bacchus had died out?
33340If the King Himself is present, why need we bow down before statues supposed to represent Him?
33340If they can not have your regard through life, what reward are they to have for all their care and anxiety?
33340If we take hold of that promise by faith, what need is there of outward symbols and reminders?
33340If you lie about the value of things you buy, are you not trying to defraud the storekeeper?
33340Is all your hope centred on God in Christ?
33340Is he interested?"
33340Is his rock as our Rock?
33340Is his rock as our Rock?
33340Is it not right that He should have the first and only place in our affections?
33340Is n''t it a condemnation that men have to be put under oath in order to make sure of their speaking the truth?
33340Is n''t it a terrible condemnation that swearing held its own until it came to be recognized as a vulgar thing, a sin against society?
33340Is n''t it extraordinary that Jethro, the man of the desert, should have given this advice to Moses?
33340Is n''t that a proof that their rock is not as our Rock?
33340Is n''t that true of many business- men to day?
33340Is n''t that true?
33340Is n''t there a crying need for that same feeling to- day?
33340Is the covetous man ever satisfied with his possessions?
33340Is there a swearing man ready to put this commandment into the scales, and step in to be weighed?
33340Is there a swearing man who reads this?
33340Is your heart set upon God alone?
33340Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
33340Let your mind go back to the time when you were ill. Did your mother neglect you?
33340Lot coveted the rich plains of Sodom, and what did he gain?
33340Men often ask:"How can I keep from swearing?"
33340My friend, are you ready to be weighed against this commandment?
33340My friend, can you say that sincerely?
33340My friend, have you got Him?
33340My friend, how is it?
33340Next day the young man said:"Who was that I saw you talking to yesterday?"
33340Now God turns to our relations with each other, and is n''t it significant that He deals first with family life?
33340Now the question for you and me is-- are we keeping these commandments?
33340Now, my friend, are you ready to be weighed by this law of God?
33340PUNISHMENT OR BLESSING?
33340Paul said:"Do we then make void the law through faith?
33340Sabbath- breaker, are you ready to step into the scales?
33340See what God says in His Word:"Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
33340Some one asked an Arab:"How do you know that there is a God?"
33340Some one said that when the prodigal son came home he had the best robe and the fatted calf, but what does the prodigal daughter get?
33340Suppose God''s scales should drop down before you, what would you do?
33340The Handwriting Blotted Out We have now considered the Ten Commandments, and the question for each one of us is-- are we keeping them?
33340The law is all right, but are we right?
33340The prophet Amos hurled his invectives against oppressors who said,"When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn?
33340The question at once arises-- is this commandment intended to forbid the use of drawings and pictures of created things altogether?
33340Then he straightened up and asked--"What do you want?"
33340There is no open question on Monday morning--''John, will you go to work to- day?''"
33340Two people were once arguing upon this point, and one said:"Well, you will not contend that a theft of a pin and of a dollar are the same to God?"
33340Was n''t Belshazzar cut off suddenly?
33340We are not gaining much in turning away from this old law, are we?
33340Were n''t they a snare?
33340What are you going to do, blasphemer?
33340What artist can tell us?
33340What care I for all the glories and treasures of heaven?
33340What carried Rome into ruin?
33340What did Christ say?
33340What did the thirty pieces of silver do for Judas?
33340What do they look forward to?
33340What does the child of God want more than this?
33340What has made the difference in the price of humanity?
33340What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
33340What would you do if you were put into the balances of the sanctuary, if you had to step in opposite to this third commandment?
33340When Ananias kept back part of the price of the land, Peter asked him--"Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie unto the Holy Ghost?"
33340When a neighbor came in and said,"Now, mother, you go and lie down; you have been up for a week; I will take your place for a night"--did she do it?
33340When any one spoke evil of another in the presence of Peter the Great, he used promptly to stop him, and say:"Well, now, has he not got a bright side?
33340When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
33340Where did Moses obtain that law, which surpasses the wisdom and philosophy of the most enlightened ages?
33340Where did he obtain it?
33340Where do they stand to- day?
33340Where were you last sabbath?
33340Wherein Have We Robbed God?
33340Which master will you choose to follow?
33340Which would you rather be-- a Joseph or an Absalom?
33340Who ever heard it confessed as a sin?
33340Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
33340Who knows what He was like?
33340Why do you not respect all women as you do your mother and sister?
33340Why does n''t the atheist preach no hereafter, no heaven, no God, in the hour of affliction?
33340Why then should they give them to my children and to yours?
33340Will any one deny that the house of the strange woman is"the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death,"as the Bible says?
33340Will such a young man ever amount to anything?
33340Will you incur God''s displeasure by rejecting Christ too?
33340Will you remain as you are and be found wanting, or will you accept Christ and be ready for the summons?
33340Will you step into the scales and be weighed one by one by the Ten Commandments?
33340Would he be wise or foolish in putting up a photograph of her on the window- frame before him, as a help to bear her in as he looks for her coming?
33340Would he have believed that that was going to be his last night, that he would never see the light of another sun?
33340Would he have sent his daughter out if he really believed what he said?
33340Would n''t it be a grand thing to have a martyr in the nineteenth century?
33340Would you like to have your boy one of them?
33340Would you like your sabbath taken away from you?
33340Would you not be found wanting?
33340Yes, because what will not men be guilty of when prompted by the desire to be rich?
33340You ask me how you are to cast this unclean spirit out of your heart?
33340You do n''t like to have any one bear false witness against you, or help to ruin your character or reputation: then why should you do it to others?
33340You may be a professed Christian: are you obeying this commandment?
33340You used to swear?"
33340You want Holy Ghost power?
33340You want power in your Christian life, do you?
33340You want the dew of heaven on your brow?
33340You want to see men convicted and converted?
33340Young lady, can you say:"I am ready to be weighed by the law?"
33340Young man, are you leading an impure life?
33340Young man, young woman, are you guilty, even in thought?
33340Young man, young woman, how do you treat your parents?
33340_ Employer_, are you guilty of sweating your employees?
33340_ Extortioner_, are you ready to step into the scales?
33340and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
33340and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?"
33340either a vine figs?
33340he asked;"how did you stop?"
33340how can I overcome the habit of lying and gossip?"
33340that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?"
26760And doth the Saviour weep Over His people''s sin, Because we will not let Him keep The souls He died to win? 26760 Fled on wings of love to the succour of His loved friend; hurried in eager haste by the shortest route from Bethabara?"
26760Hath He forgotten to be gracious?
26760If these things were done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?
26760If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not?
26760Say, ye who tempt The sea of life, by summer gales impell''d, Have ye this anchor? 26760 What need is there, Lord,"she seems to say,"for this redundant labour?
26760When He had heard THEREFORE that he was sick,--what did He do?
26760Why, Lord,seemed to be the expression of her inner thoughts,"wert Thou absent?
26760Why,as if He said,"Why distrust me?
26760[ 13] Art thou really looking to this exalted life- giving Saviour? 26760 [ 18]"_ Who_ touched me?"
26760[ 33] But does the parable stop here? 26760 [ 47] But, after all, can Angels really impart comfort?
26760[ 50] Did they live to survive the destruction of Jerusalem? 26760 _ Said I not unto thee_,"interposes this voice of mingled reproof and love,"My grace is sufficient for thee?"
26760--lifting your furrowed brow and tearful eye to Heaven, you may exclaim,"Who shall separate me from the love of Christ?"
2676010- 12.--"And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?
26760After_ what_ things?
26760Am I conscious of doing nothing that would lead me to be ashamed before Him at His coming?
26760Am I shaping my course in life-- my plans-- my schemes-- my wishes with what I feel would be in accordance with His will?
26760And is it not the same evidence we exult in still?
26760And is not this still the way Jesus deals with His people?
26760And what is the spot which he selects as the place of Ascension?--What the favoured height or valley that is to listen to His farewell words?
26760And what was it that constituted the value of this tribute-- the beauty and expressiveness of the action?
26760And yet-- how is He employed?
26760Are there no foreshadowed glories found in the pages of Holy Writ, which include this lowly village-- gilding it with the beams of a Millennial Sun?
26760Are they to be left alone?
26760Are we willing to give our Lord the best of what we have-- to consecrate time, talents, strength, life, to His service?
26760Are you even now enjoying, through your tears, this blessed persuasion, and exulting in this blessed creed?
26760Are you to mock His tender sympathy still with cold formalism, or persisted- in impenitency?
26760Are you to think of Bethany and its tear- drops and still go on in sin?
26760Are_ we_ faithfully fulfilling our Lord''s farewell Apostolic Commission?
26760Ask them why they believe?
26760Believest thou this?
26760But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to Him, and said, Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?
26760But a momentary feeling of unbelief( shall we say, of reproach and upbraiding?)
26760But does the love and affection of that household find expression in nothing but words?
26760But have we known, in our experience, the value of the great compensating boon here spoken of?
26760But how many Christian disciples, in their Olivets of sorrow, have been able to tell the same experience?
26760But was the word of Jesus in vain?
26760But was there on this account any effort on his part relaxed to secure their safety?
26760But what are they, after all, in comparison with those of Paul''s Lord?
26760But what will the heart not do to meet such a Comforter?
26760But will Jesus leave His people to their own guilty unbelieving doubts?
26760But"_ beginning_"at Jerusalem, the Gospel Commission did not_ end_ there?
26760Can it be that the unwelcome intruder is so nigh at hand?--that their now joyous dwelling is so soon to echo to the wail of lamentation?
26760Can the messenger have mistaken them?
26760Can we anticipate, in the resurrection of Lazarus, our own happy history?
26760Can we dare to imagine His sensations and feelings when passing_ now_?
26760Can we imagine that they could linger behind, unconcerned, in their dwelling, when their Best Friend was in the hands of His murderers?
26760Can we participate in the joy of the family of BETHANY?
26760Can we suppose a remonstrance to so strange a summons?
26760Can we,_ dare_ we doubt it?
26760Christian,"Believest_ thou this_?
26760Could it be written on our hearts in life?
26760Did that fig- tree take up a responsive parable, and say,"Who made Thee a ruler and a judge over me?"
26760Did you ever note, in the 6th verse of this Bethany chapter, the strangely beautiful connexion of the word THEREFORE?
26760Do we know anything of the words of this message?
26760Do you know the secret of that twofold solace,"the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings?"
26760Does He proceed forthwith to speak the word, and to accomplish the giant deed?
26760Had Bethany been revisited during that mysterious interval?
26760Had he been the unseen witness of the tears and groans of his anguished sisters?
26760Had he conversed with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob?
26760Had he mingled in the goodly fellowship of prophets?
26760Has he ever failed us?
26760Has not that occasion occurred now?
26760Hast thou in some feeble measure realised this resurrection- life as thine own?
26760Hast thou the joyful consciousness of participating in this vital union with a living Lord?
26760Have our hearts become living temples thrown open for His reception?
26760Have we known, in the midst of our weakness and wants, our griefs and sorrows, the power and grace of the promised Paraclete?
26760Have we seen in His death the secret of our life?
26760Have we, like them, followed Christ to His cross and His tomb, and listened to the angelic announcement,"He is not here, He is risen?"
26760Have you tasted and seen that the Lord is gracious?
26760Have_ we_ no part in these solemn monitions?
26760He seemed to mean to say,''Is not this the true joy of the Feast of Tabernacles?
26760He, the head, and support, and stay of two helpless females?
26760How shall we hear it?
26760How stands our faith?
26760How was he cured?
26760How we might think could love give a more truthful exponent of its reality than hastening instantaneously to the relief of one so dear to Him?
26760How, too, can the infant Church spare him?
26760IF Thou_ hadst_ been here?"
26760If even for"_ the Jerusalem sinner_"there is mercy, can there be ground for one human being to despair?
26760Is Elijah trembling in the dark cave of Horeb?
26760Is Hagar in the desert?
26760Is He to accept of the crown?
26760Is death to hold that prey?
26760Is it destined to remain as it now is-- a wreck of vanished loveliness?
26760Is it not more likely the message of the sisters was this:--"Go and tell Him,''Lord, he whom_ we_ love,''or else,''he who loveth_ Thee_ is sick?''"
26760Is it not to the feeble realisation of the quickening, life- giving power of this Divine Agent?
26760Is it the House of God-- the gates of Zion-- the Holy place of Solemnities?
26760Is not the Lord here?''"
26760Is not the symbolic answer here given?
26760Is that tear to flow in vain?
26760Is the absent Saviour not to be sought?
26760Is the departure of the immortal soul to the spirit- world so trivial a matter that the life- giving God takes no cognisance of it?
26760Is the grave to retain in gloomy custody that immaculate frame?
26760Is the living temple to lie there an inglorious ruin, like other crumbling wrecks of mortality?
26760Is the world, that had so disowned Him, disowned now in return?
26760Is there not the same music in that name-- the same solace and joy in that presence still?
26760It was at this precise point, as he drew near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives,( may it not have been from the sight thus opening upon them?)
26760Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
26760Lazarus, whom Jesus tenderly loved?
26760Let_ us_ ask, have_ we_ received Jesus as_ our_ King?--have_ our_ palm branches been cast at His feet?
26760May we not think of it as oft and again visited by Martha, and Mary, and Lazarus?
26760Might not He who has"the keys of the grave and of death"have Himself unlocked the portals preparatory to the vaster prodigy that was to follow?
26760O faithless disciple, wherefore didst thou doubt?
26760O grave, where is thy victory?"
26760O man, who art thou that repliest against God?"
26760Or do other questions involuntarily arise?
26760Or shall we leave the death- chamber and visit the grave?
26760Or would you have Jesus made more precious to your_ own_ soul?
26760Our befitting attitude and language_ now_ is that of simple confidingness--"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
26760Reader, is this your experience?
26760Shall fancy pour her strange and mysterious queries into the ear of him who has just come back from that land"from whose bourne no traveller returns?"
26760Shall we follow the family group within the hallowed precincts of the Bethany dwelling?
26760Solemn, then, ought to be the question with every one of us-- every Fig- tree in the Lord''s plantation-- How does it stand with_ me_?
26760The Sinner just awoke from his moral slumber, and in the agonies of conviction, exclaiming,"What must I do to be saved?"
26760The demand and scrutiny of Jesus will on that day be, not what is the number of your leaves, the height of your stem, the extent of your branches?
26760The joy and solace of a common orphanhood,--a brother evidently made and born for their adversities?
26760The messenger has reached-- what is his message?
26760These mighty thoughts and words of consolation-- are they really believed, felt, trusted in, rejoiced over?
26760They were to proclaim His name through the wide world; but was JERUSALEM( the scene of His ignominy) to form an exception?
26760This family blank-- why permitted?
26760This sickness-- why prolonged?
26760This thorn in the flesh-- why still buffeting?
26760Those words which first the bier''s dread silence broke-- Came they with revelation in each tone?
26760Thou hast often gladdened our home in our season of joy-- why this forgetfulness in the night of our bitter agony?
26760Though many a gorgeous palace was at that era adorning the earth, where was the spot, what the dwelling, half so consecrated as this?
26760Was Martha''s then a blind unmeaning faith?
26760Was it of that majestic world unknown?
26760Was the joy of that moment confined to these two bosoms?
26760Was there no voice but for the ear of Judah and Jerusalem?
26760We think of Him as true to His_ promises_, do we think of Him, also, as_ true to His threatenings_?
26760Were we to die, could it be inscribed on our tombs,"This is one whom_ Jesus loved_?"
26760What evidence is there that you have profited by My admonitions, listened to My voice, and accepted My salvation?
26760What must be, to the bereft and lonely Christian, the thought of being restored, and that_ for ever_, to his long- absent Saviour?
26760What the scenery of that bright abode?
26760What was the nature of his happiness while"absent from the body?"
26760What was the secret of that calmest of sunsets amid a blood- stained and storm- wreathed sky?
26760What was their message now?
26760What will Martha be unprepared to encounter if the intelligence brought her be indeed confirmed?
26760What, then, does the Saviour here figuratively, but significantly, teach His people?
26760What, then, is the explanation?
26760Whence, then, we again ask, this strange and mysterious grief?
26760Where are your proofs of love to Myself, delight in My service, obedience to My will?
26760Where is now my God?"
26760While the language of earth is"Friend after friend departs-- Who hath not lost a friend?"
26760Who so faint as these disciples?
26760Why dwell on the shattered casket, and not rather on the jewel which is sparkling brighter than ever in a better world?
26760Why excite vain expectations in my breast which never can be realised?
26760Why is Omniscience tarrying elsewhere, when His presence and power are above all needed at the house of His friend?
26760Why is this?
26760Why the most treasured and useful life taken-- the blow aimed where it cut most severely and levelled lowest?
26760Why this distinction?
26760Why this summoning in any feeble human agency when His own independent fiat could have effected the whole?
26760Will it be with joy?
26760Would it sound in our ears like the sweet tones of the silver trumpet of Jubilee?
26760Would they not be the same as that of every Christian still, while passing through memories of trial,"It was good for me to be here?"
26760Would you weep him back if you could from his early crown?
26760You for whose comfort these pages are specially designed, is there no lesson of consolation to be drawn from this solemn"memory?"
26760You may be often tempted to say with Gideon,"If the Lord be with me, why has_ all_ this befallen me?"
26760[ 50] Is it lawful to think of Bethany in connexion with the Church of the Future?
26760_ And how did they return?_ What were their feelings as they rose to pursue their way?
26760_ And how did they return?_ What were their feelings as they rose to pursue their way?
26760_ Could_ He fail--_can_ He fail to prove Himself now a"Brother born for_ adversity_?"
26760_ Her_ exclamation is--"Why this_ unkind_ absence?"
26760_ if_ Thou hadst been here?"
26760am I_ now_ bringing forth fruit to God?
26760if He_ may_ come_ soon_--if He MUST come at some time, how shall I meet Him?
26760or hath he spoken, and shall he not bring it to pass?"
26760why their faith is so firm-- their love so strong?
11627But what evil has He done, and what reason hast thou to abandon Him in this manner?
11627Do you see him,he says,"this conqueror; with what rapidity he rises from the west by bounds, as it were, and touches not the earth?"
11627Know ye not, that they which run in a race run all, but one obtaineth the prize? 11627 Know you that they which run in a race run all, but one obtaineth the prize?
11627O Lord, what wilt thou give me?
11627What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
11627Why should it be thought a thing incredible( that is, impossible) with you, that God should raise the dead?
11627Adore leeks and garlic, and shed penitential tears at the smell of a deified onion?
11627All that is liable to question is, whether we are to conceive in Him any like resentments of such cases, in His present glorified state?
11627And for this he appeals to his judges, Festus and Agrippa:"why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?"
11627And how if thou shouldst come but one quarter of an hour too late?
11627And is He not now worth your highest estimation and dearest affection?
11627And is not Christ worth the seeking?
11627And is not evil come upon all the world for one sin of Adam?
11627And is not the Savior still a subject of ridicule to the libertine spirits which compose them?
11627And is this faith?
11627And shall we not bear our punishment with patience?
11627And what do we, when, possest of the spirit of the world, we resist a grace which solicits us, which presses us to obey God?
11627And why should God make it known?
11627And why should he appeal to them concerning the credibility of this matter if it be a thing incredible to natural reason?
11627Angels admire them, whom they less concern, and shall redeemed sinners make light of them?
11627Are all that hear me this day certain they shall be saved?
11627Are not the ordinances always losers when anything of your own cometh in competition?
11627Are we not happy, indeed, in being able to obtain so great a blessing by only asking for it?
11627Are you no more near or dear to yourselves than to make light of your own happiness or misery?
11627Are you so hasty?
11627Art thou resolved to strip?
11627As a man, what art thou but a worm to God?
11627Ask the question, by what power was it whereby Abraham was enabled to yield obedience to the Lord?
11627Because you know, that tho a man do run, yet if he do not overcome, or win, as well as run, what will they be the better for their running?
11627Behold thy pleasure on the one hand, and thy God on the other: for which of the two dost thou declare thyself?
11627Bow himself before a cat?
11627But how should a poor soul do to run?
11627But is not this a shame for them that are such?
11627But must we confess that this filial confidence is wanting in all our prayers?
11627But the tears wept over others, as lost and past hope, why should they not yet melt thee, while as yet there is hope in thy case?
11627But when hear we such questions?
11627But wherein, then, according to their opinion, did this image of God consist?
11627But you will say, may not a man have faith, and not that fruit you speak of?
11627Can He demand less of us than that we should think of what we say to Him?
11627Can not men be saved without so much ado?
11627Can you escape without a Christ?
11627Can you find fault if you miss of the salvation which you slighted?
11627Can you make this prayer-- you who disturb His reign in your heart by so many impure and vain desires?
11627Can you not do as your neighbors do, carry the world, sin, lust, pleasure, profit, esteem among men, along with you?
11627Can you not stay and take these along with you?
11627Canst thou think His deceitful tears?
11627Conscience, which, in spite of ourselves, presides in us as judge, said inwardly to us,"What art thou going to do?
11627Consider, 4. Who is it that sends this weighty message to you?
11627Dare we hope that He will listen to us, and think of us, when we forget ourselves in the midst of our prayers?
11627Did not God strike Korah and his company with fire from heaven?
11627Do not some of your consciences by this time smite you, and say, I am the man that have made light of my salvation?
11627Do not these make light of Christ and salvation?
11627Do not those men make light of Christ and salvation that shun the mention of His name, unless it be in a vain or sinful use?
11627Do not those then make light of Christ and salvation that think of them so seldom and coldly in comparison of other things?
11627Do you not see by this time what a case that soul is in that maketh light of Christ and salvation?
11627Do you see him as he rushes on to victory or death?
11627Do you think that Christ shed His blood to save them that continue to make light of it?
11627Doth it not behoove you beforehand to think of these things?
11627Doth not prayer pay for it?
11627Doth not that soul make light of all these that thinks his ease more worth than they?
11627Doth not the Word pay for it?
11627For is it not strange that a rational man should worship an ox, nay, the image of an ox?
11627For who can resist Him who is almighty?
11627God will judge impartially; why should not we do so?
11627God''s people wish well to the souls of others, and wilt not thou wish well to thine own?
11627Has there ever been beheld in two men virtues such as these in characters so different, not to say diametrically opposite?
11627Hath he no cause to fear lest the things of his peace should be forever hid from his eyes?
11627Have you a secret of importance?
11627Have you found a better friend, a greater and a surer happiness than this?
11627Have you gone to them, and told them the doubtfulness of your case, and asked their help in the judging of your condition?
11627Have you nobody to inquire of, that might help you in such a work?
11627His, who never knew guile?
11627How can He grant you, says St. Augustine, what you do not yourself desire to receive?
11627How do you tremble at the wrath and threatenings of a mortal man?
11627How much more will it perplex thee to think that thou hadst not a care of thine own?
11627How shalt thou look upon Him that fainted and died for love of thee, and thou didst scorn His miraculous mercies?
11627How will these despisers of Christ and salvation be able one day to look Him in the face, and to give an account of these neglects?
11627If he be accurst that sets light by father or mother, what then is he that sets light by Christ?
11627If thou now say, Which is the way?
11627If we look into hearts, shall we not find that we ask of God as if we had never before received benefits from Him?
11627Is Dives, then, any better than Lazarus?
11627Is it not God Himself?
11627Is it not evident, then, that you are not under the command of the Word?
11627Is it not your own?
11627Is not Abraham contented with this?
11627Is not everlasting salvation worth more than all this?
11627Is not prayer our resource only when all others have failed us?
11627Is not virtue either unknown or despised?
11627Is self- love lost?
11627Is that a man or a clod of clay that can rise or lie down without being deeply affected with his everlasting estate?
11627Is that a man or a corpse that is not affected with matters of this moment?
11627Is the mystery of the cross then nothing to you?
11627Is there not another way besides this?
11627Is this the man who carried cities by storm and won great battles?
11627It is no less than miracles of love and mercy that He hath showed to us; and yet shall we slight them after all?
11627It may be thou hast a father, mother, brother, etc., going post- haste to heaven, wouldst thou be willing to be left behind them?
11627May not a man have a good heart to Godward, altho he can not find that ability in matter of fruitfulness?
11627No; mark how he pleadeth with God:"Lord God( saith he), what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?"
11627O Lord, that men did but know what everlasting glory and everlasting torments are: would they then hear us as they do?
11627Oh, what thoughts have drunkards and adulterers, etc., of Christ, that will not part with the basest lust for Him?
11627Or art thou not?
11627Or how shall a man know what is the true fruit of faith, indeed, whereby he may discern his own estate?
11627Ought we to complain if God sometimes leaves us to obscurity, and doubt, and temptation?
11627Shall not the Redeemer''s tears move thee?
11627Shall the God of heaven speak and men make light of it?
11627Shall we not discover there a secret infidelity that renders us unworthy of His goodness?
11627So here, when several have had the same body, whose shall it be at the resurrection?
11627So that I say, the question being, whence came it that Abraham was so fruitful a Christian, what enabled him to do and to suffer what he did?
11627So that the meaning of St. Paul''s question is,"why should it be thought a thing impossible that God should raise the dead?"
11627That all these people wish to improve, desire to perform their duty toward God and man better, and yet fail?
11627That he should fawn upon his dog?
11627That the case is in itself most deplorable, who sees not?
11627That the next time you go prayerless to bed, or about your business, conscience might cry out, Dost thou set no more by Christ and thy salvation?
11627The devils never had a savior offered to them; but thou hast, and dost thou yet make light of Him?
11627The effect of this consideration is this: That if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear?
11627The saints of old, they being willing and resolved for heaven, what could stop them?
11627The words of this author are admirable: Jesus Christ complains, says this learned prelate, but of what does He complain?
11627Then Paul answered,"What, mean ye to weep, and to break my heart?"
11627Then who will prove the loser by thy contempt?
11627They worship Him externally, but internally how do they regard His maxims?
11627To whom should we speak with attention if not to God?
11627Trembling and astonished, Paul cries out,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
11627Upon this ground then, what exhortation could be more proper than this?
11627Was that also done to deceive?
11627Was this like the rest of His course?
11627Well, then, sinner, what sayest thou?
11627What are these things you set so much by as to prefer them before Christ and the saving of your soul?
11627What could a man desire more?
11627What do we see in the passion of Jesus Christ?
11627What do we, my dear hearers, when borne away by the immoderate desires of our hearts to a sin against which our consciences protest?
11627What do you think when you repeat the creed, and mention Christ''s judgment and everlasting life?
11627What does not the kingdom owe to a prince who has honored the house of France, the French name, his century, and, so to speak, all mankind?
11627What idea have they of His humility, of His poverty, of His sufferings?
11627What is it like?
11627What is it that is presented to my vision?
11627What is that?
11627What matter is it at judgment, whether you be to answer for the life of a rich man or a poor man?
11627What must we learn from all this darkness?
11627What need this waste?
11627What needs all this?
11627What other created a Cyrus if it is not God, who named him two hundred years before his birth in the Prophecies of Isaiah?
11627What part of the inhabited world has not heard of the victories of the Prince de Condà © and the wonders of his life?
11627What think you now, friends, of this business?
11627What toys are they that are daily taken up with, while matters of life and death are neglected?
11627What unprejudiced mind might not perceive it to be so?
11627What will become of me so long as I go childless, and so Saviorless, as I may so speak?
11627What will we not do, what are we not willing to suffer, to possess dangerous and contemptible things, and often without any success?
11627What, do you think that every heavy- heeled professor will have heaven?
11627What, every lazy one?
11627What, think they, may not a man be saved without all this ado?
11627What, will you go, saith the devil, without your sins, pleasures, and profits?
11627When He calls for fasting, and weeping, and mourning, who regards it?
11627When the Savior from the height of His cross, ready to give up His spirit, raised this cry toward heaven,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
11627When the gospel pierceth the heart indeed, they cry out,"Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved?"
11627Whence comes it that these resolutions are so frail?
11627Where is thy heart?
11627Who can evade His scrutiny that knows all things?
11627Who can hope for pity of Him that is inflexible?
11627Who can think to be exempted when the Judge is righteous and impartial?
11627Whose salvation is it that you make light of?
11627Why doth not the apostle say, Examine whether faith be in you, but"whether ye be in the faith"?
11627Why will you not judge now as you know you shall judge then?
11627Why, sirs, do you not care whether you be saved or damned?
11627Why, sirs, if you had every one a kingdom in your hopes, what were it in comparison of the everlasting kingdom?
11627Why, so it is here; art thou inquiring the way to heaven?
11627Will He reject those who bring all their treasures to Him, and repose everything upon His goodness?
11627Will He then be worth ten thousand worlds?
11627Will it not be a dishonor to thee to see the very boys and girls in the country to have more with them than thyself?
11627Will not God love the heart that trusts in Him?
11627Will not this blood which He has so abundantly shed have the virtue to sanctify you?"
11627Will you leave your friends and companions behind you?
11627Will you therefore see the point confirmed by reason?
11627Wilt thou run?
11627You that are gentlemen and tradesmen, I appeal to your souls whether the Lord and His cause is not the loser this way?
11627You will say, what fruit is it then?
11627You, in fine, who fear the coming of His reign, and do not desire that God should grant what you seem to pray for?
11627and how shall they be supplied that have it not?
11627and the earth opened and swallowed up the congregation of Abiram?
11627and to save them, that value a cup of drink or a lust before His salvation?
11627and what is it that you neglect?
11627and yet, when you hear the Lord thunder judgments out of His Word, who is humbled?
11627are you turned your own enemies?
11627as if he had said, What wilt Thou do for me?
11627how many such runners will there be found in the day of judgment?
11627if the blood of the prophets has drawn down the scourge of God upon men, what may we not expect from the blood of Jesus Christ?
11627my God, shall I eternally appear in thine eyes polluted with that blood which washes away the crimes of others?
11627or will a despised Christ save you then?
11627that can be readier to sleep than to tremble when he heareth how he must stand at the bar of God?
11627that can follow his worldly business and make nothing of the great business of salvation or damnation; and that when they know it is hard at hand?
11627that provide outward necessaries so carefully for their families, but do so little to the saving of their souls?
11627what dung is it that men make so much of, while they set so light by everlasting glory?
11627what is it you run after?
11627which way went he?
11627would they read and think of these things as they do?
11627xxxii., 34:"Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
44439How is it that ye sought me? 44439 I wish,"said a great man of our day,"that some one would preach under the dome of St. Paul''s, on the text,''Where art thou, Adam?''"
44439The Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
44439The Lord called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
44439We thus judge, that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who--owns them?
44439Where art thou?
44439Where art thou?
44439Who that has felt its glance of dread Thrill through his heart''s remotest cells, About his path, about his bed, Can doubt what spirit in it dwells?
44439A musical instrument may discourse sacred melodies better than the holiest lips can sing them, but who thinks of commending it for its piety?
44439Am I not availing myself of the faculties which Thou has given to make myself respectable, and useful, and exemplary in my generation?
44439Am I not discharging the duties of my station?
44439Am I not doing Thy work?
44439Am I not setting an example of diligence and sobriety?
44439And can we not trust Him?
44439And did He not do the same in the sixteenth century?
44439And do they not speak to us?
44439And have they already collapsed and gone, like last year''s flowers struck with frost, back again to the mold?
44439And hell?
44439And if not so controlled, is not the alternative as to His character even more fearful?
44439And if this be our human judgment, what must the divine judgment be?
44439And is not man''s soul a part of nature-- the highest part?
44439And is there not a presumption, following the line of a man''s best manhood, that immortality is true?
44439And now-- How is the earth shaken, and the heavens likewise, in that very sense in which the expression is used by him who wrote to the Hebrews?
44439And whence came this earnestness?
44439And why may not the highest of all hopes and joys possess the same all- pervading influence?
44439And with these thoughts come others about moral retribution--"What is its purpose?
44439And you will rejoice-- will you not?
44439And"can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
44439Are there any here present-- God grant that they be many!--who have yet one other answer to return to the question on which we have dwelt?
44439Are they not as true now as when they struck upon the shivering ear of Nicodemus?
44439Are they not rising toward the ineffable?
44439Art thou doing the work I gave thee to do?
44439Art thou happy?
44439Art thou safe?
44439Art thou useful?
44439Brethren, are you of that happy family?
44439But is this the highest, the religious sanction of morality?
44439But we ask, perhaps, thirdly: How does God call to us?
44439But what God has cleansed, why should we call common or unclean?
44439But what is anything that is organized in life worth in comparison with the soul of a man?
44439But who is equal to the task of handling it?
44439But yet, indeed, am I not providing for that other world in making a proper use of this?
44439Can God, in this respect, be at once less merciful and less powerful than men?
44439Can a parent go back from the grave where he has laid his children and say,"I shall never see them more?"
44439Can it, can any punishment have any right purpose save the correction, or the annihilation, of the criminal?
44439Can such a love do other than yearn for immortality?
44439Can there be one morality for God, and another for man, made in the image of God?
44439Claims them?
44439Did He not then sweep from the minds and hearts of half Christendom beliefs which had been sacred and indubitable for a thousand years?
44439Do you know God by His"new name"?
44439Does not our experience of the friendship of Jesus correspond with what we are taught of it in the Scriptures?
44439Does not the nature of every man that is high and noble revolt at flesh and matter?
44439Does not"the Spirit witness with our spirit that we are born of God"?
44439Does one need to go into a rigorous logical examination of this subject?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439Easy?
44439From whence did their conscience and judgment come?
44439Had not even the heathens believed as much, and said so, by the mouth of the poet Virgil?
44439Have we not the foretokens of it?
44439Have we, if our religion be real, no anticipation of happiness in the glorious future?
44439Have you entered upon it, or are you now willing to enter upon it?
44439Have you learned to say,"Our Father which art in heaven"?
44439Have you obtained life from the dead through His name?
44439Heaven?
44439How can I do all this, and yet be religious?
44439How can I find time for both worlds at once?
44439How can we help believing in it, while we see it working around us, in many a fearful shape, here, now, in this life?
44439How could He, if He be the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever?
44439How could He, who said of Himself,"My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"?
44439How is it calculated to influence our manhood?
44439How is it here briefly exprest?
44439How is it?
44439How shall it be used to work most effectually in the direction of civilization and refinement?
44439I know not how else to express the force of the inquiry,"Where art thou?"
44439I must not accept the dictates of my own conscience; for is it not my own, and is not trust in self the great fault of our fallen nature?"
44439In what way shall it be employed to lead man God- ward?
44439Is He so controlled by necessity that He is forced to bring into the world beings whom he knows to be incorrigible, and doomed to endless misery?
44439Is it enough to have been born, to have lived till one is of age, and then to be launched out to founder in mid- ocean?
44439Is it not a strange thing?
44439Is it not rather the anarchy of hate, injustice, impurity, uselessness; wherein abides all that is opposed to God?"
44439Is it well with thee in the future?
44439Is it well with thee in the present?
44439Is it yours?
44439Is not that the eternal heaven wherein God abides for ever, and with Him those who are like God?
44439Is not the analogy of the faculties one that leads us to believe that there is some such thing?
44439Is not the human soul, then, itself a witness of the truth of immortality?
44439Is not the thought revolting to every instinct of manhood?
44439Is not the true and real heaven the kingdom of love, justice, purity, beneficence?
44439Is not this"the witness of the Spirit,"the"earnest of the promised possession"?
44439Is that His justice, that His love, which if we copied, we should call each other, and deservedly, utterly unjust and unloving?
44439Is that only a thin film which reflects the transient experiences of a life of joy or sadness, and goes out?
44439Is there any matter outside of mind that produces thought and feeling such as we see evolved among men?
44439Is there no"rest that remaineth for the people of God,"no home and loving heart awaiting us when the toils of our hurried day of life are ended?
44439Is this enough in the day of distress and bankruptcy?
44439It might have been put, it is put in the Bible, in different forms-- but how is it here exprest?
44439It says,"What is thy present place as a man with a soul, as an immortal being?
44439It was the voice of the Lord God within, calling to Adam, and saying,"Where art thou?"
44439Men are asking questions about the heaven, the spiritual world, and saying,"The spiritual world?
44439My friend, believest thou the Scriptures?
44439My friends, do you really believe in that kingdom, and in that King?
44439Nay, my friends, would not these solemn words startle many of us?
44439No matter how it was born, what purpose is it to serve?
44439Now, to whom does He here speak?
44439O Jesus of Nazareth, who can declare Thee?
44439Oh, who could stand when that inquirer appeared?
44439Oh, who might abide the scrutiny of that question?
44439Or shall we degenerate into faithless fears, and unmanly wailings that the flood of infidelity is irresistible, and that Christ has left His Church?
44439Or, putting it in another form, will you say that God could not have prevented evil?
44439ROBERTSON 1816- 1853 THE LONELINESS OF CHRIST_ Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?
44439Should we not say-- We know that Christ has been so doing, for centuries and for ages?
44439Tell me, who caused you to be born where and what you were?
44439That if new truths are being discovered, Christ Himself may be revealing them?
44439That if opinions be changing, then Christ Himself may be changing them?
44439That if some of those truths seem to contradict those which He has revealed already, they do not really contradict them?
44439The Father-- the Father which is with us and in us-- what does He think?
44439The actions of an automaton may be outwardly the same as those of a moral agent, but who attributes to them goodness or badness?
44439The lonely spirit answered,"Do ye now believe?
44439The question is not how it started; the question is, What becomes of it now that it has begun?
44439The world is so gay, so amusing, so exciting: hast Thou not made it so for our enjoyment?
44439Then, what is life worth?
44439There are, at last, the words uttered-- few and plain, yet, when looked into, big with meaning--"Where art thou?"
44439Thou sayest to me, O Lord,"Where art thou?"
44439To live surrounded by objects which appeal to the sight, and yet to endure as seeing what is invisible?
44439To resist that subtle foe who has cast down so many of the wise and the mighty?
44439To take the judgment and conscience of other men to live by, where is the humility of that?
44439To"crucify the flesh,""to deny ungodliness,""to cut off a right hand, and to pluck out a right eye"?
44439Was evil really unavoidable in a proper moral system?
44439Was that dust, then?
44439Was the fountain from which they drew exhausted for you?
44439We are building a crystal character with much pain and self- denial; and it is to be built as bubbles are blown?
44439We have seen these things, and why argue against facts?
44439What cheering voice will greet us then?
44439What do we gain by obliterating this fair vision?
44439What has the dark, morbid, unhappy sensualist to do with it?
44439What have we fit to set before so august and holy a visitant?
44439What is finer in line than the bubble?
44439What is human sin but the abuse of human appetites, of human passions, of human faculties, in themselves all innocent?
44439What is it adapted to do?
44439What is more airy?
44439What is the difference between a dew- drop and a diamond?
44439What is the difference between the saint and the sinner?
44439What is thy present standing, thy present state?
44439What kind roof will receive us then?
44439What loving friend will welcome us then?
44439What right has any one to say that God is passionless?
44439What worldly work so absorbing as to leave no room in a believer''s spirit for the hallowing thought of that glorious Presence ever near?
44439What, then, are we to believe and do?
44439When Jesus says it is a"strait gate,"and that if we would enter we must"strive,"bidding us"take up our cross daily, deny ourselves and follow him"?
44439Where are those leaders who should be leading their people to useful employments, to distant countries, where are they?
44439Where art thou?
44439Where will he attend to it?
44439Who can equal the pictures which are painted on the panes of glass in our winter rooms?
44439Who decided that you were to have poor parents or rich, Christian parents or un- Christian?
44439Who has managed your circumstances for you since you had a being?
44439Who has not some sin which most easily besets him?
44439Who settled that you should be born in this country and not in that?
44439Who took away from you that friend for whom you are now mourning-- that parent, that brother, that sister, that wife, that child?
44439Why does he not faint beneath the burden?
44439Why should He not be doing so now?
44439Why should not heaven continue to shine on?
44439Why should we not look into it, and believe that it is, and that it waits for us?
44439Why this postponement of the desired result?
44439Will judge them?
44439Wilt thou be any fitter to- morrow than to- day for that step across the barrier which now seems so premature, so presumptuous?
44439Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?"
44439Yes, my brother, but why this delay?
44439You are enjoying peace-- but-- what peace?
44439his reply was,"Rest?
44439is this thing which I wish to do really forbidden?"
44439let this affection impel us, and who shall measure our diligence or repress our zeal?
44439not, where is he?
44439some place where he had gone to sin?
44439some place where he would not for the world have been seen by any human eye, and where he gladly forgot that there was yet one eye which did see him?
44439still less, generally, where are they?
44439why does he not sink in the storm?
44439would have had a startling and condemning sound?--some place where he was sinning?
44450And what next--so the listeners ask--"what was the next step made?"
44450And you, O disciple dearly loved, what of you and your brethren?
44450Do ye now believe? 44450 How much is that man worth?"
44450Master, where dwellest thou?
44450What think ye of the Christ?
44450Whom seek ye?
44450''Have I not chosen you twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?''
44450''Will ye also go away?''
44450A man may disrobe; what more can be done?
44450A really earnest, humble consecration to God?
44450Alexander, CÃ ¦ sar, Charlemagne, and myself founded great empires; but upon what did the creations of our genius depend?
44450And Charles Wesley''s melancholy is the most attractive in the world-- Oh, when shall we sweetly move?
44450And do you really think that the world will ever be converted in that way?
44450And he saith,"But who say ye that I am?"
44450And once again, in the haste of the resurrection morning, what was the moment and what was the scene which turned his despair into belief?
44450And so what is faith?
44450And they say, What have we got to do now?
44450And they-- they hardly knew what to say-- only they must see Him, must go with Him; and they stammered out:"Rabbi, where dwellest thou?"
44450And what are the rest of us doing?
44450And what did our Lord Himself say to St. Peter about his fall?
44450And what does all this teach us?
44450And what is the meaning of that sacrifice, if it be not to teach us that God counts no price too great to pay for the redemption of the human soul?
44450And what next did they learn?
44450And what, oh, what shall I do?"
44450And yet what has it done but make known to us a universe infinitely more wonderful and sublime than men had ever dreamed of?
44450And, then, how shall it be restored?
44450Are we not under the strongest possible obligations to account for Jesus Christ?
44450Are you musing in your heart which of them may be your guide and master, which is the Christ?
44450Are you not of more value than many sparrows?"
44450Are you yet at the beginning, looking wistfully, with hungry eyes, after a hundred gallant human heroes who point you this way and that?
44450But have we gotten rid entirely of the premise on which it rested?
44450But how can we account for the perfection of His humanity, if we deny the reality of His divinity?
44450But is not this far too often accompanied by a revolt from all dogmatic truth?
44450But what does follow?
44450But what is evangelization?
44450But what is it to"believe in Christ?"
44450But, dear friends, am I right in saying that this frame is a Christian frame?
44450Can He whose life they tell be Himself no more than a mere man?...
44450Can he be a man capable, not only of acting for himself, but capable, by that subtle and magical influence, of arousing the activity of others?
44450Can it be that writings at once so sublime and so simple are the work of men?
44450Can we demand a fairer world than God will make?
44450Can we do that?
44450Can we imagine better than God can do?
44450Can we then wonder at all forms of opposition meeting us?
44450Certainly, but which is the fact, that or this?
44450Christ came to cast fire on earth, and what does He desire but that it be kindled?
44450David fell-- deep as man can fall; but what does he say in that great fifty- first Psalm, in which he confesses his sin?
44450Did the medieval Church never regret the act by which it drove forth the Waldenses into schism?
44450Did you ever hear a satisfactory definition of laughter?
44450Do they wear too dark a hue at times?
44450Do you believe it?
44450Do you believe it?"
44450Do you know what the word"bless"means, what it was derived from?
44450Do you remember the story of the portrait of Dante which is painted upon the walls of Bargello, at Florence?
44450Do you say, What can I do, because the light round me is like unto darkness?
44450Do you say, What is the use of fighting, for where I stand we have barely held our own?
44450Do you think walking up to the cannon''s mouth would have been difficult to that man?
44450Does he possess the third?
44450Does it seem that the perfect life for the individual, and for the race, is too sublime, that it is a distant and unattainable ideal?
44450Does not the Scripture itself go even further?
44450Does not the commercial view of life still prevail in civilized society?
44450Does the difficulty lie in the event or in the method of approaching it?
44450Does the religion of Christ, the absolute and abiding faith, need the defense of concealment, or of sophistical apology, or of lies?
44450Does there not come a time when we feel that the power, as it were, of things has forsaken us?
44450Facts?
44450God made His minister a flame of fire in the dark and cold, else could Christ have conquered?
44450Has He not been working in the saints who have reminded the world of God?
44450Has a man faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who simply does not disbelieve in him?
44450Has it slipt into the water?
44450Has our Church never regretted the day when it looked askance at the work of John Wesley?
44450Has the ax- head gone?
44450Has the splendid hope of Christ been falsified?
44450Have there been no grounds for optimism?
44450Have ye each made this yet sufficiently a matter of prayer, of self- denial, of deep, faithful trusting all to God?
44450Have you any right to expect that it should be converted in that way?
44450Have you ever thought how St. Paul was actually driven to use the awful language of the passion when he described his own life?
44450Have you met your tempter yet?
44450Have you never seen a group of evil- doers deliberately set themselves to ruin a newcomer, scoffing at his innocence and enticing him to their orgies?
44450Have you never seen it?
44450Have you read the memoir of Brainerd?
44450He claimed to be God, and if His claim be not true, how can he be good?
44450He knows his malady; now how shall he be cured of it?
44450He said,"Was Paul crucified for you?"
44450How came He to be the contemporary of all the ages?
44450How came He to emancipate Himself from the sectarianism and sectionalism of His country and century?
44450How can it be restored?
44450How did such ideas come into the human mind?
44450How do young people begin, most of them?
44450How does the Gethsemane come?
44450How far have you come in this pathway of faith?
44450How have our liberties been secured?
44450How long shall there be this suspense, as that of early dawn ere the sunshine fills the twilight?
44450How much is a man better than a sheep?
44450How shall we account for the height to which that stream rose?
44450How, then, can you explain faith?
44450How, then, will it be received by those into whose hand is placed the responsibility of its guidance?
44450I may not deny that what the gospel says is true, but is that believing?
44450I put then the question with the_ utmost_ directness,"What think ye of Christ?"
44450I think an hour is the longest that anybody could bear it--"Could ye not watch with me one hour?"
44450If that source were simply human, how can we account for the superhuman height which it reached?
44450If we could ascend to heaven to- day and scan the ranks of the blest, should we not find multitudes among them who were once sunk low as man can fall?
44450If we have no great masters, how shall we hope to have eager and loving disciples?
44450If we leave half the race in ignorance, how shall we hope to lift the other half into the light of truth and love?
44450If you wanted to make a man laugh, would you attempt to define laughter to him?
44450If, then, we accept this view of life, what answer can we give to the question, how much is a man better than a sheep?
44450In the event, or, perhaps, in the mental or moral constitution of the people who contemplate it?
44450Invest it, and then what do you do?
44450Is he a man, in fact, who can make his influence felt among the men of his day?
44450Is he in touch with his time?
44450Is it advancement?
44450Is it conceivable that human error shall prevail against God''s truth?
44450Is it long to wait, hard to fight, difficult to keep up the spirit during the discouragements that beset all missionary life?
44450Is it merely the pursuit of happiness?
44450Is it not rather a book of life, of literature, full of symbols and metaphors and poetry?
44450Is it possible to look on the great, eager, yearning, doubting, and suffering life of man, and not to feel infinite desire to be of help?
44450Is it promotion?
44450Is not He the standard of humanity now, and is not He its Redeemer?
44450Is not that conceivable?
44450Is not that possible?
44450Is not theology, like the other sciences, bound to accept facts?
44450Is the Bible itself written with the rigid exactness of a mathematical treatise?
44450Is this wise, and is it well?
44450It appeared so, but was it so?
44450Left?
44450Mark how towers herald the approach to the towns and cities, and ask what they stand there for?
44450My brethren, where do you stand?
44450My brothers, if a few men can honestly say this to us in the future, will it not be better than Greek and Roman fame?
44450My friend, what sort of a life are you living?
44450Nay, Lord, to whom shall we go?
44450Nevertheless, to the unsaved no question is more bewildering than this:"What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
44450Not only cunning casts in clay: Let science prove we are, and then What matters science unto men, At least to me?
44450Now do you not think you can see how it is that the eternal Son shed His blood in Gethsemane, and offered Himself immaculate to God on Calvary?
44450Now, as they journeyed southward through CÃ ¦ sarea Philippi, He asked them,"Who do men say that I am?"
44450Now, what is it that should follow when we have parted with our life and lived our Gethsemane; what should be the effect upon our lives?
44450O death, where is thy sting?"
44450O loving and divine John, the Evangelist, what thinkest thou of the Christ?
44450Oh, when shall our souls be at rest?
44450Or had each its own due place at least in hastening the coming of the kingdom, and in determining when the fulness of time had arrived?
44450Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
44450Shall we dread the results of historical research?
44450So soon made happy?
44450Suppose, then, that we come to Him with this question: How much is a man better than a sheep?
44450The fiery moment arrives; do we stand; do we fall?
44450The people who looked at the mob of Jerusalem, or the man who saw the coming generations?
44450There is more of courage and manhood needed for them than for walking up to the cannon''s mouth?
44450This brings us to the matter in hand: What shall I do to be saved?
44450Tho all men forsake thee yet will not I; and in spite of all, I believe, and am sure that thou art the Christ, the holy one of God?"
44450To die?
44450To send Bibles, to deliver the message to everybody?
44450To suffer?
44450To the jailer of Philippi who, in sudden conviction, was moved to cry,"What shall I do?"
44450To whom can I go?
44450Was he not right?
44450Was it the reaction of detecting the quiet tokens of deliberate purpose there, where all had seemed to him a very chaos of confusion?
44450Was it the sudden sense that struck him of order and seemliness as of a thing premeditated, intended?
44450We must learn to look upon ourselves and our fellow men purely from a business point of view and to ask only: What can this man make?
44450Were not the Greek philosophers right in thinking that our ideals are eternal, and are kept with God?
44450Were they then never to rise into the joy of clear and entire belief?
44450What are you going to do with it?
44450What are you going to do with it?
44450What are you going to do with it?
44450What book has been so misunderstood, and misinterpreted, even by honest and enlightened minds, even by theologians themselves?
44450What did He mean by that?
44450What did he mean by that?
44450What did he notice?
44450What does Paul mean when he talks about being justified?
44450What hope is there of genuine progress, in the religious life especially, if we leave her uneducated?
44450What is faith?
44450What is faith?
44450What is love?
44450What is the purpose of life?
44450What is there to fear?
44450What is thy testimony?
44450What is thy testimony?
44450What more have I got left?
44450What other answer can be given by one who judges everything by a money standard?
44450What sayst Thou of Thyself?
44450What shall be done about it?
44450What shall we say of him who opens a haunt of temptation, sets out his snares and deliberately deals out death by the dram?
44450What thinkest thou, O Channing, of Jesus Christ?
44450What thinkest thou, O Herder, illustrious German thinker, broad scholar, and exquisite genius, of Jesus, the Christ?
44450What was it that he saw and felt?
44450What was it that so startled him?
44450What was there in the peasant conditions of His family life to produce the uniqueness of His manhood?
44450When men ask us, Are the doctrines of Christianity dead; are they played out?
44450Whence do all light and all love come?
44450Where did the imagination of the prophets and apostles catch fire?
44450Where do you go to find the origin of the great principle of civil liberty?
44450Where is the spring of the prayers and aspirations of the saints?
44450Which is nearer to the truth, the Christ of the sorrowful way or the Christ at God''s right hand?
44450Who can say?
44450Who is He?
44450Who is right?
44450Who is there that has ever been brave enough to accept such a salutation without a whisper of protest, without a shadow of a scruple?
44450Who is this strange visitant-- so quiet, so silent, so unobserved?
44450Who shall deliver us from this spirit of bitterness?
44450Who shall lead us out of this heavy, fetid air of the lazar- house and the morgue?
44450Who shall separate us from Christ''s love?
44450Who will have it?
44450Who would not court a new- made grave rather than risk the perils of survivorship?
44450Why could that little jet of blood and water never pass out of his sight?
44450Why credible to the one, but incredible to the other?
44450Why need you and I seek to disprove what no man has ever yet proved or will prove?
44450Why not again with Christ as Captain?
44450Why not always, why not everywhere?
44450Why pay so great a price?
44450Why pay so great a price?
44450Why should it haunt him sixty years after, as still his heart wonders over the mysterious witness of the water and the blood?
44450Why?
44450Will He not continue to work till all men come to the stature of perfection?
44450Will it be said to any of you?
44450Will you fail as others failed me?"
44450Yet had prayer no part in the plan of the Incarnation?
44450You remember, in the story of the Garden of Eden, where the tree which represented temptation stood?
44450and he begins to raise the question- the only question he thinks of after that-- What shall I do for them?
44450could, I ask, all these be fruitless and in vain?
44450how much can I get out of this man''s labor?
44450how much has that man made?
44450how much will that man pay for my services?
44450is there anything which a man can fear ten times more than the fire that never shall be quenched?
44450or How shall I become a Christian?
44450why not?
16645And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? 16645 Art thou called,"he says,"being a servant?
16645Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine, figs?
16645How dieth the wise man?
16645Is any man called being circumcised? 16645 Is there any single, particular sentence in the service of my Church with which I do not entirely agree?
16645Knowest thou,said the troubled, excited, and restless men around him--"Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to- day?"
16645Perfect love casteth out fear,but who has it?
16645What doth it profit, if a man_ say_ that he hath faith, and have not works? 16645 Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?
1664518- 24.--"Is any man called being circumcised?
1664521.--"And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies?
16645A soul which was made for God, how can the world fill it?
16645And even taking the promise literally, though they built in tents, and could not call a foot of land their own, was not its beauty theirs?
16645And if the sinner does not come to God taught by this disappointment, what then?
16645And now is the question asked, Why is this world unsatisfying?
16645And now let us ask the question distinctly, Was all this indeed failure?
16645And now my brethren, if that be the description of home, is God''s place of rest your home?
16645And that perpetual contact with a heathen, and therefore an enemy of God, is not that in a relation so close and intimate, perpetual defilement?
16645Are they all the result of struggling to be great?
16645Are they not both in their own way true?
16645Are we at home there?
16645Are we not to love what God has made?
16645Are you quite certain that a day will not come when you will curse the hour in which you broke altogether with the world?
16645Art thou bound unto a wife?
16645Art thou called being a servant?
16645Art thou called being a servant?
16645Art thou loosed from a wife?
16645Bearing that in mind-- what is the prophet''s answer?
16645Brethren, do we all know what doubt means?
16645Brethren, do we wish to risk all this?
16645Brother men-- have you learned the meaning of yesterday?
16645But how were the Pharisees guilty?
16645But if there are Christian brethren to whom this would give pain-- then I humbly ask you, but most earnestly-- What is the duty here?
16645But is there not a deep meaning to be learned from the old expression-- that celibacy is an_ angelic_ state?
16645But my brethren, how is it with human nature generally?
16645But then came the ready rejoinder-- Why not do so now?
16645But titles, honours, wealth-- are these the rewards of well- doing?
16645By sitting down to read works of theology?
16645Can I-- dare I-- say or think it conditionally?
16645Can faith save him?"
16645Can that be indeed Messiah?
16645Can the worldly man feel Sunday like a foretaste of his Father''s mansion?
16645Christian brethren, which of these is the right form-- the true, external pattern of a family?
16645Consists it not in this,--that there is one life uniting, making all the separate members one?
16645Could the sufferings of Paul for the Church in any form of correct expression be said to eke out the sufferings that were complete?
16645Dare I say, I hope?
16645Death?
16645Did He not place us in the world?
16645Did he bless his murderer?
16645Did he give utterance to any deep reflections on human life?
16645Did you ever receive even a blow meant for another in order to shield that other?
16645Do we want to learn holiness with terrible struggles, and sore affliction, and the plague of much remaining evil?
16645Do you ask what these are?
16645Do you rightly estimate the importance of to- day?
16645Does a man feel himself the slave and the victim of his lower passions?
16645Esau distinctly expresses this:"Behold I am at the point to die, and what shall my birthright profit me?"
16645For a faithless heart whispers, Is it worth while to suffer for a sinking cause?
16645Grant that a Christian has something like familiarity with the Most High,_ that_ breaks this solitary feeling; but what is it with the mass of men?
16645Has he not only made earth a hell, in order that earthly things may be his heaven for ever?
16645Have we ever seen a ship preparing to sail with its load of pauper emigrants to a distant colony?
16645Have we never felt that our true existence has absolutely in that moment disappeared, and that_ we_ are not?
16645His complaint was, Why is the world the thing it is?
16645How came it that such a question should be put at all to the apostle?
16645How can the superstructure of Love and Faith be built, when the very foundations of human character-- Justice, Mercy, Truth-- have not been laid?
16645How do we account for this?
16645How does it follow that because Christ died to evil, all before that must have died to God?
16645How shall we reply to such men?
16645How should we comprehend the whole meaning of the Epiphany?
16645How should we learn it more?
16645If so, then is it my duty to leave it at once?"
16645If the indispensable safeguards of penalty were removed, what remained to restrain men from sin?
16645If we have lost God''s bright and happy presence by our wilfulness, what then?
16645If you give up present pursuits_ impetuously_, are you sure that present impulses will last?
16645Illustrate from laws of coining, housebreaking,& c. We are not under them.--Because we may break them as we like?
16645Imprisonment?
16645Is God less merciful than I?
16645Is any called in uncircumcision?
16645Is any called in uncircumcision?
16645Is any man in uncircumcision?
16645Is he becoming artificial through his change of life?
16645Is he getting the world''s manners and the world''s courtly insincerity?
16645Is it any wonder if men and women, in the midst of negations, cry,"Ye warn me from the error, but who will guide me into truth?
16645Is it not the world in another form, which has his homage?
16645Is it not this-- to abridge your Christian liberty-- and to go through rain, and mud, and snow, rather than give pain to one Christian conscience?
16645Is it not this?
16645Is it the voice of joy or the harbinger of gloom?
16645Is it then a novel?
16645Is it this-- to stand upon our Christian liberty?
16645Is not the duty separation?
16645Is not the marriage in itself null and void?
16645Is not the mystic yearning of love expressed in words most purely thus, Let me suffer for him?
16645Is not true reverence in all cases modified by the individualities of temperament and education?
16645Is persecution_ only_ fire and sword?
16645Is that home?
16645Is the iron prophet melting into voluptuous softness?
16645Is the song of the nightingale merry or plaintive?
16645Is there any single ceremony with which my whole soul does not go along?
16645Is this our duty-- to put such questions to ourselves as these?
16645John has won a king''s attention, and now the question is, Will the diamond of the mine bear polishing without breaking into shivers?
16645John''s day of active usefulness is over; at thirty years of age his work is done; and what permanent effect have all his labours left?
16645Know we not how awfully true that sentence is,"Sin revived, and I died?"
16645May I not, must I not, say,_ I know_ God has forgiven you?
16645Meant for God''s honour, dictated by the uncontrollable hatred of all evil, careless altogether of personal consequences?
16645Must they not have been as gloomy and as dreary as those of the disciples, when He was dead who they"trusted should have redeemed Israel?"
16645My doings?
16645No unity,--for wherein consists the unity of the Church of Christ?
16645Now what has been the position of those who are about to take this step?
16645Now what in this case is the Christian duty?
16645Now, what shall we say to these things?
16645Oh, brethren, is this the fact?
16645Or is it not rather this-- to comply with a prejudice which is manifestly a harmless one, rather than give pain to a Christian brother?
16645Or was not the rebuke unselfish?
16645Panegyric such as we can give, what is it after he has been stamped by his Master''s eulogy,"A prophet?
16645Say we not truly, it remains the same under all outward mutations?
16645Settle this first, brethren, Are you in earnest?
16645Shall we say it is all blasphemy; an impious intrusion upon the prerogatives of the One Absolver?
16645Shall we say,"Who is this that speaketh blasphemies?
16645She can not separate her affection from that form-- those hands, those limbs, those features-- are they not her child?
16645Should we not say, in all these forms worketh one and the same spirit of reverence?
16645So, for instance, when Judas asked,"Lord, how is it, that Thou wilt manifest Thyself to us and not to the world?"
16645Something there is, or else why should men persist in living for them?
16645Ten years of enjoyment, when the senses can enjoy no longer-- a country seat, splendid plate, a noble establishment?
16645That awful other world in the stillness and the solemn deep of the eternities above, is it your home?
16645That he may become an Antinomian, or a Latitudinarian?
16645That there are duties to be done to- day which can not be done to- morrow?
16645That would have been unity, if sameness be unity; but, says the apostle,"if the whole body were seeing, where were the hearing?"
16645The last step is that which alone deserves to be called Christian Faith--"Who is he that overcometh but he that believeth that Jesus is the Christ?"
16645The quiet religious worship that we have this day-- how comes it to be ours?
16645The savage of New Zealand who never heard of Him, the learned Egyptian and the voluptuous Assyrian who died before He came; how was it the sin of all?
16645Think you that family can break or end?--that because the chair is empty, therefore he, your child, is no more?
16645Thus speaks our Lord--"What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
16645To live in the Spirit, what is it but to have keener feelings and mightier powers-- to rise into a higher consciousness of life?
16645To_ be_ such a man, to have the power of_ doing_ such deeds, what could be added to that reward by having?
16645Unrelieved sadness?
16645Very strong language does the apostle use in this chapter respecting it:"What knoweth thou, O wife, whether thou shalt_ save_ thy husband?
16645Was he agitated?
16645Was he calm?
16645Was he loved by all?
16645Was it sin palpable and dark, such as we shall remember painfully this day year?
16645Was it to gratify spleen that he reproved Herod for all the evils he had done?
16645Was it to minister to a diseased and disappointed misanthropy?
16645Was their fall a failure?
16645Was there any gratification of human feeling there?
16645We are called to be members of the Church of England-- what is our duty now?
16645What are they to meet?
16645What are war, and trade, and labour, and professions?
16645What are we to do?"
16645What did they effect by their system of negations?
16645What does absolution mean in the lips of a son of man?
16645What is it but perverted interest which makes the acts, and words, and thoughts of his brethren, even in their evil, a matter of such strange delight?
16645What is it they are to see?
16645What is meant by the Publican''s going_ down to his house_ justified, but that he felt at peace with himself and God?
16645What is our Christianity worth if it can not teach us a truthfulness, an unselfishness, and a generosity beyond the world''s?
16645What is religion but fuller life?
16645What is religion''s self but feeling?
16645What is the blessedness that you expect?--to have the joys of earth with the addition of the element of eternity?
16645What is the body''s unity?
16645What is the meaning of this expression,"Be ye perfect?"
16645What is to- day worth, or its duties or its cares?"
16645What on this earth remains, but endless sorrow, for him who has ceased to respect himself, and has no God to turn to?
16645What power is there in human forgiveness?
16645What then?
16645What truth have we got to supply that craving?
16645What was all that worth?
16645What was it with most of us?
16645What would Paul have done?
16645When of two heathen parties only one was converted to Christianity, the question arose, What in this case is the duty of the Christian?
16645When we have lived long a life of sin, do we think that repentance and forgiveness will obliterate all the traces of sin upon the character?
16645Whence comes the difference?
16645Where are the charms of character, the perfection, and the purity, and the truthfulness, which seemed so resplendent in our friend?
16645Where is the land flowing with milk and honey?
16645Where is the single text from which it can be, except by force, extracted?
16645Whereby would we produce unity?
16645Wherein consists the unity of the body?
16645Wherein then, lies the cogency of the apostle''s reasoning?
16645Whereupon, in silent hours, we sceptically ask, Is this possible?
16645Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
16645Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
16645Who can not conceive the keenness of that trial?
16645Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
16645Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?"
16645Who shall save me from myself?"
16645Why is it that in this discourse, instead of being commanded to perform religious duties, we are commanded to think of being like God?
16645Why?
16645Why?
16645Why?--Because if you love them you shall be blessed; and if you do not cursed?
16645Will not that inflame our pride, and increase our natural vainglory?
16645With respect to their church, or ecclesiastical affairs, he says--"Is any man called being circumcised?
16645Would they have begun one single step of that pilgrimage, which was to find its meaning in the discipline of ages?
16645Would we force on other Churches our Anglicanism?
16645Would we have our thirty- nine articles, our creeds, our prayers, our rules and regulations, accepted by every Church throughout the world?
16645You tell us to pray for faith, but how shall we pray in earnest unless we first have the very faith we pray for?
16645as if it were an union between one dead and one living?
16645can they reward it?
16645how can we speak of the Gospel, when the first principles of_ morality_ are forgotten?
16645is it natural?
16645or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?"
16645that it is preternatural, and not natural?
16645that the goodness which is induced by it is not, so to speak, the natural goodness of Humanity, but such a goodness as God scarcely intended?
16645when Christians are excusing themselves, and slandering one another?
16645who can forgive sins, but God only?"
16645would it be well- doing if they could?
44411Ashamed of Jesus, that dear Friend, On whom our hopes of heaven depend?
44411Has the rain a father? 44411 If God be for us, who can be against us?"
44411Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?
44411Knowest thou, oh man, the missionaries of the starry heavens? 44411 Many will say unto Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name done many wonderful works?
44411My sheep,says He,"hear my voice, and they do follow me"; they follow Me gladly, even into this gloomy vale; and what is the consequence?
44411Which,said He,"is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth?
44411),"Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples?"
44411A vivid feeling comes over them of the vanity and unprofitableness of the world, and then the question recurs,"Why then am I sent into it?"
44411After this, will you be indignant that you do not comprehend every thing in the gospel?
44411And can those be willing that God should govern the world entirely according to His pleasure who object to His having any pleasure upon the subject?
44411And does he now submit, because God has given him assurance of personal safety?
44411And for what can you be held responsible, if not for this?
44411And is He not wise enough to be intrusted with the government of the world?
44411And is it not quite clear that to such persons God can not be said to be their God?
44411And is there a mortal, who, from this great system of blest government, would wish this earth to be an exception?
44411And need we ask, is not the Christian Church itself, in its own institution and constitution, virtually and essentially a missionary institution?
44411And shall we not purchase each increase of knowledge with an increase of ignorance?
44411And the hoar- frost of heaven, who has begotten it?
44411And to what does all this amount?
44411And were not all the angels of heaven placed under Him as His missionaries, sent forth to minister to the heirs of salvation?
44411And were not the keys of the kingdom first given to Peter to open, to announce it?
44411And what do I hear?
44411And what is an angel but a messenger, a missionary?
44411And what more could it do, were it true?
44411And what will become of those who, unable to frustrate His counsels, murmur and rebel against His providence?
44411And why do we not submit cheerfully to a privation which, after all, is not one?
44411And why?
44411Are His subjects here partakers of His kingly bounty?
44411Are any reluctant to be entirely in the hands of God?
44411Are not all His attributes equally employed?
44411Are there not many who live, to all appearance, as unconscious of His existence, as we fancy the inferior animals to be?
44411Are there not many who never think of God or care about His service?
44411Are they afraid to trust Him to dispose of soul and body, for time and eternity?
44411Are you afraid of the reproach of Christ?
44411Are you more than sons of Adam, who, by the sweat of their brow, are to eat bread till they return to the earth out of which they are taken?
44411Are you simply taking your own pleasure in your mode of living, or do you find your pleasure in submitting yourself to God''s pleasure?
44411Are you the less saved?
44411As He beheld them approaching, did He quietly take to His boat, and leave them to go home disappointed?
44411Before they are anointed?
44411But did these things apply merely to the believers to whom St. Peter originally wrote?
44411But if there be a consistency in the errors, in like manner, is there a consistency in the truths which are opposite to them?
44411But if we once attempted to go further, where should we stop?
44411But may it not be supplanted by the love of that which is more worthy than itself?
44411But some one will say"If the knowledge of mysteries is really without influence on our salvation, why have they been indicated to us at all?"
44411But what did they do?
44411But what do we besides praying for it?
44411But when, since the days of the blind master of English song, hath any poured forth a lay worthy of the Christian theme?
44411But who would not hail such a Son of David?
44411Can He only watch, and mend, and rectify, the lawless wanderings of mind?
44411Can He wield the elements, and control, at His pleasure, every work of His hands, but just the mind of man?
44411Can he bring forth and commission the twelve signs of the Zodiac, or bind Arcturus with his seven sons?
44411Can mortal man bind the bands of the Seven Stars, or loose the cords of Orion?
44411Can such a person be in earnest, or have one sincere desire in his heart to effect such an object or purpose?
44411Can there be a better government?
44411Can we improve upon their institutions and enactments?
44411Canst thou command the lightnings, so that they may say to thee, Here we are?
44411Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
44411Could the combined universe, without God, change the depraved affections of men?
44411Did He not declare that His kingdom"is not of this world"?
44411Did He not say that He was going hence, or leaving this world, to receive or obtain a kingdom?
44411Did He plead His own convenience, or His need of repose, as any reason for not attending to the pressing necessities of His fellow men?
44411Did he, then, misapprehend the divine character?
44411Did not our Savior Himself, in person, decline the honors of a worldly or temporal prince?
44411Did not the Savior teach His personal pupils, or disciples, to pray,"Thy kingdom"--more truthfully,"Thy reign-- come"?
44411Did our Lord inform the multitude that this day was set apart for their own refreshment and improvement, and that they could not be interrupted?
44411Did then God send you, above all other men, into the world to be idle in spiritual matters?
44411Do kings reign before they are crowned?
44411Do we work for it?
44411Do you ask what this deep principle was?
44411Do you injure no one?
44411Does He exercise His authority here and rule His happy subjects by the law, the perfect law of love?
44411Does He make these vile bodies His residence here?
44411Does He not govern for the same end, and will not His government below conspire to promote the same joyful end as His government above?
44411Does He superintend a world of madmen, full of darkness and disorder, cheered and blest by no internal pervading government of His own?
44411Does any king''s reign or kingdom commence with his birth?
44411Does the Lord''s Prayer breathe a feverish enthusiasm?
44411Has Christ been seen upon the cross, beckoning the sinner to come to Him?
44411Has God determined how to dispose of my soul?
44411Has He filled the earth with untamed and untamable spirits, whose wickedness and rebellion He can merely mitigate, but can not control?
44411Has Omnipotence formed minds, which, the moment they are made, escape from His hands, and defy the control of their Maker?
44411Has a vision of angels appeared, to announce that God is reconciled?
44411Has heaven been thrown open to his admiring eyes?
44411Has some sudden light burst upon him, in token of forgiveness?
44411Has some text of Scripture been sent to whisper that his sins are forgiven, tho no repentance, nor faith, nor love, has dawned in his soul?
44411Has the Almighty erected a moral kingdom which He can not govern without destroying its moral nature?
44411Has the divine character changed?
44411Has your religion any difficulty in it, or is it in all respects easy to you?
44411Have enrapturing sounds of music stolen upon the ear, to entrance the soul?
44411Have we none among you that preach against us in your lives?
44411Have you not already felt, my brethren, the application to which I would bring you?
44411How can He dispose of me according to His eternal purpose and I be free?
44411How can you, thus unimpassioned, hold communion with themes in which everything awful, vital, and endearing meet together?
44411How dangerous a thing is it, for example, for a man to become accustomed to sights of cruelty?
44411How is it in the natural world?
44411How should it be otherwise in religion, when it is thus in nature itself?
44411I had a wife, a helpmeet for me; but where is she?
44411If He can, consistently with freedom, govern angels, and devils, and nations, how can He govern individuals?
44411If a claim so unjust could be admitted, where, I ask you, would be the limit of your demands?
44411If such were the occupations of the Son of God, can we do more wisely than to imitate His example?
44411If that"foolishness"we preach produces effects like these, is it not natural to conclude that it is truth itself?
44411If we began to repress our anger, why not also repress vainglory?
44411If, too, every disciple is to be an"epistle known and read of all men,"what shall we expect, but that all men will be somehow affected by the reading?
44411In a word, is your religion a work?
44411In the highest possible sense of the terms; but who can tell what that highest possible sense of the terms is?
44411In this dilemma, what was to be done?
44411Is He not the same God below as above?
44411Is it because we understand them?
44411Is it ever on the side of God and duty?
44411Is it not enough for us to know the truths that save?
44411Is it not his business, and nothing else, to act his part well?
44411Is it your mission only to find pleasure in this world, in which you are but as pilgrims and sojourners?
44411Is that a misfortune?
44411Is there no object in it?
44411Is your example harmless?
44411It is a great thing to keep in God''s favor; what indeed can we desire more?
44411It is also true, you may ask, that the religious spirit propagates itself or tends to propagate itself in the same way?
44411It is this:"Why were you sent into the world?"
44411May I ask your attention a few moments more?
44411May we not from this incident derive a lesson of practical instruction?
44411My brethren, ought this so to be?
44411My brethren, the simple question is, whatever a man''s rank in life may be, does he in that rank perform the work which God has given him to do?
44411Need I say that comprehension incomparably transcends apprehension?
44411Need we inquire into the meaning of a celestial title given to the tenantries of the heaven of heavens?
44411Now, how stands the case with Jesus?
44411Of the poets which charm the world''s ear, who is he that inditeth a song unto his God?
44411Of what use would it be to know those it conceals from us?
44411Of what use, then, would it be to know those which have not the slightest bearing on our salvation?
44411Oh, my brethren, is it not a shocking thought, but who can deny its truth?
44411Oh, this curious restless, clamorous, panting being, which we call life!--and is there to be no end to all this?
44411Or has a revelation of new truth been granted?
44411Or if he is to be a light in the world, what shall we look for, but that others, seeing his good works, shall glorify God on his account?
44411Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven upon the thirsty fields?"
44411Or who has stretched the line upon it?
44411Rather do you not see that this is a splendid proof of its truth?
44411Shall I say more?
44411Shall not mysteries multiply with discoveries?
44411Still less with his death?
44411Tell a man to be holy-- and how can he compass such a performance, when his fellowship with holiness is a fellowship of despair?
44411The solicitude, therefore, is not merely, What will become of me?
44411They were but little children, and they were by themselves, and they spontaneously asked themselves, or rather God spake in them,"Why am I here?
44411To purchase food in the surrounding towns and villages would be difficult; but even were this possible, whence could the necessary funds be provided?
44411Upon what, in fact, does this argument rest?
44411Was all this glory visible before?
44411Was ever love like this?
44411Was he not the wisest of men, the most potent and the richest of kings, that ever lived?
44411Was it ever known-- did any ever complain-- was it ever conceived-- that God was a tyrant, in heaven?
44411We do not grow Christians by the same culture by which we grow men, otherwise what need of divine revelation, and divine assistance?
44411Well, would it not be simple absurdity in any actor to pride himself on his mock diadem, or his edgeless sword, instead of attending to his part?
44411What am I to do here?"
44411What are the foundations thereof?
44411What can you do for us?"
44411What in reference to us is the object of the gospel?
44411What is religion?
44411What is the occasion of this change?
44411What man, valuing the honor of his soul, would not shrink from yielding himself to such an influence?
44411What matter to me whether the Pope, or any work of any mind, be exalted to the quality of God?
44411What shall he do?
44411What was the national spirit of France, for example, at a certain time, but a spirit of infidelity?
44411What were its antecedents?
44411What will Babel do for us then?
44411What will that man do in heaven, who is afraid and reluctant to commit to God the government of the earth?
44411What, if he did but gaze at himself and his dress?
44411What, then, has produced this alteration?
44411Whence now, I ask, came the conception of this character?
44411Where can we find the traces of it in His history?
44411Where is nature gone when she is not moved with the tender mercy of Christ?
44411Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
44411Whither shall he flee?
44411Who can number the clouds in wisdom?
44411Who feels the awful weight there is in the least iota that hath dropped from the lips of God?
44411Who feels the sublime dignity there is in a saying, fresh descended from the porch of heaven?
44411Who feels the swelling tide of gratitude within his breast, for redemption and salvation, instead of flat despair and everlasting retribution?
44411Who feels the thrilling fear or trembling hope there is in words whereon the destinies of himself do hang?
44411Who has begotten the drops of the dew?
44411Who has fixt the measure thereof?
44411Who has laid the corner- stone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
44411Who hath required this at their hands?
44411Who shall supply the deficiencies of His skill?
44411Who was the mother of the ice?
44411Who, then, shall be His counsellor?
44411Whose soul would not sicken at such a sight?
44411Why are they toiling?
44411Why do we admit these various facts?
44411Why is not curiosity, curiosity ever hungry, on edge to know the doings and intentions of Jehovah, King of Kings?
44411Why is not interest, interest ever awake, on tip- toe to hear the future destiny of itself?
44411Why not also guard against niggardliness?
44411Why not also keep from falsehood, from gossiping, from idling, from excess in eating?
44411Why not reproach Him for not having given you wings like a bird, to visit the regions, which, till now, have been scanned only by your eyes?
44411Why not, in fine, reproach Him for having caused the darkness of night to succeed the brightness of day invariably on the earth?
44411Why, then, should we question the justice of His government on earth?
44411Why?
44411Will any pretend that the Almighty can not maintain a moral government on earth, if He governs according to His own pleasure?
44411Will any say it had its origin in imposture; that it was a fabrication of a deceiver?
44411Will it rescue our souls from the purgatory or the hell to which it sends them?
44411Will they aim at the honor implied in these words,"Ye are my witnesses?"
44411Will they have the adoption and the glory?
44411Will ye indeed be sons?
44411With each new day shall we not see associated a new night?
44411Would he leave its peopled dwelling places, and become a solitary wanderer through the fields of nonentity?
44411Would it not be better for us, if we cultivated more assiduously this habit of intimate intercourse with the Savior?
44411Would not he cling to the regions of sense, and of life, and of society?
44411Would not his neighbors regard him as a monomaniac or a simpleton?
44411Would sinful mortals change their own hearts?
44411and yet do not the things which He says"?
44411but, What, O Lord, will become of Thy glory, and the glory of Thy kingdom?
44411for what are they living?
44411how came I here?
44411how will you draw the line for us?
44411that with yonder sacred throng, we at His feet may fall"?
44411what, if he secreted, or turned to his own use, what was valuable in it?
44411who brought me here?
44411who would not desire to be swayed by such a Prince of Peace?
44411why are they scheming?
11693But how can they believe if they have not heard? 11693 Come, Pharisees, tell us what you have against the Son of God, What do you think of Christ?"
11693Come, tell us, Judas, what think ye of Christ? 11693 Pilate, this man was brought before you; you examined Him; you talked with Him face to face; what think you of Christ?"
11693Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
11693Why, then,He says,"do you accuse Me of blasphemy because I claim divinity?"
11693Wist ye not that I must be about my Father''s business?
11693ABBOTT BORN IN 1835 THE DIVINITY IN HUMANITY_ Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, ye are gods?
11693All fancy, all imaginings?
11693And altho all these years have rolled away, this question comes up, addresst to each of us, to- day,"What think ye of Christ?"
11693And have you not fancied that you heard the harp of God playing in heaven?
11693And how can they hear without a preacher?
11693And how can they preach except they be sent?"
11693And is not this included in His meaning when He says:"I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly"?
11693And shall not you who are here to- day thank God that such a man was, tho for so brief a space, your bishop?
11693And then Saul asks,"Who art thou, Lord?"
11693And what is the mission of the Christian Church?
11693And when you turn to the moral law, and when you ask yourself,"How can I learn to be athirst for God?"
11693And why should not people make up their minds about the Lord Jesus Christ, and take their stand for or against Him?
11693And why?
11693Are you sure you could?
11693But then, if you speak the truth, you say,"And in the end what am I?
11693But what of that?
11693But will this rhapsody bear thinking about?
11693By that sin fell the angels: how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by''t?"
11693Can anything be more humble?
11693Can you say,"Tho he slay me, yet will I trust in him"?
11693Canst thou not see some sweet hill Mizar?
11693Canst thou not think of some blest hour when the Lord met with thee at Hermon?
11693Certainly it is to know God''s guidance in law; but what is law?
11693Could the muster- roll of this great army be called, and could they come up from the dead, what eye could endure the reeking, festering putrefaction?
11693Could you say that?
11693Did He leave heaven and come down to this world for a purpose?
11693Did I call him man the second?
11693Did I call this house second?
11693Did I not come to bless you?
11693Do I address one whose regular work in life is to administer to this appetite?
11693Do I say, then, that I am equal to Christ?
11693Do I say, then, that Jesus Christ was a man like other men?
11693Do n''t you know Him?
11693Do we go forth to meet death"with dances and chants of fullest welcome"?
11693Do you ask how it shall be done?
11693Do you ask how that can be?
11693Do you ask the question?
11693Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?
11693Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?
11693Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?
11693Do you believe in the forgiveness of sins?
11693Do you see how everything there is being desolated?
11693Do you think it is right and noble to lift up your voice against such a Savior?
11693Does He?
11693Does death"lave us in a flood of bliss"?
11693Does it not cock the highwayman''s pistol?
11693Does it not jingle the burglar''s key?
11693Does it not wave the incendiary''s torch?
11693Does it not whet the assassin''s knife?
11693Does"the body gratefully nestle close to death"?
11693Elymas the sorcerer withstood him: how did our friend Paul treat him?
11693For what did God come in Christ?
11693For what is the position, dear friends, of the Christian Church?
11693For what reason should our missionaries stand disputing with Brahmins?
11693Go back, man; sing of that moment, and then thou wilt have a song in the night?
11693Has He come with that great life of His to give a little and then stop?
11693Has it not sent the physician reeling into the sick- room; and the minister with his tongue thick into the pulpit?
11693Hast thou never been fetched from the den of lions?
11693Hast thou never been on the Delectable Mountains?
11693Hast thou never escaped the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear?
11693Have I injured you in any way?
11693Have they anything to say of Him?
11693Have we a right to believe that man is more than he seems to be, as we can see him in the street to- day?
11693Have we a right to build our institutions and fabrics on this belief?
11693Have you never stood by the seaside at night, and heard the pebbles sing, and the waves chant God''s glories?
11693Have you nothing more to bring against Him than this?
11693He might have added,"What have I done to you?
11693How can it come?
11693How can you not?
11693How many men are there who can rise above the feelings of partizanship, and demand that our officials shall be sober men?
11693How much, Lord and Master?
11693I am now at peace with God through faith, in our Lord Jesus Christ"?
11693I should like to ask, Was He really the Son of God-- the great God- Man?
11693I wonder whether you would sing very prettily, if there was a stake or two in Smithfield for all of you who dared to do it?
11693If He bore the cross and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
11693If He had not, what would have become of us?
11693If He laid down His life for us, is it not the least we can do to lay down ours for Him?
11693If you think well of Him, why not speak well of Him and range yourselves on His side?
11693In the anguish of his soul Job cried,"I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserver of men?"
11693Is death"delicate, lovely and soothing,""delicious,"coming to us with"serenades"?
11693Is it a wonder the angels thought well of Him?
11693Is it about the most fundamental of all facts-- the existence, and the nature, and the grace, and the government of Almighty God?
11693Is not this the one thing needful?
11693Is not this, fellow men, the right way to live?
11693Is that enough?
11693Is that enough?
11693Is there not a more excellent way than this?
11693Is your soul athirst for the highest?
11693Lead him to enthusiastic contemplations of humanity;"in its perfection, and when he asks,''Why, if this is so, do not I have this life?''
11693Listened to what?
11693MOODY 1837--1899 WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?
11693MOODY WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST?
11693Many of you sang very prettily just now, did n''t you?
11693Monday night?
11693My friend will you hear Him to- day?
11693My friends, my people, would you be saved, saved from your sins, saved from yourselves, saved from the pride of life?
11693Natural depravity?
11693Nay, have not some of you in your own bodies felt the power of this habit?
11693Need I tell you of it?
11693Now, is there any ground or basis for this faith in man?
11693Now, what is the spirit of Christ?
11693Oh, do you not think He was a wonderful preacher?
11693Oh, have we not reason to think well of Him?
11693Oh, widow and orphans, oh, sorrowing and mourning, will you not thank God for Christ the comforter?
11693Oh, will you gratify pleasure?
11693Oh, will you stimulate activity, and will you leave me alone?
11693On what grounds did you judge Him?
11693Or are we to think of them as simply phantasmagoria hung up for the delectation of a passing moment?
11693Or have you never risen from your couch, and thrown up the window of your chamber, and listened there?
11693Or that I shall ever become equal to Christ?
11693Perhaps you can hardly admit it; but where was your son last night?
11693See how wonderfully the Word of God fits down upon this?
11693Shall we not draw to this Prince of Life and take from Him the gift that He came to bring?
11693Simply to show Himself?
11693Suppose you ask a master in music,"How am I to produce the real result of stately sound?"
11693Tell us, what think you of Christ?"
11693Tell us; what did the witnesses say?
11693The question for the world is,"What think ye of Christ?"
11693The question is, who will hunt him down, and how shall we shoot him?
11693The reason?
11693The stars are not put out, are they?
11693There are a great many of you that think Christian people are a very miserable set, do n''t you?
11693Tuesday night?
11693Was it merely the assertion of your confidence in the goodness of God irrespective of His holiness?
11693Was it really to seek and to save?
11693Was it simply the recognition of a universal amnesty for a world of rebels?
11693Was it true, Peter?
11693Wast thou never in straits before, and did He not deliver thee?
11693Wast thou never poor before, and did He not supply thy wants?
11693We will ask them, What think ye of Christ?
11693Wednesday night?
11693Well, what then?
11693What Think Ye of Christ?
11693What a story that is which he has given to us of a great soul-- faithful always in the greatest?
11693What are you after you are cleansed?
11693What are you doing here?"
11693What bishop is there who may not wisely seek to be like him by drawing forever on those fires of the Holy Ghost that set his lips aflame?
11693What did you mean by it?
11693What do they think of Him there?
11693What do we mean by thirsting for God?
11693What do we need for the salvation of a prosperous life?
11693What do you know exactly about infinity, or space, or time, or cause?
11693What do you mean, you may say for a moment, by the thirst for God?
11693What do you think of Him?
11693What exactly was the thought in your heart as the words passed over your lips,"I believe in the forgiveness of sins"?
11693What foul sprite turned the sweet rhythm of Robert Burns into a tuneless babble?
11693What have you before you there?
11693What heart could endure the groan of agony?
11693What is it about which you are in such debate and doubt?
11693What is it but the life into which they are led who take the yoke of this Master upon them and learn of Him?
11693What is it but this?
11693What is it, let me ask, that comes into clearer prominence as the Washington tragedy[1] is being investigated and scrutinized?
11693What is the difference between your failure and the results of those men?
11693What is the difference?
11693What is the object of such a church as this?
11693What is the pride of life?
11693What is the result?
11693What is there wanting in the touch of your artist?
11693What is this, again, but the same declaration?
11693What kind of life, Lord and Master?
11693What says Christ Himself?
11693What shall the consecration be?
11693What testimony was brought against Him?"
11693What then is the pride of life which is bad, which"is not of the Father, but is of the world"?
11693What then?
11693What think you of Him?"
11693What was it that silenced Sheridan, the English orator, and shattered the golden scepter with which he swayed parliaments and courts?
11693What, then, are you going to do with your faith?
11693Where was he Friday night?
11693Where was he Thursday night?
11693Who is this battered and bruised wretch that was picked up by the police and carried in drunk and foul and bleeding?
11693Who, then, is Jesus Christ?
11693Why do you treat Me thus, Saul?"
11693Why is it good that you should do your best?
11693Why not?
11693Why should sorrow find perpetual remembrance in art?
11693Why should they be wasting their time by attempting to refute first this dogma, and then another, of heathenism?
11693Why, buried among your buildings, in the midst of this great, powerful, sinful city,--why has it a mission for eternity?
11693Why, dear friends, why is it that these things do not satisfy?
11693Why, let them lecture on; this is a free country; why should we follow them about?
11693Why?
11693Why?
11693Why?
11693Why?
11693Will any man say to me, this beautiful flower with all its rich coloring is like this bulb?
11693Will it?
11693Will it?
11693Will you not believe in Him?
11693Will you not believe the testimony?
11693Will you not believe this witness, this last of all, the Lord of hosts, the King of kings himself?
11693Will you not live for Him?
11693Will you not think well of such a Savior?
11693Will you not trust in Him with all your heart and mind?
11693Would that fill you with deep thoughts in Beethoven, or fire you into joy in Mendelssohn?
11693Would that produce the chorus of Handel that made you almost rise and march in majesty?
11693Would that produce"The Last Judgment"of Spohr, that made you dissolve in tears?
11693Would you not like to bring back joy to your wife''s heart, and have your children come out to meet you with as much confidence as once they showed?
11693Would you not like to rekindle the home- lights that long ago were extinguished?
11693You doubted Him, Thomas?
11693You think that you could stop?
11693You want to know what His enemies thought of Him?
11693You want to know what a heathen, thought?
11693didst thou never have a sickness like that which thou art suffering now, and did He not raise thee up from that?
11693hast thou buried thine own diary?
11693what is He saying to you?
11693who can deliver me from the body of this death?"
10325''Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?
10325''Is anything too hard for the Lord?''
10325''Thinkest thou,''he says,''that those Galilaeans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices, were sinners above all the Galilaeans?
10325And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
10325And does Christ care only for THEM?
10325And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
10325And how comes it also that the New Testament says distinctly that man is still made in the likeness of God?
10325And how did he do that?
10325And how does the New Testament begin?
10325And next-- what is it after all, but what we see going on round us all the day long?
10325And now, my friends, what shall we learn from this?
10325And shall we believe that this infinitely good book is founded upon falsehood?
10325And was this all that Abraham believed-- that the sun and moon and stars were not gods, but that there was a God besides, who had made them all?
10325And what did Jacob get, who so meanly bought the birthright, and cheated his father out of the blessing?
10325And what in us is the likeness of God?
10325And what is the first written thought which has been handed down to us by the Providence of Almighty God?
10325And what sort of man was this great and wonderful Moses, whose name will last as long as man is man?
10325And what was this?
10325And whence did they get, I ask again, the notion of gods at all?
10325And why first?
10325And why not?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And why?
10325And will such puzzling questions and calculations as these, settle them how we may, make us BETTER men?
10325And will you believe that God is like that man?
10325Are not husbands to love their wives, and give themselves for them as Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it?
10325Are not the riches of Christ unsearchable, and the mercies of the Lord boundless?
10325Are we NOT inclined to suspect harm of this person and of that?
10325Are we NOT inclined to take, at first, the worst view of everybody and of everything?
10325Are we NOT inclined too often to be mean and cowardly?
10325Are we only to be blessed in the next?
10325Are you to suppose that Moses gained nothing by HIS experience?
10325As for the style of it being different from that of Exodus and Leviticus, the simple answer is, Why not?
10325Because it is a law of nature?
10325Because the first question which man asks-- the question which shows he is a man and not a brute-- always has been, and always will be-- Where am I?
10325Besides, why should not Moses have spoken differently at the end of forty years''such experience as never man had before or since?
10325But do they go to establish a golden age; to become a perfect people?
10325But do we listen to him?
10325But from what did Abraham turn to worship the living God?
10325But how does the story of Jacob and Esau reveal God to us?
10325But if so, what does this first lesson-- the chapter of Exodus from which my text is taken-- what does it teach us concerning God?
10325But if that be not true, what follows?
10325But if they came by some strange means as no vermin ever came before or since, all I can say is-- Why not?
10325But it learns to obey them behind their back; to do their will of its own will; to ask itself, What would my parents wish me to do, were they here?
10325But need he love his parents less?
10325But some may say,''Why tell us that?
10325But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite?
10325But upon whom?
10325But what are God''s laws by which he makes things?
10325But what does this story teach us concerning God?
10325But what has all this to do with God?
10325But what kind of person must he be, thought they, who sent the flood?
10325But what may we learn from this ugly story?
10325But where, among beasts, do you ever find any trace of those two sacred human feelings-- the love of brother to brother, or of child to father?
10325But who gave them that genius and energy?
10325But who is this blessed Babe?
10325But who that really values his Bible cares for them any more than he cares for the spots on the sun which he can find through a telescope?
10325But why have there always been such people?
10325But why need we learn from Abraham?
10325But why should it NOT be wonderful?
10325But why was this story of Joseph put into Holy Scripture, and at such length, too?
10325But-- shall we become really the wiser by so doing?
10325Can the God who appeared to Adam, be our God likewise, or has God''s plan and rule for teaching man changed utterly?
10325Can these two be the same?
10325Did not even St. Paul say that he only knew in part and prophesied in part?
10325Did our forefathers know of them when they came into this land?
10325Did they come after coal and iron?
10325Do I mean that these disasters come as punishments to the people who are killed by them?
10325Do they come by chance, from some brute and blind powers of nature?''
10325Do they come from the devil-- the destroyer?
10325Do you believe it?
10325Do you not see what a power and courage that thought must have given to the Jews?
10325Does God NOT bid us to look for any such blessings?
10325Does he not care for their neighbours?
10325Does it teach us that his name is love?
10325For all men will believe on him, and then the powers of this world will come and take away our station and our order?''
10325For here, in the text, is Moses''answer to the first great question in politics, What makes a nation prosperous?
10325For what would the heathen, what actually did the heathen think about such sights as a flood, or a rainbow?
10325For why?
10325From idols?
10325From whom did Moses and the holy men of old whom Moses taught get their knowledge of God, the true God?
10325God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it?
10325Has God really forbidden it?
10325Has he not all mankind to provide for, and govern and guide?
10325Hath he said, and shall he not do it?''
10325Have we not learnt enough already?
10325Have we not seen-- I have often-- in the same mortal man these two different characters at once?
10325He had spoken unadvisedly with his lips, and said,''Hear now, ye rebels, or ye fools, must WE bring you water out of this rock?''
10325He honours holy wedlock when he tells his master''s wife,''How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?''
10325He that made man and all heaven and earth, can not he show himself to man, if he shall so please?
10325How came I here?
10325How came this world here likewise?
10325How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
10325How can I trust in a God whom I can not understand or know?
10325How can I trust in a love or a justice which is not what_ I_ call love or justice, or anything like them?
10325How can that be?
10325How can that be?
10325How can we be that, if God''s truth is not like what men call truth, God''s justice not like what men call justice?
10325How did I come here; and how did this world come here?
10325How did I get into this world; and how did this world get here likewise?
10325How did it get into that black spot?
10325How is he revealed in the text,''In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth?''
10325How shall we keep our souls REFINED?
10325How should one chase a thousand; and two put ten thousand to flight?''
10325How then did man, who now is continually forgetting God, contrive to remember God for himself at first?
10325How then shall we keep off coarseness of soul?
10325How then will the history of the flood do that?
10325How, unless God himself showed himself to man?
10325Husband and wife likewise-- are not they two divine words--not human words at all?
10325I have received good from the hands of the Lord, and shall I not receive evil?''
10325Important?
10325In that grand text where Abraham pleads with God, what does he say?
10325Is he not able and willing to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think?
10325Is it no miracle that not one of those black spots ever turns into anything save a frog?
10325Is it on the whole going right or going wrong?
10325Is it well governed or ill?
10325Is not the life in the Spirit of God, who is working on that spot, as I believe?
10325Is that no miracle?
10325Is the Lord Jehovah of the Old Testament the Lord Jesus of the New?
10325It was Moses who bade men call God Jehovah, the I AM; but who, hundreds of years before, taught them to call him the Almighty God?
10325MAY call you, did I say?
10325Merely for the pleasure of destroying?
10325Not,''Of course if Thou choosest to do it, it must be right,''but''Shall not the Judge of all the earth do RIGHT?''
10325Now if Moses did not write it, who did?
10325Now what have we to boast of in that?
10325Now what was to prevent the Israelites worshipping the earthquake and the fire as gods?
10325Now why was this?
10325Of Jesus Christ?
10325Oh, if all this is not poor human nature, drawn by the pen of a truly inspired writer, what is it?
10325Or is there knowledge in the Most High?
10325Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think you that they were sinners above all who dwelt in Jerusalem?
10325Pharaoh answers:''Who is Jehovah( the Lord) that I should let Israel go?''
10325Saved?
10325See in this case why did God destroy the crops of Egypt-- even the first- born of Egypt?
10325Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
10325Shall I give my firstborn for my transgressions, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
10325Shall not the Judge of all the earth do RIGHT?''
10325So he returns to his place-- to do what?
10325That every one of those little black spots should have in it LIFE-- What is life?
10325That he must honour and worship them, and do them service, in order that they might be favourable to him, and help, and bless, and teach him?
10325That men have the sacred family feeling, and beasts have not?
10325That they had made laws for him which he must obey?
10325The Lord of the earth and all that therein is; before whom all men, even proud Pharaoh, must bow and confess,''Is anything too hard for the Lord?''
10325The next question will be: If God favours that family, will he do unjust things to help them?--will he let them do unjust things to help themselves?
10325Then did his faith in God win no reward?
10325Then if manhood be evil, what follows again?
10325Then if that human nature be evil, what follows?
10325Then men ask in terror and doubt,''Who sends the earthquake and the fire?
10325Then said his sister to Pharaoh''s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
10325Then would not Joseph''s story be worthy of being in the Bible?
10325To know that he is that-- all- good, is to know his character as far as sinful and sorrowful man need know; and is not that to know enough?
10325Very probably it was: but if not, What of that?
10325Was God faithful and true, just and merciful?
10325Was not that, too, a miracle?
10325What are we to think of a fire coming out from the Lord, and consuming two hundred and fifty men that offered incense?
10325What can God be but wonderful?
10325What causes this but the power of God, making of the same clay one vessel to honour and another to dishonour?
10325What could they do, but what the Canaanites did who dwelt already in that land?
10325What do I mean?
10325What does Balaam''s story reveal?
10325What further lesson concerning God do we learn therefrom?
10325What grace, what virtue is there higher than condescension?
10325What have we learnt from that history?
10325What of that?
10325What of that?
10325What of that?
10325What put into his mind the strange imagination that these unseen beings were more or less his masters?
10325What put into the mind of man that strange imagination of beings greater than himself, whom he could not always see, but who might appear to him?
10325What shall we learn?
10325What then are we to think of the earth opening and swallowing them up?
10325What then shall we think of these things?
10325What then was wrong in Balaam?
10325What thoughts should we have about it?
10325What were we intended to learn from it?
10325What would you say of a magistrate who was so merciful to thieves that he let them rob the honest men?
10325What would you say of a man who was so merciful to the weeds that he let them choke the flowers?
10325What would you say of a shepherd who was so merciful to the wolves that he let them eat his sheep?
10325Whence came this strange notion, which man alone has of all the living things which we see, of RELIGION?
10325Where am I?
10325Where did they get it?
10325Where do you find the notion that the tie between husband and wife is a sacred thing, to be broken at no temptation, but in man?
10325Where, I ask again, did they get it?
10325Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us out of Egypt?''
10325Wherefore the first thing man has to learn is truth concerning the first human question, Where am I?
10325Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?
10325Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
10325Who can resist such a nation as that?
10325Who gave them the wit to find the coal and iron?
10325Who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him, or even settle what the Lord means by doing this or that?
10325Who is Lord over us?''
10325Who prayed for his murderers as he hung upon the cross,''Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do?''
10325Who would change them for all the scientific phrases in the world?
10325Why can he not make lice, or anything else out of the dust of the ground, without those means?
10325Why does each kind turn into its kind?
10325Why has it spent upon the story of Joseph and his brethren, not ten verses, but ten chapters?
10325Why not even into fishes or serpents?
10325Why not?
10325Why not?
10325Why should not some of them turn into toads or efts?
10325Why should not the Jews have gone on worshipping one God, even if they had forgotten that he brought them out of the land of Egypt?
10325Why should they not get on in the world?
10325Why should they not take care of their interest?
10325Why, indeed?
10325Why, what deeper or wiser words are there in the whole Old Testament?
10325Will it make us better men merely to know that there was once a flood of waters on the earth?
10325Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
10325Will they make us more honest and just, more generous and loving, more able to keep our tempers and control our appetites?
10325Would GOD help these wretched Jews, even if HE could not?
10325Would it not, as I said it would, reveal something fresh to us concerning God and the character of God?
10325Would that ever come true?
10325Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?''
10325You may say, These plagues of Egypt reveal God''s mighty power, but what do they reveal of his character?
10325and why do I say confidently, that there always will be?
10325intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian?
10325need the bond between them be broken, though he may never set eyes on them again?
10325or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
10325or that the good men who wrote it could fancy it necessary to stoop to falsehood, and take the devil''s tools wherewith to do God''s work?
10325or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
10325or, to speak more carefully, is the life IN the black spot at all?
10325to be coarse and vulgar?
10325to be hard and covetous?
10325to be silly and frivolous?
10325what shall I say unto them?
44053After all,they say,"what are the ills of life, that we should make so much ado?
44053Are not ye much better than they?
44053How about my children? 44053 How about the prosperity of the cause of Christ in the world?
44053Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
44053My Christian work-- what about that? 44053 Take no thought,"no anxious thought,"saying, What shall we eat?
44053What about my religious future? 44053 What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
44053What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? 44053 What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
44053What must I do to be saved?
44053What of death-- my own death? 44053 What will the future be?
44053When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars which Thou hast ordained; what is man, that Thou art mindful of him? 44053 Where is boasting, then?
44053Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
44053Who is he that condemneth? 44053 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
44053All nature is occupied in the successful attempt to answer the initial question,"What shall we eat?
44053And how can we be conformed to a world of which we know nothing?"
44053And how does the great Teacher speak to the careworn in these verses?
44053And if it be, why recommend that which must follow in the due course of things?"
44053And if so, what will become of all the plans and projects upon which I have expended so much thought and prayer and toil?"
44053And now what ends does this sacrifice of Propitiation serve?
44053And since we have received it, why should we boast as if it were all of our own making?
44053And what to him was the very centre of Christian truth?
44053And what was his experience?
44053And what was the secret of it all?
44053And what were the sufferings of these compared with those of Christ, who wept and bled and died, not for Himself, but for us?
44053And who are sharing in it to- day?
44053And who is our Substitute?
44053And who, being a Christian, can refuse to be glad?
44053And why?
44053Are not these reasons enough?
44053Are there no such cases now?
44053Are they not sure to come?
44053Are they spoken to the happy alone?
44053Are we afraid it may fail?
44053Are we right in the feeling?
44053Are ye not much better than they?...
44053Are you, or are you not, anxious to please God in any way which He may appoint and reveal to you?
44053Ask a Christian child, or an aged saint,"What did Christ come on earth to do?"
44053Ask, then, for faith, and God will say:"Wilt thou be made whole?"
44053Besides, how could Paul recommend a rejoicing which is not"in the Lord,"which is the only rejoicing possible to the unbeliever?
44053But again we ask, Whence could such a notion have sprung?
44053But how can God deal with us in both these ways at one and the same time?
44053But how did this come about?
44053But how is this faith obtained?
44053But how is this to be verified?
44053But how?
44053But how?
44053But if you are, what then?
44053But what is the conversion of a soul?
44053But what, with such a gospel, would be man''s position?
44053But why so?
44053By what law?
44053Can I so live as not to dishonour the Church and the cause of Christ?"
44053Can he refuse when he sees Jesus on the cross, and knows what, for him, that spectacle means?
44053Can_ we_ believe in Christ?
44053Concessions?
44053Deny the deductions?
44053Did not his conduct to the apostles show, so far as the opportunity was given him, the fruits of faith in the various ways of grateful love?
44053Do we lightly esteem His great love?
44053Do we not see here one reason why men become cynical and misanthropic?
44053Do you not already, under the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit, feel your need of Him?
44053Does it follow that the sun does not enlighten, or that my mind does not receive impressions through what I see?
44053Does it spring from error?
44053Does not the very mention of it give rise to sad reflections in many hearts?
44053Eternal Source of Life and Light, From whom my every blessing flows, How shall my lips extol aright The bounty that no measure knows?
44053Grace begins where merit ends, if grace be given at all.--What, then,_ is_ the"great salvation"?
44053Have the numberless generations which have been upon the earth gone to an inevitable doom?
44053Have we fallen into no needless errors, no selfishness, no half- heartedness?
44053Have we given nothing?
44053Have we such a faith as this?
44053Have we taken away all?
44053Have we used such gifts as we have as nobly as we might?
44053He does not ask, like"the young man in the gospel,""What good thing must I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
44053He has only to ply you with his eternal"_ Why?_"_ Why_, because the universe exists, must it have ever been_ created_?
44053He has only to ply you with his eternal"_ Why?_"_ Why_, because the universe exists, must it have ever been_ created_?
44053Hence the question might be asked,"To whom are they addressed?
44053Hence the short, sharp question-- the question which sprung from an inward agony--"What must I do to be saved?"
44053How can he be saved?
44053How can we be proud when we know that God has loved us, and that Christ has died for us?
44053How did he know that Christ had ever seen this woman before?
44053How do these thoughts bear upon the subject of importunity in prayer?
44053How do we arrive at the conviction of the Fatherhood of God?
44053How does Christ here speak of God?
44053How does he describe the struggle?
44053How does this subject strike us?
44053How is it that we conceive a sudden repugnance to one, and at first sight fall in love with another?
44053How is this?
44053How is this?
44053How many Christians are living a life of absorption in the world, yet harassed with occasional regrets, fears, desires, connected with better things?
44053How many defects have we discovered in those whom we have implicitly trusted, when we have been brought into a closer acquaintance with them?
44053How many have others discovered in us?
44053How much more?
44053How was the change wrought?
44053How was this?
44053How, then, does this fact of our unconscious influence touch the question of our responsibility?
44053How?
44053If I make a Christian profession, shall I be able to live consistently with it?
44053If all be of"grace,"why insist upon"works"?
44053If not how can we obtain it?
44053If so, again I ask on what grounds?
44053If we be not joyful, what does the fact mean?
44053If we could hold the balance steadily, which would prove to be the preponderating scale?
44053Imagine all these direct agencies to be suddenly and completely withdrawn-- what would then become of our poor world?
44053In conclusion, how is this nonconformity to the world, in the spirit of a grateful consecration to God, to be attained?
44053In what sense, and on what grounds, are we accountable for it?
44053Is a heaven of holiness and of love too much for a being whom angels are delighted to protect?
44053Is all this concurrent testimony to be set aside?
44053Is all this influence outside the range of our responsibility?
44053Is eternal life too much for a being whom the worlds combine to sustain, to feed, and to bless?
44053Is it impossible for us so to engage in it as to find it spiritually helpful?
44053Is it necessary?"
44053Is it not like Simeon''s prediction that Christ would be for the"fall"as well as for the"rising"of many?
44053Is it not like what Paul said of the gospel, that it is a"savour"both of"life unto life"and of"death unto death"?
44053Is it not ten times as great as that which we bestow upon our Christian consistency, our religious usefulness, our growth in grace?
44053Is it not the first, the necessary, the constant result of faith?
44053Is it not unspiritual to take arguments for the comfort of our Christian life from lower things?
44053Is it to be solved by the principle of mutual concession?
44053Is not all this enough to humble a man?
44053Is not such a condition a blessed one?
44053Is not the"idle,"the vain, the worthless, at the worst, thereby negative?
44053Is not this the kind of thing which is least amenable to a vigorous judgment?
44053Is the religion that has given me joy and strength in health able to support me now?"
44053Is there any doubt, then, as to our recognising them at the last?
44053Is this life ours?
44053Is your boasting heard no more?
44053It is so; and why?
44053It is thus that millions have said:"To whom can we go but unto Thee?
44053It may be said,"What do we know of the spiritual world?
44053It might be said,"Is not unworldliness of the very essence of the new life?
44053May we not indulge this feeling without any suspicion that our prosperity may too much absorb and unspiritualise us?
44053May we not with thankfulness leave them there?
44053Millions, in that case, might justly look up to God and say,"Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast Thou made all men in vain?"
44053Moreover why speak we of delay at all?
44053Must not God give it?
44053Must our daily work be a hindrance to us?
44053Must they be suppressed when we speak to the sad or to the miserable?"
44053Must we go to the irrational and inanimate creation for gospels of blessing for our spiritual need?
44053Must we not feel that by death, they have made a glorious exchange?
44053Must we, then, listlessly wait until it comes to us?
44053No heaven?
44053Now, if at this point the question be asked:"Are we responsible for this undesigned influence?"
44053Of course his"What must I do?"
44053Of works?
44053Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
44053Or shall I be called away comparatively early?
44053Or will they take evil ways; prove, like so many more, vicious, ungodly, and bring down my grey hairs in sorrow to the grave?"
44053Others are suffering: why not we?
44053Seest thou this woman?
44053Shall I have grace enough to support me when the time comes?"
44053Shall I have strength to resist temptation?
44053Shall I live to be old?
44053Shall it be said, then, that God will punish every transgressor?
44053Showing His goodness in such a manner to objects inferior to man, why should man suspect that the same goodness will be denied to_ him_?
44053Since God has done so much as this for you, what then?
44053Such a life-- would it not be a terrible bondage?
44053Such vigilance-- would it not take all our time, and absorb all our strength?
44053Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?"
44053The Jews, marvelling at Christ''s teaching in the temple, exclaim,"How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
44053The conclusion is irresistible; the thing may be done-- but how?
44053The first question for us is: Have we so learnt to know ourselves, or do we obstinately shut our eyes against God''s light?
44053The imperative question is, not,"How is the thing done?"
44053The language is peculiar; what does it mean?
44053To what prophet could Simon point who was able to read the heart?
44053Was he conscious of its shining?
44053Was it not emphatically to sinners that they were sent?
44053Was it so with Abraham, with Job, with David, with Paul, or with any of the others?
44053Was not everything the earth contains made for our use and enjoyment, in measure increasing with every new discovery?
44053We ask,"Does He come from God?"
44053We have"received"them; and why, then, should we boast as if we had not received them, but were ourselves the creators of them?
44053Were not all these in this man?
44053What are the dimensions and outlines of it?
44053What can it say to a soul weighed down by a sense of guilt?
44053What does Paul himself understand by it?
44053What does Paul mean by the expression,"that which I have committed unto Him"?
44053What does that teach us?
44053What greater gift could God have bestowed than that of His Divine Son?
44053What greater proof of love could He have exhibited than that which this greatest of all possible gifts presents?
44053What has prevented it?
44053What have we to put in their place?
44053What have we which we have not received?
44053What if I should fall?
44053What is faith?
44053What is it, moreover, that_ connects_ the teaching of the Old Testament with that of the New?
44053What is it, then, that the apostle has said in this epistle, and of which he intends, by this word"therefore,"to remind his readers?
44053What is this faith?
44053What may we know?
44053What may we know?
44053What must we learn concerning this from what is here revealed?
44053What ordinary historian would think of narrating such a story as the one we have in the verses before us?
44053What right have we to expect that His providence will be to us a providence of love?
44053What should we become on our Tabor, if we were allowed to build our tabernacles there?
44053What to any man when death draws nigh?
44053What to the heart that is torn by calamity?
44053What was it that gave Him this power?
44053What, then, is the character of the prayer which avails?
44053What, then, is the first point?
44053What, then, is the nature of the consecration to which we are thus urged?
44053When I am old, shall I be provided for?
44053Where is it?
44053Where is the man amongst us who would not rather die than have all his sins brought to light before his fellow- men?
44053Wherein is its worth?
44053Which shall it be?
44053Who among the"prophets"ever stood aloof from sinners?
44053Who among us can tell_ all_ the reasons why he believes in Christ?
44053Who can not be sincere?
44053Who can remain proud when he compares his own life with that?
44053Who could study mathematics by beginning at the outset to dispute its axioms?
44053Who does not know that sickness has often been sanctified to that end?
44053Who is unable to set before himself the purpose of living up to the light he has in order that he may be in the surest position for receiving more?
44053Who ventures to doubt it?
44053Who will say,"This condition is too hard?"
44053Who would not be a Christian?
44053Who, then, has a right to complain?
44053Why does Christ illustrate prayer to God by the pertinacity which is needful to arouse the affections of sinful man?
44053Why may not the influence of the human will upon nature act through the medium of prayer to the great Author of nature, as well as in any other way?
44053Why should it be doubted that an everlasting salvation has been provided for him through such a sacrifice as that of Christ?
44053Why should it be doubted that man is an object of interest to angels, who are said to rejoice over every sinner that repenteth?
44053Why should it not be so?
44053Why should not every one be content to know the_ fact_?
44053Why should religious faith decrease in proportion as human knowledge is accumulated?
44053Why should we insist-- why should any one insist-- upon understanding the"_ why_"of this arrangement?
44053Why should we not impose upon them the more difficult task of defending their position, by attacking it with all earnestness at every point?
44053Why should we suspect that He will be indisposed to give us whatever may be needful for the existence thus created?
44053Why specially insist upon it as a duty?
44053Why urge it at all?
44053Why?
44053Why?
44053Will He, by neglect, frustrate His own purpose?
44053Will health and strength be continued to me according to my years?"
44053Will his needs be overlooked, while theirs are supplied?
44053Will it go steadily forward, or will new and fiercer foes rise up against it?"
44053Will they grow up to be manful, good, godly; a seed to serve the Lord, and a generation to call Him blessed; my comfort, my pride?
44053Will you-- not as a vague desire, but as the most earnest determination of your heart and will?
44053With these provisions, then, shall we forecast the future with fear, or with hope?
44053Would it not speedily lapse into a mournful, moral waste-- a training- school for present and everlasting perdition?
44053Yet is it not evident that an inward holiness is the only thing that can be taught, and that without inward holiness there is no real holiness at all?
44053_ Death in order to life!_ What can be the meaning and the bearing of a death which God has placed in so exalted a position?
44053_ IMMORTALITY._"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
44053_ Paul believed in Christ._ On what grounds?
44053_ The confidence of faith._ The possible issues of our sickness are momentous, and the question comes:"Of what quality are my hopes?
44053_ The heart of God yields to itself._ But how can this be?
44053_ What faith?_ What was he trusting in?
44053_ What faith?_ What was he trusting in?
44053_ Why?
44053_ Why_ are there no miracles now?
44053_ Why_ are we bound to accept the teaching of the Bible?
44053_ Why_ did Christ come so late in the history of the world?
44053_ Why_ may it not have always existed?
44053_ Why_ was it necessary that Christ should suffer to expiate our sins?
44053and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?"
44053and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?"
44053and the son of man, that Thou visitest him?"
44053and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
44053and what communion hath light with darkness?
44053and what concord hath Christ with Belial?
44053and wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
44053but,"_ Is_ it done?"
44053or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
44053or, What shall we drink?
44053or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
44053or,"How can the sufferings of the innocent atone for the sins of the guilty?"
44053shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...
44053silent?
44053what shall we drink?
44053who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
15031And did not he make one? 15031 And did not he make one?
15031Are there not with us sins against the Lord our God?
15031Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness? 15031 Do we then make void the law through faith?
15031He said to Jesus, Whence art thou? 15031 How shall I give thee up?
15031How shall he who is dead to sin, live any longer therein?
15031If God be with us, who can be against us?
15031If I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, a dispensation is committed unto me; what is my reward then?
15031Lord what wilt thou have me to do?
15031Lovest thou me more than these thy fellow disciples love me?
15031So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?'' 15031 Then saith Pilate unto him,''Speakest thou not unto me?
15031What iniquity have your fathers found in me?
15031What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? 15031 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God?
15031Whoso trusteth his own heart is a fool.--The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?
15031Why art thou cast down, O my soul? 15031 _ When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth_?"
15031* By another prophet we find God mourning over them--"How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?
15031* He might have mentioned what passed, when Christ asked the twelve, whether they"would also go away?"
15031* No sooner was he convinced of his mistake, than he returned with,"Lord what will thou have me to do?"
15031* Was he then unhappy?
15031+ But what warrant have we for these alterations?
15031--He weeps over obstinate sinners who refuse his grace?
1503110, 11.--"Then saith Pilate unto him,''Speakest thou not unto me?''"
1503115.--"And did he not make one?
150316,7,8.--"Wherewith shall I come before the Lord And bow myself before the high God?"
150318.--"When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
15031And doth not the present state of the world confirm these expectations?
15031And for as long a term?
15031And how may others attain it?
15031And how natural and common are such exultations, with those devoid of religious fear?
15031And is not that of reason the same?
15031And is not their number great?
15031And is there no cause for his fear?
15031And is there reason to think that Christ would put him upon this work?
15031And of the same nature with those we have been contemplating?
15031And of what enormity are those incapable who have lost the fear of God?
15031And shall they think it strange?
15031And we believe and are sure, that thou art that Christ, the son of the living God?"
15031And what evils would many others have avoided, had they considered the counsel as given to them, and like this family, religiously regarded it?
15031And what is the fear which leads to destruction?
15031And what so prevalent with"him who heareth prayer?"
15031And what valuable ends can be answered by a revelation which is unintelligible?
15031And where is the human character without a shade?
15031And wherefore one?
15031And wherefore one?
15031And wherein consists the excellence of their character?
15031And wherein have I wearied thee?
15031And which of the saints hath not received benefit from it?
15031And who can fix their limits?
15031And why art thou disquieted within me?
15031And why is not all this right?
15031Are the terms of acceptance with God in Christ changed?
15031Are they not the same as formerly?
15031Are we by office appointed to ask mercy for others and bear them on our hearts before God?
15031Are we thus made to differ from the wicked world?
15031Are we unjustly censured by our fellow servants, or reproached while in the way of our duty?
15031But doth not God choose some to eternal life, and to this end bring them into his kingdom, and leave others to perish in their sins?
15031But he did not wrong his conscience to please them, or depart from truth to gain their approbation--"Do I seek to please men?
15031But how did they attain this knowledge?
15031But how is it received?
15031But how sudden the reverse?
15031But how?
15031But if David was a penitent before he was visited by Nathan, why had he concealed his repentance?
15031But if God''s glory requires it, will not this reconcile the good and gain their consent?
15031But if infidelity was to intervene the antichristian defection, and prevalence of religion in the latter days, is this hypothesis probable?
15031But is not God grieved at the obstinacy of sinners?
15031But is not this unreasonable and contrary to the Scriptures?
15031But is not"every imagination of the thoughts of sinners hearts,"said in scripture to"be only evil continually?"
15031But natural men are said to be"dead in sin"--and can the dead do aught which tends to their own resurrection?
15031But the sacred historian represents it as being Samuel, and why should we reject his testimony?
15031But was not fear of punishment used as a guard to innocence while man remained upright?
15031But what coming of Christ is here referred to?
15031But who will be made to possess these glorious things?
15031But why is Christ faulted?
15031But why marvelous?
15031But why not?
15031But why should the apostle wish evil to himself for their sakes?
15031But why the distinction of"sons of God, and daughters of men?"
15031But why the other restrictions included in the charge?
15031But_ God our Savior will have all men to saved_; and shall not that which he wills be effected?
15031But_ the perfect and upright man_, how happily different when death draws near?
15031Cain is appealed to, to judge of this matter for himself--"If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted?"
15031Can any thing contrary to his pleasure take place?
15031Can we form an idea of ought more shocking?
15031Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
15031Christ''s disciples, while in the body, often err; if acquainted with ourselves, we must often know this of ourselves; do we then see our faults?
15031Could an apostate spirit have done these things?
15031Did he think it sufficient to confess to God, and humble himself in secret?
15031Did not it derive from Rome?
15031Did these considerations prevent him from confessing his sins, and induce him to cover his transgressions?
15031Do not many neglect it?
15031Do we bless God for the former, and humble ourselves under the latter?
15031Do we envy those who may live during the Peaceful reign of the Redeemer?
15031Do we love God-- believe on his Son-- do his commandments, and trust his grace?
15031Do we see the hand of God in them; acknowledge the comforts to be undeserved, and the corrections less than our demerits?
15031Doth God frighten men with vain terrors?
15031Doth he threaten evils which can never come?
15031Doth it not increase from year to year, from age to age?
15031For the all important inquiry is, confessedly, how to obtain salvation?
15031Greater evidence than their word would have been demanded; as was afterwards of Christ--"What sign shewest thou, that we may believe thee?"
15031Have our pious ancestors left ought in charge to us?
15031He ranks them among those who deny him,"Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and done: the things which I say?
15031He saith to him again a second time,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me?''
15031He saith unto him the third time,''Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me?''
15031How are we to understand it?
15031How can such escape?
15031How shall I deliver thee, Israel?
15031How shall I deliver thee?"
15031How shall I make thee as Admah, and set thee as Zeboim?
15031How then could they be answerable for them?
15031How would he appear?
15031If God makes differences respecting every thing else, why not respecting religion?
15031If Israel turn their backs before their enemies?
15031If Paul needed something to keep him humble when favored with revelations, why not Abram?
15031If Peter fell, who, left to himself, can stand?
15031If any are disposed to inquire with Balak,_ Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God_?
15031If once we turn aside from the literal sense of scripture, where shall we stop?
15031If they call the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household?"
15031If this is duly considered, Will not presumptuous sinners believe and tremble?
15031If thy people fail to drive out their enemies and possess the land which thou hast sworn to give them?"
15031If we attribute these divine communications to infernal agency, why not others?
15031If, say they, be could continue so long secure and unconcerned, why not longer?
15031If_ here_, they find no comfort and support, where will they find it?
15031In Paul''s conversion how wonderfully apparent are the wisdom and power of God?
15031In what manner could this be accomplished?
15031In what sense then are the saints perfect?
15031Is it less criminal or odious?
15031Is it not thy will that we should become new creatures-- love thee-- love our duty, and resign ourselves to thy disposal?
15031Is it not thy will, that we should be renewed and sanctified-- that we should repent of sin-- believe the gospel, and follow after holiness?
15031Is its nature altered?
15031Is not the distinction respecting the sanctity of divine ordinances from this source?
15031Is not this a relic of popery?
15031Is there knowledge in the most high?"
15031Israel were suffering_ for his sin_ in numbering the people;"I have sinned and done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done?
15031It becomes us often to retire inward, and examine whether the love of Christ dwelleth in us?
15031It is further asked, Whether God doth not act as a sovereign, in his choice of those whom he sanctifies and saves?
15031It is further asked, Whether every motion toward a return to God, is not the effect of divine influence?
15031It is high as heaven; what canst thou do?
15031Jewish rancor towards him never abated, but he caught no share of their bitter spirit?
15031Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
15031Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?''
15031Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_?
15031Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_?
15031Let us bring home these considerations, and inquire how we are affected by God''s dealings with us, and what temper we maintain?
15031Let us commune with our own hearts; attend to our temper and conduct; inquire whether we have taken up our cross, and are following Christ?
15031Most of the errors referred to above, are found among Pagans or Catholics; but is nothing of the same kind chargeable on Protestants?
15031No, when it exposeth to no suffering, or loss?
15031Now, is it supposable, that the Savior would put a question to Simon, which would countenance the pharasaic disposition?
15031O grave where is thy victory?"
15031O my people what have I done unto thee?
15031Of his making known his purposes to them, and enabling them to give the genuine proof of true prophets?
15031Or compare himself with others, in a matter which required the knowledge of their hearts?
15031Or could injustice be charged on God?
15031Or do the former render us forgetful of God, and proud and scornful towards men?
15031Or do they cause us to murmur and repine, as though we suffered unjustly?
15031Or if this argument was necessary to be used with man before be fell, is it needless since he hath fallen?
15031Or is there reason to think that those will have no power to serve God, who are freed from sluggish bodies?
15031Or that he would require him to judge the hearts of others?
15031Or would he if he could?
15031Others,"Is this not the Christ?"
15031Peter was grieved, because he said to him the third time,''Lovest thou me?''
15031Pilate saith unto him, Speak thou not unto me?
15031Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
15031Should we attempt to pry into it, the answer given by our Lord to an officious enquirer respecting another, might be applied--"What is that to thee?"
15031Simon had on that occasion made a noble profession, shewing that he was a disciple indeed--"Lord, to whom shall we go?
15031Some who witnessed his mighty works, exclaimed,"When Christ cometh will he do more miracles than this man hath done?"
15031Such were the means used of God to propagate the gospel?
15031Than the world and the things of it?
15031That also of Joseph-- of Moses-- of Daniel?
15031That he would become a Christian?
15031That he would require him to judge them, and compare his love with theirs?
15031That many of these vain substitutes are to be found among men, Who is insensible?
15031That they were able to dislodge them from the bodies of men, by commanding them in Christ''s name?
15031The passage literally translated stands thus?
15031The pilgrimage of Jacob, how remarkably diversified with good and evil, with joy and sorrow?
15031The temper manifested by St. Paul when contemplating the state of his nation, how worthy of imitation?
15031The wicked forget God or doubt his attention to their temper and conduct--"How doth God know?
15031They admitted a plurality of God--some superior?
15031They are errors of which this age is witness-- errors which have spread, and are yet spreading?
15031They see indeed the evil of sin, and are sensible of its demerit?
15031This venerable Kenite left a solemn charge to his posterity; but who could foresee the effect?
15031To the eye of man how unequal the conflict?
15031WHO is he that maketh me to differ from the thoughtless sinner?
15031Was his enlarged and inquisitive mind satisfied at death?
15031Was it not matter of joy that spirits, evil spirits were subject to them?
15031We are to consider Balak''s inquiries.--_Wherewith shall I come before the Lord_?
15031We will therefore, first take a general view_ of the prophecies respecting the moral state of the world, under the gospel dispensation?
15031What advantage would accrue from changing with his brother to procure what God had required?
15031What an occasion of joy?
15031What folly then is hypocrisy?
15031What had he to do with justice, who had often sported with it, to gratify his passions, or gain his selfish purposes?
15031What hath so dire a tendency to solemnize the heart and impress it with the most just and weighty religious sentiments?
15031What possible advantage could his sufferings have been to his nation?
15031What strange manifestation of divine favor?
15031What then is this fear?
15031What?
15031What?
15031When every circumstance, in events so remarkable agree with the predictions, can doubt remain whether the predictions are fulfilled?
15031When it both became the most cheap and easy of all duties?
15031When tempted to it we should remember the caution given by Zophar,--"Canst thou by searching find out God?
15031When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
15031When trembling, astonished Saul, of Tarsus enquired,"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
15031When we contemplate these things, what a series of wonders rise to our view?
15031When we thus view the subject can a doubt remain respecting the sense of this text?
15031When_ the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth_?
15031Whence then its origin?
15031Where are we directed to attend quarterly seasons of prayer, or to hold weekly conferences for religious purposes?
15031Where is the injustice or impropriety of trying some with gospel advantages; others only with the light of nature?
15031Where then are we directed of God, religiously to observe Christmas, Lent, or Easter?
15031Where to attend the eucharist only twice or thrice a year; and never without one, or more preparatory lectures?
15031Wherefore then the prohibition?
15031Who can do other than approve it?
15031Who can understand some things contained in what is called a revelation?
15031Who could have expected Christ''s little flock, devoid of every worldly advantage, to have maintained their ground against such formidable enemies?
15031Who ever appeared to have stronger confidence in himself than Peter?
15031Who had done it openly, and it was matter of public notoriety?
15031Who knows that his posterity may not imitate those of this man of God?
15031Who not of our race could have made such a declaration?
15031Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
15031Who then are intended by_ the fearful_?
15031Who then would suspect that he should be made to feel the power of divine grace?
15031Who would not willingly suffer many deaths to enjoy these things?
15031Who, judging by the rules of man''s judgment, have entertained a suspicion that they would not soon be driven from the field?
15031Why are not these ways of honoring God and exciting devotion commendable, when they render the worshipper thus fervent in spirit to serve the Lord?
15031Why dost thou strive with him?
15031Why has not the same the like effect on these?
15031Why should we wonder when we consider the agent?
15031Why spread a veil over it and neglected to glorify God by a confession of his sins?
15031Why then had he neglected it?
15031Why this discrimination?
15031Will not this disposition be increased and strengthened?
15031Will reason justify punishing some men for other men''s sins?
15031Will the Lord be pleased with, thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
15031Will they not perceive their hopes to be vain?
15031Will this cease to be his disposition when the remains of depravity shall be done away?
15031Would he be angry, if all which is done was pleasing in his sight?
15031Would the latter have occasion to complain?
15031_ Do we do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God_?
15031_ Do we seek a godly seed_?
15031_ For when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth_?
15031_ If those who are Christ''s have crucified the flesh, with its affections and lusts_, How stands the case with us?
15031_ Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee_?
15031_ Lovest thou me more than these_?
15031_ Shall he find faith on the earth_?
15031_ Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these_?
15031_ Speakest thou not unto me?
15031_ Speakest thou not unto me?
15031_ What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy_?
15031_ Whether we love him more than these_?
15031deeper than hell; what canst thou know?"
15031is thy servant a dog?"
15031the temper of Christ governed in him?
15031where is thy sting?
14453''But why not reveal true things first to the wise?
14453''How shall mortal man walk in such a yoke,''sayest thou,''even with the Son of God bearing it also?''
14453''How then am I to try after it?
14453''I hope, sir, your health is better than it has been?''
14453''I will be God among you; I will be myself to you.--You will not have me?
14453''Shall not God avenge his own elect,''he says,''which cry day and night unto him?''
14453''What is it, then, to be pure in heart?''
14453''What power can heal the broken- hearted?''
14453''Why did you look for me?
14453Ah, to whom shall we go?
14453All come from the one mighty father: shall he judge the live thoughts of God, which is greater and which is less?
14453And he said unto them,''How is it that ye sought me?
14453And what shall we say of those coming, and yet to come and pass-- evermore issuing from the fountain of life, daily born into evil things?
14453And why are they always glad before the face of the Father in heaven?
14453And why should he have taken it for granted they would know, or judge that they ought to have known, that he was there?
14453Are all to have the same face?
14453Are these not worth making immortal?
14453Are they authorized in translating the Greek thus?
14453Are they not the fittest to receive them?''
14453Are we guilty of connivance, when silent as to the ambush whence we know the wicked arrow privily shot?
14453Are we to call the traitor to account?
14453Are we to treat persons known for liars and strife- makers as the children of the devil or not?
14453Are we to turn away from them, and refuse to acknowledge them, rousing an ignorant strife of tongues concerning our conduct?
14453Are you the lowest kind of creature that_ could_ be permitted to live?
14453As to his being the Messiah, that was merest absurdity: did they not all know his father, the carpenter?
14453Blessed of God because restored to an absence of sorrow?
14453But a yoke is for drawing withal: what load is it the Lord is drawing?
14453But had we once seen God face to face, should we not be always and for ever sure of him?
14453But if all our light shine out, and none of our darkness, shall we not be in utmost danger of hypocrisy?
14453But if the child try to possess as a house the thing his father made an organ, will he succeed in so possessing it?
14453But if the thought be anywise precious to you, is it essential to your enjoyment in it, that nothing less than yourself should share its realization?
14453But if you do, why not believe in it for them?
14453But is toothache nothing, because there are yet worse pains for head and face?
14453But let us waste no strength in despising such men; let us rather turn the light upon ourselves: are we not in some way denying him?
14453But shall I admire their discoveries at the expense of the stranger-- nay, no stranger-- the poor brother within their gates?
14453But what if your righteousness tarry, because your hunger after it is not eager?
14453But what is this liberty of the children of God, for which the whole creation is waiting?
14453But what shall I say of such as for any kind of end subject animals to torture?
14453But why inquire?
14453But would such restoration be comfort enough for the heart of Jesus to give?
14453Can there be oneness without difference?
14453Could Love create with such end in view?
14453Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them-- and as one day we must always see them, only far better-- should we ever know dullness?
14453Darest thou imply a divine preference for Capernaum over Nazareth?''
14453Dead, in bondage to corruption, how can they share in the liberty of the children of Life?
14453Did he ever say,''This is mine, not yours''?
14453Did he not say,''All things are mine, therefore they are yours''?
14453Did you not know that I must be among my father''s things?''
14453Do we understand it?
14453Do you believe in immortality for yourself?
14453Does he intend''my father and me''?
14453Does he intend_ all of us men_?
14453Does he make the least lamentation over the temple?
14453Does not he then, who loves and understands his book, possess it with such possession as is impossible to the other?
14453Does not this involve its existence beyond what we call this world?
14453Dost thou look for a good time coming, friend, when thou shalt know as thou art known?
14453Dost thou not justify thy deed to thyself by thy tenderness toward me?
14453First then, what does Paul, the slave of Christ, intend by''the creature''or''the creation''?
14453For how can God in any sense forgive, remit, or send away the sin which a man insists on retaining?
14453For the sake of your children, would you waylay a beggar?
14453For what good, for what divine purpose is the maker of the sparrow present at its death, if he does not care what becomes of it?
14453For what is a lamp or a man lighted?
14453For what makes the thing a book?
14453Had God been of like heart with you, would he have given life and immortality to creatures so much less than himself as we?
14453Had he not known something better, would he have said what he did about the father of men and the sparrows?
14453Had not those words found a way to the pure human, that is, the divine in the men?
14453Has the question no interest for you?
14453Have they not also a faithful creator?
14453He_ is_ that thing; why think about it?
14453How are they to go on loving it without a growing knowledge of it?
14453How can he keep in his sight a foul presence?
14453How can we be workers with God at his work, and he never say''Thank you, my child''?
14453How could the divine order of things, founded for growth and gradual betterment, hold and proceed without the notion of return for a thing done?
14453How did they bear him witness?
14453How shall he die to escape the remorse of the authorship of so much misery?
14453How should it be otherwise?
14453How should it not be so, when the one Power is the informing life of both?
14453How should that woman care to be delivered from her sins, how could she accept any comfort, who believed the child of her bosom lost to her for ever?
14453How should the treasure of the Father be open to such?
14453How, then, am I to let my light shine, if I take pains to hide what I do?
14453How, then, were they worth calling out of the depth of no- being?
14453If a woman forget the child she has borne and nourished, how shall she remember the father from whom she has herself come?
14453If another have none, thine must lie in thy superior power; and will there not one day come a stronger than thou?
14453If any one say,''Why did the Lord let the word remain there so long, if he never said it?''
14453If he did say''_ my father''s house_'', could he have meant the temple and his parents not have known what he meant?
14453If he meant that they might have known this without being told, why was it that, even when he set the thing before them, they did not understand him?
14453If his faith in God take from a man his cheerfulness, how shall the face of a man ever shine?
14453If his presence be no good to the sparrow, are you very sure what good it will be to you when your hour comes?
14453If one answer,''For aught I know, it may be so,''--Where then are thy own rights?
14453If such then be the words of the apostle, does he, or does he not, I ask, hold the idea of the immortality of the animals?
14453If the Father will raise his children, why should he not also raise those whom he has taught his little ones to love?
14453If the Lord said very little about animals, could he have done more for them than tell men that his father cared for them?
14453If they had denied him, where would our gospel be?
14453In the Perfect, would familiarity ever destroy wonder at things essentially wonderful because essentially divine?
14453In which of his changing moods is he more himself?
14453Is God a mocker, who will not be mocked?
14453Is Time too much for him?
14453Is any other imaginable reward worth mentioning beside it?
14453Is he a loving God?
14453Is he a merciful God?
14453Is he the husbandman to take all the profit, and muzzle the mouth of his ox?
14453Is he to tell them the horrors of the persecutions that await them, and not the sweet sympathies that will help them through?
14453Is it a grand thing, is it a meritorious thing, not to be vile?
14453Is it in wine only that the old is better?
14453Is it not of the very essence of the Christian hope, that we shall be changed from much bad to all good?
14453Is it not that it has a soul-- the mind in it of him who wrote the book?
14453Is it selfish to desire to love?
14453Is it selfish to hope for purity and the sight of God?
14453Is it shining before men so that they glorify God for it?
14453Is it what he himself thinks he is?
14453Is it what his friends at any given moment think him?
14453Is not our love to the animals a precious variety of love?
14453Is not the prophecy on the groaning creation to have its fulfilment in the new heavens and the new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness?
14453Is not virtue then a reward?
14453Is our light bearing witness?
14453Is the Lord such as they believe him?
14453Is there a past to God with which he has done?
14453Is there any mourning worthy the name that has not love for its root?
14453Is there anything to be proud of in refusing to worship the devil?
14453Is this the fine of the great buyer of land, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?
14453It is a greater deed, to make be that which was not, than to seal it with an infinite immortality: did God do that which was not worth doing?
14453It was the Israelite indeed, whom the Lord met with miracle:''Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig- tree, believest thou?
14453It will take the utmost joy God can give, to let men know him; and what man, knowing him, would mind losing every other joy?
14453Let us now take the translation given us by the Revisers:--''Wist ye not that I must be in my father''s house?''
14453Loves any lover so little as to desire_ no_ change in the person loved-- no something different to bring him or her closer to the indwelling ideal?
14453May we roll the rejection of a villainy as a sweet morsel under our tongues?
14453Mayst thou not one day be in Naboth''s place, with an Ahab getting up to go into thy vineyard to possess it?
14453Must he give them no help to counterbalance the load with which they start on their race?
14453Must not the light of truth in his face, beheld of such even as knew not the truth, have lifted their souls up truthward?
14453Must she keep away until she knows herself sorry for her sins?
14453Must the Lord hide from his friends that they will have cause to rejoice that they have been obedient?
14453Must the creator send forth his virtue to hold alive a thing that will be evil-- a thing that ought not to be, that has no claim but to cease?
14453Must the love live on for ever without its object?
14453Must the very immortality of love divide the bond of love?
14453Must there be only current and no tide?
14453Must we congratulate you on such a love for your fellows as inspires you to wrong the weaker than they, those that are without helper against you?
14453Must we fail still?
14453Need I argue the injustice?
14453Now what can God''s elect have to keep on crying for, night and day, but righteousness?
14453Only what other joy could keep from entering, where the God of joy already dwelt?
14453Or can he have been with him, and have left him behind in his closet?
14453Or did he care for them, but could not help them?
14453Or does he intend''you and me, John''?
14453Shall not the children have little dogs under the Father''s table, to which to let fall plenty of crumbs?
14453Shall not_ the_ Father do_ his_ best to find his prodigal?
14453Shall we count the man worthy who, for the sake of his friend, robbed another man too feeble to protect himself, and too poor to punish his assailant?
14453Shall we not rather believe that the vessels of less honour, the misused, the maltreated, shall be filled full with creative wine at last?
14453Should we not just open our own child- eyes, look upon the things themselves, and be consoled?
14453Starts thy soul, trembles thy brain at the thought of such a burden as the will of the eternally creating, eternally saving God?
14453That is like the lawyer''s''Who is my neighbour?''
14453The Father is father_ for_ his children, else why did he make himself their father?
14453The Greek, taken literally, says,''Wist ye not that I must be in the----of my father?''
14453The Lord knew these men, and had their hearts in his hand; else would he have told them they were the salt of the earth and the light of the world?
14453The Lord would have men love righteousness, but how are they to love it without being acquainted with it?
14453The man who takes no count of what is fair, friendly, pure, unselfish, lovely, gracious,--where is his claim to call Jesus his master?
14453The plural article implies the English_ things_; and the question is then, What_ things_ does he mean?
14453The rich man may come prowling after thy little ewe lamb, and what wilt thou have to say?
14453The sons of God are not a new race of sons of God, but the old race glorified:--why a new race of animals, and not the old ones glorified?
14453The typical soul reappears in higher formal type; why may not also the individual soul reappear in higher form?
14453Then, if the earth must have its animals, why not the old ones, already dear?
14453Therefore, that he is empty of good, needs discourage no one; for what is emptiness but room to be filled?
14453They had heard of wonderful things he had done in other places: why had they not first of all been done in_ their_ sight?
14453They have little, and we have much; ought they therefore to have less and we more?
14453To what purpose is the spirit of God promised to them that ask it, if not to help them order their way aright?
14453Was ever love so deep, so pure, so perfect, as to be good enough for him?
14453Was it not the something true, common to all hearts, that bore the wondering witness to the graciousness of his words?
14453Was it wrong to assure them that where he was going they should go also?
14453Was that his saying?
14453We must be nowise anxious to defend ourselves; and if not ourselves because God is our defence, then why our friends?
14453Were they created only to become dear, and be destroyed?
14453What are we for but to do our duty?
14453What are we to understand by''my father''s things''?
14453What better can we do for our neighbour than to become altogether righteous toward him?
14453What can be done for the poor things-- except indeed you take the absurd notion into your head, that they too have a life beyond the grave?''
14453What did Jesus come into the world to do?
14453What did his saying mean?
14453What first reward for doing well, may I look for?
14453What is he there for, I repeat, if he have no care that it go well with his bird in its dying, that it be neither comfortless nor lost in the abyss?
14453What is it constitutes this or that man?
14453What is there for us when we discover that we are out of the way, but to bethink ourselves and turn?
14453What light can he have in him who is always on his own side, and will never descry reason or right on that of his adversary?
14453What man would he be who accepted the offer to be healed and kept alive by means which necessitated the torture of certain animals?
14453What more could it be?
14453What saves his claim from being merest mockery?
14453What shall we say of him who comes from his closet, his mountain- top, with such a veil over his face as masks his very humanity?
14453What sort of Christians are they?
14453What then makes those who give us this translation, prefer it to the phrase in the authorized version,''_ about my Father''s business_''?
14453What was his place of prayer?
14453What was in the news to make the poor glad?
14453What was the new covenant?
14453What would the newest earth be to the old children without its animals?
14453When his reward comes, will the youth feel aggrieved that it is Greek, and not bank- notes?
14453Where does he find symbols whereby to speak of what goes on in the mind and before the face of his father in heaven?
14453Where is the evil toward God, where the wrong to my neighbour, if I think sometimes of the joys to follow in the train of perfect loving?
14453Where is their deliverance?
14453Where shall the woman go whose child is at the point of death, or whom the husband of her youth has forsaken, but to her Father in heaven?
14453Where shines their light?
14453Where then was the propriety of his coming to be baptized by John, and insisting on being by him baptized?
14453Wherein then consisted the goodness of the news which he opened his mouth to give them?
14453Whereon will they ground their complaint should God give them their hearts''desire?
14453Wherewith is the cart laden which he would have us help him draw?
14453Whether the Syriac words he used were more precise, who in this world can tell?
14453Which is the richer-- the man who, his large money spent, would have no refuge; or he for whose necessity a hundred would sacrifice comfort?
14453Which of the two possessed the earth-- king Agrippa or tent- maker Paul?
14453Who had a claim equal to theirs?
14453Who will count himself deceived by overfulfilment?
14453Why cast out a devil that the man may the better do the work of the devil?
14453Why did they not understand it?
14453Why should a man meditate with satisfaction on having denied himself some selfish indulgence, any more than on having washed his hands?
14453Why should it not then involve immortality?
14453Why should such a notion seem to you absurd?
14453Why then think of it as anything more?
14453Why was his arrival with such words in his heart and mouth, the coming of the kingdom?
14453Why?
14453Will he not be the nearer sharing in the exceeding great reward of a return to the divine idea?
14453Will he take joy in his success and give none?
14453With what but the will of the eternal, the perfect Father?
14453Would Satan, with all the instincts and impulses of his origin in him, have_ merited_ eternal life by refusing to be a devil?
14453Would it not be more like the king eternal, immortal, invisible, to know no life but the immortal?
14453Would not such acknowledgment from the father be the natural correlate of the child''s behaviour?
14453Would such a mother be a woman of whom the saviour of men might have been born?
14453Would such a new heaven be a thing to thank God for?
14453Would the Lord have such a one be of good cheer, of merry heart, because her sins were forgiven her?
14453Would this be a prospect on which the Son of Man would congratulate the mourner, or at which the mourner for the dead would count himself blessed?
14453Yes, if we but hide our darkness, and do not strive to slay it with our light: what way have we to show it, while struggling to destroy it?
14453Your conscience does not trouble you?
14453Zeal for God will never eat them up: why should it?
14453_ JESUS IN THE WORLD._''Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?
14453_ THE SALT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD._''Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
14453and thou seen as the receiver of the reward!_ In what other way could the word, then or now, be fairly understood?
14453and what would the father''s smile be but the perfect reward of the child?
14453can I do so without knowing what it is?''
14453harmony without distinction?
14453is he not their defence as much as ours?
14453is thy friend''s esteem then so small?
14453no moment in which to sob-- Sister, brother, I am thy slave?
14453no room for making amends?
14453or are we to give warning of any sort?
14453or worse still, must the love die with its object, and be eternal no more than it?
14453seek the praise of God for laying our hearts at the feet of him to whom we utterly belong?
14453seek the praise of men for being fair to our own brothers and sisters?
14453the good shepherd to find his lost sheep?
14453then why faces at all?
14453to create nothing that could die; to slay nothing but evil?
14453to something that is not we, which means annihilation?
14453what hope for the self- indulgent, the conceited, the greedy, the miserly?
14453where his claim to Christianity?
14453who so capable as they to pronounce judgment on his mission whether false or true: had they not known him from childhood?
14453wist ye not that I must be about my father''s business?''
59991And what may he be called?
59991And when they were come to Capharnaum, they that received the didrachmas came to Peter, and said to him: Doth not your Master pay the didrachma? 59991 Are we not children of Abraham?"
59991Are you determined not to commit this sin again?
59991But rather who are you?
59991Do you not see,said he,"that these rich and powerful persons are in possession of a wonderful elixir?
59991Does he?
59991My people, what have I done unto thee, or in what have I grieved thee? 59991 Simon Peter, lovest thou Me more than these?"
59991Then these poor, misguided souls are only grasping at shadows of happiness, and losing the reality in the meanwhile?
59991Who are you that takes the place of Brother John?
59991Why, do n''t you know,said he,"I''m the mighty hard case?"
59991Again:"Know ye not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God?
59991Alone with what?
59991Am I not right in saying that the dram- seller sins against justice?
59991Am I worthy of the name?
59991Am I, this moment, in a state of salvation or of damnation?
59991And I wish to know if a man must remain a thief because he has been brought up a thief, and never learned an honest trade?
59991And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more?
59991And is not the referring of any or all of the states of our being to Him an act of religion?
59991And tell me, how now?
59991And what are they?
59991And what can better represent repentance than the fine dust of which they are composed?
59991And what is signified by myrrh?
59991And what is this fountain?
59991And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying: What is thy opinion, Simon?
59991And who are some of the other false prophets?
59991And who has done all this?
59991And why do men prize these beautiful scenes?
59991And why so?
59991And yet, what do we see?
59991And, before the priest pours the sanctifying water on the brow of the person, he says,"Dost thou renounce Satan and all his works and all his pomps?"
59991And, first, what is the pure gold which is acceptable to our God and Creator?
59991Answer me, dram- shop, where is the girl gone?
59991Are not innumerable graces and virtues waiting for us, ready to be given, if we will only take the trouble to ask for them?
59991Are the children of darkness always to be wiser than the children of light?
59991Are you a victim to human respect?
59991Are you all ready for the last preparations?
59991Are you at peace with God and men?
59991Are you hard- hearted, stubborn, and resentful, easy to take offence?
59991Are you ignorant of the truths of faith, or do they seem difficult to you and beyond your grasp?
59991Are you ignorant of the ways of God''s providence?
59991Are you in ignorance of what is best for you here and hereafter?
59991Are you moved with that deep emotion such a memory should awaken?
59991Are you poor?
59991Are you proud?
59991Are you timid and shamefaced in your service to God?
59991Are you, then, half- minded to go back to your old sins?
59991Art thou to us above all price?
59991Ask not with Pilate,"What is truth?
59991At any moment His eye may fall upon us, and we may hear the words,"Friend, why camest thou in hither with out having on a wedding garment?"
59991At certain seasons they cross the seas, endure fatigue, spend a great deal of time and money-- and what for?
59991At last the disciples and brethren who were present, getting tired of always hearing the same thing, said: Master, why do you always repeat this?
59991But did God absolve him?
59991But how long did you remember it to any profit to yourself or praise to God?
59991But how many objections are raised against this plain and heavenly doctrine?
59991But what are the motives for all this self- denial?
59991But what did St. John the Baptist say?
59991But what good will all this do if we have not the wedding garment on?
59991But why are the clergy especially fitted to exercise this office of prophet or teacher?
59991But why this desire?
59991Can I ask you to quit it?
59991Can we not live for it?
59991Could there be a more outrageous insult?
59991Did He who has said,"Son, give me thy heart,"ask for a corrupt and treacherous heart?
59991Did He who made the human heart make it ungrateful?
59991Did He who so loves us make those He loves selfish?
59991Did I not say well, my brethren, that the mystery of the Holy Trinity is an illumination of the mystery of creation?
59991Did he put his house in order?
59991Did the ruins of your land and the graves of your ancestors awaken in your bosoms no longer any feelings of attachment and veneration?
59991Did your native hills lose their charms for you?
59991Do not also the heathen the same?
59991Do not even the publicans the same?
59991Do the sins and offences of others destroy your peace of mind, and dry up within you the fountains of mercy and pity for sinners?
59991Do they consider their present state a true one in all respects-- true before their conscience, and without doubt before their intelligence?
59991Do they not appear occasionally in the tribunal of penance?
59991Do they not go to Mass?
59991Do they regard their religion as a sure religion?
59991Do they want to get back the lost love of God?
59991Do we follow Christ when we are covetous and hard hearted?
59991Do we follow Christ when we go to places of drunkenness and debauchery?
59991Do we follow Christ when we refuse to forgive our enemies?
59991Do we prize thee, O divine gift, as these have done?
59991Do you hope for heaven?
59991Do you know anything of a husband''s affection or of a father''s love?
59991Do you love your own immortal soul?
59991Do you love your religion?
59991Do you not hear a righteous God, your judge, demanding in tones of wrath,"Dram- shop, where are my children?
59991Do you not know that to suffer for any one is to give a better proof of love than to confer favors and benefits?
59991Do you not remember?
59991Do you remember all that?
59991Do you remember when Sunday morning comes, and the priest is ascending the altar, that you are a Catholic, and where a Catholic should be found then?
59991Do you see in him Jesus Christ?
59991Do you tremble no more when you hear of justice, of chastity, and of the judgment to come?
59991Do you wish you could feel more like God, kind and long- suffering, and less like Satan, watching for the falls of others, and exulting over them?
59991Does God not feel that heartless coldness and neglect of theirs?
59991Does He say to you as He said to that lost disciple,"Friend, dost thou betray the Son of Man with a kiss?"
59991Does he receive it in as good dispositions as would make it a worthy Communion if he were well, and had received it in the church at the altar?
59991Does he receive it worthily?
59991Does it seem to us, as it is, a great thing-- a precious gift?
59991Does the demon of intemperance, of anger, or of lust creep stealthily into your breast, and leave foul traces of his presence there?
59991For can anything be more dismal, more barren, more pointless, than a Christianity in which the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin have no place?
59991For if you love those that love you, what reward shall you have?
59991For it were better for thee to enter lame and blind into life everlasting, than, having two hands or two eyes, to be cast into hell- fire"?
59991For what could we do so real and true as this?
59991For what happens?
59991Had he time to do it?
59991Had we not all in having Him?
59991Hark to that outburst of generous love from his undaunted heart--"Who, then, shall separate us from the love of Christ?
59991Has not God provided the Holy Sacrament of Penance, where, with little trouble, the soul can be washed and cleansed from all its defilements?
59991Have I any real, well- grounded hope of salvation?
59991Have I considered this matter, and looked it steadily in the face?
59991Have I the principle, the fixed, well- grounded principle, which ought to govern all the actions of a Christian?
59991Have they now that truth which shall stand the trial at the coming of Jesus Christ?
59991Have they the true faith?
59991Have they undertaken to deny themselves anything they had a strong desire for, in order not to commit mortal sin?
59991Have you a human heart yet left beating in your bosom?
59991Have you any manly pride left?
59991Have you no affection left for those parents, those brothers and sisters and kindred, left in the old home?
59991Have you not, after all, given up the devil and his works?
59991Have you really come back to make up with Him, or have you come-- O horrible thought!--only like Judas to betray Him?
59991Have you received the Easter Communion?
59991He is deeper than hell, and how wilt thou know?"
59991He is higher than heaven, and what wilt thou do?
59991Here it might become me to enumerate some of these gifts, but where would I begin, or where could I end?
59991How can God give Himself to the man who is absorbed in money- making and heaping up possessions?
59991How could we realize in a better way the simplest and at the same time the most sublime of all truths?
59991How do your neighbors speak of you?
59991How does the sight of it affect you?
59991How is that?
59991How shall I conduct myself and order my life, so as constantly to preserve and increase it?
59991I am not forcing upon your notice a subject out of place at this joyous season, am I?
59991If it is not yours also, is it proper to call you by His name, Christians?
59991Is he signed and consecrated to God, and are his senses purified, and his soul strengthened?
59991Is it enough to remember that?
59991Is it hard for you to think of God?
59991Is it in sorrow for their sins?
59991Is it not so?
59991Is it pride and love of fame, or selfishness?
59991Is she not our pride, our glory, our comfort?
59991Is that the reason, I wonder, why there are no new toys and presents now at Christmas or at Easter, as in the days gone by?
59991Is the majesty, the power, the holiness of that God to whom you belong forgotten?
59991Is there anything that we are, or have, or can be that is not of God?
59991Is your confession made for this year?
59991Is your life to- day such as you would like it to be, if to- morrow you are to die?
59991It is a fearful thought to be in that Presence, for it must compel us to ask ourselves-- Are we indeed the image and likeness of the Living God?
59991It is the development of the response to the question that every Catholic child can answer-- Why did God create you?
59991It is the question of the Psalmist,"Who is wise, and will keep these things in mind, and will understand the mercies of the Lord?"
59991It is to be saved from death; it is to be cured of their diseases; and what does it all amount to, but that they are trying to make a truce with God?
59991Let each one ask himself this question: Do I come up to the standard?
59991Let us ask ourselves whence does God receive the life of His Divine Being?
59991No word of thanks at your Communion-- not a grateful thought in your heart?
59991Now, we may ask what is the reason the Lord showed this marked preference and especial affection for St. John above the other Apostles?
59991Now, whence do these objections arise?
59991Of what value are your prayers it you lead such a life?
59991Of whom do the kings of the earth take tribute or custom?
59991Or, are you one who dares do great things for the God who has done so much for you?
59991Shall all we hold sacred be caricatured, calumniated, and we sit with folded arms in silence?
59991Shall tribulation, or distress, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or persecution, or the sword?
59991Shall we not turn their own weapons against them?
59991Should you not rather be called, according to His way of naming, heathens and publicans?
59991St. John tells us in his epistle:"How can we love God whom we have not seen, when we love not our neighbor whom we have seen?"
59991Tell me, can you lift your heart to Him to- day, and say in truth-- My God, Thou knowest that I have not forgotten Thee?
59991That it should simply distinguish us from those who do not possess it, and to lie idle and fruitless in our soul?
59991The Holy Sacrament of the altar, where the soul is nourished, and strengthened, and adorned by feeding on the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ?
59991The boy, his eldest boy, that was to be sent to college, was sent up last week to prison for shoplifting; and the girl-- where is she gone?
59991The question is not-- Am I growing in the field of the Church?
59991The servants asked their lord,"Shall we not go out and pull up the tares?"
59991Then comes the natural thought What shall I do to acquire this treasure?
59991Then shall the just answer: Lord, when did we see Thee hungry, and fed Thee; thirsty, and gave Thee drink?
59991Then why is it that we give way under our sufferings, our daily trials and crosses?
59991They come to pray to God for forgiveness of their sins; and what do they say?
59991They pray, it is true, but how?
59991This promise is recorded in the sixteenth chapter of St. Matthew''s Gospel:{ 202}"Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
59991To what end has he blessed us with the gift of faith?
59991To whom does the Holy Ghost come in His fulness?
59991Was Jesus, the Lamb of God, slain for our sins, to be eaten, and with unleavened bread?
59991Was he in a fit state to do it?
59991Was it merely because we had done so in past years?
59991Was it when He went about doing good, working miracles, preaching His divine doctrine?
59991We are cunning enough in the ways of the world, but why so slow to understand the ways of God?
59991Well, and what is the business of the clergy?
59991What are the sins of the dram- seller?
59991What did He say?
59991What do I mean by this sacrifice?
59991What does this signify?
59991What explains this cold forgetfulness, this heartless indifference, that steals over us so soon?
59991What good to have had the sacraments in life, or even at the hour of death, if we have not on the wedding garment?
59991What good will it do us to have gone to the church and heard the sermons, if we have not on the wedding garment?
59991What is He as cause, and what is this divine life of His being which is the effect of that cause?
59991What is Truth?
59991What is his story?
59991What is it that stimulates them in their pursuits?
59991What is it?
59991What is one to do?
59991What is the consequence?
59991What is the reason of a central government, with a president at its head, in Washington?
59991What is the reason, my dear brethren, that you are all here to- night?
59991What is the secret of this apparent contradiction?
59991What is the story of such people in the confessional?
59991What is this wedding garment?
59991What of your present remembrance?
59991What other Comforter is there in heaven to give that will be better than He?
59991What other Comforter of our souls would we ask or could we need than Him?
59991What other light and grace could we desire both to detect and shun all evil, and to delight in what is pure and true?
59991What pays them for all their trouble?
59991What shall I say?
59991What shall the presence of the All- Holy be unable to do?
59991What sustains these men of science?
59991What was all that for?
59991What, dear brethren, is the end and object for which we live in this world?
59991What, then, shall we do to spend Lent well?
59991When I read the Gospel for to- day, which describes the raising of the widow''s son to life, I ask myself the question-- Did he die prepared?
59991When his soul had departed, could his widowed mother console herself with the thought-- He lived a good life, and he died a good death?
59991When the Father in His love sent Him to us, did he not send all He could give?
59991When was Jesus Christ the Master of the world?
59991When will He come around?
59991Where is the house and lot gone to?
59991Where was it that He drew all things to Himself by the cords of Adam and the bands of love?
59991Who are the false prophets we have the most need to be warned against at this present time?
59991Who are the people of God?
59991Who does not see here that pre- eminence of St. Peter over his colleagues which is expressed by the title, Prince of the Apostles?
59991Who is the author of His life?
59991Who is this Divine Comforter?
59991Why all these studies-- why so much time, energy, patience, and devotion to the sciences?
59991Why are our souls enlarged and raised above the senses in listening to strains of music composed by a Palestrina or a Beethoven or a Mozart?
59991Why did we do so?
59991Why do men love poetry, music, architecture, painting, and sculpture?
59991Why do people despair of ever being happy?
59991Why do so many grow faint- hearted, and think that there is no rest, no peace, for them?
59991Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?"
59991Why does He not reveal Himself?
59991Why does he not go to work?
59991Why forever trying to lie to ourselves, and leave Him out of account?
59991Why has the faith been stolen from the nations?
59991Why have the verses of a Homer, a Dante, a Shakespeare, been the delight of ages?
59991Why is it to be esteemed above liberty, the possession of wealth, more than friends, parents, the whole world, and even more than life itself?
59991Why is she holy?
59991Why not?
59991Why should they interfere with private or family affairs?
59991Why should they meddle with questions of politics or government?
59991Why should they not?
59991Why should they say anything about a man''s business, or try to interfere with his personal liberty to do this or that?
59991Why should this be repeated all over the world?
59991Why this sacrifice of the body and blood of Jesus Christ?
59991Why was St. Peter willing to be bound and imprisoned for the faith of Christ?
59991Why, then, have you renounced all that men hold so dear?
59991Why?
59991With holy Job, he exclaims:"If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil?"
59991With how much devotion does he receive the Holy Viaticum and the Extreme Unction?
59991Would you like to hear the approval of your Divine Lord and Master on the Last Great Day of Account?
59991Yes; but do you not see that it is just in the Blessed Sacrament that He brings that proof home to us?
59991Yes; but what avails such a heartless remembrance as yours has been?
59991[ Footnote 19] Where is your Christian faith and trust in God?
59991[ Footnote 29] To whom, then?
59991[ Footnote 61] In Job it is asked,"Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and find out the Almighty perfectly?
59991and when did we see Thee a stranger, and took Thee in?
59991because it is a Catholic custom?
59991because others did so, and we were expected to do the same?
59991but-- Am I the wheat?
59991how is this?
59991how long will ye be dull of heart?
59991made no life- preparation of this solemn account, and it is too late now?
59991of their children or of strangers?
59991or naked, and covered Thee?
59991or the tares, fit only for the burning?
59991or when did we ever see Thee sick or in prison, and visit Thee?
59991that''s the way you manage it, is it?"
59991what is truth?"
59991who is proud of the gifts of God?
59991why have you stayed so long away?"
59991why is it?
59991{ 101} Who is there that can approach here without crying out with the Psalmist,"What shall I render to the Lord for all that He has rendered to me?
59991{ 110} But who among men belong thus entirely to God?
59991{ 115} Does your heart burn to offer Him a glorious and complete sacrifice, and yet you can not summon up the courage to accomplish it?
59991{ 167} And what are we but cold and unsympathizing, selfish and thankless, toward our best Friend?
59991{ 16} Would we like to enter upon a new year wholly ignorant of the past one?
59991{ 178} The mind of man can not long blind its sight to the illumination of the truth; but who shall subdue and win the hardened heart?
59991{ 184} What is it that gives to faith its priceless value?
59991{ 190} Most of you, my dear brethren, are from the old country, and have come to this strange land-- and why?
59991{ 277} Do you wish to escape such a lamentable end?
59991{ 289} Could anything be more wanton and impudent than such conduct?
59991{ 29} I am not asking too much, my brethren, am I?
59991{ 301} Why are you sick, you who have no grievous crimes to expiate-- you whose whole heart has belonged to God this many a day?
59991{ 316}"Scandals must needs come,"said our Saviour; but is it, therefore, necessary for us to think about them and brood over them?
59991{ 323} Now, what was the characteristic virtue of this great Apostle, which rendered him so like to Christ and so dear to Him?
59991{ 38} How can we love God if we be absorbed in a love of good eating and drinking?
59991{ 67} What kind of Christians are we?
59991{ 82} Where is the furniture gone to?
59991{ 87} Do you love your good name as a citizen?
59991{ 93} What was that a type of?
59991{ 96} Is it not the moment of supreme happiness, and of such happiness that nothing else is like it in the world?
30619And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good? 30619 Do you not recognize,"they bragged,"the holiness of this entire congregation, among whom God dwells, daily performing his marvelous wonders?"
30619Even if it does go ill with us,he would argue,"what indeed is our suffering in comparison with the unspeakable joy and glory to be revealed in us?
30619For who hath known the mind of the Lord? 30619 Is Jehovah among us, or not?"
30619Oh, who would not desire peace and comfort?
30619Think you,our wise ones would say to him,"that you alone have the Holy Spirit, or that no one else is as eager for honor as yourself?"
30619What did you in the summer time that you gathered nothing?
30619What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? 30619 What then?"
30619Why have you led us out of Egypt?
30619Why make divisions and differences,Paul inquires,"in the doctrine and faith of the Church, which rests wholly upon the one Christ?
306191, 8):"Hast thou considered my servant Job?
3061913 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
3061919 What then is the law?
3061921 Is the law then against the promises of God?
3061921 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed?
306193 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
3061934 For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
3061935 or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
30619Again, even though we are somewhat weak, is that any reason for saying all is lost?
30619Again, why should I labor and toil for naught?
30619And how so?
30619And it will ever be true as Saint Paul says:"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counselor?"
30619And since then, what has become of all the proud, haughty tyrants, who proposed to oppress and crush Christianity?
30619And then, further to illustrate this, he says:"Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?"
30619And what are the sufferings of all men combined when compared with Christ''s agony and conflict, in that he sweat blood for thee?
30619And what did we under the papacy but walk blindly?
30619And what does it avail if you are not able to say more than that God is merciful to the good and will punish the wicked?
30619And what earthly thing is more desirable to man''s sight?
30619And what is lacking with the moon and stars and the earth?
30619And what must not one endure at court before he realizes, if he ever does, the fulfilment of his ambition?
30619And what shall we say of those who will not endure the preaching of the glorious message of God''s grace and blessing, but condemn it as heresy?
30619And wherefore slew he him?
30619And who is to have any more respect for the righteousness of the Law if we are to preach in that strain?
30619And whom do they serve?
30619And why should I not throw away all the Scriptures?
30619Are the people thereby made better?
30619As Moses says in Deuteronomy 4, 7:"What great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?"
30619But how do they conduct themselves?
30619But how is it to avoid service?
30619But how will it be in the day of revelation?
30619But the flesh asks: What do I know of God or his will?
30619But they who are not Christians-- what have they but a terrible sentence like a weight about their necks?
30619But thinkest thou I will remain silent and unprotesting?
30619But to what purpose?
30619But what are the blessings for which Paul''s prayer entreats?
30619But what are we to do?
30619But what is God''s attitude toward such conduct?
30619But what is your pain measured by the eternal glory prepared for you and obtained by the sacrifice of your Savior Jesus Christ?
30619But whence arises the world''s hatred?
30619But who among men recognizes us as children of God?
30619But who can discern the anguish of creation?
30619But whom other than themselves have the Jews to blame for their condition?
30619But whoso hath the world''s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?"
30619But why do you make so much of your sufferings and never give a thought to what awaits you in heaven?
30619But why multiply words?
30619But with the great mass of the people, how long did faith last?
30619But you may say:"What?
30619Can you not be mindful of your environment-- that you are still in the world where vice and ingratitude hold sway?
30619David says( Ps 139, 7- 8):"Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
30619Did we not long ago tell you he would meet such fate?
30619Do you forbid good works?
30619Do you know why and whereunto you have been baptized, and what it signifies that you have been baptized with water?
30619Do you not acknowledge the necessity of political laws, of civil governments?
30619Each one says: Why should I incur so much danger, opposition and hostility?
30619Filled with astonishment, he exclaimed: What shall I say more?
30619For human wisdom knows no better; and how could it know better without the revelation?
30619For in your own judgment, what better thing could you have than is the Christian''s in his Gospel and his faith?
30619For what is better and nobler than a quiet, peaceful heart?
30619For what other person is profited by your entering a cloister, making yourself peculiar, refusing to live as your fellows do?
30619For wherein can persecution harm if you strive for godliness and abide in it?
30619For who would not wish to belong to such a Lord and Creator?
30619Grace is opposed to sin and destroys it; how then should it strengthen or increase it?
30619He is compelled to exclaim:"Alas, who knows how God will look upon my efforts?
30619He says, commenting on Psalm 17,"What is Law without grace but a letter without spirit?"
30619Hence it continued to be hidden and incomprehensible to such wisdom, as Saint Paul says:"For who hath known the mind of the Lord?"
30619How can I think myself better than another by reason of my person or my gifts, rank or office?
30619How can he be expected, then, to render a greater service-- to even lay down his life for his brother?
30619How can he teach us?
30619How can the works of the Law be good and precious, and yet repulsive and productive of evil?"
30619How can this poor, sinful, miserable, filthy, polluted body become like unto that of the Son of God, the Lord of Glory?
30619How can we poor, miserable mortals grasp this mystery of the Trinity?
30619How could Cain be unmerciful and inhuman enough in his frenzy to murder his own flesh and blood?
30619How could I be proud and presumptuous enough to boast myself the servant of the Lord Jesus Christ?
30619How could we introduce through the Gospel a doctrine countenancing evil?
30619How dare you then assert that such righteousness is misleading, and obstructive to eternal life?
30619How do we know we have passed from death unto life?
30619How does man lay hold of the Saviour in the heart?
30619How manifest your love, humility, patience and meekness if you are unwilling to live among men?
30619How many new saints, new brotherhoods, new psalms to Mary, and new rosaries and crowns did the monks daily invent?
30619How much more then should God''s testament be honored intact?
30619How shall I be supported?
30619How shall I do it?
30619How shall we stand and answer in his sight when we can not deny the fact that our life gives just cause for complaint and offense?
30619How would they measure up in the greater duty of laying down their lives for the brethren, and especially for the Christian Church?
30619How, then, does Paul come to speak so disparagingly, even abusively, of the Law, actually presenting it as veritable death and poison?
30619How, then, is he in a position to say that they were abundantly supplied with all things spiritual, lacking not one thing?
30619I answer: Why do you not complain to him who committed the office to me?
30619If God''s supreme, unfathomable love fails to awaken the gratitude of the world, what wonder if the world hates you for all your kindness?
30619If reason is to be my teacher in these things, what need is there of faith?
30619If the question be asked,"Why do so?
30619If we are not to wonder at this, is there anything in the world to incite wonder?
30619If we fully and confidently believed this, then of what should we be afraid or who could do us harm?
30619If you ask, Whence such a disposition?
30619If you employ reason from mere love of disputation, why not devote it to questions concerning the daily workings of your physical nature?
30619In other words: How is it possible that because grace should destroy sin ye should live unto sin?
30619In this assurance will I pass out of life; not in uncertainty and anxiety, thinking, Who knows what sentence God in heaven will pass upon me?"
30619In whom?
30619Indeed, do you not admit that God himself commands such institutions and wills their observance, punishing where they are disregarded?
30619Indeed, how can you serve your neighbor by such a life?
30619Indeed, where should we dare look for them except where no people live?
30619Is it all that is necessary to assert: God will reward with heaven such as are faithful to the order?
30619Is it not a horrible thing that any man should shun and oppose such a Savior and his doctrine even more than he does the devil himself?
30619Is it not better, then, to be free from the service of sin and to serve righteousness?
30619Is it not in faith that we are to be rooted, engrafted and grounded?
30619Is it not insupportable that a perishable worm, be he emperor or prince, should presume to apprehend God in heaven?
30619Is it not much rather, as reason dictates and as all the world affirms, a disgrace to his followers that he lies there in prison?
30619Is it not our doctrine that Christ first loved us, as John elsewhere says?
30619Is it not right to lead an honorable, virtuous life?
30619Is it not surpassing strange that one can hate those who love him and from whom he has received only kindness?
30619Is it right for one to despise or dishonor God''s Law?
30619Is not a chaste and honorable life a matter of beauty and godliness?
30619Is our God one to permit us to wander for forty years in the wilderness until we all perish?"
30619Is the apostle overbold in that he dares thus to assail the Law and say:"The Law is not only a lifeless letter, but qualified merely to kill"?
30619Is the gold responsible for its use?
30619Is their Christ such a one as they honor by their lives?
30619Is there nothing else in store for the Christian but to die and be buried?
30619Is there something more than mere words-- or letters, as Paul says?
30619John''s thought is: The Law has indeed been given by Moses, but what avails that fact?
30619Just so did Miriam and Aaron murmur against Moses, their own brother, saying:"Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses?
30619Just what does he mean?
30619Know you whom you have apprehended and murdered?
30619Let there be no caviling and contention on the score of possibility; be satisfied with the inquiry: Is it the Word of God?
30619Moreover, what virtues, of all man possesses, serve him better than humility, meekness, patience and harmony of mind?
30619Nevertheless, they submit and wait-- for what?
30619Now, in what was the prophet lacking?
30619Now, what care we that reason should regard it as foolishness?
30619Now, what is the pride of all men toward God?
30619Now, why is"the face of the Lord"upon evil- doers and what is its effect?
30619Of what use is it for you to hate, chafe and curse against its attitude?
30619Or what more than I has another to boast of before God concerning himself?
30619Or, where will he find protection and defense, to abide in his godly ways?
30619Otherwise why say they so much about it?
30619Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10, 22:"Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
30619Paul takes up this matter and asks the question,"What then is the Law?"
30619Shall all rise together?
30619Shall those living on the earth at the last day meet Christ before others?
30619Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
30619Shall we not perform any good works?
30619Should Christ not revenge himself when they shamed and mocked his precious blood?
30619Should we not condemn as a heretic this preacher who goes beyond his prerogative and dares find fault with the Law of God?
30619Similarly today, Papists, Anabaptists and other sects make outcry:"What mean you by preaching so much about faith and Christ?
30619Take all the wisdom, justice, jurisprudence, artifice, even the highest virtues the world affords, and what are they?
30619The rude crowd cried: Oh, is it true that great grace follows upon great sin?
30619Then why should we be surprised if he send down wrath upon us?
30619Then why this bitter hatred against me and my message?"
30619Therefore he begins his sermon by inquiring, in this sixth chapter( verses 1- 3):"What shall we say then?
30619This being the case, where would be the need to pray?
30619To whom do these minister?
30619To whom, then, is their service given?
30619Two mighty lords clash with each other like powerful battering rams, and for what?
30619We read:"Are we beginning again to commend ourselves?
30619We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?"
30619Well does he say to the Jews through the prophet:"O my people, what have I done unto thee?
30619What am I to do?
30619What answer shall we make?
30619What are earth and ashes proud of?
30619What are you-- your powers and abilities, or those of all men, to effect this glorious thing?
30619What assistance can he render you?
30619What can the combined might of all creatures accomplish if God oppose himself thereto?
30619What did not the Son of God incur for you?
30619What does God care for the honor you seek from the world when you defy his Word with it?
30619What does he mean?
30619What does it signify that I show my love by hazarding life and limb to sustain this doctrine of the Gospel and help my neighbor?
30619What does that concern the spiritual estate?
30619What greater dishonor can Christians suffer than to have their ministers and pastors-- their instructors and consolers-- shamefully arrested?
30619What if I should die?"
30619What if the world, abiding in death, does hate and persecute you who abide in life?
30619What incentive is there for any to render the world service when in ingratitude it rewards love with hatred?
30619What injury have they done thee?
30619What is a single penny measured by a world of dollars?
30619What is it compared to the glory to be revealed in us?
30619What is more desirable than to be freed from sin and the punishment and misery it involves, and to possess a joyful, cheerful heart and conscience?
30619What is temporal suffering, however protracted, contrasted with eternal life?
30619What is the Law after all, however much you may preach it to me, but that which makes me feel the weight of sin, death and condemnation?
30619What is the nature of the prayer Paul here presents?
30619What is the sighing and longing of creation?
30619What is the world doing now?
30619What more noble than, for the sake of Christ, to incur danger, to suffer injury, to aid the poor and needy?
30619What more terrible retribution could their hatred and envy receive?
30619What occasion, then, for divisions or for further seeking?
30619What offense had godly Abel committed against his brother to be so hated?
30619What pleasure or gain had you in it?
30619What right has such a soul to boast-- how can he know-- that Christ has laid down his life for him and delivered him from death?
30619What shall I say but that thou hast imprisoned and bound, not Paul, but me?
30619What sin against the world did the beloved apostles commit?
30619What term significant of greater abomination could he apply to God''s Law than to call it a doctrine of death and hell?
30619What then shall we do, you say, when we must suffer such abuse and without redress?
30619What unheardof talk is this?
30619What were you?
30619What will become of him who lives a God- fearing and humble life, suffering the insolence, pride and wantonness of the world?
30619When Moses and the Law are made to say:"You should do thus; God demands this of you,"what does it profit?
30619When we die-- spiritually unto sin, and physically to the world and self-- what doth it profit us?
30619Whence did they derive their righteousness?
30619Where is he now?
30619Where now shall we find those who keep this commandment?
30619Where then do they stand who entertain wrath and hatred indefinitely, for one, two, three, seven, ten years?
30619Where will the untaught masses stand?
30619Who can sufficiently magnify or utter God''s grace?
30619Who comes to know God or to have a peaceful conscience by such practices on your part, or who is thereby influenced to love his neighbor?
30619Who desires peace and comfort?"
30619Who equals Luther as a translator?
30619Who is benefited by your cowl, your austere countenance, your hard bed?
30619Who is this second person?
30619Who may stand before him?"
30619Who robs you of your honor but yourself, by your own theft, your contempt of God, disobedience, murder, and so on?
30619Who says the creature is in travail or unwillingly suffers its present state?"
30619Who will assure you that you are good and that you are pleasing to God with your papistic, Turkish monkery and holiness?
30619Who would not praise and exalt such virtue?
30619Who, unless he would be a cursed heretic in the eyes of the world and invite execution as a blasphemer, would dare to speak thus, except Paul himself?
30619Whom can its hatred injure?
30619Whose fault will it be but your own since you would not hear Paul''s admonition to walk wisely and circumspectly?
30619Why can not we take his view of the insignificance of our afflictions and the magnitude of the future glory?
30619Why do we teach the ten commandments at all?
30619Why does Paul choose this method?
30619Why is it?
30619Why not exalt the future glory also?
30619Why should I seek therein righteousness before God?"
30619Why should such a one fear death?
30619Why this hostility?
30619Why will we have so much to say about great sufferings and their merits?
30619Why will you bring down your fist and stamp your foot in anger at such ingratitude?
30619Why, then, does John say,"We have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren"?
30619Why, then, does Paul here substitute"love?"
30619Why, then, should we presume, with our reason, to compass and comprehend the eternal, invisible essence of God?
30619With such a faith, how much better were we than the heathen and Turks?
30619Would you not call these things faults and shortcomings?
30619Yea, how could we guard ourselves against any deception and lying nonsense that might be offered as good works and as service of God?
30619Yes, why complain even were you, in some measure, to endanger body and life?
30619Yet what would be all that compared with one who is named and chosen by God himself, and called his son, the heir of exalted divine majesty?
30619You may again object,"If what you say is true, why observe temporal restrictions?
30619and wherein have I wearied thee?
30619are we stronger than he?"
30619do the words result in life and spirit?
30619enter the heart of a Christian upon the occasion of a little trouble?
30619for instance, where are the five senses during sleep?
30619hath he not spoken also with us?"
30619he asks,"shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?"
30619if you so strenuously adhere to your self- appointed orders as to allow your neighbor to suffer want before you would dishonor your rules?
30619in particular to further the Word of God and to support the ministry, the pulpit and the schools?
30619just how is the sound of your own laughter produced?
30619or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?
30619or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
30619or who hath been his counsellor?
30619or who hath been his counselor?
30619or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?"
30619that before we ever loved him he died and rose again for us?
30619that upon obedience to them depends the maintenance of discipline, peace and honor?
30619that you are, as the phrase goes, with"those who return evil for good"?
30619we who do not understand the operation of our own physical powers-- speech, laughter, sleep, things whereof we have daily experience?
30619what fault committed?
30619where has God commanded it?"
30619who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?"
30619why dost thou permit me to suffer this?"
13204He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? 13204 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?"
13204If these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
13204If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, may not plead it? 13204 Is the law sin?"
13204Tell me,says St. Paul,"ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
13204Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking of the law, dishonorest thou God?
13204Thou that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? 13204 Who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
13204[ 1] But can we suppose that such a sincere, such a truthful and such a holy Being as the Son of God would stoop to any such artifice as this? 13204 [ 3] But, is the sense of duty_ beautiful_ to apostate man?
13204_ How_ shall I believe?
1320420.--"The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?"
1320420.--"The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?"
1320421--23.--"Thou therefore which, teachest another, teachest Thou not thyself?
1320428, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
13204Again, does the law search me, and probe me, and elicit me, and reveal me, until I would shrink out of the sight of God and of myself?
13204Again, is a man conscious of the corruption of his heart?
13204Am I not completely baffled, the moment I attempt to construct the consciousness of the unearthly state?
13204And is there any injustice in this?
13204And now we ask, if this state of things ought to last forever?
13204And now we ask: Can the law generate all this excellence within the human soul?
13204And now what is the effect of this combination of command and threatening upon the agent?
13204And think you that God will not grant a request which He himself has inspired?
13204And upon_ such_ terms, can not the criminal well afford to examine into his crime?
13204And where are the results?
13204And why should it?
13204Are they deluded in respect to the doctrine of human depravity, and are you in the right?
13204Are we, then, sinners, and in fear for the final result of our life?
13204Are you prepared for the impending and inevitable disclosures and revelations of the day of judgment?
13204As the deteriorating process advances, does not the guilt diminish?
13204But are we at ease and self- contented?
13204But he who will not even look at his sin,--what does not he deserve from that Being who poured out His own blood for it?
13204But is the Bible untrue, because the man is ignorant?
13204But is this so?
13204But the real penitent rebuked him, saying:"Dost thou not fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
13204But what do I know of the surroundings and experience of a man who has travelled from time into eternity?
13204But what does all this reasoning and querying imply?
13204But what is the lesson which we are to read by this clear and solemn light?
13204But what is this compared with the suffering soul?
13204But when he put the other question to himself: Will the Deity_ pardon_ me for my transgression?
13204But where is the man?
13204But why do they confine this species of reasoning to the pagan world?
13204But, how is this lack to be supplied?
13204By what law?
13204Can God say to the hardened Judas: Son be of good cheer, thy sin is forgiven thee?
13204Can He speak to the traitor as He speaks to the Magdalen?
13204Can I not do what I will with mine own?
13204Can a perfect heart be originated in a sinner by these two methods?
13204Can any being do a wrong act, and be as sound in his will and as spiritually strong, after it, as he was before it?
13204Can it be that sheer imposture and error have such a tenacious vitality as this?
13204Can it be that the truth that there is only one God is native to the human spirit, and that the pagan"_ knows_"this God?
13204Can it be that there is a moral law written upon their hearts forbidding such carnality, and enjoining purity and holiness?
13204Can it be that this strong and steady draft of conscience,--strong and steady as gravitation,--will ultimately prove ineffectual?
13204Can the moral law originate this?
13204Can you say with David,"We give thanks and rejoice, at the remembrance of Thy holiness?"
13204Do men at such times find that sincere desires, and longings, and aspirations, come at their beck?
13204Do they tell you that they are uniformly successful in inducing these sinners to leave their sins?
13204Do we feel ourselves to be guilty beings; do we hunger, and do we thirst for the expiation of our sins?
13204Do you ask me to make myself wholly miserable?"
13204Do you ask, What one particular single thing shall I do, that I may be safe for time and eternity?
13204Do you believe that there is an eternal world, and that the general features of this mode of existence have been scripturally depicted?
13204Do you come to us with the theory that every human creature will be happy in another life, and that the doctrine of future misery is false?
13204Do you know that your love of sin has the power to stifle and overcome the mightiest of your fears, when you are strongly tempted to self- indulgence?
13204Do you tell us that God is too good to punish men, and that therefore it must be that He is merciful?
13204Do you_ love_ God''s holy character?
13204Does his consciousness of inward poverty assume this form?
13204Does it congenially sway and incline him?
13204Does the holy law of God overarch him like the firmament,"tinged with a blue of heavenly dye, and starred with sparkling gold?"
13204Does the law, in its abrupt and terrible operation in my conscience, start out the feeling of guiltiness until I throb with anguish, and moral fear?
13204Does the stern behest,"Do this or die,"secure his willing and joyful obedience?
13204Else, why do these pangs and fears shoot and flash through it, every now and then?
13204For example:"Where is boasting then?
13204For how can his sin be pardoned, unless it is clearly understood by the pardoning power?
13204For, think you that the insensible sinner is always to be thus insensible,--that this power of self- inspection is eternally to"rust unused?"
13204For, who of the race of man is holy enough to stand such an inspection?
13204Has he attained the chief end of man?
13204Has religion reached its last term, and ultimate limit, when man respects the rights of property?
13204Has the Deity spoken to you in particular, and told you that He will forgive your sin, and my sin, and that of all the generations?
13204Have you a private revelation of your own?
13204He still has a capacity for loving; but in eternity where is the fame, the wealth, the pleasure upon which he has hitherto expended it?
13204He that formed the eye, shall He not see?"
13204He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"
13204How can God administer forgiveness, unless there is a correlated temper to receive it?
13204How can his soul be purified from its inward corruption, unless it is searched by the Spirit of all holiness?
13204How can we endure such a scrutiny as God is instituting into our character and conduct?
13204How do you establish the guilt of those at the end of the line?
13204How is this great hiatus in human character to be filled up?
13204How shall he resist temptation, unless he has some_ fear_ of God before his eyes?
13204How shall the fountain of holy and filial affection towards God be made to gush up into everlasting life, within your now unloving and hostile heart?
13204How then can he be brought in guilty before the same eternal bar, and be condemned to the same eternal punishment, with the nominal Christian?
13204How, then, can the mere reproaches and remorse of conscience be regarded as evidence of piety?
13204I ask, therefore, Wast thou ever killed stark dead by the law of works contained in the Scriptures?
13204If Christianity is a delusion and a lie, why does it not die out, and disappear?
13204If the Sovereign has a perfect right to say whether He will or will not pardon the criminal, has He not the same right to say_ how_ He will do it?
13204If the foundations themselves of morals and religion are destroyed, what can be done for the salvation of the creature?
13204If this experience has been forced upon him, shall he meet it with the port and bearing of a strong man?
13204If you can admire and praise them, in this style, why do you not_ love_ them?
13204If you view your own personal sin in reference to your own personal fears, are you not a slave to it?
13204In trying to judge of the final condition of a pagan outside of revelation, we must ask the question: Was he penitent?
13204Is a man, then, sensible that his understanding is darkened by sin, and that he is destitute of clear and just apprehensions of divine things?
13204Is he moulded by it?
13204Is it not so in our own personal experience?
13204Is it not_ too late_ for such a creature as man now is to adopt the method of salvation by the works of the law?
13204Is not that a strange act by which he, for a time, duplicates his own unity, and sets himself to look at himself?
13204Is not that a wonderful process by which a man knows, not some other thing but,_ himself_?
13204Is not the one the measure of the other?
13204Is not truth mighty, and must it not finally prevail, to the pulling down of the stronghold which Satan has in the human heart?
13204Is such a heart as this"conformed unto"the law and will of God?
13204Is the evil removed by denying its existence?
13204Is the question, then, of the Jews, pressing upon your mind?
13204Is the sun black, because the eye is shut?
13204Is there not a wonderful power to_ convict_ of sin, in this test?
13204Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
13204Is thine eye evil because I am good?"
13204Is this religious perfection?
13204Is this the_ original_ and_ necessary_ relation which law sustains to the will and affections of an accountable creature?
13204Is''t no worse for the wear?
13204It is not the highest expression of the religious feeling, when we say,"How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my conscience?"
13204Killed by the law or letter, and made to see thy sins against it, and left in an helpless condition by the law?
13204Must the pure and holy law of God, from the very nature of things, be a weariness and a curse?
13204Must there not be an inveterate opposition and resistance in the_ heart_?
13204Nay, why is it that he finds it impossible fully to believe that Jehovah is a sin- pardoning God, unless he is enabled so to do by the Holy Ghost?
13204Never for a moment, in the endless cycles, can it look away from its Maker; for in His presence what other object is there to look at?
13204No, He''s forever in a smiling mood; He''s like themselves; or how could He be good?
13204Of what use would it have been to offer mercy, before the sense of its need had been elicited?
13204On the contrary, is he not excited to opposition by it?
13204On the contrary, should I not be the most wretched of mortals?
13204Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
13204Or wallow naked in December snow, By thinking on fantastic summer heat?
13204Or, in other words:_ Why can not the ten commandments save a sinner_?
13204Or, is there anything in the performance of duty,--in the act of obeying law,--that is adapted to produce this result, by taking away guilt?
13204Ought not this state of things to be reversed?
13204Ought this guilty carnal enjoyment to be perpetuated through all eternity, under the government of a righteous and just God?
13204Our Lord, by his searching reply to the young ruler''s question,"What lack I yet?"
13204Received ye the Spirit, by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
13204Return you me guilt, lethargy, despair?
13204Shall pleasures of a short duration chain A lady''s soul in everlasting pain?
13204Shall the ten commandments of Sinai, in any of their forms or uses, send a cooling and calming virtue through the hot conscience?
13204Should we not be more circumspect than we are, if men were able mutually to search each other''s hearts?
13204The great question that presses upon the human mind, from age to age, is the inquiry: Is God a merciful Being, and will He show mercy?
13204The instant he put the question: Will God_ punish_ me for my transgression?
13204The text leads us to inquire:_ Why can not the moral law make fallen man perfect_?
13204Think you that the deathbed and the day of judgment will prove this to be the fact?
13204Think you that there is nothing_ lacking_ in such a character as this?
13204Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?
13204To whom, then, can such an one go but unto Him?
13204Was, then, that which is good made death unto this youth, by a_ Divine_ arrangement?
13204We grant that the temptations that assail him are very powerful; but are not some of the temptations that beset you and me very powerful?
13204What are the"good things"which Dives receives here, for which he must be"tormented"hereafter?
13204What can we do, in that day which shall reveal the thoughts and the estimates of the Holy One respecting us?
13204What can we say, in the day of reckoning, when the Searcher of hearts shall make known, to us all that He knows of us?
13204What does he know of the burden of sin?
13204What heathen will not need an atonement, for his failure to live up even to the light of nature?
13204What is the_ ground_ and_ reason_ of such an answer as this?
13204What pagan has ever realized the truths of natural conscience, in his inward character and his outward life?
13204What pagan is there in all the generations that will not be found guilty before the bar of natural religion?
13204What would our merciful Redeemer have us learn from this passage which He has caused to be recorded for our instruction?
13204What, then, is gained, by proposing another than the Biblical theory of human nature?
13204What, then, is the religion that is to be received?
13204When God teaches,"Where is the wise?
13204When the commandment"_ comes_,"loaded down with menace and damnation, does not sin"revive,"as the Apostle affirms?
13204When we look into our hearts, and find no holy reverence there, ought we not to be filled with shame and sorrow?
13204When, therefore, the young ruler''s question,"What lack I?"
13204Where then do you send me for the information, and the testimony?
13204Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence?
13204Whither then shall we go from God''s spirit?
13204Who can feel himself amenable to a moral law, without at the same time thinking of its Author?
13204Who has ever realized these wishes and aspirations, in his heart and conduct?
13204Who is he that condemmeth?
13204Who is he that condemneth, when it is Christ that died, and God that justifies?
13204Who of the sons of men will prove pure in such a furnace?
13204Who of this class voluntarily makes himself unhappy, by thinking of subjects that are gloomy to his mind?
13204Who of us would not be filled with uneasiness, if he knew that an imperfect fellow- creature were looking constantly into his soul?
13204Who shall lay anything to God''s elect?
13204Why can he not be saved by the law of works?
13204Why do they not bring it into nominal Christendom, and apply it there?
13204Why does he not tell us that because this civilized man acts no better, therefore he knows no better?
13204Why does the drowning man instinctively ask for God''s mercy?
13204Why is he so summarily shut up to the law of faith?
13204Why is it, that when the character of Christ bows your intellect, it does not bend your will, and sway your affections?
13204Why is man invited to the method of faith in another, instead of the method of faith in himself?
13204Why is not his first spontaneous thought the true one?
13204Why is the commandment enunciated in the Scriptures, and why is the Christian ministry perpetually preaching it to men dead in trespasses and sins?
13204Why should he not obtain eternal life by resolutely proceeding to do his duty, and keeping the law of God?
13204Why should not you and I mourn over the total want of the image of God in our hearts, as much as over any other form and species of sin?
13204Why should they be weary and heavy- laden with a sense of their unworthiness before God, and you go through life indifferent and light- hearted?
13204Why should ye be stricken, any more?
13204Why, the very function and office- work of law, in all its forms, is to condemn and terrify the transgressor; how then can it calm and soothe him?
13204Why, then, does every man need these influences of the Holy Spirit which are so cordially offered in the text?
13204Will he say that the population that knew enough to build the pyramids did not know enough to break the law of God?
13204Will the great Author us poor worms destroy, For now and then a sip of transient joy?
13204Will the mere calling men good at heart, and by nature, make them such?
13204Will the objector really take the position and stand to it, that the pagan man is not a rational and responsible creature?
13204Wilt thou, then, not be afraid of the power?
13204With these kindling flashes in his guilt- stricken spirit, shall he run into the very identical fire that kindled them?
13204Would David have dared to say:"This is the work of God,--this is the saving act,--that ye believe in me?"
13204Would Paul have presumed to say to the anxious inquirer:"Your soul is safe, if you trust in me?"
13204Would he not feel, with a misery and a shame that could not be expressed, that he was naked?
13204Would not this self- knowledge be pure living torment?
13204Would you have the Almighty pay a bounty upon unrighteousness, and place goodness under eternal pains and penalties?
13204You who approve of the law of God as pure and perfect, why do you not conform your own heart and conduct to it?
13204You who know the character and claims of God, and are able to state them to another, why do you not revere and obey them in your own person?
13204[ 3] And do we not hear this theory repeated by the modern unbeliever?
13204[ Footnote 4: ANSELM: Cur Deus Homo?
13204all would be set second to the simple single inquiry:"Shall I think, shall I feel, shall I know?"
13204and how was this to be elicited, but by the solemn and authoritative enunciation of law and justice?
13204and what are the"evil things"which Lazarus receives in this world, for which he will be"comforted"in the world to come?
13204how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
13204if he should plead it as an offset for having killed a man?
13204in the heart which can refuse submission to such high claims, when so distinctly seen?
13204of works?
13204or whither shall we flee from His presence and His knowledge?
13204ought he not then to be"comforted"in the bosom of Abraham, in the paradise of God?
13204rather than the question: Was he virtuous?]
13204that He who called Himself The Truth would employ a lie, either directly or indirectly, even to promote the spiritual welfare of men?
13204that because he neither fears nor loves the one only God, therefore he does not know that there is any such Being?
13204that he does not possess sufficient knowledge of moral truth, to justify his being brought to the bar of judgment?
13204that he was utterly unfit to appear in such a Presence?
13204thou must die, thou must be judged, thou must inhabit eternity?"
13204thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
13204thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonored thou God?"
13204thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonorest thou God?"
13204thou that makest thy boast of the law, through, breaking the law dishonorest thou God?"
13204thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
13204thou that preachest that a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
13204thou that preachest that a man should not steal, dost thou steal?"
13204thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery?
13204to a being who is not conformed to it?
13204where is the disputer of this world?"
13204where is the scribe?
13204where were the arguments?
13204where were the theories?
13204who shall deliver me?
13204why do you not by your character and conduct prove the claim to be a valid one?"
6669Do you want it?
6669Hast thou considered My servant Job?
6669If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? 6669 If you please, dear friends, will you listen?
6669Oh,says He,"why cover ye my altar with tears, and bring your vain oblations?
6669Saul, Saul, why_ persecutest_ thou Me?
6669Shall we the Spirit''s course restrain, Or quench the heavenly fire? 6669 Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
6669Then,I said,"what is it?
6669Then,she said,"When can I see her?"
6669Therefore, at once believe?
6669Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? 6669 What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"
6669Where is God?
6669Why does He not show Himself? 6669 Yes,"said my son,"but what do you believe?"
6669A lady said to me,"I have been doing this and doing that for years, but I have no power; why do n''t I have it?"
6669After all, what does God want with us?
6669Again, the eunuch is often quoted as an illustration of faith; but what state of mind was he in?
6669And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
6669And does He not send something to us all?
6669And have we not sinned against greater light and privilege than ever she did?
6669And if you were restored to your kingdom and power, would you show yourself strong on behalf of such a man?
6669And is it not?
6669And what are they?
6669And what further did he say to him?
6669And why do you hold them back?
6669And why not have it?
6669Are not our professed Christians exactly the same in character as her Pharisees?
6669Are you conscious in your soul of a feeling of triumph when anybody that you do n''t like happens to fall on some evil thing?
6669Are you leaving all behind you?
6669Are you not provoking Him as they provoked Him?
6669Are you willing for Me to come in?
6669Are you willing to forego your interests, and to seek His?
6669Are your skirts free?
6669But is this evidence that, because we require these things to keep us humble, therefore pride is dwelling in us and reigning over us?
6669But she was a woman of considerably matured age, and I added,"But is your father awake to the interests of God''s kingdom as he ought to be?"
6669But we want to deal specially with the lesson which the prophet draws from this event; for he says,"Wherefore didst thou go to Assyria?
6669But what then?
6669But where are the people who will do it?
6669Can it be expected that the Lord should shew Himself strong in behalf of such people?
6669Can you bear the ridicule and gibes of your fellow- men?
6669Can you give me any reason for that?
6669Can you go into a shop where you are sure you will not be extortioned?
6669Can you help me?"
6669Cornelius, is another instance, but what was the state of his mind and heart?
6669Did any man that ever got the Pearl of great price feel that he had given too much for it, even if he had given all that he had?
6669Did he go, as formerly, and cry unto the Lord, and put his battle into His hands?
6669Did you ever think about it?
6669Didst thou not know that the eyes of the Lord run throughout the whole earth?"
6669Do n''t you think He sees through the vile sham?
6669Do they not make fine and long prayers, and, at the same time, devour the widow and fatherless?
6669Do we not need trials and tribulations in the flesh in order to keep us humble?
6669Do you feel enough to be willing to forsake your sin?
6669Do you go into your closet, and spread it before the Lord, as Hezekiah and Jeremiah and Hosea did?
6669Do you hear it, ye who say that we must come down partly, and be a little like the world in order to win it?
6669Do you know anybody who keeps a conscience with respect to the profits he makes?
6669Do you look abroad on the state of the world, and the state of the church?
6669Do you look at it, and turn it over, and weep over it, and pray and cry, as Daniel and Paul did?
6669Do you love God best?
6669Do you rejoice in iniquity when it happens to an enemy?
6669Do you say,"No, we are not so_ bad?
6669Do you see how unphilosophically they are acting?
6669Do you suppose He is deceived?
6669Do you suppose that Jerusalem was more guilty than we are?
6669Do you suppose that the great mass of the professors of this generation think one another to be right?
6669Do you think God would have failed in His promise to Abraham?
6669Do you think about it?
6669Do you think it can?
6669Do you think people do not know when we are inconsistent?
6669Do you think the church has come up to His standard of privilege and obligation?
6669Do you think you would if you were God?
6669Do you want success?
6669Do you want to have your prayers answered?
6669Does he remember all the little difficulties of his school days, when he is inheriting the fruits of them?
6669Does the child remember how he used to cry over his lessons, when he becomes a man?
6669Hast thou forgotten who the God of Israel was?
6669Have I ever regretted it?
6669Have we any need to wonder that infidels wag their heads?
6669Have we not been exalted much higher than Jerusalem ever was?
6669Have you cut off that particular thing which the Holy Spirit has revealed to you?
6669Have you done that?
6669Have you forsaken the accursed thing?
6669Have you got it, brother?--sister?
6669Have you got it?
6669Have you got it?
6669Have you got this Charity that seeketh not her own?
6669Have you got this Charity?
6669Have you let go all?
6669Have you this Divine Charity, born of Heaven, tending to Heaven?
6669He awoke them to the truth of their almost lost and damned condition, till they said,"What must we do to be saved?"
6669He has given us a Saviour who can not save?
6669He has given, us a religion we can not practice?
6669He says,"The man who remembereth the poor( do you think He means only their bodies?
6669He will administer unto you an abundant entrance, and then-- what?
6669How can the Spirit make intercession for a man when He is not in him?
6669How did you live then?
6669How do I know God wants it for that purpose?"
6669How do I know that Abraham had a perfect heart towards God?
6669How do you read the history of the miracles-- the stories of His opening the eyes, unstopping the ears, cleansing the leper, and raising the dead?
6669How do you read your Bibles?
6669How do you trust your physician when you are sick, as you lay in repose or anguish upon your bed?
6669How does a bride believe in her husband when she gives herself to him at the altar?
6669How is it that wherever we go, as an organization, these signs and wonders are wrought?
6669How many of us would stick to Him then?
6669How many sermons have you heard?--invitations rejected?
6669How many will?
6669How many would go to the dungeon?
6669How much blessed persuasion and reasoning of the Holy Spirit have you resisted?--how much of the grace of God have you received in vain?
6669How shall you feel?
6669I believe He feels with respect to us, just as He felt with respect to His people of old, when He said,"Why come ye and cover my altar with tears?"
6669I love you complacently; I give you my approbation?"
6669I said,"Did not the Lord Jesus cut loose from His circle to save you?
6669I said,"My dear friend, what do you think God gave you feeling for?"
6669I said,"My dear sir, how do you know?
6669If God can not do this for me-- if Jesus Christ can not do this for me, what is my advantage at all by His coming?
6669If there is any father here who has a prodigal son, I ask, How is it that you are not reconciled to your son?
6669If they had believed, why all this alarm and concern on the approach of death?
6669If you had lived at Nazareth, do you think Jesus Christ would have done anything for you?
6669If you please, will you be converted?
6669Is it any wonder that at Christian Evidence Societies men get up and say that the Christian system has become effete?
6669Is it any wonder that infidels are laughing us to scorn?
6669Is it because of your pride?--because you want for them this world''s applause and favor?
6669Is it for fear of suffering?
6669Is it more than He bargained for when He bought you?
6669Is it more than He paid for?
6669Is it not time you ended that controversy?
6669Is it too much?
6669Is not that penitence?
6669Is not that repentance?
6669Is that God''s philosophy?
6669Is that justice?
6669Is that mercy?
6669Is the_"but"_ the hindrance that keeps you out of the Kingdom?
6669Is there anybody scarcely who wo n''t charge his neighbor more than the article is worth, if he has a chance, and call it lawful?
6669Is there anything contrary to the laws of mind in it?
6669Is there anything that you would not allow under any great pressure of calamity, or realization of danger, or grief?
6669Is there anything unphilosophical in it?
6669Is there not a definite end in every promise, exhortation, and command?
6669Mr. So- and- So, or even your bishop, thinks about you, than you are about the extension of the kingdom of Christ?
6669Must John have a revelation of things shortly to come to pass?
6669Must Paul hear unspeakable words, not, at that time, lawful for a man to utter?
6669Must we decline the honor of being in the advance guard of the Lamb''s army because of the conflict, because of the pain, because of the persecution?
6669Must we decline to tread in the bloodstained footsteps of the Captain of our salvation?
6669Must we give in?
6669My friends, are you more concerned about relieving temporal distress than you are about feeding famished souls?
6669My husband whispered,"Will you go there for love?"
6669Not, do you weep?
6669Now then, will you come?
6669Now then, will you?
6669Now, do you repent?
6669Now, have you got this Divine Charity?
6669Now, have you got thus far?
6669Now, the Lord wants a man to do this, and whom does He choose?
6669Now, the question is, are you to teach that man that he is to go on drinking, and expect God to save him?
6669Now, then, the Spirit of God says,"Will you give up the cup?"
6669Now, what do they mean?
6669Now, what does it mean to walk in obedience?
6669Now, what is the meaning of this term"perfect heart,"referring to the hearts of God''s children, all the way through the Bible?
6669Now, what is the whole duty of man?
6669Now, what is this perfect heart?
6669Now, why is it that the great mass of professing Christians do not get answers to their prayers?
6669Now, will you give up conformity to the world?
6669Now,_ what does it mean_?
6669Now,_ will you have it?_ Have you understood the conditions?"
6669Now,_ will you have it?_ Have you understood the conditions?"
6669Oh, I often think if times of persecution were to come again how many of us would be faithful?
6669Oh, have you got this Charity?
6669On another occasion, He said,"Are ye also yet without understanding?"
6669Paul says,"Shall I come unto you with the rod?"
6669Shall I ever regret it?
6669Shall it be so again to- night?
6669Shall you be sorry for the trouble?
6669Shall you murmur at the way He has led you?
6669Shall you regret the sacrifice?
6669Shall you think He might have made it a little easier, as you are sometimes tempted to do now?
6669She said,"A friend of mine remarked,''You do n''t mean to say that you are going to call four thousand people together to cry for the Holy Ghost?''
6669Some despairing soul asked me this in large letters,"How am I to believe?"
6669That will be grand, will it not?
6669The Lord is sitting there; He is looking at you, and He is saying,"What is all this stir about?
6669The light of the Spirit is on you:_ will you, act?
6669Then what is_ repentance_?
6669Then you have got thus far that you hate sin?
6669Then, how was it that wherever He went, there was sword, opposition, and conflict to the death?
6669Then, what does this perfect heart imply?
6669Then, what hinders?
6669There he was-- an Ethiopian, a heathen; but where had he been?
6669These Nazarenes, were they not everywhere spoken against?
6669These promises are not made to everybody, are they?
6669They are always asking,"Have any of the rulers believed on Him?"
6669They can much more easily see the sin of ruining or injuring their neighbors than injuring the great God; but He says,"Will a man rob God?
6669They feel this opposition and conflict deeply, but what are they to do?
6669They have a family of beautiful little children, but the father says,"What are we going to do for our children?
6669They tried to put her off, and asked,"Will not someone else do?"
6669To do what?
6669To whom does the Holy Spirit say,"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved?"
6669Try your Charity by this mark: Do you contemplate the dying, famishing, half- damned souls of your fellow- men?
6669Was he a careless, unconvicted sinner?
6669Was it ever done?
6669We can not help but be proud of godly and obedient children; but what will it be to show your spiritual children, to the angels?
6669What a comment on"Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?"
6669What am I to do?"
6669What did Asa do?
6669What did He say to Saul?
6669What did Jesus want?
6669What do I mean?
6669What do you want Me to do?
6669What does he say?
6669What does he say?
6669What does it mean to walk in the light?
6669What does it mean?
6669What else but the Holy Ghost could have shown you_ that_?
6669What else is it, think you?
6669What if anything should happen; if something should be done?''"
6669What is all this talk, this singing, and this praying about?
6669What is it?
6669What is it?
6669What is the reason He does not do something for us, and come down in the same plentitude of spiritual power as He did at Pentecost?
6669What is the secret?
6669What is the use of telling a person to believe he is saved_ before_ he is saved?
6669What need was there for him to make this display; could he not have shut the window and gone into an inner room?
6669What shall you say?
6669What was he doing?
6669What was it?
6669What was the first work Peter did?
6669What will that be?
6669What will you say to Him?
6669What woman in the world would feel that she ought to obey father and mother, rather than her husband?
6669What would you say to such a man?
6669What would you say?
6669What would you say?
6669What would you think of such a man?
6669What?
6669When Saul said,"Who art Thou, Lord?"
6669When he repents?
6669When is a sinner to believe?
6669When were you sanctified?
6669Where are the saints who will go in meekness and in love to try to reclaim the one who has erred?
6669Where did He begin?
6669Where was the power to come from to heal him?
6669Wherefore hast thou sinned against God?
6669Which has the most common sense in it?
6669Which have you got, my brother?--my sister?
6669Which is the most God- honoring?
6669Which will please your forefathers the most?
6669Who are these promises made to?
6669Who are to believe?
6669Who will?
6669Why are you always reproving him?
6669Why are you not reconciled?
6669Why are you obliged to hold him at arm''s length?
6669Why can you not have him come in and out, and live with you on the same terms as the affectionate, obedient daughter?
6669Why can you not live on amicable terms with him?
6669Why could he not have gone into an inner chamber and prayed?"
6669Why did it come on that particular occasion?
6669Why did the Holy Ghost overshadow them?
6669Why do hundreds of assemblies of God''s people meet and pray, but nothing comes?
6669Why do you persuade men, Paul?
6669Why does He not do something?"
6669Why not let God work it in us?
6669Why not?
6669Why should he not roar for the disquietude of his spirit as much as David did?
6669Why should not our conception of Christian perfection steadily grow with the increase of our knowledge of God and of His holy law?
6669Why should we be enthusiastic in everything but religion?
6669Why should we not be enthusiastic?
6669Why should we not have this demonstration in soul matters?
6669Why should we not shout and sing the praises of our King, as we expect to do it in glory?
6669Why will He not show Himself strong in your behalf?
6669Why would you exclude them from religion?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Why?
6669Will it ever be done?
6669Will not this be reward enough?
6669Will yon leap on to His faithfulness?
6669Will yon step over?
6669Will you act?_ Every spark of light you get without obeying it, leaves your soul darker.
6669Will you answer the question?"
6669Will you be filled with the pure, holy love of God towards God, and towards men, and all beings?
6669Will you be made Divine?
6669Will you be made true, straight, clean?
6669Will you come to Jesus?
6669Will you come to that point now?
6669Will you give up arguing about it and trying to make out that it is not a stumbling- block, when you know it is?
6669Will you go down, and say,"Be it unto me according to Thy word"?
6669Will you go over?
6669Will you go there for love-- the love of Jesus!--the great love wherewith He loved you and gave Himself for you?
6669Will you have it?
6669Will you have it?
6669Will you have this Divine Charity wrought in you?
6669Will you let God do it?
6669Will you make Him a straight path?
6669Will you put away the depths of unbelief which are at the bottom of all your difficulty?
6669Will you put your foot over?
6669Will you seek it?
6669Will you spring into the arms of Omnipotent Love, and trust Him with consequences?
6669Will you stand up and raise your voices to the Lord and ask Him?
6669Will you trample under foot that accursed thing which has so long kept the fulness of the blessing from you?
6669Will you trust?
6669Will you try it?
6669Will you venture?
6669Will you, for the great yearning with which your Father has been following you all these years-- for His love''s sake, will you come?
6669Will you?
6669Will you?
6669Will_ you_ be content to go in advance?
6669Will_ you_ endure the hardness of a pioneer?
6669Wo n''t that be reward enough?
6669Would you dream for a moment from reading the New Testament that this was the kind of thing God intended in His provisions of grace and salvation?
6669Would you not say,"Then, come in, my son; sit by me, live with me, and I will shield you-- I will deliver you?
6669Would you rather have men damned conventionally, than saved unconventionally?
6669Would you?
6669Yea, for hellish gain, do they not make widows and orphans wholesale?
6669You can not accomplish your purpose when you have done all; and think you that you will escape, by your satanic inventions, the Divine Executioner?
6669You say,"How am I to believe?"
6669You women here, if you knew that you were not the first and only one in the affections of your husband, what would you say?
6669_ How are they to believe_?
6669_ When are they to believe_?
6669_ Who are to believe_?
6669_ Why, why_ did it come?
6669_ Why_ did the glory come?
6669and how, in this way, the glorious blessing would spread?
6669and, through them, how many more?
6669do not even publicans the same?"
6669does He profess to do for me what He can not?
6669generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
6669has there not been much ground for it?
6669on his collar, and go and fetch him out?
6669or shall we read just this, that, and the other?"
6669said the other,"Do n''t you know what became of''Do n''t care?''"
6669someone said to me the other day, in agony--"Where is God?"
6669what did that reveal?
6669what do you think he was doing?
6669what was involved in that prayer-- what does that mean?
6669what will that be?
6669who will?
6669will you be such an one?
6669ye temporizers with Divine law?
6669you say,"does He pay you?"
20138And Nabal answered David''s servants, and said, Who is David? 20138 And it came to pass that when David had made an end of speaking, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David?
20138Art not thou a valiant man? 20138 Did I not tell you,"says Reuben,"sin not against the lad, and ye would not hearken?
20138Dost thou wish to be saved from the_ punishment_ of thy sins, or from the sins themselves?
20138How can I do this great wickedness,says Joseph,"and sin against God?"
20138If I say the truth, why do ye not believe Me?
20138What for?
20138_ But how shall I dare to come to the Lord''s table before I am sure that my sins are forgiven_?
20138A different thing?
20138A self- glorifying Deity whose mercy is_ not_ over all His works, or even over any of them?
20138Ah, how indeed?
20138Am I puzzling you?
20138And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed, and be guiltless?
20138And Saul knew David''s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David?
20138And are not ye of more value than many sparrows?
20138And as I asked myself, why were all these boundless varieties, these treasures of unseen beauty, created?
20138And at your better moments does not the voice within you, witness to, and agree with, the words of that book?
20138And do not your own hearts echo these thoughts at moments when they are quietest and purest and most happy too?
20138And do they not, all of them, of the flesh, reap corruption, and fulfil St. Paul''s words,"If ye live after the flesh ye shall die?"
20138And do you not see that a coward can never be free, never be godly, never be like Christ?
20138And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
20138And how can a son of God perish?
20138And if it is, is not Christ among us now, indeed?
20138And if so; what was it?
20138And is not this a strange way of making you joyful to remind you of these thoughts?
20138And no man ever gained it but what he found the truth of St. Peter''s own words--"Who will harm you, if you be followers of what is good?"
20138And then say, Are you not in debt to Him?
20138And then strange questions rise in us,"Is that he whom we knew?
20138And then when such thoughts come over us, we can not help going on to say,"What is this death?
20138And then where would our_ chances_ of not dying be?
20138And therefore I ask you solemnly the plain question,"For what does God keep you alive?"
20138And was he a ruined man?
20138And what are you to give Him in return?
20138And what became of Cortez?
20138And what did the Lord appear like?
20138And what did you_ do_, my friend, when God had saved you out of that danger?
20138And what does He expect of you?
20138And what makes men patriots, or artists, or anything noble at all, but the spirit of the living God?
20138And what must you pay Him back?
20138And what shall we say of them who like the swine live only for eating and drinking, and enjoyment?
20138And what sort of people were they?
20138And what was his reward?
20138And what was the end?
20138And what were God''s laws in Joseph''s opinion?
20138And when you had prayed thus, the next thing you ought to have asked yourself was-- What does God require of me?
20138And where do the clouds come from?
20138And where would it take me to, if it did take me?
20138And who is that?
20138And who was Cortez?
20138And who would pity him or say that he had not got his just deserts?
20138And why did Christ choose you?
20138And why should not they, and better ones, too, spring up in your heads, friends?
20138And why, save but that you may enjoy them, and rejoice in your youth?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And why?
20138And yet is it_ he_?
20138Are not our sorrows more than our joys?
20138Are not some of you thinking in this way to- day?
20138Are not these brave words for brave soldiers?
20138Are not these brave words, my friends?
20138Are not these soldier- like words?
20138Are not these things wonderful?
20138Are you fighting for Christ, who wishes to make all good, or for the devil, who wishes to make all bad?
20138Are you to be a slave to old rules which your parents or the clergyman taught you?"
20138Better to obey God''s word?
20138Better?
20138But are we nothing more?
20138But do we believe that God is leading_ us_?
20138But from whom did David learn this?
20138But how did the Centurion know-- seemingly at first sight, that Jesus was the Lord God?
20138But if we go on doing bad and wrong things, are we fighting on Christ''s side?
20138But is that idea true?
20138But more: What is the moral which old divines have drawn from this story?
20138But of what use is the sea to us?
20138But some of you may say,"Why do you ask us to thank God for lessons which we have bought by labour and sorrow?
20138But to drag us down whither?
20138But what comes of it?
20138But what do I mean by that?
20138But what had that to do with our Lord''s power, and with the healing of the child?
20138But what is all this to us if that Blessed Man be gone away from us?
20138But what is it which governs these clouds, and makes them do their appointed work?
20138But what more do I know of a man by knowing his name?
20138But what will you do to be saved from your sins?
20138But where does all the rain water and spring water come from?
20138But who will harm you if you be followers of that which is right?
20138But whose_ fault_ is it?
20138But why were you christened?
20138Can God''s blessing be on them?
20138Can you deny that that is right and reasonable?
20138Can you deny that that is right, however some of you may dislike it?
20138Can_ he_ hear us?
20138Can_ he_ see us?
20138Could they not remember that?
20138Did any one ever see a great angel called Chance flying about keeping people from dying?
20138Did you ever_ hear_ a chance, or_ see_ a chance?
20138Did you only mean that?
20138Do I believe that the world is Christ''s making?
20138Do I believe that these plain family relationships are Christ''s sacred appointments?
20138Do not all these in some way or other give way to the animal within them, and live after the flesh?
20138Do not be double- minded, doing things with a mean and interested after- thought, plotting, planning, asking, will this right thing pay me or not?
20138Do you believe that that book which lies there, which we call the Bible, is a true book, or a lying book?
20138Do you fancy that I am saying too much?
20138Do you know what your words mean?
20138Do you not all know it, and fear it, and love it too?
20138Do you not know that you can not even breathe a breath of air, unless Christ first makes the air, and then gives your lungs life to breathe the air?
20138Do you not see how?
20138Do you think not?
20138Do you think not?
20138Does He care nothing about us?
20138Does He let the world go its own way right or wrong?
20138Does He see us?
20138Does it give any rule by which we may judge them?
20138Does not common sense tell you that?
20138Does the man fancy that God''s law is shut up within the church walls, and that so he can keep clear of it by staying away from church?
20138Does_ he_ remember us as we remember_ him_?
20138Else what use in reading these stories of good men and bad men of old times?
20138Every man''s hand has been against_ me_; why should not my hand be against every man?
20138Examine yourselves-- ask yourselves, each of you, Have I been a good brother?
20138For He is The Father,--and what greater delight to a father than to see his children happy, if only, while they are happy, they are_ good_?
20138For are you not all Christ''s soldiers, every one of you?
20138For has not God His moral Laws, His spiritual Laws, which must be obeyed, if you intend to prosper in this life, or in the life to come?
20138For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
20138For in the first place-- What should we do without water?
20138For is it not a story about a brother and brothers?
20138For what is the story?
20138For what use is it merely knowing that"_ God is_"?
20138For who gave you your souls but Christ?
20138For who is the man who is master of his own luck?
20138HIGHER OR LOWER: WHICH SHALL WIN?
20138Has He ever spoken to any one?
20138Has He ever told any one about Himself?"
20138Have I not guessed the hearts of some of you at least?
20138Have you not had such thoughts, my friends, and sadder thoughts still lately?
20138He calls to you to come and serve Him loyally and gratefully-- dare you refuse Him-- The Maker and King of this glorious world?
20138High pay?
20138How came this same death loose in the world?
20138How can he perish, who like Christ is full of the fruits of the spirit?
20138How can that which is like God and like Christ perish?
20138How can we enjoy ourselves if we are to be brought into judgment after all?
20138How can we understand it?
20138How can we understand the Divine and eternal bond between Father and Son?
20138How dare he stretch forth his hand against the Lord''s anointed?
20138How did you come here?
20138How many a young man have I seen run into sin just that he might be_ knowing_; and say,"Why should I not see life for myself?
20138How much more will the spirit of a_ man_?
20138How often when we are in trouble or anxiety do we go everywhere to get comfort, before we go to God''s word?
20138How will you escape if you turn your back on your Maker, and despise your own Creator when He stoops to entreat you?
20138I say, pictures raise blessed thoughts in me-- why not in you, my brothers?
20138I was gloating over the beauty of those feathered jewels, and then wondering what was the meaning, what was the use of it all?
20138IS, OR IS NOT, THE BIBLE TRUE?
20138If any body else''s sins are harmful, who will make your sins harmless?
20138If any mere man had died for your sake, would you not love him-- would you not feel yourself in debt to him, a deeper debt than you can ever repay?
20138If it is not from God, let it go; but if it_ is_ from God, which we know it is, how dare we disobey it?
20138If not, what is the use of our reading David''s psalms, either in private or publicly in church every Sunday?
20138If they do not mean that to you, what was the use of blessing them with prayer?
20138If we are not in the same case as David was, what right have we to take David''s words into our mouths?
20138If you are so afraid of God''s anger, are you more likely to provoke Him by disobeying His strict commands, or by obeying them?
20138In comparison of Thee what is man''s wisdom?
20138In debt to Christ, you say?
20138Is He far off?
20138Is He proud and careless?
20138Is he not?
20138Is it from God, or is it not from God?
20138Is it right or wrong?
20138Is it so, my friends?
20138Is it so?
20138Is it true or false?
20138Is it?
20138Is not that Divine?
20138Is not that something better than all the preaching in the world?
20138Is not that the Spirit of God and of Christ?
20138Is not this a charge of cavalry worth sharing in?
20138Is not this a general worth following?
20138Is not this curious at least?
20138Is there an old man sitting here who has not had this happen to him?
20138Is, or is not, the Bible true?
20138It would have you peaceable-- can you deny that you ought to be that?
20138Losing it?
20138Millions of miles from this earth?
20138My good friends, if you by doing wrong hurt other people, and make other people unhappy, are you doing Christ''s work or the devil''s?
20138My good friends, what does God require of you?
20138Nay, is it not all the stronger reason for providing against them, that there are other sorrows against which we can not provide?
20138Now does any man of you wish that really?
20138Now how did this wonderful change and improvement take place-- suddenly, and, as it were, in the course of the last hundred years?
20138Now is there any one of you who dare say,"I wish I had not been christened?"
20138Now of what use are these tides?
20138Now what was God''s plan for raising the Jews out of this cowardly, slavish state?
20138Now who is the devil?
20138Now, my friends, if any of you say that, do you not say first what is not true?
20138Now, what does the Bible say of such men?
20138Now, what may we learn from this story?
20138Of what use to man can all that sea be?
20138Or did you ever meet with any one who had?
20138Or does He care for us?
20138Or will he keep to his old watchword,"I fear God?"
20138Our labour far heavier than our rest can be sweet?
20138Pray what are these wonderful things called chances, which are to keep you alive for thirty or forty or fifty years more?
20138Remember how long had God Himself been, before He made Time, when there was no Time to pass over?
20138See, now, such thoughts have sprung up in_ my_ head; how else did I write them down here?
20138Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be?"
20138So it must be, for what says St. Paul?
20138Surely, you may trust Him in such a thing as this,--He who has had long- suffering enough to keep you alive, with a chance of salvation all this time?
20138That a man to prosper in the world must get the very same wisdom by which God made and rules the world?
20138That is rather putting the question aside, which is, Do_ we_ believe it to be true, and find it to be true?
20138That man''s true wisdom is a pattern of God''s wisdom?
20138That there is but one wisdom for God and man?
20138The Bible tells you to reverence and love God the giver of all good-- does not reason tell you that?
20138The Bible would have you pure-- can you deny that you ought to be that?
20138The amusement and excitement of the fires?
20138The question for poor human creatures is,"But what sort of a being is God?
20138The vanity of being praised for their courage?
20138Then Christ died for you-- how can you be more deeply in debt to any one than to Him?
20138Then he said to himself,"If there must be subordination on earth, must there not be subordination in heaven?"
20138Then if you dare not say that; if you are content to have been christened, why are you not content to do what christened people should?
20138Then why are they alive still?
20138Then why did God take such trouble for them?
20138Then why does our Lord say,"He that liveth and believeth in me shall never die?"
20138Then why put the thought of God away by foolish words about chance?
20138Then why should not_ I_ do as_ I_ will?
20138Three hundred houses round were also burnt that night; but of what use?
20138Truly, if he was not a great general, who is?
20138Unto whom?
20138WHAT IS CHANCE?
20138We are ready to say at first sight,"How much better if the world had been all dry land?
20138We know that to be a man, we must be something more than an animal-- a mere brute-- for when we call any one a brute, what do we mean?
20138Well then, if you have these thoughts, I will ask you, what do you mean by_ chance_?
20138Well, then, remember who made these wonders?
20138Were they high- spirited and brave?
20138Were they pious and godly?
20138Were they respectable and cleanly livers?
20138Were they teachable and obedient?
20138Were they wise and learned?
20138What are these laws of God of which men talk?
20138What are these sacred bonds of family and society?
20138What are you but deserters from Christ''s banner and army, traitors to Christ''s cause?
20138What beast so clever as an ape?
20138What can be more foolish?
20138What can be more ungrateful?
20138What could he do?
20138What did Cortez do?
20138What do you fancy keeps them up to their work?
20138What do you or any man want with making your peace with God?
20138What does David say:--"Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
20138What does God require of you?
20138What does any good father expect of his children?
20138What have such words to do with us?
20138What have you to say against the pattern of a true and holy man as laid down in the Bible?
20138What is he to do?
20138What is it?
20138What is man''s power?
20138What is our life but labour and sorrow?"
20138What is the use of all that sea?"
20138What is the use of making a sad story long?
20138What is the use of my praising the sea to you?
20138What is there more common than this?
20138What is_ chance_ on which you depend as you say for your life?
20138What is_ chance_ which you fancy so much stronger than God?
20138What man in his senses would keep such plants, such stock, such servants?
20138What matter if a man gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
20138What more sign do you want?
20138What must it have been like when sung by David himself?
20138What right has death in the world, if man has not sinned or fallen?
20138What should I be?
20138What should I see?
20138What should we say of them?
20138What should you call such a man?
20138What sort of thing is this wonderful chance, which is going to keep you alive?
20138What will he do?
20138What, then, did he mean by these two last verses?
20138What, you may ask, is that the end?
20138What_ must_ you do to show your thankfulness to Him?
20138What_ ought_ you to do to show your thankfulness to Him?
20138When I consider Thy Heavens, even the work of Thine hands, I say, What is man?
20138When a young lad falls into wild ways, and gets into trouble by his own folly, then to whom does he go for comfort?
20138Where is_ he_ himself?
20138Wherefore does my lord then thus pursue after his servant?
20138Wherefore, then, hast thou not kept thy lord the king?
20138Which of you can say that he will be alive next Sunday?
20138Who brought you into the world?
20138Who but Christ, by whom all things were made, and you among the rest?
20138Who but Christ?
20138Who can make up to me for my life?"
20138Who could dare or bear to look on God if we saw Him as He is face to face?
20138Who gave you food?
20138Who gave you life?
20138Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods?
20138Who made every atom of food grow which you ate since you were born?
20138Who made the air you breathe, the water which you drink, the wool and cotton which clothes you?
20138Who made you different from the rest of the world?
20138Who told you that, I ask again?
20138Who told you that?
20138Who was Moses sent to?
20138Whose work is that?
20138Why are they put into the mouths of us English, safe, comfortable, prosperous, above almost all the nations upon earth?
20138Why buy your own experience dear, when you can get it gratis, for nothing already?
20138Why did God bring the Jews out of Egypt?
20138Why did God care for them, and help them, and work wonders for them?
20138Why did he not pray before?
20138Why does He keep you alive?
20138Why does he help and protect them?
20138Why does he talk as if we were robbers or murderers, or had a spite against our neighbours?
20138Why does not God rid Himself of them at once and let them die, instead of cumbering the ground?
20138Why is this?
20138Why must we work on, and on, and on, all our days, in weariness and anxiety?
20138Why should not you?
20138Why should we use those prayers?
20138Why should you not enjoy yourself?
20138Why, in God''s name, was not the bridge brought on?
20138Why?
20138Will He speak to us?
20138Will a man keep plants in his garden which bear neither fruit nor flowers?
20138Will a man keep stock on his farm which will only eat and never make profit; or a servant in his house who will not work?
20138Will he be a bad brother because they were bad?
20138X. SLAVES OF FREE?
20138Yes, my friends, but what makes him gallant?
20138You all know how largely we use them, but why?
20138You have certainly not avoided them, at least, by staying away from the Sacrament, and breaking Christ''s command to take it?
20138You tell us to be joyful and thank God for His mercies; but why all this toil?
20138_ A man must live_?
20138_ A man must live_?
20138_ A man must live_?
20138_ But who will save me from them_?
20138_ For what_?
20138_ He_ dead?
20138_ I_ have been betrayed; why should not_ I_ betray?
20138_ I_ have been opprest; why should not_ I_ oppress?
20138_ who will change me and make a new creature of me_?
20138about a husband and a wife?
20138about a son and a father, about a master and a servant?
20138about a subject and a sovereign?
20138and as for sundry diseases,_ have_ you avoided them?
20138and does it not put you in mind of God who made it?
20138and how they all behaved to each other-- some well and some ill-- in these relations?
20138and next do you not know that it is not true?
20138and that Christ is governing it?
20138and who is the son of Jesse?
20138and yet you can not understand that you are in debt to Christ, and have been eating His bread and living on His bounty ever since you were born?
20138any rule which they ought to obey?
20138for what have I done?
20138have I been a good father?
20138have I been a good husband?
20138have I been a good servant?
20138have I been a good son?
20138how can I try to pay Him back-- how can I show that I am thankful?
20138how long ere Thou avenge the blood that is shed?"
20138is there not misery horrible enough hanging over our heads daily in this mortal life without our making more for ourselves by our own folly?
20138of love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance?
20138or is it not?
20138that still piece of clay, waiting only a few days before it returns to its dust?
20138this horrible thing which takes husbands from their wives, and children from their parents, and those who love from those who love them?
20138what can you expect if you will not come to Him?
20138what_ can_ you do to show how thankful you are to God for His care?
20138who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
20138who keeps them working?
20138who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
20138wretched being that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
20138yet what beast so foolish, so mean, so useless?
20138you wish to be spiritual?
11381''And is not the body more than raiment?''
11381''But,''say some,''is not salvation going to a place called heaven?''
11381''Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?''
11381''The Lord is my light, and my salvation, of whom then shall I be afraid?
11381''What is your name?''
11381''Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?''
11381''Who gave you this name?''
11381''Who is God?
11381***** May I boldly ask you to alter this to- day?
11381--My friends, do we not see them avenge themselves daily?
11381A small question?
11381Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one''s eyes and look at things as they are?
11381And above all, Malachi says, the root question of all would be, what sort of fathers have you been to your children?
11381And as for fine clothes and rich ornaments,''Is not the body more than raiment?''
11381And by this time some of you are asking,''Live?
11381And consider, my friends, can any good result come from handling sacred matters with such harsh and fierce hands as they have been handled of late?
11381And did you ever ask yourself how that apparent miracle could come to pass?
11381And do we not find in the very end of Scripture the Apostles working with their own hands for their daily bread?
11381And do you not know that so to forgive would be no weak indulgence, but the part of a good father; a good, and noble, and human thing to do?
11381And do you seek first God''s righteousness?
11381And for the rest, again I say, is not God your Father?
11381And how can a man get that blessed and noble state of mind?
11381And how can it tell him that till it has told him that God is his Father?
11381And how can you tell but that he is right on the whole, and as far as he sees?
11381And how shall we know whether our hearts are turned away, or whether they are right with God?
11381And if God be with them, who dare be against them?
11381And if He has given you all these wonderful powers of mind and soul, surely He has given you the less blessing, the mere power to earn your own food?
11381And if it has been thus, in the case of God and of humanity, has it not been equally so in the case of the physical world?
11381And now, my friends, what lesson may we learn from this?
11381And shall we not use that spirit hand in hand?
11381And then the Gospel comes, and answers to every man, to every poor and unlearned labourer: Will you know the name of God?
11381And then with St. Paul we shall be able to answer our own question, and say,''Who will deliver me?
11381And then, if we will but cry with St. Paul,''Oh, wretched man that I am,_ who_ shall deliver me from the body of this death?''
11381And then, what blessed words are these from the Lord Jesus, which we read in the book of Revelation?
11381And to walk humbly with your God, because-- and what shall I say now?
11381And what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?''
11381And what else does the Church Catechism mean, when it bids every child thank God for having brought him into a state of salvation?
11381And what happened to them in the meantime?
11381And what higher glory and honour or praise can we ascribe, even to God Himself, than to say that of Him?
11381And what is it which kills a man''s soul within him on this side the grave, and makes him dead while he has a name to live?
11381And what is sin but living according to the flesh, and not according to the spirit?
11381And what is this dark fight within us?
11381And what is this reason?
11381And what then?
11381And whence has all this waste come?
11381And who is God''s image and God''s likeness?
11381And who is The Holy Spirit?
11381And why be anxious about clothing?
11381And why should it not be so?
11381And why?
11381And why?
11381And would not that penitent child be more precious to you, though you can not tell why, than any other of your children?
11381And yet, after all, my friends, is not such a book written already?
11381And you do not mean to tell us that we shall shorten our lives by our own tempers, or our tale- bearing, though we might, perhaps, by drunkenness?''
11381Are not they better than you?
11381Are people happy together?
11381Are they not the most deep and awful, as well as the most blessed and hopeful words on earth?
11381Are they numerous, intricate, burdensome, a yoke which neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
11381Are they one of them laid down directly in Scripture, like the Ten Commandments, the Lord''s Prayer, or the Creeds?
11381Are they such plain matters that the wayfaring man, though poor, can make up his mind on them for himself?
11381Are we not members of the Body of bodies, members of Christ, children of God, inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven?
11381As well ask, Can a man be saved from his sins without being saved from his sins?
11381Ask yourself in every action,''What is right, what is my duty, what would God have me do?''
11381Be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat?
11381But as for anxiety, fretting, repining, complaining to God,''Why hast Thou made me thus?''
11381But did it now seem strange to you that David''s repentance, which was so complete when it did come, should have come no sooner?
11381But does not that hold as good of the man who differs from you?
11381But have we done so, my friends?
11381But how about this old sin, which caused the man all this trouble?
11381But how did that old custom arise?
11381But if His will is to give it us, why ask Him at all?
11381But if even they ought to have known that God was Love, how much more we?
11381But if they could not see the beauty of His conduct, can we?
11381But is this the right state for men?
11381But of what?
11381But the child knows already that God is his Father; and therefore, when the Catechism asks him,''What is his duty to God?''
11381But what before you die?
11381But what is eternal life?
11381But what part of it?
11381But what sort of virtue?
11381But what use of many words?
11381But who is He?
11381But, my friends, if it is the right of free Englishmen to protest against such doings, how shall it be done?
11381But_ why_ is his Christian name given him when he is baptized?
11381Can Christ deny Himself?
11381Can God obey?
11381Can man weary God?
11381Can the creature conquer and destroy the love of his Creator?
11381Can there be humility in God?
11381Did he need Nathan to tell him that he had done wrong?
11381Did it ever happen to any of you, to see a mob of several thousands put to instant flight by a mere handful of soldiers?
11381Did it ever seem to you a curious thing that the Catechism begins by asking the child its name?
11381Die?
11381Do not men try to better themselves at the expense of the parish-- to the injury of the parish?
11381Do not most people fancy that God''s kingdom only means some pleasant place to which people are to go after they die?
11381Do they belong to the simple fundamental truths of the Gospel?
11381Do they mean that Jews were forbid to murder, steal, and commit adultery, but that Christians are not forbidden?
11381Do they not tell us the very mystery of God''s being?
11381Do they pull well together?
11381Do we believe that this earth was made by Jesus Christ?--by Him who was full of grace and truth?
11381Do we believe this?
11381Do you fancy God less of a father than you are?
11381Do you not know what frame of mind I mean?
11381Do you not think that just in proportion to the child''s quickness and understanding, he would be awed, almost terrified?
11381Do you see the same law working in our own free country?
11381Do you seek first God''s kingdom, or your own profit, your own pleasure, your own reputation?
11381Do you?
11381Does God walk humbly?
11381Does it not seem, then, something strange that they should never in this Catechism of theirs mention one word about justifying or justification?
11381Does it seem strange to you that St. Paul should warn you, that you are not debtors to your own flesh?
11381Does not experience again show us that in the case of our fellow- men, whatsoever is made manifest, is light?
11381Does that seem to you a small question, my friends?
11381For are we not brothers after all?
11381For as Job says,''Can man by searching find out God?''
11381For if a child is not justified in being a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, what is he justified in being?
11381For is it not the likeness of God Himself?
11381For the Spirit of God is God, and therefore the life of God is the life which God''s Spirit makes men live; and what is that?
11381For what does St. Paul say was the matter with the old heathens?
11381For what is this same eternal death?
11381For what says the text?
11381For what son is there whom His Father does not chastise?
11381For, are we not members of a body, my friends?
11381For, my friends, were you ever, any one of you, for one half hour, completely angry, completely_ sulky_?
11381God will not surely lay down one law for you, and another for him?
11381Has he not a conscience, a spirit in him which knows good from evil?
11381Has he not an earthly father, through whom he may know_ The_ Father?
11381Has it never happened to you to know some young country lad, both before and after he has become a soldier?
11381Has it not been so in our notions of God?
11381Has not Christ redeemed us with one and the same sacrifice?
11381Has not God made us of one blood, English men, with English hearts?
11381Has not her very wealth vanished from her, because she sold herself to work all unrighteousness with greediness?
11381Has not the Holy Spirit given us one and the same desire of doing good?
11381Has not your Heavenly Father given you a higher life than the mere life which must be kept up by food, which He has given to the animals?
11381Has she not dwindled down into the most miserable and helpless of all nations?
11381Have I not a right to give a man as good as he brings?''
11381Have any of you here ever stood godfather or godmother to any young person in this parish who is not yet confirmed?
11381Have we not the four Gospels, which tell us of Jesus Christ, the perfect Son, who came to do the will of a perfect Father?
11381He says,''Well, perhaps I am unhappy because I have done something wrong: what wrong can I have done?''
11381He was king of all Israel, and what was one small vineyard more or less to him?
11381He would inquire of every man, How have you kept my image; my likeness, in which I made you?
11381His love, who Himself went down into hell, and preached to the spirits in prison, to show that he did care even for them?
11381His, who, were you in the very lowest depths of hell, would pity you still?
11381How can a man be saved from his sins but by becoming sinless?
11381How can it tell him what breaking his duty is till it has told him what the duty itself is?
11381How can it tell him what sin is till it has told him what righteousness is?
11381How could the great Prophet of Nazareth stoop to trouble Himself about such poor insignificant people?
11381How do you know that He does not care for them as much as He does for you?
11381How do you know that He does not rejoice in them as much as in you?
11381How many free nations in Europe lie now in bondage, gnawing their tongues for pain, and weary with waiting for the deliverance which does not come?
11381How then shall we show forth our thankfulness, not only in our lips, but in our lives?
11381How would the Lord Jesus Christ have behaved, if He had been in my place when He was upon earth?
11381I ask you whether this is right and just?
11381I depend on them, and not on God, for comfort and for wealth, and my Heavenly Father does_ not_ know what I have need of?''
11381I have done right from fear of hell, from hope of heaven; or to win Thy blessings: but how often have I done right really and purely for Thy sake?
11381I have seen( and what sadder or more fearful sight?)
11381If I be wrong myself, how can I make myself right?
11381If a man be bad and sinful, can he be saved from eternal death without curing his badness and sinfulness?
11381If a tree be decayed, can it be saved from dying without curing the decay?
11381If an animal is diseased can it be saved from dying without curing the disease?
11381If not, no confessing with the mouth will be unto salvation, for how can a man be saved in his sins?
11381If this is not bond enough between man and man, what bond would we have?
11381If we can enjoy ourselves a little, why should we not?
11381If you say of a man,''he is in a state of happiness,''you mean, do you not, that he is happy now, not that he may perhaps be happy some day?
11381If you were, did you ever feel any torment like_ that_?
11381In what?
11381Inspired, infinite, inexhaustible as it is, can we pretend to have fathomed all its abysses, to have comprehended all its boundless treasures?
11381Instead of behaving like God''s ministers and God''s stewards, and asking,''How would God our King have us rule His kingdom?''
11381Instead of saying,''How shall we make the children have faith in God by telling them what faith is?''
11381Is He not_ The_ Father, the perfect Father,''from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named?''
11381Is he not an earthly son; and through that may he not know_ The_ Son?
11381Is it not a life of love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentleness, goodness, patience, meekness?
11381Is it not the very way, the only way, to stir up in him faith, and real hearty trust and affection towards God?
11381Is it not written, that not one jot or tittle of the Law shall fail; and that Christ came, not to destroy the Law, but to fulfil it?
11381Is not that a prayer for men as well as praise to God?
11381Is not the life more than meat?
11381Is not this enough, my friends?
11381Is not this true?
11381Is not your body a far more beautiful and nobler thing than all the gay clothes with which you can bedizen it?
11381Is not, not merely sun and stars, but even the meanest gnat which hums in the air, better than man, more worthy of God''s love than man?
11381Is righteousness what we want?
11381Is that the sort of young person next door to whom you would wish to live?
11381Is that the sort of young person with whom you would wish to see your children keeping company?
11381Is there none in you and me?
11381Is there not in you and me?
11381Is to be made good men what we want?
11381Look at Spain, which was once the richest of all nations; and did her riches preserve her?
11381Man was created in the image and likeness of God, and who is the image and likeness of God but Jesus Christ?
11381May not glorious beings, angels, be dwelling in them, compared to whom man is no better than a beast?''
11381My dearest friends, ask yourselves, each of you, in which of these two ways do you look at your own station in life?
11381Nay, more, if we are to be very exact( and can we be too exact?)
11381Never say in your hearts when you are tempted to be hard, cruel, covetous, over- reaching,''What harm?
11381No one can now say,''I can not see God, how then can you expect me to be like God?''
11381No one can say now,''How can a man be like God, and live a life like God''s life?''
11381No, my friends, that is not the meaning of the text; and when I ask you, Have you obeyed the text?
11381Now are not the points about which there has been, and is still, most dispute, just of this very number?
11381Now can you not see why baptism is the proper time for giving the child a name?
11381Now do you ask yourselves,''How am I to be righteous in my station, as Christ was in His?
11381Now how is that?
11381Now what do those hymns mean by such words, if they mean anything at all?
11381Now what hinders a little child, from the very moment that it can think or speak, from entering into that salvation?
11381Now, how is this?
11381Now, is this profitable?
11381Now, my friends, has this noble history no lesson in it for us?
11381Now, what is this one disease, to which every man, you and I, are all liable?
11381Now, why is this?
11381Oh, my friends, is not that damnation indeed, to be a devil here on earth, and for aught we know, for ever and ever?
11381Oh, my friends, who made us to differ from others, or what have we that we did not receive?
11381Oh, what can we expect, if we neglect so great salvation?
11381Or do you say to yourselves,''How can I get the greatest quantity of money and pleasure out of my station, with the least trouble to myself?''
11381Or perhaps he does get what he wants: and is he happy after all?
11381Perhaps that does not seem to you any great difference?
11381Shall I come before him with burnt offerings?
11381Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression; the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
11381Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?
11381Shall public spirit be only strong when it has to destroy, and not when it has to save and comfort?
11381Shall the shepherd play the part, not even of the hireling who flees and leaves the sheep to themselves, but of the very wolf who scatters the flock?
11381Shall we be more dainty than God?
11381Shall we be more dainty than God?
11381Shall we come to shame in that day?
11381Shall we not much rather be in subjection to God, the Father of Spirits, and live?
11381Shall we not speak our minds?''
11381Shall we refuse to walk with one who walks with God?
11381Shall we refuse to work with one who is a fellow- worker with God, to love one whom God loves, to take by the hand one whose guest God has become?
11381Should you like to have a child who never spoke to you, never asked you for anything?
11381Small?
11381Tell me, then, how dost thou think thou oughtest to behave to such a Father?''
11381That it was harm to break the Ten Commandments before Christ came, but no harm to break them now?
11381The best test of that, my friends, is, can we do our duty in our own place?
11381The prophet did not even give him time to excuse himself:''Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?''
11381The whole question for each of us is,''Do we believe unto righteousness?''
11381Then what can a man''s being in a state of salvation mean, by all rules of English, but that he is saved?
11381Then why should we bite and tear each other about that which is over and above this?
11381Therefore, when it asks him,''What is thy duty to God and to thy neighbour?''
11381These are God''s promises-- simple and clear enough: and what are God''s demands?
11381They do not ask the child,''How is a man justified?''
11381This may seem a fanciful dream, too fair to be possible; but what prevents it from being possible, save and except our own selfishness and laziness?
11381Thus the whole Catechism turns upon the very first question in it--''What is thy name?''
11381Thus: What are the fruits of God''s Spirit?
11381To whom are we to attribute any man''s good deeds, except to the Holy Spirit?
11381True we have the infallible rule of Scripture: but are our own interpretations of it so sure to be infallible?
11381True, there are errors against which we are bound to protest to the uttermost; but how few?
11381True; but what has called out the sense of duty?
11381Was not the very first command given to man to replenish the earth and subdue it?
11381We believe the Apostles''Creed, surely?
11381We shall say to them, not''Wherein do we differ?''
11381Were you ever once-- were it but for five minutes-- utterly ashamed of yourself?
11381What Lord-- Which Lord?
11381What an excuse for them to blaspheme the holy name whereby we are called, and ask, as of old,''Is this then the Gospel of Peace?
11381What did the Lord Jesus Christ say that eternal life was?
11381What do they mean?
11381What do they mean?
11381What do you think the child''s feeling would be?
11381What does all this mean?
11381What does the Bible call it?
11381What else does the very name''minister''mean?
11381What greater blessing than to escape that?
11381What greater misery than that?
11381What has a child''s name to do with his Faith and duty as a Christian?
11381What has inspired the courage?
11381What has the history of theology been for near one thousand eight hundred years?
11381What is God like?
11381What is the watchword of Protestantism?
11381What laws of God, now, can we learn from this story?
11381What matter?
11381What might he not have invented, made, carried over land and sea?
11381What part of their understanding was it which was darkened?
11381What sadder mistake?
11381What sadder sight?
11381What should hinder any child whom you or I ever saw from knowing God, and His Name, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit?
11381What sort of children to your fathers?
11381What sort of doctrines they were professing?
11381What sort of husbands, fathers, sons, neighbours, subjects, and governors, have you been?
11381What was it that they had got dark about and could not understand?
11381What was the fruit of their wilfully forgetting what God''s life was?
11381What wilt thou eat, and what wilt thou drink, and wherewithal wilt thou be clothed?
11381What words are these, my friends?
11381What would all the world think of you, if they knew as much against you as I do?
11381What would the world think of you, if they saw into that dirty heart of yours?''
11381What, then, is this wonder- working thought which makes the soldier strong?
11381When people say to themselves( as who does not at moments?)
11381Where shall we find Him, or His likeness?''
11381Where, I ask, are those dreams now?
11381Wherewith shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before the most High God?
11381Which is uglier and ghastlier-- a spirit without a body, or a body without a spirit?
11381Who are we that we should judge another?
11381Who are we that we should refuse one hand stretched out to grasp our own?
11381Who are we that we should say,''Stand back, for I am holier than thou?''
11381Who can tell?
11381Who has showed thee?
11381Who shall deliver a man from the body of that death?
11381Why occupy his head, perhaps disturb his simple faith, by giving him a smattering of secular science?''
11381Why pray at all, if God already knows our necessities, and is able and willing to supply them?
11381Why then rather than at any other time?
11381Why will you not have faith in your Heavenly Father?
11381Why, what harder name can we call any man or woman, than to say that they are''shameless,''dead to shame?
11381Will all the fretting and anxiety in the world make you one foot or one inch taller than you are?
11381Will it make you stronger, wiser, more able to help yourself?
11381Will none of these hard words hit some grown people in our day?
11381Will the Lord be pleased with this, that and the other fantastical action, or great sacrifice of mine?''
11381Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?
11381Would not all be forgiven and forgotten at once?
11381Would you have rather expected to hear John the Baptist ask, what sort of saints they had been?
11381Would you not feel a peculiar interest in him henceforth?
11381Yes, we are ready to say, I may be miserable and unfortunate, but the Great God of heaven and earth is my Father; and what can happen to me?
11381Yes; but do you believe too that He whom people are too apt to call God, just because they have no other name to call Him, is your Father?
11381You do not know?
11381You do not surely mean that you are quite right; perfect and infallible?
11381are we living it?
11381are we to be tongue- tied?
11381but''What is_ right_ for us to do?''
11381but''Wherein do we agree?''
11381can not tell?
11381have we not rather forgotten the meaning of the text, and what God''s kingdom is, and what His righteousness is?
11381have we sought first God''s kingdom and His righteousness?
11381holiness from wickedness-- far more clearly and tenderly than the souls of most grown people do?
11381how can I behave like Christ in my station?
11381how can I do my Heavenly Father''s will, as Christ did?
11381how would the Lord Jesus Christ have behaved, if He had been in my place, when He was on earth?''
11381if thou be extreme to mark what is done amiss, who shall abide it?
11381more fastidious than God?
11381more righteous than God?
11381more separate from sinners than God?
11381or are we alienated from it, careless about it, disliking it?
11381or at last, perhaps, the old question,''Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
11381or, what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed?
11381they said,''How shall we make them have faith in God by telling them what God is?''
11381what is my duty here?
11381what more beautiful words are there in the world?
11381what sort of life does the Spirit of God make man live?
11381what use in that?
11381who is ready to sacrifice his own credit, his own pleasure, his own success in life, for the sake of his father''s comfort and honour?
11381who shall stand in that day?
59041And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great commandment of the law? 59041 Do you ever get drunk?"
59041O my Divine Spouse,she said,"Where wast thou when I was enduring these conflicts?"
59041What does faith bring thee to?
59041What is it?
59041What, with all these filthy abominations?
59041What,says the father of a family,"give my whole soul and mind to God?
59041_ Know you not that they who run in the race all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? 59041 _ Lord, is it I?_"No, John.
59041_ Lord, is it I?_No, Thomas.
59041_ Lord, is it I?_Thou hast said it, Judas.
59041_ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul?
59041_ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul?
59041_ Who is this that cometh up from the desert flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?_[ Footnote 152][ Footnote 152: Ca nt.
59041''What is a crucifix?''
59041''Why do I stand here idle?
59041( Did I not say that the widow was right-- that they are heartless and unfeeling?)
59041And after all might not this vision be a delusion?
59041And if the soul is so beautiful in the little rays that escape from the body, what must it be in itself?
59041And that precious soul of yours, before which all the wealth of the world is but worthless dross-- with what care have you kept that?
59041And why?
59041And would you attribute conduct so disgraceful among men to our Father in heaven?
59041And, besides, who can draw the lineaments of that great Apostle, or paint him in colors worthy of his character?
59041And, if we then sin against God, in what respect are we better than Judas?
59041Are the earth and sky all wrapped in a great, gloomy mantle of grief?
59041Are the tares rooted up in this world?
59041Are there none of you, my brethren, who recognize this as the secret language of your hearts?
59041Are we as much in earnest to guard against a fall?
59041Are we bound to shut our ears to the murmuring winds, the music of the rivulet, and the songs of the birds?
59041Are we thus determined to win?
59041Are you leading a tepid, imperfect life?
59041At the Easter Communion, where are you?
59041At times in the height of that fever your mind wanders: you do not know her,_ her!_ your own dear mother?
59041But as for you, young man, why have you presumed to come to the altar?
59041But do you think we have none of the charity of the Angels?
59041But how can they know any thing of a star so unusual in its appearance as this?
59041But is it enough just barely to fulfil the commandment in this way?
59041But is it not necessary to go to Communion?
59041But of what use is Holy Scripture to us without Her interpretation, whose office it is to interpret, as it has been to preserve it?
59041But suppose these evil temptations are importunate, and remain in the soul even when we resist them, and try to turn from them?
59041But what am I saying?
59041But what does God say of such as these?
59041But what does an unworthy communion do?
59041But what have you to say for yourself, O adulterer, and adulteress?
59041But what have you to say for yourself, O drunkard?
59041But you will say, if this be true, does it not tend to cherish in us a spirit of self- sufficiency, and of independence of God?
59041Can it be a friendly ship coming to your rescue?
59041Can it not fill the soul as much as any other?
59041Can literature be devoted to more worthy ends than to make those virtues attractive which religion commands?
59041Can not the motive of God''s love do as much?
59041Can science find a greater sphere than to show how all things are, and move, and exist in their primal cause, God?
59041Can these fretful souls of ours find rest even upon earth?
59041Can they sympathize with us, while they believe us to be corrupted by it?
59041Can we find it, then, even short of Purgatory?
59041Can you imagine a dependence which is more pure than ours is upon God?
59041Can you not easily imagine that every stroke she heard given against her prison walls, must have sent a thrill of joy through her whole frame?
59041Can you, indeed?
59041Commenting on this passage of Holy Scripture, St. John Chrysostom asks:"Wherefore did God make the lilies so beautiful?
59041Could they cease to hate our religion, while they believe it to be false?
59041Could we claim as manfully to have fought a good fight?
59041Could we claim our reward as confidently?
59041Could we say as much, my brethren, if our time were come?
59041Did I not say well then, when I expressed my fear that God would find but few who would accept his terms?
59041Did any Priest ever preach to the contrary?
59041Did he create the world, or make you?
59041Did not our Lord love his Mother?
59041Did these things really happen?
59041Did they not feel them?
59041Did you ever know a man of this stamp to become Catholic?
59041Did you ever know one of these"liberal fellows,"so called, to be come Catholic?
59041Do n''t say: how little can I do and get off with it?
59041Do n''t you see, the very definition of mortal sin, is a sin that grievously offends God and brings with it the death of the soul?
59041Do not they estimate themselves by the light of faith?
59041Do the birds sing no more?
59041Do they aim by the creations of their genius to raise less gifted minds to gaze upon the archetype of all beauty, truth, and goodness?
59041Do they strive so to embody what is noblest and best in man''s nature as to captivate his imagination, and enkindle an enthusiasm for its imitation?
59041Do we see artists who are conscious of the great purposes of their noble vocation?
59041Do you ask me what has been done for your souls?
59041Do you ask me what has been done for your souls?
59041Do you ask what has been done for your souls?
59041Do you believe Him?
59041Do you belong to the party of Jesus Christ or that of the devil?
59041Do you feel in yourselves a vocation to a religious or sacerdotal life?
59041Do you judge of a man as you do of a horse or a dog?
59041Do you not see, said the devil, that crucifix?
59041Does he seek these by legitimate means?
59041Does it not lie in your memory in all the blackness and barrenness of a western prairie, over which the desolating fire of the savage has passed?
59041Does the Church teach any such thing?
59041For is it not a joy to follow where our heart''s desires lead?
59041For what prison walls are so strong as the tyranny of passion over the soul?
59041For what, after all, are created things, or the members of a man''s body, or even his life, compared with the eternal salvation of his soul?
59041For what?
59041From the Church?
59041Has He no chastisement for the wicked, no sympathy for the good?
59041Has he conferred any benefit on the human race, that he is entitled to the gratitude and obedience of men?
59041Has heaven no favors for her?
59041Has she clung to her faith so long in vain, amid poverty, oppression and bloodshed?
59041Have not beauty, knowledge, and genius one and the same fountain source with religion?
59041Have you ever seen two strong men wrestling?
59041Have you kept it as your most sacred treasure?
59041Have you not committed mortal sin, and then given as an excuse that you were tempted by the devil, or overcome by your passions?
59041Have you not over looked and undervalued your treasure?
59041Have you not sometimes been tempted to exclaim:"Has God forgotten Ireland?
59041Have you valued that soul of yours?
59041Heathens?
59041How can I do it?
59041How can you expect light when you close your eyes?
59041How did the Blessed Virgin arrive at such glory?
59041How have you conducted yourself in temptation?
59041How many sermons have you not heard upon that awful subject?
59041How often has God not called us, either from some path of sin which we were following, or to a closer union with Himself?
59041How so?
59041How was it St. Paul attracted so many to Christ?
59041How was it with our blessed Lord?
59041How will it be in heaven?
59041How will the truths of the Gospel reach your heart and make an impression there, if you never listen to them?
59041I have been offering peace to such as lead a Christian life; but what does Holy Scripture say of you?
59041I say, then, excite this desire; think, and think every day, on these simple things: Who am I?
59041I.--_What is Communion?_ It is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, given to us as food for the sanctification of our souls and bodies.
59041II.--_What then is it to receive this Holy Communion unworthily?_ It is to be grievously wanting in reverence to the holiest of all holy things.
59041If a man abstains from eating meat, why not let him, if he likes, eat fish?
59041If another fancies he will improve by scourging himself, why not let him whip his body?
59041If another is bent on practising entire abstinence, why not allow him to fast?
59041If another seeks the desert, or ensconces himself in a cave, what commandment does he break?
59041If another takes the notion to shave his crown and walk with uncovered feet, wherein is he to be blamed?
59041If she had not believed, if she had not assented, what would have come of it?
59041If you can be chaste in the presence of a virtuous female, why can you not be chaste everywhere?
59041If you can be honest when the eye of man is on you, why can you not be honest when no eye sees you but that of God?
59041In the first place, what does he mean by the love of God?
59041In the language of Holy Scripture we say,"_ In the morning, who will grant me evening?
59041In this miserable world there is no such thing as tranquillity or peace, and how, without these, can the whole heart be given to God?"
59041In what consists the beauty of a man?
59041Is any hope held out in Scripture for the victims of such delusions?
59041Is he not then a usurper?
59041Is it I?_ No, my good man.
59041Is it a mere regularity of form and feature?
59041Is it always night?
59041Is it asking much, that we shall be habitually obedient?
59041Is it for Him to be dependent upon our moods and humors, finding us true to- day and false to- morrow?
59041Is it not as great?
59041Is it now safe and secure?
59041Is it possible that any fear of death, any doubt of his salvation could cloud the spirit of such a man in the closing scene of his career?
59041Is it the visible world, called nature, so full of instruction and rich in beauty, that we are to turn our backs upon?
59041Is it true?
59041Is it with this terrible earnestness you struggle to work out your salvation, or do you make a pastime of it?
59041Is it, then, possible to wear a constant smile in this valley of tears?
59041Is not this to be indeed dead?
59041Is she called a"Mediatrix of Prayer?"
59041Is she called the"Daughter of the Most High?"
59041Is she called the"Morning Star?"
59041Is she called"The Spouse of God?"
59041Is the camp of Jesus Christ less holy, think you, that an impure man or woman can be tolerated within its sacred precincts?
59041Is the world all dead?
59041Is there not an impression in your minds that the law of God is too strict?
59041Is this not a great boon?
59041Is this the earnest way we follow out our vocation?
59041My brave and vaunting Christian warrior, how do your professions of fidelity and courage comport with your conduct when put on guard at night?
59041No; says the Apostle Paul,"_ Christ died for all._"And why?
59041No?
59041Now if she did not merit heaven by becoming the Mother of God, how did she merit it?
59041Now what does He ask of you in return for all this?
59041Now what was it all about?
59041Now why was this?
59041Now will you tell me that you can not help doing what the martyrs would not do to save them from death?
59041Now, how is it with us?
59041Now, if you can stop cursing before the priest, why can you not before your wife and children?
59041Now, what are we doing?
59041Now, what holy lesson shall we try to learn from it?
59041Now, what is to be done?
59041Now, where is the man in Europe, who has so much care and anxiety upon him as he has?
59041Of what use to him was his power of motion?
59041Our Lord said to Judas,"_ Friend, why hast thou come?
59041Peace, did I say?
59041Shall I, she says, reject the very things I have longed for, the opportunities of making rapid progress in the love of God?
59041Shall these accidental and artificial barriers survive death?
59041Shall this always be so?
59041Shall we stand here like cowards, hugging the ignominious chains of mortal sin?
59041She sees the angels; but to the questions:"_ Woman, why weepest thou?
59041She was so bound up in you, that she often exclaimed with a truth,"Why do I live if it be not for my child?"
59041So, I ask you, who are you?
59041Suppose you saw a girl in service, scrubbing the floor with a beautiful camel''s- hair shawl, what would you say?
59041Teach your heart to throb in sympathy with his, until you can say with St. Paul:"_ Who is weak, and I am not weak?
59041Tell me, my brethren, is this your idea of the Christian warfare?
59041That''s what the Lord himself said to the young man who asked the question:"What shall I do that I may have everlasting life?"
59041The Lawyer asked Him,"_ What shall I do to possess eternal life?_"The Saviour said,"_ What is written in the law?
59041The Lawyer asked Him,"_ What shall I do to possess eternal life?_"The Saviour said,"_ What is written in the law?
59041The pledge will not help him long; and why?
59041The very first word addressed you by her, was in your baptism, when you were asked:"What dost thou ask of the Church of God?"
59041Then he will say to these:"I am your Lord and Master, why have you not obeyed me?"
59041They are class- mates, or even room- mates, for years, but look at them after the lapse of twenty years, and what are their respective positions?
59041They died rather than lift a hand to do a forbidden thing; have you not the same power over your hand that they had?
59041They died rather than utter a sinful word; have you not as much power over your tongue as they?
59041This is the war in which every one of you is engaged, on one side or the other?
59041Thus, Mary is called"Queen of Heaven;"but are not all the blessed called in Holy Scripture,"_ kings and priests unto God_?"
59041To establish its true meaning, let us ask ourselves first of all, what is a true Christian life?
59041Under what banner have you till now been ranged?
59041Under what figure is the Church of God represented in Scripture?
59041Very well; but how were they required to deny Christ?
59041Was He not disposed to be obedient to her as his mother?
59041Was it from the Church of God?
59041Was it the world of art, science, and literature?
59041Well then, asks one, why not exclude them from the Church altogether, so that the whole world can see what they are?
59041What Apostles, Doctors of the Church, Pontiffs, Priests, or Laymen, that ever wrote on the matter, ever broached such an idea?
59041What are our obligations to give testimony of Christ?
59041What are the signs, my brethren, by which you would pronounce a man dead?
59041What are you doing then with the devil''s bounty?
59041What can be a more perfect illustration of mortal sin?
59041What can be more just?
59041What degradation is equal to that of a Christian enslaved by vice?
59041What do we find for the most part in the world of art?
59041What does St. Paul say again?
59041What does St. Paul say?
59041What does holy king David say?
59041What does that mean?
59041What food is so loathsome to the body as lust and sensuality must be to a soul made for wisdom and virtue?
59041What has God made me for?
59041What have you done?
59041What have you to expect in his service?
59041What is Holy Communion?
59041What is Holy Communion?
59041What is Holy Communion?
59041What is Holy Communion?
59041What is an Unworthy Communion?
59041What is an Unworthy Communion?
59041What is it that has happened?
59041What is it to be generous?
59041What is it to live to Christ?
59041What is it?
59041What is meant by merit?
59041What is said of these bad ones?
59041What is that pile of bank- notes pilfered from your employer, you dishonest clerk?
59041What is that which is glimmering white like a sail upon the waves?
59041What is the answer?
59041What is the event that can interrupt the great harmonies of Heaven, and furnish the Angels with a new song?
59041What is the idea that we have of a kingdom?
59041What is the invariable testimony, both of Protestants and of Catholics, as to the manner of his receiving them?
59041What is the love of God, or in what does it consist?
59041What is the meaning, then, of loving with one''s whole heart and soul and mind?
59041What is the reason that Christian art has so far surpassed heathen art?
59041What is the reason that every thing thus honors you?
59041What is the world and all in it, compared to the love of God?
59041What is there criminal in these actions, that there should be displayed so much spleen against those who live in this way?
59041What is this method?
59041What master is this, to whom you have sold yourself?
59041What means do we employ to subjugate our bodies, or was St. Paul less safe than we?
59041What millions of dollars are being expended on the Central Park here just beside us?
59041What old age can compare with eternity?
59041What opportunity, what golden opportunity offers, to do something to please God?
59041What right had you to refuse my service?
59041What right has he to reign in this world?
59041What right has he to your soul, or to your service?
59041What saith the Apostle?
59041What shall I do?
59041What shall I say in conclusion, dear brethren, to spur you on to do good works?
59041What should they do?
59041What was it then?
59041What was it they were required to do?
59041What would you have?
59041What''s to be done to get rid of it?
59041What, she says, shall I barter away so immense a good for such trifles?
59041What, then, is that badge, what are those insignia you are wearing?
59041When may one be said to fulfil it in the first way?
59041When you see a person put a thing to an improper use, what do you say?
59041Whence do they spring?
59041Where are those thirty pieces of silver for which you sold your soul?
59041Where are you during the holy solemnity of the Mass?
59041Where did such a notion come from?
59041Where did this notion come from?
59041Where did you get the notion that it''s enough to be a Catholic without being a practical one?
59041Where is her heart, does it beat no more?
59041Where shall we be?
59041Where your good works?
59041Where your merit?
59041Where, I ask, shall our place be in this hierarchy?
59041Where, then, is there room for presumption in such teaching as this?
59041Which side is it?
59041Which, then, do you take?
59041Who are addressed?
59041Who are they who fail to give this testimony of Christ?
59041Who can believe that?
59041Who can recount the calamities which from year to year have fallen upon the children of the faith?
59041Who is God?
59041Who says it?
59041Why did these last give such a different account from the first?
59041Why do summer and winter, seed- time and harvest, return so regularly?
59041Why does He not take part with his own, and make them prosper most?"
59041Why does not God give victory always to the just cause?"
59041Why does that sound send a shuddering thrill of horror through every nerve?
59041Why is the whole matter hushed up by common consent between Pilate and Caiphas?
59041Why not?
59041Why should we fear?
59041Why stand we all the day idle?
59041Why tarry we here in the bondage of Egypt?
59041Why then, do they commit it?
59041Why was no search made for the body of Jesus, and for his disciples?
59041Why was no trial held?
59041Why were not these soldiers examined before a tribunal?
59041Why, what do we mean when we speak of mortal sin?
59041Why, who are you, my brethren?
59041Why?
59041Will Jesus arrest the steps of that infamous woman, of those debased, pitiless, heartless, unfeeling dram- sellers?
59041Will he touch the bier upon which you are stretched stark dead, and command those companions of yours in sin to stop?
59041Will that voice of Jesus Christ be heard?
59041Will the Lord be moved to pity toward his weeping Church?
59041Will you have Christ or Lucifer for your king?
59041Will you say that the grapes are not really fine flavored, but only called so because they belong to an excellent vine?
59041Will you venture to deprive yourselves of that food of which, unless ye eat, the Saviour has said:"_ Ye have no life in you?_"Oh!
59041Would we be something in the kingdom of God?
59041Would we become strong in faith, great in hope, abounding in charity?
59041Would you be saved by the sufferings of Christ, and refuse to take your share of suffering?
59041Would you know who they are?
59041Would you ride thither at your ease?
59041Would you wear your crown without winning it?
59041You are a Christian soldier, are you?
59041You profess yourself so loudly a Christian soldier, what then are you straggling for, behind your column?
59041You promised in confession that you would restore them, but why?
59041You would not expect that I should urge this"Interior Life"upon you, and remain myself as I am?
59041You, O adulterer; you found a home where there were smiles, and fondness, and peace; and what have you done?
59041[ Footnote 56] and that"_ all things serve Him?_"[ Footnote 57][ Footnote 56: Psalm cxliv., 13.]
59041_ Father, is it I?_ No, poor fellow.
59041_ Father, is it I?_ No, poor girl.
59041_ Is it I?
59041and are not we too called the"_ Sons of God?_"[ Footnote 99][ Footnote 99: 1 St. John iii., 2.]
59041and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 95][ Footnote 95: Apoc.
59041and at evening, who will grant me morning?_"[ Footnote 146] as though things were turning out very different from what we had a right to expect.
59041and does not the Almighty, addressing every faithful soul, say,"_ My love, my dove, my undefiled?_"[ Footnote 98][ Footnote 98: Can.
59041and in the second, what degree of this love must we practise?
59041and is it not said of every just man, that his"_ continual prayer availeth much?_"[ Footnote 97][ Footnote 97: St. James v., 16.]
59041and who are my brethren?
59041brethren, do not say with the murderer Cain:"_ Am I my brother''s keeper?_"What have I to do with the sanctification or ruin of souls?
59041brethren, do not say with the murderer Cain:"_ Am I my brother''s keeper?_"What have I to do with the sanctification or ruin of souls?
59041but, how much can I do?
59041exclaims St. Augustine,"you will prove your cause by sleeping witnesses?"
59041have these ministers of Satan persuaded you to renounce your lawful standard, and enlist under that of the devil?
59041or at least that it is too strict for you, and that you can not keep it?
59041that any thing so bright?
59041the Madonna so far more beautiful than the Venus de Medicis?
59041to have renounced your allegiance to your rightful Lord, for the service of such a master, who trembles at the very name of Jesus Christ?
59041what can it be?
59041what can it mean?
59041what shall we do?"
59041where was the Angel of the Blessed Sacrament then?
59041where, I ask, was the Angel of the Blessed Sacrament?
59041who is scandalized, and I do not burn?_"This is to love our Lord in earnest.
59041who will tell us something about it?
59041whom seekest thou?_"she answers distractedly,"_ They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him_."
59041why have we not all this spirit?
59041wretched man that I am!_"was his mournful cry,"_ who shall deliver me from this body of death?_"For this reason he scourged himself.
59041you say, is that all that is required of us to insure our salvation-- to keep clear of mortal sin?
59041{ 137} You are a soldier of Jesus Christ, are you?
59041{ 153} How is it, my dear brethren, with us on the way of life?
59041{ 167} Where then is the world which, as Christians, we are called upon to separate from?
59041{ 179} And perhaps, seeing this, the thought arises in your mind:"Does not God take notice of these things?
59041{ 193} To whom is that addressed?
59041{ 206} Who is there that needs to be told that the Blessed Virgin is splendid in sanctity, dazzling in beauty, and exalted in power?
59041{ 214} Is she said to sit at the"King''s right hand?"
59041{ 216} or, later in life, a poor young woman thrust away, with her husband, from a crowded inn, or fleeing by night with an infant child?
59041{ 220} Are you in sin?
59041{ 22}"_ Who is weak,_"said he,"_ and I am not weak?
59041{ 243} Did you ever know, my brethren, that God had been so good to you?
59041{ 249} Now, how shall we account for such fortitude as this?
59041{ 258} But how is it with those who are_ spiritually_ proud?
59041{ 269} Are we then, my brethren, anxiously desirous of saving our souls?
59041{ 278} Now, what is more desirable than God?
59041{ 302} Why does the sun rise in the morning, and go down at night?
59041{ 304} Do you ask what has been done for your souls?
59041{ 306} Have you, my brethren, so regarded yourselves?
59041{ 30} Now why would you say this?
59041{ 328} How is it with a large body of students at one of our colleges or universities?
59041{ 329} Where can you find the trace of any real care of your souls?
59041{ 336} Did not Christ look upon mankind with human eyes, and make all our human feelings his own?
59041{ 341} What language can express the gratitude which filled her heart toward her deliverers?
59041{ 34} Now, then, I think I hear you say to me: Father, have I then done this horrible thing?
59041{ 36} And you, O adulteress, why have you come here?
59041{ 74} And when one of the servants said to the master:"_ Wilt thou that we go to gather it up?
59041{ 98} But what degree of this love must we exercise in order to obtain everlasting life?
18578WHAT DO YOU GIVE IN PLACE OF WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY?
18578A writer in the New York Times?
18578ARE THERE ANY CREEDS WHICH IT IS WICKED FOR US TO QUESTION?
18578ARE THERE ANY CREEDS WHICH IT IS WICKED FOR US TO QUESTION?
18578All sweet, beautiful, noble; but, if nobody from the beginning of the world had ever advanced beyond mothers''ideas where should we be to- day?
18578An Infinite Power, then, an eternal Power, shall I say an intelligent Power?
18578And I have had persons say to me:"I have been ill all my life, I have suffered no end of pain and trouble: I wonder why?
18578And I replied, Do you not think that God is almost as good as you are?
18578And are these things the most important ones, the ones that we need to feel solid under our feet?
18578And do you not see that in every case it has nothing whatever to do with the mother''s moral goodness or spiritual cultivation?
18578And has this evolution of the religious life of the world threatened the stability of truth?
18578And he takes his place in the long line of the world''s redeemers, those who have wrought atonement, how?
18578And how shall we know whether it is right or wrong?
18578And how was the majority reached?
18578And then what?
18578And truth for us, what is that?
18578And what did they put him to death for?
18578And what was Dr. Briggs tried for?
18578And why does he do this?
18578And why?
18578And why?
18578And yet, if these people that do not want any changes made had had control of the world ten thousand years ago, where should we be to- day?
18578And, after two thousand years of that kind of effort, what is the result?
18578And, if I had my choice of the future, what would it be?
18578Anything like evidence?
18578Anything like quiet brooding of those who supposed they were, under the influence of the Holy Ghost, receiving divine and sacred truth?
18578Are not these men in their degree worshippers?
18578Are there any great spiritual problems waiting for those questions to be settled?
18578Are there no prayers for other lines?
18578Are there some things that doubt can not touch?
18578Are these antiquated ideas?
18578Are these great human contests about nothing at all?
18578Are they a gospel?
18578Are we going to lose the sense of righteousness which is the very heart of religion?
18578Are we going to wait for criticism to settle metaphysical problems before we do anything about these great practical matters?
18578Are we losing our hope of the future?
18578Are we made in his likeness?
18578Are we not under the highest of all obligations to decide for ourselves one way or the other as to whether these claims are valid?
18578Are we sure that a man is educated merely because he knows a lot of things or has been through a particular course of study?
18578Are you sorry?
18578As a result of this Renaissance, what happened?
18578As we wake up, assuming nothing, and look abroad, what do we find?
18578As you look over the animal world, which one of them are we accustomed to think of as coming the nearest to man?
18578Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall what?
18578But do you not see by what subtle and divine chemistry the selfishness is straightway transformed, lifted up, glorified, and becomes unselfishness?
18578But has doubt quenched the light of any star?
18578But has the great hope gone?
18578But his companion said, Are you not astonished at the Capitol of Washington?
18578But how is it supposed to work out the atonement that is necessary, in order that man may be saved?
18578But is that a correct use of language?
18578But is there any rational ground for hope still?
18578But what does living mean?
18578Can I illustrate it?
18578Can both be right?
18578Can we accept that to- day as a definition of a rational view of the relation in which we stand to God?
18578Can we believe such things to- day?
18578Can we call it an integral part of a gospel?
18578Can we have the old ideas about him?
18578Can we with gladness proclaim them to men?
18578Can you conceive of a sane person making such a choice as that?
18578Could we proclaim it with any heart of courage as a part of the gospel of God?
18578Death?
18578Did it ever occur to you that it began when men began to doubt?
18578Did they even claim to have?
18578Did those who proposed that this particular clause or that should enter into it have any proof of their belief?
18578Do I make, then, an extraordinary claim when I say that we are the Evangelical Church, that the church which preaches the gospel is here?
18578Do people believe them?
18578Do we find something else, some other condition of mind, when we come to study carefully the Old Testament?
18578Do we need to go very deeply into human life to discover the profound truth of that saying?
18578Do you believe that God has made this universe so that it is healthier for the masses to live on a lie than it is for them to live on the truth?
18578Do you change the laws of motion?
18578Do you know what it is?
18578Do you know what the trouble was at the time of the French Revolution?
18578Do you know why it works as it does?
18578Do you not see how this admiration transformed the life of the young king, and made him after the type of that which he admired?
18578Do you not see how, in both cases here, it is purely a matter of convention?
18578Do you not see right in there the parallel to the old idea that used to dominate us in regard to the government of the universe?
18578Do you not see that I am talking nonsense?
18578Do you not see that as a truth- seeker in a free world he may not be educated at all?
18578Do you not see that theory may be of immense practical importance in certain contingencies?
18578Do you not see what a necessary corollary would be a belief in their ultimate prosperity and triumph?
18578Do you not see, however, that this so- called education may stand squarely in the way?
18578Do you remember the story of the unjust judge?
18578Do you see the suggestion of the picture?
18578Do you think there is going to be a poorer religion than there has been in the past?
18578Do you think there was no one on that ship that prayed?
18578Does anybody wish something put in the place of this?
18578Does he exert any pressure from outside?
18578Does he fence it in?
18578Does it ever occur to you that commerce is something besides a means for the accumulation of wealth?
18578Does it make any difference how we live these lives of ours?
18578Does it make any difference now whether the farmer has correct ideas about soil and seed and cultivation?
18578Does it make any difference whether he has any true conception of the nature and work of the sunshine in producing this crop?
18578Does it make any difference whether they are doing the right thing for it or not?
18578Does it make no difference what we believe about them?
18578Does it touch the living or the welfare of the world?
18578Does that mean that it ends there?
18578For what does the choice of evil mean?
18578For what is it that we preach?
18578Frankly accepted the truth?
18578Go back to the time of Jesus: do you not remember how the people asked whether any of the scribes or the Pharisees believed on him?
18578Had they considered Darwin''s arguments to find out whether they were true?
18578Has Unitarianism ever taken away any faith or hope or trust from the world?
18578Has anybody ever done it?
18578Has doubt taken away from the glory of the universe?
18578Has doubt touched that, so that it has shrivelled and become as nothing?
18578Has it taken him away from us?
18578Has no one ever prayed on behalf of a ship that did meet with an accident?
18578Has not Jesus told us that your heavenly Father is more ready to give the things which you need than you are to give good gifts to your children?
18578Have I any business to say I have faith that it was written by him, and let it rest there?
18578Have I changed natural laws any?
18578Have we lost the Bible?
18578He begins, we say, to live; and what does that mean?
18578He is not as perfect as an animal; but what has evolution done?
18578Her child is spared, spared for what?
18578Here among the lower animals were what?
18578How can a church prove that its declarations are infallible?
18578How can one follow the absolutely Perfect except afar off?
18578How can we find his words?
18578How did he get over the difficulty?
18578How do I know?
18578How does he succeed here?
18578How does it grow as the world grows?
18578How else should we look at things except from the point of view of men, since we are men?
18578How is it ever going to find the truth?
18578How is it that you produce results anywhere?
18578How long had Comte been dead before we discovered the spectroscope?
18578How long is it going to last?
18578How long?
18578How many men are there that take possession of the intellectual realm that lies around them on every hand?
18578How many men can you get fairly to consider the political position of his opponent?
18578How many men have even a conception of the wonders of the microscopic world?
18578How many of us have risen to the idea of making these grand sentiments the ruling principles of our lives?
18578How many people are there to- day who look with an unprejudiced eye upon a foreigner?
18578How many people can you get fairly to weigh the position of one who occupies a religious home different from their own?
18578How many people think of the torture of the curb bit, of the check, of neglect in the case of cold, of thirst, of hunger?
18578How many people who do leave one church for another do it as the result of any earnest study, or real endeavor to find the truth?
18578How much do the grasses and the flowers have to say to him?
18578How much of all this marvellous realm, or even a suggestion of it, is revealed to the ordinary man as he walks through the field?
18578How much of it is held even by those who, being scholars and thinkers, still hold their allegiance to the old- time theology?
18578How much of that old theory is intact to- day?
18578How would it be possible for one generation to make a little advance on that which preceded it, so that we could speak of the progress of mankind?
18578I break a law of my spiritual nature; does nothing take place as the result of it?
18578I break some law of my affectional nature; is nothing to happen?
18578I break some law of my body; do I escape the result?
18578I break some law of my mind; do I escape the result?
18578I could not think of him as an example to follow; for how can one take the Infinite for an example?
18578I have heard women say, I have tried to be a good mother: why is my child taken away from me?
18578I intimated a moment ago?
18578I want you to note that unity?
18578I wonder why I am treated so?
18578I wondered, Could the chancellor of a great University possibly be ignorant of the facts?
18578IS LIFE A PROBATION ENDED BY DEATH?
18578If all of us were to accept opinions in this sort of fashion, and never put them behind us or make any change, where would the growth of the world be?
18578If an Infinite Power is against me in my efforts to do good, what is the use of my making the effort?
18578If he can not save them, then why should I beg him to do it?
18578If he can, and loves them better than I do, again, why should I plead with him after that fashion to do it?
18578If he knew it was absolutely necessary for us to hold certain ideas about the Bible, ought not he to have told us?
18578If it is true, in the economy of the divine government, that human souls could be saved in no other way, is that good news?
18578If it made no difference whether a man worshipped God intelligently or according to the things Luther thought all wrong, what was the difference?
18578If not, why, then, are these looked upon as the grandest figures since the world began?
18578If so, why are we so foolish as to admire him?
18578If the universe is bad all through, essentially bad, where did he get his moral ideal in the light of which to judge and condemn it?
18578If there are good reasons for holding it, instead of calling names, why not show us the reasons?
18578If they do accept it, then what?
18578If this is not true, ought he not to have told us something about it, and made it perfectly clear?
18578If we hold that theory, what?
18578If we pit ourselves against one of God''s eternal truths, is that truth going to suffer?
18578If you can not say any more than this, here is all that is absolutely necessary to the very noblest life:"Hath man no second life?
18578If, for example, Jesus knew he was God, ought not he to have told it so plainly that no honest man could go astray about it?
18578In the place of the little, petty universe of Hebrew dream, what have we now?
18578In what sense and to what extent do they belong to him?
18578Intellectually, is there any other object of education than to fit a man to find the truth?
18578Is he personal?
18578Is it conceivable that a sane person should intelligently choose evil, unless he had some inherited bias or tendency in that direction?
18578Is it good news?
18578Is it good news?
18578Is it not absurd to talk about their having anything whatever to do with each other?
18578Is it not just this?
18578Is it not perfectly natural you should?
18578Is it not perfectly plain?
18578Is it not the dog?
18578Is it quite honest?
18578Is it sincere?
18578Is it something we would like to believe?
18578Is it true that God is Spirit, and that he is Father of his children, also spirit?
18578Is it wise for us to put ourselves in this attitude?
18578Is it wise for us to put ourselves into such a position that it shall seem criminal and evil for us to accept it?
18578Is it?
18578Is not that the process?
18578Is not this true in every department of human life?
18578Is that the kind of God you worship?
18578Is that your confidence in God?
18578Is there any loss here?
18578Is there any loss here?
18578Is there any loss in this exchange?
18578Is there any need of atonement?
18578Is there any need of atonement?
18578Is there any proof that they knew anything about it?
18578Is there any truth involved?
18578Is there any way of proving it?
18578Is there anything of value taken away?
18578Is there community of nature between him and us?
18578Is there no reason for us to consider it here in this latter part of the nineteenth century?
18578Is there no"punishment"in this deprivation of the highest and finest things that we can conceive of?
18578Is there significance in them, any purpose, any plan, any outcome, to make it worth while for us to struggle and strive?
18578Is this a dead question?
18578Is this quite honest?
18578Is this the way you maintain your credit as business men?
18578Is this the way you use language in Wall Street, in your banks and your stores?
18578Is this way of looking at it confined to primitive man, confined to pagan nations?
18578Is this, if it be true, good news?
18578Is worship, then, so far as external form is concerned, to pass away?
18578It is our business simply to raise the question, and try to answer it or ourselves, Which way must I go to follow the truth?
18578It was earnestly, verily believed; and the doctrine is still taught every time that a new edition of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith?
18578It will broaden itself naturally, if we can not accept that theory of it, into the further question, What is the main end and purpose of our life?
18578Jesus the great atoning sacrifice?
18578MY subject this morning is an attempted answer to the question,"Is Life a Probation ended by Death?"
18578MY theme is the answer to the question, What do you give in place of what you take away?
18578Man wakes up here on this planet what sort of a being?
18578May we then feel that modern doubt does not touch our belief in God?
18578Must I say nothing about it because, possibly, I may not have discovered just what is true?
18578Must he keep still about that because, forsooth, he was not able to establish another theory of the universe in its place?
18578Now do we find any difference in teaching in the New Testament?
18578Now has this young boy come into possession of these things?
18578Now to raise one moment the question suggested near the opening, Are forms of worship to pass away?
18578Now what are the facts?
18578Now what are the theories of atonement as outlined in the popular theology?
18578Now what are the three principles out of which Unitarianism is born?
18578Now what do we mean by education?
18578Now what was the condition of popular belief?
18578Now would you be willing to be turned into a pig, merely because, being a pig, you would not know anything about it, and would not suffer?
18578Now, when Christianity comes into the world, what shall we say?
18578Now, when man appeared, what happened?
18578On what, then, shall we base any one of these"infallible"creeds?
18578Out of that Power, as I have said, we have come; and who are we?
18578Perhaps; but, then, why are we foolish enough to honor him?
18578Rather shall we not beat ourselves to pieces against God''s adamant?
18578Shall I lie for the glory of God, the supposed honor of God?
18578Shall we call a Power like this God?
18578Shall we call it Force?
18578Shall we call it Law?
18578Shall we call it Nature?
18578Shall we escape these things by going into other churches?
18578Should we not be Unitarians?
18578Sits there no Judge in heaven our sin to see?
18578So that prayer which is worship, is it not altogether fitting and sweet and true?
18578Suppose, again, that God writes a book, an infallible book, and gives it to whom?
18578THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENT RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION DOUBT AND FAITH- BOTH IS LIFE A PROBATION ENDED BY DEATH?
18578Take, for example, the one question, Is man lost or is he not?
18578The mob surrounds his house, murders him and his child, wounds other members of the family, burns down his home; and why?
18578The name Catholic?
18578The old prophet says, What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God?
18578The one life reacheth onward still; As yet no eye may see The far- off fact, man''s dream fulfill?
18578The one thing he lives for, cares for, thinks of, labors after, is what?
18578The unity of God?
18578Then what?
18578They are not suffering anything Is it nothing to become swinish, merely because you have your beautiful pen to live in?
18578They say, Now, Job, why not confess, why not own up as to what you have been doing?
18578This would hardly seem possible, would it, if Jesus had made himself perfectly clear and explicit in regard to these matters?
18578To how many men do the star have anything to say at night?
18578UNITARIANISM"WHAT DO YOU IN PLACE OF WHAT YOU TAKE AWAY?"
18578WHERE IS THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH?
18578WHERE IS THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH?
18578WHY ARE NOT ALL EDUCATED PEOPLE UNITARIANS?
18578WHY HAVE UNITARIANS NO CREED?
18578WHY HAVE UNITARIANS NO CREED?
18578Was Christ a man like us?
18578Was he a fool?
18578Was he contending about airy nothings without local habitation or a name?
18578Was he contending for nothing?
18578Was he justified in telling the truth about Calvinism because he has not a ready- made scheme to substitute for it?
18578Was it written by the apostle John, who lay in the bosom of Jesus, and was called the beloved disciple?
18578Was this the essential thing in the gospel of Christ?
18578We have changed our conception of him; but have we lost God?
18578We need to know this; and what do the investigation and the doubt and the struggle of the world say to us concerning these?
18578We preach the inevitable results of law- breaking, are they to last one year, five, a hundred, a thousand, a million, ten millions?
18578We say they belong to him; but do they belong to him?
18578Were both of them right?
18578Were the people really enemies of God?
18578Were they contending for nothing at all?
18578Were they enemies of religion?
18578Were they enemies of truth?
18578Were they grand, noble?
18578What are the relations in which we stand to- day towards Spain?
18578What are the things of which we are sure?
18578What are the things that are in question?
18578What are they?
18578What are we going to do about it?
18578What are we here for?
18578What are we losing, then, as the result of this growth of the world in accordance with the law of evolution?
18578What did Jesus think and say about them?
18578What did he do it for?
18578What did that mean to the world?
18578What did we have a Civil War for, wasting billions of money and hundreds of thousands of lives?
18578What difference does it make?
18578What do I mean by that?
18578What do we mean by coming into a knowledge of God?
18578What do we need?
18578What do you find in the Bible?
18578What do you give in place of that which you take away?
18578What does a human education mean?
18578What does atonement mean?
18578What does atonement mean?
18578What does he need?
18578What does he want?
18578What does it mean?
18578What does it mean?
18578What does it mean?
18578What does that mean?
18578What follows from this?
18578What has been the result?
18578What has been the result?
18578What has doubt, what has investigation, done concerning the universe of which we are a part?
18578What has this spirit done concerning Jesus?
18578What have I done that I must be burdened and afflicted after this fashion?"
18578What have we discovered?
18578What is God''s method of keeping a system like this solar one of ours together?
18578What is conscience, then?
18578What is faith?
18578What is human life, then?
18578What is involved that is of any importance?
18578What is it for?
18578What is it that keeps man from God?
18578What is it that keeps man from God?
18578What is our God to- day?
18578What is sin, as science looks at it and treats it?
18578What is the difficulty in the mind of the intelligent, modern thinker when he faces this conception of prayer?
18578What is the use of all this investigating?
18578What is the use of criticism?
18578What is the use of paying any attention to the theological or religious opinions of a man who avows an attitude like that?
18578What is the use?
18578What is to be its outcome?
18578What means all this intense activity of the scientific world?
18578What of it?
18578What one do we love to have most with us, to associate most with our joys, with the peace of our homes?
18578What right had he to choose for you?
18578What shall we try to do?
18578What was characteristic of those ages?
18578What was he contending about, and why does the world bow down to him with reverence and honor?
18578What was that old conception?
18578What was that?
18578What was the Renaissance?
18578What was the Renaissance?
18578What was the use of troubling about it?
18578What would you think of it?
18578What, then, is the meaning of life?
18578Whatever good is in us, Whatever good we see, And every high endeavor, Are they not all from Thee?
18578When I was first struggling out into the light?
18578When was that formed?
18578When we come up to the level of man, what do we find?
18578Where did this modern civilization of ours begin?
18578Where did this wondrous dream come from?
18578Where do they claim to get the authority for these old beliefs?
18578Where shall I begin?
18578Which is true?
18578Which of them shall we accept?
18578Who are the sheep, and who are the goats?
18578Who are they?
18578Who can tell me what a particle of matter is?
18578Who can tell me what a ray of light is, as it comes from a star?
18578Who is it, then, his father or mother, or he himself, that has sinned, that is the cause of it?
18578Who is it, then, that takes these beliefs away?
18578Whoever looked upon them shining And turned to earth without repining, Nor wished for wings to flee away And mix with their eternal ray?"
18578Why are not all educated men Unitarians?
18578Why are not all educated people Unitarians?
18578Why are we fools enough to honor the men who were burned at Oxford?
18578Why can not I any longer pray to God to send his light and truth to the heathen world?
18578Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world???
18578Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world???
18578Why can not we believe that prayer is the power that moves the arm that moves the world???
18578Why do not all persons who study and who are educated accept the Unitarian faith?
18578Why do not scientific men accept demonstrated truth when it is first demonstrated as truth?
18578Why do we honor to- day the line of saints and martyrs?
18578Why do we look upon Savonarola with such admiration?
18578Why indulge in all this doubt?
18578Why is it that we can not pray to God to change the order of the natural world?
18578Why is it to- day that we lift John Wesley on such a lofty pedestal of admiration?
18578Why not let everybody worship and believe as he pleases?
18578Why should he have made himself so unpopular as to be cast out even of the Unitarian fellowship?
18578Why should they meet with eternal doom on account of the lack of enthusiasm or devotion of people of whom they have never heard?
18578Why, even in our human life do you not know how it is?
18578Why, friends, do you know anything about electricity?
18578Why, then, are not all thoughtful, educated people Unitarians?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Why?
18578Would I take away this trust, this poetry, this romance, untrue as I believe it to be in form, inadequate as I believe it to be?
18578Would I take it away, and leave her mind bare, her heart empty, leave her without the comfort, without the inspiration?
18578Would he state that which he knew was not true?
18578Would it have made any difference which side won?
18578Would we speak of it as a gospel, something of which to be glad, something to proclaim to mankind as a cheer, a message from on high?
18578Would you expect to find the same ideas throughout it?
18578Would you go and look at these swine, and say they are not suffering anything?
18578You see how that perception lifted him above the average level of his people?
18578You want the antiquity of the world?
18578or Universal?
18578was he making himself uncomfortable over imaginary distinctions?
14139But,you say,"suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?"
14139But,you say,"suppose his store burns up?"
14139Lord, is it I? 14139 Oh, when, thou city of my God, Shall I thy courts ascend?
14139Suppose his physical health fails?
14139Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
14139Well,said the minister,"would n''t you like to have me pray with you?"
14139Well,you say,"I have been driven out of that tower; where shall I go?"
14139What are you waiting here for?
14139What do you mean?
14139What,say you,"ca n''t a man be saved without going to church?"
14139Where did your grandfather die?
14139Where did your great- grandfather die?
14139Wherefore do the wicked live?
14139Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, mighty to save?
14139Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
14139Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
14139Why are you here?
14139''Is that all?
14139A few nights later, while crossing the ferry, she overheard the name of her employer in the conversation of girls who stood near:''What, John Snipes?
14139A paragraph from their report:"''Can you make Mr. Jones pay me?
14139About to jump, where will you land?
14139After death seizes upon that soul, is there no resurrection?
14139And can it be possible that our eternity is dependent upon the healthy action of that which can be so easily destroyed?
14139And the soul will cry:"Is this forever?"
14139And then, when the bread is passed around, they taste of it skeptically and inquiringly, as much as to say:"Is it bread?
14139And who will say, on earth or in Heaven, that Havelock had not the right to preach?
14139And will He take care of the sparrow, will He take care of the hawk, and let you die?
14139Are not those of you who are in the third class ready to pass over into the second division, and become seekers after Christ?
14139Are not women as sharp as men on washer- women and milliners and mantua- makers?
14139Are the clerks in your store irate against the firm?
14139Are there any here who would like to enter into that association?
14139Are there two destinies?
14139Are we to go through the slaughter?
14139Are you all fed?
14139Are you doing nothing?
14139Are you ready for the emergency?
14139Are you ready to join with me in some new work for Christ?
14139Are you to blame?
14139As it was even- time he said to his wife:"Have you lighted the candles?"
14139As soon as it came within speaking distance the people on the shore cried out:"Did you save any of them?
14139Ask the day of judgment when her crowned debauchees, Commodus and Pertinax, and Caligula and Diocletian, shall answer for their infamy?
14139Ay, are you not ready to pass over into the first division, and become the pardoned sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty?
14139Because their own personal expenses are lavish?
14139Because they are avaricious?
14139But are there no truths to be uttered in regard to this great evil?
14139But as money is not a lawful tender, what is?
14139But do you know what made the ancient deluge a necessity?
14139But hear you not the tramp of your unpardoned sins all around the tower?
14139But how shall Abimelech and his army take this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified?
14139But suppose you do not keep it?
14139But what is all that commotion and flutter, and surging to and fro above Him and on either side of Him?
14139But what shall be the destiny of the latter?
14139But where is the king?
14139But why talk of refuge?
14139But will the monument to Him who died for the eternal liberation of the human race ever be completed?
14139But you say,"Have n''t people lived on in complete use of it to old age?"
14139But, you say,"What is the use of all these harvest- fields to Ruth and Naomi?
14139By what principle of justice is it that women in many of our cities get only two thirds as much pay as men, and in many cases only half?
14139By what weapon?
14139Can a million wrongs make one right?
14139Can it be possible that heaven can not buy you in?
14139Can one speckled and bad apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good?
14139Can those who are themselves down help others up?
14139Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts of their spiritual insolvents?
14139Can you be without emotion as the Sun of Righteousness rises behind Calvary, and sets behind Joseph''s sepulcher?
14139Can you do such a shocking thing as that?
14139Can you have any doubt about who it is on the seat on the judgment day?
14139Can you imagine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judah?
14139Did it make you gloomy and sad?
14139Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the first Christmas night, and designate the rough cradle of our Lord?
14139Did not the stars in their courses fight against Sisera?
14139Did the distress heal them?
14139Did the world come in to stand by his death- bed, and clearing off the vials of bitter medicine, put down any compensation?
14139Did they not try to divorce Margaret, the Scotch girl, from Jesus?
14139Did you ever put your forefingers on its eternal pulses?
14139Did you ever read De Quincey''s"Confessions of an Opium- Eater?"
14139Did you go with your head cast down?
14139Did you save any of them?"
14139Did you think that your soul was a mere trinket which for a few pennies you could buy in a toy shop?
14139Did you think that your soul was short- lived, and that, panting, it would soon lie down for extinction?
14139Did you think that your soul, if once lost, might be found again if you went out with torches and lanterns?
14139Did you, my brother, ever measure the meaning of that one passage:"Behold, I stand at the door and knock"?
14139Do n''t remember them, eh?
14139Do n''t you know that with some persons there is a tide in their spiritual natures which, if taken at the flood, leads on to salvation?
14139Do n''t you want to go in with such a rabble?
14139Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them?
14139Do you believe that?
14139Do you believe that?
14139Do you believe that?
14139Do you expect me to take that pardon offered with such a voice as you have, with such an awkward manner as you have?
14139Do you hear that?
14139Do you know how it is made?
14139Do you know where Sheba was?
14139Do you know who Supply and Demand are?
14139Do you not feel the swellings of the great oceanic tides of Divine mercy?
14139Do you not see the troops?
14139Do you realize this?
14139Do you remember all those lapses in conduct?
14139Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions?
14139Do you say that I swing open the gate of heaven too far?
14139Do you want history?
14139Do you want logic?
14139Do you want poetry?
14139Does it not seem as if his volume of infamy were complete?
14139Does it not seem as if the last fifty years would make an appropriate peroration?
14139Does it reform him?
14139Far on in the ages one lost soul shall cry out to another lost soul:"How long have you been here?"
14139Fifteen, twenty, forty, sixty years?
14139For fun?
14139For what are you taking it?
14139From what land did you come?
14139Furthermore, let me ask why a chance should be given in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this?
14139Give us another chance"?
14139Great God, is life such an uncertain thing?
14139Had he lost his patience?
14139Had he resigned his confidence in the Christian religion?
14139Had the world treated him so badly that he had become its sworn enemy?
14139Happy?
14139Happy?
14139Happy?
14139Happy?
14139Happy?
14139Has he a right to expect to be invited after all the indignities he has done you?
14139Has he found any new elixir?
14139Have I held back any truth, though it were plain, though it were unpalatable?
14139Have not pains shot their poisoned arrows, and fevers kindled their fire in your brain?
14139Have they been used for the elevation of society or for its depression?
14139Have we not the Lord Almighty on our side?
14139Have you any idea that sin will wear out?
14139Have you ever imagined what will be the soliloquy of the soul on that day unpardoned, as it looks back upon its past life?
14139Have you ever tried it?
14139Have you given one half day to the working out of your salvation with fear and trembling?
14139Have you made any effort, any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health?
14139Have you never felt the quiver of its peerless wing?
14139Have you no idea of the coming of such a time?
14139Have you not noticed that God harnesses men, bad men, and accomplishes good through them?
14139Have you nothing better than money to leave your children?
14139He says,"Shall I stop the mill, or shall I run it on half time, or shall I cut down the men''s wages?"
14139He says:"Do you remember those chances you had for heaven, and missed them?
14139Hear you not all the trumpets of heaven and all the drums of hell?
14139Hear you not the welcome of those who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us?
14139His old comrades came in and said as they bent over his corpse:"What is the matter with you, Boggsey?"
14139How are these evils to be eradicated?
14139How can a man stand in the pulpit and preach on the subject of temperance when he is indulging such a habit as that?
14139How could you do so?
14139How dare the Christian Church ever get discouraged?
14139How darest thou sleep in harvest- time and with so few hours in which to reap?
14139How do I know it?
14139How do you feel toward that spiritual fraud, turpitude and perfidy?
14139How long did it take God to slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shake down Jericho?
14139How long have you, my brother, lived unforgiven?
14139How long will it take God, when He once arises in His strength, to overthrow all the forces of iniquity?
14139How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet?
14139How shall it be taken?
14139How shall this great multitude be supplied?
14139How then?
14139I can not help now, while preaching, asking myself the question-- Am I ready for that?
14139I do not blame you for asking me the quivering, throbbing, burning, resounding, appalling question of my text,"Wherefore do the wicked live?"
14139I go a little further on the same road and meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say:"Have n''t you got some music for a tired pilgrim?"
14139I said to one of the intelligent men of Ireland:"Tell me in a few words what are the sufferings of Ireland, and what is the Land Relief enactment?"
14139I see a man rising in that great crowd and asking:"Is there any one here who has bread or meat?"
14139I start out on this King''s highway, and I find a harper, and I say:"What is your name?"
14139I wonder what proportion of this audience will be saved?
14139If I bear a little too hard with my right foot on the earth, does it break through into the grave?
14139If a man topples off the edge of life, is there nothing to break his fall?
14139If a woman asks a dollar for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take ninety cents?
14139If an impenitent man goes overboard, are there no grappling- hooks to hoist him into safety?
14139If anything is purchased and paid for, ought not the goods to be delivered?
14139If you are on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what artillery service, to what garrison duty do you belong?
14139If you have bought property and given the money, do you not want to come into possession of it?
14139If, then, we are to be compelled to go out of this world, where are we to go to?
14139In other words, in what Sabbath- school do you teach?
14139Is it I?"
14139Is it all true?
14139Is it not fair that you love Him?
14139Is it not imperative that you love Him?
14139Is it not right that you love Him?
14139Is it possible that a man or woman sworn to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ is doing nothing?
14139Is it to frighten your soul?
14139Is it to help him back to a moral and spiritual life?
14139Is not that plain?
14139Is that so?
14139Is that the kind of society that reforms a man and prepares him for heaven?
14139Is there a God?
14139Is there a divergence now between the parlor and the kitchen?
14139Is there enough muscle in your arm for such a combat?
14139Is there no help?
14139Is there no way out?"
14139Is there not an old Book somewhere that commands us to go out into the highways and the hedges and compel the people to come in?
14139Is this a mere statement of a preacher whose business it is to talk morals, or is the testimony of the world just as emphatic?
14139Is this plea all in vain?
14139Is this world, which swings at the speed of thousands of miles an hour around the sun, going with tenfold more speed toward the judgment- day?
14139Lend you a shilling?
14139Lovely?
14139Messages that say:"When are you coming home to see us?
14139Must He take another darling child from your household?
14139Must He take another installment from your worldly estate?
14139Must I meet you there, oh, you dying but immortal auditory?
14139Must life come upon you with sorrow after sorrow, and smite you down with sickness before you will be moved, and before you will feel?
14139My friends, my neighbors, what can I say to induce you to attend to this matter-- to attend to it now?
14139My little child, seven years of age, said to her mother one day,"Why do n''t God kill the devil at once, and have done with it?"
14139Need I tell a cultured audience like this that there is no other name given among men by which ye can be saved?
14139Now what is the use of my discussing it any more?
14139Now, where is this to begin?
14139Oh, impenitent soul, have you ever tried the power of prayer?
14139Oh, man and woman, have you not learned that like vultures, like hawks, like eagles, riches have wings and fly away?
14139Oh, men of the strong arm and the stout heart, what use are you making of your physical forces?
14139Oh, must God come upon you in some other way?
14139Oh, my brother, what possessed you that you should part with your soul so cheap?
14139Oh, why do you not put out your arm and reach it?
14139Oh, would it not be better for us to get our nature through the Grace of Christ revolutionized and transfigured?
14139Oh, ye pursued, sinning, dying, troubled, exhausted souls, are you not ready now to hear me while I tell you of Christ, the Refuge?
14139Oh, ye who have tried this world, is it a satisfactory portion?
14139Old age?
14139On what battle- field, my brothers?
14139Only one test-- do you love Jesus?
14139Or for all eternity where would you be?
14139Or had you no idea what your soul was worth?
14139Ought not the apostle to know?
14139Ought you not give him freedom of choice?"
14139Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning?
14139Out of this audience to- day, how many will get to the shore of heaven?
14139Pay?
14139People cried out,"Who ever heard of such theories of ethics and government?
14139Really, is it bread?"
14139Roll over me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow"?
14139Ruth going into that harvest- field might have said:"There is a straw, and there is a straw, but what is a straw?
14139Shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?"
14139Shall I give an account for what I have told you to- night?
14139Shall I tell you when your death hour will come?
14139Shall any man or woman or child in this audience who has ever suffered for another find it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us?
14139Shall it rise into the companionship of the white- robed, whose sins Christ has slain?
14139Shall you, His child, rush in to criticise or arraign or condemn the divine government?
14139She coaxes him again, and says:"Now tell me the secret of this great strength?"
14139She said to Wellington:"Can there nothing good be said of this man?"
14139She said:"Are you not going to pay me?"
14139She took up the death- warrant, and it trembled in her hand as she again asked:"Does no one know anything good of this man?"
14139Some one said to him,"What are you listening for?"
14139Speak, dying Christian-- what light do you see?
14139Spinola said to Sir Horace Vere:"Of what did your brother die?"
14139Standing before some who shall be launched into the great eternity, what are your equipments?
14139The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"
14139The debt is paid, and the receipt is handed to you, written in the blood of the Son of God-- will you have it?
14139The employer says:"I hear you are going to leave me?"
14139The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt by themselves, where are the salvatory influences to come from?
14139The happiest, and the brightest, and the fairest in all heaven-- who are they?"
14139The man turned to the other, and said:"Where did your father die?"
14139The men whose life- time work is the study of the science of health say so, and shall I set up my opinion against theirs?
14139The question is asked:"Is there any good about this man?"
14139The servants come rushing up and say:"What''s the matter?
14139The tenant goes on improving his property, and after awhile I come around and I say to my agent,''How much rent is this man paying?''
14139The workman looks around to his comrades, and says:"Boys, what do you say to this?
14139The world clapped its hands and stamped its feet in honor of Charles Lamb; but what does he say?
14139Then chariots and horses of fire racing up and down the heavens; then perfect day:"Who is she that cometh forth as the morning?"
14139Then have you forgotten the last half of my text?
14139Then you have a soul, have you?
14139There is n''t anything like the Bible for a dying soldier, is there, my comrade?"
14139There is not enough food in all the village for this crowd; besides that, who has the money to pay for it?
14139There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal,"Why do n''t you help them lift?
14139They come bounding toward me, and I say:"Who are they?
14139They look as if they had rusted from sea- spray; and I say to the maiden of Israel:"Have you no song for a tired pilgrim?"
14139Though you should be successful in leaving a competency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night?
14139To- morrow?
14139To- night?
14139Toward that bridal Jerusalem are our windows opened?
14139WHY ARE SATAN AND SIN PERMITTED?
14139Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon was eclipsed for twelve consecutive nights?
14139Was n''t it strange?"
14139Was there ever such a convocation of pictures, bronzes, of bric- Ã  -brac, of grandeurs, social grandeurs?
14139Well, how could the tender- hearted Paul say that?
14139Were there not enough sick to be attended in these Northern latitudes?
14139What are Michael Angelo''s great pictures?
14139What are Paul Veronese''s great pictures?
14139What are Tintoretto''s great pictures?
14139What are Titian''s great pictures?
14139What broken bone of sorrow have you ever set?
14139What can such a wretched mendicant as this fellow that is tramping on toward the house want with a ring?
14139What did Benjamin Franklin say?
14139What did Daniel Webster say of it?
14139What did Horace Greeley say of it?
14139What did Thomas Jefferson say?
14139What did he say?
14139What do you want?
14139What does Satan do for such a man?
14139What does the world do?
14139What does the world say?
14139What does the world think?
14139What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to discuss; but what would be the effect of female suffrage on women''s wages?
14139What has been the testimony on this subject?
14139What have they done for your fortune?
14139What have they done for your health?
14139What have they done for your immortal soul?
14139What have they done for your reputation?
14139What have your companions done for you?
14139What is it that I see glittering in the mild eye of Jesus?
14139What is it that keeps you from rushing up and throwing the arms of your affection about His neck?
14139What is it?
14139What is that long procession approaching Jerusalem?
14139What is that monument in Greenwood?
14139What is that passage,"Ships of Tarshish shall bring presents"?
14139What is the advice to be given to the multitude of young people who hear me this day?
14139What is the advice you are going to give to your children?
14139What is the reason?
14139What is the terminus?
14139What is the use of your fretting about clothes?
14139What is the use of your fretting lest you will be overcome of temptations?
14139What is the use of your fretting, O child of God, about food?
14139What is the use worrying for fear something will happen to your home?
14139What is to be your destiny?
14139What is your Christian influence in this respect?
14139What is your influence upon young men?
14139What keeps me here?
14139What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century?
14139What makes Edinburgh better than Constantinople?
14139What ought to be done with such hard behavior?
14139What proportion will be lost?
14139What reward, what gratitude, what sympathy and affection can I expect here?
14139What sounds do you hear?
14139What then?
14139What though our feet be blistered with the way?
14139What were the subjects of Raphael''s great paintings?
14139What will become of that womanly disciple of the world?
14139What would the colonel say?
14139What, then, will be said to us-- we to whom the Lord gave physical strength and continuous health?
14139What_ is_ the matter?"
14139When is that?
14139When we are attacked, what advantage is there in having a fortress on the other side of the mountain?
14139Where are the carpets?
14139Where are the daughters?
14139Where are your comrades now?
14139Where is he?
14139Where is she now?
14139Where is the book- binder that could make a volume large enough to contain the names of all the people who have ever lived?
14139Where is the hat- rack?
14139Where is the piano?
14139Where is the wardrobe?
14139Where would you and I have been if sin had been followed by immediate catastrophe?
14139Where?
14139Which side are you on?
14139Who are this other group standing so near the throne?
14139Who are those bright immortals near the throne, their faces partly turned toward each other as though about to sing?
14139Who are those two gentlemen now going up the front steps?
14139Who are those two taller and more conspicuous angels?
14139Who can doubt but it is appointed for the evangelization of other lands?
14139Who ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?"
14139Who got you out?
14139Who has not heard of Claude''s"Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca"?
14139Who has not heard of Da Vinci''s"Last Supper"?
14139Who has not heard of Dürer''s"Dragon of the Apocalypse"?
14139Who has not heard of Turner''s"Pools of Solomon"?
14139Who is she?
14139Who is that going up the front steps of that house?
14139Who is that mighty angel near the throne?
14139Who is that other great angel, with dark and overshadowing brow?
14139Who is that poor man, carried on a stretcher to the Afghan ambulance?
14139Who is this that I see coming out of that palace gate of Shushan?
14139Who needs it, if the refuge spoken of be a city or a castle, into which men fly for safety?
14139Who shall rouse them up?
14139Who will bring them to life?
14139Who will furnish the hammers?
14139Who will furnish the thorns?
14139Who will furnish these?
14139Who would volunteer to be his counsel?
14139Who, then, shall feed this multitude?
14139Whom shall I fear?
14139Whom the Lord loveth He gives four hundred thousand dollars and lets die on embroidered pillows?
14139Whose?
14139Why are they drudging at business early and late?
14139Why become a castaway from God when you can sit upon the throne?
14139Why defer this matter, oh, my dear hearer?
14139Why did God command the priests of old to strike the knife into the kid, and the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb?
14139Why did that good man suffer, and that bad man prosper?
14139Why do I say this?
14139Why do the low fellows of the city now stick to him so closely?
14139Why do the wicked live?
14139Why do the wicked live?
14139Why do the wicked live?
14139Why do the wicked live?
14139Why do the wicked live?
14139Why do they go there?
14139Why do they go there?
14139Why do they not take the city cars on their way up?
14139Why do you not fly to it?
14139Why do you not step in it?
14139Why go?
14139Why have I told you all these things to- night, plainly and frankly?
14139Why in that direction open?
14139Why is that good Christian woman dying of what is called a spider cancer, while that daughter of folly sits wrapped in luxury, ease, and health?
14139Why not burst into tears at the thought that for thee He shed it-- for thee the hard- hearted, for thee the lost?
14139Why not heave the old miscreant into his dungeon now?
14139Why plunge off into darkness when all the gates of glory are open?
14139Why should I stand here and plead, and you sit there?
14139Why should they stay any longer?
14139Why this anxious look?
14139Why this deep disquietude in the soul?
14139Why throw away your chance for heaven?
14139Why will ye die miserably when eternal life is offered you, and it will cost you nothing but just willingness to accept it?
14139Why will you live on husks when you may sit down to this white bread of heaven?
14139Why, at the beginning of this service, did you do what you have not done for years-- bow your head in prayer?
14139Why, then, talk of refuge?
14139Why?
14139Why?
14139Why?
14139Will He come?
14139Will it?
14139Will the epidemic sweep Europe and America?
14139Will there be a judgment?
14139Will they do it with spear?
14139Will they do it with sword?
14139Will this war between capital and labor be settled by human wisdom?
14139Will you be among the gathered sheaves?
14139Will you be among them?
14139Will you let Him depart?
14139With battering- ram, rolled up by hundred- armed strength, crashing against the walls?
14139Wo n''t you let Me in?
14139Wo n''t you?
14139Would you advise us to come to you, or will you come to us?
14139Would you advise your friends to make the investment?
14139Would you go to Shreveport or Memphis, with the yellow fever there, to get your physical health restored?
14139Would you not like to be free?
14139Would you not like to exchange this awful uncertainty about the future for a glorious assurance of heaven?
14139Would you not like to- day to come up from the swine- feeding and try this religion?
14139You do not tell him that, do you?
14139You have yours; will you sacrifice it?
14139You say that is all imaginary?
14139You say to him:"Loan you money?
14139You say to me,"Did God not create tobacco?"
14139You say to me,"Is not God good?"
14139You say:"Where are you going?"
14139You will go over to the store to- morrow, and your comrades will say:"Where were you yesterday?"
14139You will not take up arms against the Triune God, will you?
14139and must all this audience share one or the other?
14139does not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent, move your soul?
14139in what prayer- meeting do you exhort?
14139is that the Master''s spirit?
14139of France, who was responsible for St. Bartholomew massacre, died?
14139or David Hume, who employed his life as a spider employs its summer, in spinning out silken webs to trap the unwary?
14139or Voltaire, the most learned man of his day, marshaling a great host of skeptics, and leading them out in the dark land of infidelity?
14139or will it go down among the unbelieving, who tried to gain the world and save their souls, but were swindled out of both?
14139that it will evaporate?
14139that it will relax its grasp?
14139that you may find religion as a man accidentally finds a lost pocket- book?
14139to what almshouse do you announce the riches of heaven?
14139to what penitentiary do you declare eternal liberty?
14139were there ever darker times than those?
14139where?
42518Do you hear that bell tinkling in the morning?
42518Do you think you will hold on?
42518Doth God take care for oxen? 42518 Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?"
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518Have I long in sin been sleeping, Long been slighting, grieving thee? 42518 If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it?"
42518If thine arm offend thee--hang it in a sling?
42518If thine eye offend thee--wear a shade?
42518Is Christ divided? 42518 Is your father a Christian?"
42518My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
42518No,say you;"how can that be?"
42518Oh,say you,"will it actually come to death?"
42518Shall horses run upon the rock? 42518 Shall horses run upon the rock?
42518Shall horses run upon the rock? 42518 Shall horses run upon the rock?
42518Should it be according to thy mind?
42518Surely you do not object to my having a little more sleep?
42518What is that for?
42518Wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfieth not?
42518Who can stand before his cold?
42518Who can stand before his cold?
42518Who can stand before his cold?
42518Why do you tell your child a thing twenty times?
42518Why hast thou sent me,says he,"to a people that have ears but hear not?
42518Why,says one,"not our sin?"
42518A Christian man working not at all for his Lord; how shall I speak of him?
42518A father?
42518A master?
42518A minister?
42518A preacher may preach without conversions, and who shall blame him?
42518A servant?
42518A slothful professor''s heart is tinder for the devil''s tinderbox; does your heart thus invite the sparks of temptation?
42518A teacher?
42518A_ Christian_ man on half time?
42518Afraid for the infinite Jehovah that his purposes will fail?
42518After a powerful sermon he has not enjoyed his meals, or been able to sleep, for he has asked himself,"What shall I do in the end thereof?"
42518After the germ has been put forth, can you make it further grow, and develop its life into leaf and stem?
42518Am I told that this was because his death would be the completion of his example, and the seal of his preaching?
42518And is this a little offence, to snatch from his brow the crown, and from his hand the sceptre?
42518And so, when unconscious, and drugged to relieve pain, you will begin to think of your soul?
42518And what is there, brethren, that is so fit for the heart, the mind, the soul of man, as to know God and his Christ?
42518And what next?
42518And what, think you, are the feelings of the minister?
42518And when the frost pinches us so severely, why should it not be continued month after month?
42518And when the green, grassy blade has been succeeded by the ear, can you ripen it?
42518And when you have thus been up and down, what next?
42518And while she was sitting there, what happened?
42518And who would wish that idlers should be happy?
42518And why is it, my friends, why is it that God gives the cattle the grass?
42518And why should grace have visited you or me-- why?
42518And will you make your bed upon them when you come to die?
42518And, oh, what a joy of harvest you will have then?
42518Another soul begins to sing in heaven; why do you weep, O heirs of immortality?
42518Answer each one for himself-- Dost thou believe on the Lord Jesus Christ?
42518Are my fellow- laborers afraid that Jeshurun will wax fat and kick, if he has too much food?
42518Are not all thorns and thistles meant to be teachers to sinful men?
42518Are not these things to be left to a higher wisdom?
42518Are the best of our Christian young men always going to stay at home?
42518Are the missions of the churches of Great Britain always to be such poor, feeble things as they are?
42518Are there fruits?
42518Are they not in thy book?"
42518Are thistles to be your principal crop?
42518Are thy necessities large?
42518Are we bound to persevere till we are worn out by this unsuccessful work?
42518Are we giving our religion the chief place or not?
42518Are we thus shining?
42518Are you going to preach, young man?
42518Are you really saved, and are you negligent in the Lord''s work?
42518Are you so simple as to expect the harvest before you have passed through the springing- time?
42518Are you sown of the Lord?
42518Are you sown of the Lord?
42518Are you to go swaggering down the streets of heaven, letting fall an oath, or singing a loose song?
42518Are you under the Lord''s care?
42518Are you?
42518Art thou still a piece of the bare common or wild heath?
42518As the poet sings:"What more can he say, than to you he hath said,-- You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?"
42518Because there is a pleasure in looking at a Scotch thistle, do you intend to grow acres of pleasurable vice?
42518Beloved, are you producing anything else?
42518Brethren, are we careful enough as to our religious walk?
42518Brother worker, are you getting a little weary?
42518Burn the wheat?
42518But how may a good workman for Christ lawfully go to sleep?
42518But how shall we thank him sufficiently for the thaw of his lovingkindness?
42518But is there not a way of saving men without the grace of God?
42518But what if the ploughing should never lead to sowing; what if you should be disturbed in conscience, and should go on to resist it all?
42518But who is to be the judge of the suitability of your trial?
42518But will you go there at all?
42518Can I lend you a hand?
42518Can I show you how to work better?
42518Can it be possible that the Spirit is entirely absent?
42518Can nothing else be done?
42518Can such an atonement be offered in vain?
42518Can the Most High hear it and not be pressed down beneath its weight?
42518Can you bear to think of being divided from godly friends for ever and ever?
42518Can you expect that God shall pass by wilful and deliberate offences?
42518Can you make a seed germinate?
42518Canst thou trust him, and yet be cast away?
42518Cease ye, cease ye, from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
42518Come, dear friend, will you be a corn of wheat laid up on the shelf alone?
42518Could you wish your child to descend to earth again from the bliss which now surrounds her?
42518Did I not begin by saying that because we were sheep he deigns to compare himself to a sheep?
42518Did I not hear you sing the other day--"''Tis a point I long to know"?
42518Did I not say just now that the sheep, by struggling, might be cut by the shears?
42518Did he cast doubt upon the unquenchable fire and the undying worm?
42518Did he conceal the sinner''s peril?
42518Did he lull souls into slumber by smooth strains of flattery?
42518Did he not once speak to the rock, and turn the flint into a stream of water?
42518Did it come from that dear hand which was nailed to the cross?
42518Did not our Lord say,"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye can not bear them now"?
42518Did she stretch forth her hand and take the food herself?
42518Did the Spirit of God drop eternal life into your bosom?
42518Did you ever bring a penny into the till by fretting, or put a loaf on the table by complaint?
42518Did you not hear the other day of the alderman who died in his carriage?
42518Didst thou carry home thy sack, filled like those of Joseph''s brothers, when they returned from Egypt?
42518Didst thou have a soul- enriching season among the sheaves the other Sabbath?
42518Didst thou have an abundance?
42518Do I address any aged ones whose lease must soon run out?
42518Do I address the lecherous, or the oppressive, or the profane?
42518Do these people come to our assemblies because it is respectable to attend a place of worship?
42518Do we in the morning sow our seed, and in the evening still stretch out our hand?
42518Do we sow beside all waters?
42518Do you experience such keeping?
42518Do you feel the joy of harvest, the joy that makes you wish that others should share with you?
42518Do you know what_ nature_ is?
42518Do you mean to continue in that state for ever?
42518Do you not remember reading in the Scriptures that, upon one occasion, the disciples could not cast out a devil?
42518Do you not see where you are?
42518Do you not think it is even more necessary to ask a blessing on our troubles before we get into them?
42518Do you recollect that auspicious day when at last you began to have some little hope?
42518Do you recollect those many Sundays when you said to yourself,"Let me go to my chamber and fall on my knees and pray"?
42518Do you say that yonder green stuff is wheat?"
42518Do you see how it is overgrown with thorns and nettles?
42518Do you, brethren, use all your opportunities?
42518Does Jehovah keep his covenant with cattle, and will he not keep his covenant with his own beloved?
42518Does another whisper,"Oh that I might be saved"?
42518Does he keep you?
42518Does it not occur to us at once to give the word to those who will have it, and leave the despisers to perish in their own wilfulness?
42518Does not prudence itself dictate it?
42518Does not reason say,"Let us send this medicine where there are sick people who will value it?"
42518Does the Lord work with us?
42518Does the sharp ploughshare touch thee just now?
42518Does your life begin and end with him?
42518Dost thou do so?
42518Dost thou feel the power of the Word?
42518Dost thou require great mercy?
42518Doth not the wife share with the husband?
42518Earth asks,"Why should I yield at harvest to the sinner''s plough?"
42518Echo answers, Why?
42518Faith cometh by hearing, and how can there be hearing if there is no teaching?
42518For which of all my works dost thou insult me?"
42518Friend, if you have any religion, how did you get it?
42518Go ye to Jerusalem, where of old was the city of his glory and the shrine of his indwelling, and what is left there to- day?
42518Go ye to Rome, where once Paul preached the gospel with power: what is it now but the centre of idolatry?
42518God gives the increase in the barn and the hay- rick; and in the spiritual farm it is even more so, for what can man do in this business?
42518Going to put it off to the last hour or two, are you?
42518Had you not better attend to your fences at once?
42518Has he not said,"I have refined thee, but not with silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction"?
42518Has he not said,"I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me"?
42518Has the seed of the Word never been sown in thee?
42518Has the world my heart been keeping?
42518Hast the ploughshare never broken up the clods of thy soul?
42518Hast thou been the chief of sinners?
42518Hast thou never sought to pull up the weeds of sin that grow in thy heart?
42518Hast thou never watered the young plants of desire?
42518Hath not Jesus bidden the believer to be baptized?
42518Hath not the Lord declared that he hath chosen his vineyard and fenced it?
42518Have we not there tasted the sweetest and most sustaining of all spiritual food?
42518Have we not thousands of hearers who receive the word with joy?
42518Have you a concern about these things?
42518Have you a fine- spun righteousness of your own?
42518Have you any faith in yourself?
42518Have you ever noticed that whenever the Lord afflicts us he selects the best possible time?
42518Have you ever searched to the bottom of your profession?
42518Have you ever seen a patient man insulted?
42518Have you forgotten that you are nothing?
42518Have you never heard of a person walking in the fields into whose bosom a bird has flown because pursued by the hawk?
42518Have you never heard those accents?
42518Have you not heard of persons who fall dead at their work?
42518Have you turned over that question, or have you gone at it hit or miss?
42518He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
42518He comes with the word of promise and the smile of brotherly love at once, and he says to the new believer,"Have you confessed your faith?
42518He goes to his Master with,"Who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"
42518He maketh the grass to grow all alone, and shall he not make you flourish despite your loneliness?
42518Hear again:"Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?"
42518Here is your dear child likely to die; will you not, dear parents, meet together and ask God to bless the death of that child, if it is to happen?
42518How can I plant with success if my helper will not water what I have planted; or what is the use of my watering if nothing is planted?
42518How can a man be void of understanding who has a field and a vineyard?
42518How can you love your neighbor as yourself if you do not love his soul?
42518How canst thou judge of what is good for thee?
42518How comes it that there is within the ripe seed the preparations for another sowing and another growth?
42518How could it be?
42518How does he do this?
42518How far is all this to be attributed to a neglectful church?
42518How is it done?
42518How long do you suppose it was before I saw that woman?
42518How many are there of this sort here?
42518How shall men hear without a teacher?
42518How shall we escape from this very knowing and very captious sluggard?
42518How shall we survive the censures of this dogmatic person?
42518How wilt thou escape if thou wilt neglect so great salvation?
42518How would it have fared with you had you also been smitten while riding at your ease?
42518However, instead of asking what the church has been doing for this nineteen hundred years, let us ask ourselves, What are we going to do now?
42518I am about to teach a difficult subject; will it do any good?
42518I delight to think of heaven as_ his_ barn;_ his_ barn, what must that be?
42518I have chosen an abstruse point of theology; will it serve any purpose?"
42518I know we each one have some power to serve God; do we use it?
42518I suggest to you young people especially that, in starting life, you say to yourselves,"What shall we live for?
42518If God blesses"the springing thereof,"dear beginners, what will he not do for you in after days?
42518If a new laborer comes on the farm, and he uses a hoe of a new shape, shall I become his enemy?
42518If he did so what would remain to be believed?
42518If he does his work better than I do mine, shall I be jealous?
42518If it were not for this fact with what despairing agony should we utter the cry of Esaias,"Who hath believed our report?
42518If men once said,"There is corn in Egypt,"may they not always say that the finest of the wheat is to be found in secret prayer?
42518If the Law of heaven were as swift to punish as the law of man, where were we?
42518If the Lord says this can any of us complain?
42518If you and I were in God''s place, should we have borne it?
42518If you cut down the blades, where will the ears come from?
42518If you do not sow your faith by using it, how can it grow?
42518If, as some tell us, the ethical part of Christianity is much more to be thought of than its peculiar doctrines, then, why did Jesus die at all?
42518Indeed, the Lord has to restrain the servants of his anger, for the heavens cry,"Why should we cover that wretch''s head?"
42518Is Jesus your life?
42518Is glory the end and outcome of that which fills our home with mourning?
42518Is it a matter of soul- concern with you to be reconciled to God, and to have an interest in Jesus''precious blood?
42518Is it in dissipation that your life is to be spent?
42518Is it not an insult to God''s_ wisdom_?
42518Is it not because_ he has opportunities which he does not use_?
42518Is it not generally understood that you must measure a man''s understanding by the amount of his ready cash?
42518Is it not growing dreadfully likely that you will die in your sins and perish for ever?
42518Is it not so?
42518Is it not time that you bestirred yourself?
42518Is it not to separate it from the straw and the chaff?
42518Is it not written,"I will bring them under the rod of the covenant"?
42518Is it not written,"Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth"?
42518Is it not written,"So he giveth his beloved sleep"?
42518Is not that a suggestive metaphor?
42518Is not that enough?
42518Is not the time come for an open confession?
42518Is not this common sense?
42518Is not this good reasoning?
42518Is not this the way of wisdom?
42518Is that it?
42518Is that word true to your soul,"I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day?"
42518Is the eternal happiness of the righteous the birth which comes of their death- pangs?
42518Is the love of Jesus the principal wheat with us?
42518Is there any bliss like the bliss of knowing that you are in Christ, and are the beloved of the Lord?
42518Is there any room for patience now?
42518Is there any secret corner of your heart which you will keep for Jesus?
42518Is there here a wayside hearer?
42518Is there no one here that will trust the Saviour?
42518Is there not a promise,"In due season we shall reap, if we faint not"?
42518Is there one who prays within himself,"God be merciful to me a sinner"?
42518Is there such a being?
42518Is this a thing to be winked at?
42518Is this a trifle?
42518Is this going to last forever?
42518Is this the spirit of Christ?
42518Is this wise?
42518It is fine talk, certainly; but doth the ploughman plough all day?
42518It may be at the first seeking I may not find; what then?
42518It may happen that at my first asking I shall not receive; what then?
42518It will be ripened; but can_ you_ do it?
42518Kept by the eternal Spirit of God, shall there not be produced in us fruits to his glory?
42518Know ye not that the church is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all?
42518Knowest thou anything about this?
42518Listen:"Doth the ploughman plough all day?"
42518Man, hast thou never cultivated thy heart?
42518May I next ask you to look into_ your own house_ and home?
42518May there not come a day when the millions of London shall worship God with one consent?
42518Might he not have said,"Friend, why doest thou this?
42518Moreover,_ sin makes God''s creatures unhappy_, and shall not the Lord, therefore, abhor it?
42518Must I work always where nothing comes of it?
42518Must his preachers continue to cast pearls before swine?
42518My brethren, is not meditation the land of Goshen to you?
42518Need we enlarge upon this terror?
42518Note again that, if it be not farmed for God,_ the soul will yield its natural produce_; and what is the natural produce of land if left to itself?
42518O rock, wouldst thou become like wax?
42518O rock, wouldst thou dissolve into rivers of repentance?
42518O sinner, why do you not trust Jesus Christ?
42518O ye who are sore wounded in the place of dragons, I hear you cry, Doth God always send terror and conviction of sin?
42518Oftentimes, when otherwise you might have hesitated, you will say,"The vows of the Lord are upon me: how can I draw back?"
42518Once with the unthinking many, he cried,"Who will show us any good?"
42518Or are you a Christian?
42518Or can you show me how I can improve?
42518Or is it that their coming helps to make them comfortable in their sins?
42518Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?"
42518Or will you choose a life of pleasure--"a short life and a merry one,"as so many fools have said to their great sorrow?
42518Others, again, are very heavily pressed; but what of that if they are a superior grain, a seed of larger usefulness, intended for higher purposes?
42518Ought not the Lord to have a harvest of obedience, a harvest of holiness, a harvest of usefulness, a harvest of praise?
42518Ought they not to be put in an asylum?
42518Our fields are parched if vernal showers and gentle dews are withheld, and what are our souls without the gracious visitations of the Spirit?
42518Out of that all- encompassing horror he crieth,"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
42518Persecuting Saul became loving Paul, and why should not that person be saved of whose case you almost despair?
42518Pilate cries,"Answerest thou nothing?
42518Poor, simple, weak- hearted, and troubled one, look to Jesus and answer, Can such a Saviour suffer in vain?
42518Remember how Paul put it:"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos?"
42518Satan or the world will walk in; and do you wonder?
42518Shall I bring the gospel plough?
42518Shall I laugh at that which made my Saviour groan?
42518Shall I stand here and rain tears upon this hard highway?
42518Shall I toy and dally with that which stabbed him to the heart?
42518Shall Jesus''lips give the invitation, and will you say him nay?
42518Shall Omnipotence be defeated?
42518Shall coin be your principal corn?
42518Shall he come and find you sleeping?
42518Shall horses run upon the rock?
42518Shall insignificant nobodies rob God of his glory?
42518Shall it always be so?
42518Shall it always be the lot of God''s ministers to be trifled with?
42518Shall it be so?
42518Shall it not be so?
42518Shall one plough there with oxen?
42518Shall sin ever be a trifle to me?
42518Shall the Holy Spirit produce less fruit in you than that which you yielded under the spirit of evil?
42518Shall the horses always plough upon the rock?
42518Shall the oxen always labor there?
42518Shall the preacher continue his fruitless toil?
42518Should a child select the rod?
42518Should the grain appoint its own thresher?
42518Sinner, can you hope to enter heaven?
42518Sinner, dost thou know that every act of disobedience to God''s law is virtually an act of_ high treason_?
42518Sinner, wilt thou have him or no?
42518Sinner, wilt thou not give up thy sins for the sake of him who suffered for sin?
42518So much as this we may know, and is it not enough for all practical purposes?
42518Some discourses do little more than show the difference between tweedle-_dum_ and tweedle-_dee_, and what is the use of that?
42518Some may say, Why does not the believer reap all the field, and take all the corn home with him?
42518Some of you were whole- hearted enough when in the service of the evil one, will you be half- hearted in the service of God?
42518Suppose we sow the fields with sawdust, or sprinkle them with rose- water, what of that?
42518The Lord''s husbandry upon us has shown a great expenditure of cost, and labor, and thought; ought there not to be a proportionate return?
42518The Lord-- is he always to be resisted and provoked?
42518The Sabbath is a wearisome day to you; how can you hope to enter into the Sabbath of God?
42518The cattle pasture upon that which satisfies them; why should not I obtain satisfaction too?
42518The grain of wheat when it is put into the ground dies; do we mean that it ceases to be?
42518The legible handwriting of Satan is upon you-- can you not see the blots?
42518The text, with the connection, runs thus:"Does not the husbandman cast in the principal wheat?"
42518Then will I ask all day?
42518There is a principal thing for which we ought to live, what shall it be?"
42518These people have been preached to, taught, instructed, admonished, expostulated with, and advised; shall this unrecompensed work be always performed?
42518They have no cares now; the shop is given up, they live in the country; they have not to ask,"Where shall the money come from to meet the next bill?"
42518They have religion?
42518This is a mournful state of things, is it not?
42518This soil is rock; can we not sow it without breaking it?
42518This work of God having proceeded in the growth of the seed, what next?
42518Thou canst trim thy body, and spend many a minute at the glass; dost thou not care for thy soul?
42518Threescore years old and yet unsaved?
42518Travellers toward the North Pole tremble as they think of this question,"Who can stand before his cold?"
42518WHAT IS THE JOY OF HARVEST which is here taken as the simile of the joy of the saints before God?
42518WHAT JOYS ARE THOSE WHICH TO THE BELIEVER ARE AS THE JOY OF HARVEST?
42518Was it self- sown?
42518Wast thou satisfied?
42518Watered with the drops of the Saviour''s bloody sweat, shall we not bring forth a hundredfold to his praise?
42518We have given them a fair trial; what do reason and prudence say?
42518We hold up our hands in glad astonishment and cry,"Who are these that fly as a cloud and as doves to their windows?"
42518We in England sin against extraordinary light and sevenfold knowledge; and is this a light thing?
42518We must not expect to find the best field next to our own house, we may have to journey to the far end of the parish, but what of that?
42518We will ask it of men who plough their own farms; do they recommend perseverance when failure is certain?
42518Were you ever present at the scene when they drive them down to the brook?
42518What answer can we give?
42518What are you living for?
42518What brings these senseless sinners here?
42518What but crime and infamy?
42518What but mere smoke?
42518What but sin and misery?
42518What but thorns and nettles, or some other useless weeds?
42518What but unholiness and vice?
42518What can you and I do in this matter?
42518What could the Lord do for us more than he has done?
42518What did our Lord say?
42518What do I find provided in Scripture?
42518What dost thou do but seek to be God thyself, thine own master, thine own lord?
42518What dost thou know about it, poor sufferer?
42518What good comes of fretting?
42518What has become of them?
42518What has he as the result of all his honors?
42518What has he got by his wealth?
42518What has the church been doing all these years?
42518What have I to do but to feed on these truths?
42518What if God should say,"I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down"?
42518What if all the other laborers became Hodgeites and Hobbsites, and so parcelled out the farm among them?
42518What is death?
42518What is growing in his mind and character?
42518What is sin?
42518What is that for?
42518What is the natural produce of this great city if we leave its streets, and lanes, and alleys without the gospel?
42518What is the natural produce of your children if you leave them untrained for God?
42518What is the natural produce of your heart and mine?
42518What is the object of threshing the grain?
42518What is the use of preaching to him?
42518What is the use of zeal abroad if there is neglect at home?
42518What is there to hinder it?
42518What is this vital principle, this secret reproducing energy?
42518What is to hinder your dying with a spade in your hand?
42518What is your position, dear friend?
42518What is your principal aim?
42518What is"nature"?
42518What more could he have done for his farm?
42518What must the tender, loving, gracious Jesus have meant by the words,"Gather the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them?"
42518What saith he?
42518What saith the Saviour?
42518What shall I do for you?
42518What shall we do?
42518What then is the springing up of piety in the heart?
42518What then?
42518What then?
42518What then?
42518What then?
42518What think you, friend?
42518What was the use of disturbing himself?
42518What will come out of all else?
42518What will you say to excuse yourself, for opportunities lost, time wasted, and talents wrapped up in a napkin, when the Lord shall come?
42518What worse than this can happen?
42518What"it"?
42518What, not by that matchless teaching?
42518What, not with all that holy living?
42518What, then, shall I say to you who are my Lord''s beloved?
42518When a father is going to correct his child, does he select something pleasant?
42518When are you going to do it, friend?
42518When the law comes forth thundering from its treasuries, who can stand before it?
42518When the rivers are hard frozen, and the earth is held in iron chains, then the melting of the whole-- how is that done?
42518When they smote him on the face with the palms of their hands, it would not have been wonderful if he had said,"Wherefore do you smite me so?"
42518When you and I preach or teach it will be well if we say to ourselves,"What will be the use of what I am going to do?
42518When you have gone right to the end of the field once, what shall you do next?
42518Where can we feed and lie down in green pastures in so sweet a sense as we do in our musings on the Word?
42518Where did she sit?
42518Where is it?
42518Where now your boastings and your loud- mouthed blasphemies?
42518Where now your confidence?
42518Where now your merriment?
42518Where now your pride and your pomp?
42518Wherefore do we doubt him?
42518Who among US shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
42518Who among US?
42518Who among us can look upon his life- work without some sorrow?
42518Who among us?
42518Who asked you to tremble for the ark of the Lord?
42518Who beat the big drum, or blew his own trumpet?
42518Who have most largely blessed the present age?
42518Who will have the most joy?
42518Why are certain men so extremely rocky?
42518Why do men come to hear if the word never enters their hearts?
42518Why do you happen to be members of a certain church?
42518Why is he void of understanding?
42518Why is it that certain"intellectual"folk can not get any good out of our soundest ministers?
42518Why is it that proud people seldom profit under the word?
42518Why must there be such a difference?"
42518Why need they fall into a ditch because their leader has splashed himself?
42518Why not ask a blessing on the cup of bitterness as well as upon the cup of thanksgiving?
42518Why not?
42518Why should not I obtain what I want?
42518Why should you want hailstones of terror?
42518Why stand ye all the day idle?
42518Why, then, plough the rock any longer?
42518Why, you can not create a fly, how can you create a new heart and a right spirit?
42518Will God bless our moral essays, and fine compositions, and pretty passages?
42518Will he hear those that can not speak, and will he not hear those who can?
42518Will it be always so?
42518Will it continue till the spirit fails and the soul expires?
42518Will it not be wise for you, also, to allow things to begin at the beginning, and to be satisfied with their being small at the first?
42518Will one in four of our hearers, with well- prepared heart, receive the Word?
42518Will one plough there with oxen?"
42518Will the great Husbandman bid his ploughmen spill their lives for nought?
42518Will you be a money- spinner?
42518Will you be like that wheat in the mummy''s hand, unfruitful and forgotten, or would you grow?
42518Will you make less sacrifice for Christ than you did for your sins?
42518Will you never believe in him of whom you hear so much?
42518Will you not eat of your own?
42518Will you recollect this?
42518Will you refuse Boaz?
42518Will you serve Christ less than you served your lusts?
42518Will you think of this?
42518Wilt thou believe in Christ?
42518Wilt thou trust thy soul in his hands at once?
42518Would any of you continue to pursue an object when it has proved to be hopeless?
42518Would you detain your dear wife here with all her suffering?
42518Would you have the tares and the wheat heaped up together in the granary in one mass?
42518Would you hold back your husband from the crown immortal?
42518Would you keep your old father here, full of pain, and broken down with feebleness?
42518Would you shut him out of glory?
42518Yes, he does; then if I am seeking Christ, ought I to be discouraged because I do not immediately find him?
42518You are afraid the kingdom of Christ will not come, are you?
42518You know the theory, but do you know the experimental power of this within your own spirit?
42518You never loved your mother''s God, and is he to endure you in his heavenly courts?
42518You never trusted your father''s Saviour, and yet are you to behold his glory for ever?
42518You or God?
42518_ Let us go from preaching the law to preaching the gospel._"Doth the ploughman plough all day?"
42518and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?"
42518but if he be happy, who shall excuse him?
42518but,"says one,"how can it be?
42518not begetting life in one spirit?
42518now the seed will grow, will it not?
42518or has it taken no root?
42518or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?"
42518that he is not moving in one soul?
42518was Paul crucified for you?
42518who_ among us_ shall abide with the devouring flame?
42518will one plough there with oxen?"
42518will one plough there with oxen?"
42518will one plough there with oxen?"
11536''For do men gather grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles?''
11536''From whence come wars and fightings among you?
11536''He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?''
11536''How long halt ye between two opinions?''
11536''Is not this the fast which I have chosen?
11536''Is this( God asked the Jews of old) the fast which I have chosen?
11536''What shall I say?
11536A fine- drawn question of words?
11536A messenger from God?
11536After all, half- heathens as they were, Jacob''s blood was in their veins; and if not, were they not still human beings?
11536All?
11536Almsgiving is blessed in God''s sight, and charity to the poor; and God will repay it: but is not useful labour blessed in his sight also?
11536Am I living for ambition?
11536Am I puzzling you?
11536And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
11536And all through believing the Athanasian Creed?
11536And did Obadiah, then, carry away nothing with him when he died?
11536And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee?
11536And how can we find them out?
11536And how did he keep it?
11536And how did he use Christ''s gifts?
11536And how does God give grace to the humble?
11536And how does the picture on the eye send its message about itself to the brain, so that the brain sees it?
11536And how many of us give God the glory, and Christ the thanks?
11536And how many of us give God the glory, or Christ the thanks?
11536And how was, and is, and ever will be, Christ in this world?
11536And how, again-- for here is a third wonder, greater still-- do_ we_ ourselves see what our brain sees?
11536And if God be with us, what matter if the whole world be against us?
11536And if I can work by a word, can not this Jesus work by a word likewise?
11536And is it not reasonable to believe, that there Christ is, in the bosom of the Father, and at the right hand of God?
11536And is not this good news?
11536And now some of you may say,''Then are we more blessed than Thomas?
11536And now, there may be some here who will ask, scornfully enough, And do you talk of nostrums?
11536And shall we Christians be worse than he?
11536And the Spirit of God, the Spirit of truth and right, tells them that they will not succeed: for how can a man win happiness, save by doing right?
11536And the disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
11536And this week, too, of all weeks in the year?
11536And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession?
11536And what came of it?
11536And what came of their saying so?
11536And what do we gain by the spirit in us lusting against the flesh, and pulling us the opposite way?
11536And what does the text say?
11536And what happens to him?
11536And what hope could he have for his wretched country?
11536And what is the life of the soul?
11536And what is the likeness of God, but goodness; and what is the glory of God, but goodness?
11536And what is the seed which remains in that man, and keeps him from playing the coward?
11536And what is the way of life?
11536And what is this spirit of God?
11536And what may we learn from St. Peter''s character?
11536And what may we learn from that story?
11536And what says he concerning the Rock of living waters?
11536And what should a child be, but like his father?
11536And what throws men into that sleep?
11536And what was the lesson which God taught St. Peter by this?
11536And what, if he does not look up in vain, nor sigh in vain?
11536And which is more terrible?
11536And which of the two has more cause to thank God?
11536And who am I, that I should be able to make you understand the glory of God, by any dull words of mine?
11536And who, again, will blame them, provided they do not neglect their daily duty meanwhile?
11536And why does God resist and set himself against the proud?
11536And why has he sent it?
11536And why were they good men?
11536And why, too, did he sigh?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And why?
11536And yet what does the Lord say?
11536And, if they do rise up in judgment against you, what must you do?
11536And, what kind of people were these, who so moved our Lord''s pity?
11536Are no religious professors covetous now- a- days?
11536Are not God''s creatures as well ordered, disciplined, obedient, as we soldiers are?
11536Are there none now- a- days?
11536Are these good people( who are certainly right in their horror of cursing) right in the accusations which they bring against it?
11536Are they more honest than either rich or poor?
11536Are they not a hundred times better ordered?
11536Are we really inclined to obey it?
11536Are we to believe and trust that we are going to heaven?
11536Are we to thrive only by thinking of ourselves?
11536Are we?
11536Are we?
11536Are we?
11536Are we?
11536Because I hope it will give me more chance of pleasure and glory in the next world?
11536Because I think I shall gain more safety for my soul?
11536Because he scolded and threatened them?
11536Because his speech was too deep for them?
11536Because it is my interest?
11536Because it satisfies his justice?
11536Besides, how can I expect him to feel for them; I, a mean, sinful man, and he the Almighty God?
11536But all the rest of their time, what are they doing?
11536But are we in love and charity with all men?
11536But are you sure that you speak truth?
11536But could he say less?
11536But do you believe in it?
11536But do you believe it?
11536But do you really believe that Jesus is the Son of God?
11536But does the Commination Service curse men?
11536But for what purpose?
11536But how can they be at peace, when there is no peace in them?
11536But how shall we get that likeness?
11536But how was their conduct hypocritical?
11536But how?
11536But if these be our bodily blessings, what are our spiritual blessings?
11536But in what?
11536But is he safe?
11536But is it not reasonable to suppose, that there God the Father does, perhaps, in some unspeakable way, shew forth his glory?
11536But is it really to be so?
11536But now comes in a doubt-- and it ought to come in-- What are our works at best?
11536But now-- What are these strange words which St. Paul uses?
11536But some may ask,''How will believing that Jesus is the Son of God help us more than believing the other?
11536But some may say, whither, then, did our Lord ascend?
11536But some one may say, If mammon be unrighteous, how can a man be righteous and upright in dealing with it?
11536But then the thought would come-- Why, after all, should God, if he be just and merciful, punish my sin by pain and misery?
11536But we-- how many of us have had nothing but good years?
11536But what do they mean?
11536But what has the text to do with all this?
11536But what has this story to do with us, you may ask?
11536But what if that which was true of him then, is true of him now?
11536But what is the love of an earthly son to an earthly father, compared to the love of The Son to the Father?
11536But what life?
11536But what need for me to go on counting by how many ways Christ will lead you, when he has more ways than man ever dreamed of?
11536But what part of you is afraid?
11536But where is it now?
11536But wherewith?
11536But why better?
11536But why not do whatever we like?
11536But why?
11536But will not the Holy Spirit teach us, without the Athanasian Creed?
11536But you may say-- Very likely that is true; but why need we take so much care to believe it?
11536But, after all, will not the text tell us best how to keep Passion Week?
11536But, if so; have I the mind of Christ?
11536By giving away a few alms, or a great many?
11536Can God be foolish?
11536Can God be weak?
11536Can not he do his work by a word, far more certainly than I can do mine?
11536Can they lead you to eternal life?
11536Can we go wrong, if we keep our Passion Week as Christ kept his?
11536Can you give me any reason why Lord George Gordon''s riots can not occur again?
11536Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
11536Comes from Christ?
11536Could he say more?
11536Did he call down lightning to strike sinners dead, or call up earthquakes, to swallow them?
11536Do any of you say,''These are words too deep for us; they are for learned people, clever, great saints?''
11536Do not some at least of you know what that means?
11536Do some of you not understand me?
11536Do these words seem strange to some of you?
11536Do we not know that we could, any one of us, sell our own souls, once and for all, if we choose?
11536Do we not say the Creed every Sunday; I believe in-- and so forth?''
11536Do we?
11536Do we?
11536Do you ask what I mean?
11536Do you ask what I mean?
11536Do you believe that there is a Man evermore on the right hand of God?
11536Do you boast of knowing God better than we did, while you did things which we dared not do?
11536Do you ever have such thoughts as those come over you, my friends, when you are thinking of the Lord Jesus, and praying to him?
11536Do you not see it?
11536Do you not see that this man''s mind is full of higher, nobler thoughts than that of the proud man?
11536Do you put your trust in it?
11536Do you really cast all your care on him, because you believe that he careth for you?
11536Do you say within yourself, He is too great, too awful, to condescend to listen to my little mean troubles and anxieties?
11536Do you shrink from opening your heart to him?
11536Do you suppose that he would not sweep that man away, as easily and as quickly as we do a buzzing gnat when it torments us?
11536Do you think of the Lord Jesus Christ, do you pray to the Lord Jesus Christ, as a man, very man, born of woman?
11536Do you wish to be powerful?
11536Do you wish to be wise?
11536Do you wish to find out whether you believe that or not?
11536Does he make you a better man, or does he not?
11536Does he make you a better man?
11536Does it seem to you foolish of him, to believe that he could save the world, by giving himself up to a horrible and shameful death?
11536Does it seem to you foolishness in me, to preach nothing but him crucified, and to say, Behold God dying for men?
11536Does no one do so now?
11536Does that seem a hard saying?
11536Does that seem no great gain to you?
11536Does this seem to you a small difference?
11536Does this seem to you extravagant, impossible?
11536Does this text seem to any of you difficult to understand?
11536Dost thou fancy that he needs to interfere with the working of that universe, to punish such a worm as thee?
11536For any good works of their own?
11536For if God be for us who can be against us?
11536For just think for once of this-- What nobler feeling on earth than the love of a son to his father?
11536For myself, or for others?
11536For the heathens, like all men, used to have their troubles, and to ask themselves, Who has sent this trouble?
11536For what end am I living at all?
11536For what happened?
11536For what is more honourable than to be of use?
11536For what was it, which had enabled the Romans to conquer so many great nations?
11536For what were his miracles like?
11536For which is the stronger of the two, the whole world, or God who made it, and rules it, and will rule it for ever?
11536For which of us does his duty as he ought?
11536For who is Christ, but the likeness of God, and the glory of God?
11536For who said those last words concerning the birds of the air, and the grass of the field?
11536For, after having fought bravely, and done your duty, what would the flesh say to you?
11536God the Father adopts a man as his child, God the Son dies for that man, God the Holy Ghost inspires that man; and shall we be more dainty than God?
11536God?
11536Great joy, great honour, great success, wealth, health, prosperity and pleasure?
11536Has God, then, no word of command likewise?
11536Has he not baptised us into his Church?
11536Has he not forgiven our sins?
11536Has he not given us the absolutely inestimable blessing of his commandments?
11536Has he not revealed to us that he is our Father, and we his children?
11536Has not God given us his only- begotten son Jesus Christ?
11536Hath God forgotten to be gracious: and will he shut up his loving- kindness in displeasure?
11536Have you faith in it?
11536He thinks-- How shall I meet my God?
11536How can I make my neighbours better likewise?
11536How can it be otherwise?
11536How can it do that?
11536How can it profit God, how can it please God, to give me pain?
11536How can we tell that?
11536How can we tell what is there, or what is not there?
11536How could they?
11536How did they get into this strange state of mind?
11536How do I know that he will not be angry with me?
11536How do I know that he will not despise my meanness and paltriness?
11536How do we know that they are one whit worse than we should be in their place?
11536How do we know that?
11536How do we know, above all, that to have been found out may not be the very best thing that has happened to them since the day that they were born?
11536How is this, then?
11536How many loaves have ye?
11536How may we get into it?
11536How much more wonderful must be the world which we do not see?
11536How much more wonderful must heaven be?
11536How shall he not with him freely give us all things?
11536How shall we escape this death in life?
11536How shall we get the mind of Christ which is the Spirit of God?
11536How shall we prevent the world from overcoming us in this?
11536How the world?
11536How then can we become excellent men, like St. Peter?
11536How was it true of them that to him that hath shall be given?
11536How, then, shall we keep his Passion Week?
11536I believe the fact: I ask you to consider why it was recorded?
11536I do not mean, are there any persons whom we hate; against whom we bear a spite; whom we should be glad to see in trouble or shame?
11536I know one is tempted to answer; but I am afraid the answer is worth very little-- Why not?
11536I warn you of it, and I warn you to go to the physician?
11536If God had not given to man the power of producing wealth, where should we be now?
11536If God really hated any man, do you suppose that he would endure that man for a moment in his universe?
11536If he could find comfort in the thought of God''s order, how much more should we?
11536If he could find comfort in the thought of his justice, how much more should we?
11536If he could find comfort in the thought of his love, how much more should we?
11536If he dealt with us after our sins, and rewarded us according to our iniquities, where should we be this day?
11536If money be a bad thing in itself, how can a man meddle with it with clean hands?
11536If my word can send a man to death, can not his word bring a man back to life?
11536If not, why should I care so much about them?
11536If this is not wonderful, what is?
11536If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?''
11536Is God to be blamed because this is a fact?
11536Is he not a God himself; a God in goodness and mercy; a God in miraculous power?
11536Is he not more high- minded who is looking up, up to God himself, for what is good, noble, heavenly?
11536Is his mercy clean gone for ever: and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore?
11536Is it hate or love?
11536Is it in us now?
11536Is it in your heart?
11536Is it not written,''If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch?''
11536Is it not written,''The disciple is not above his master?''
11536Is it so now- a- days among us, my friends?
11536Is it so, my friends?
11536Is it true, that our fate is fixed for us from the cradle to the grave, and perhaps beyond the grave?
11536Is not Christmas- day a sign that he will give it-- a pledge of his love?
11536Is not God''s word of command enough likewise?
11536Is not Holy communion his own pledge that he will do so?
11536Is not he truly low- minded, thinking about low things?
11536Is not his Spirit the Lord and Giver of life-- the only fount and eternal spring of life?
11536Is not that worth going through any misery to learn-- that the Lord will hear us?
11536Is not the Spirit of Christ in a Christian man, unless he be a reprobate?
11536Is not the world full of chance?
11536Is the Commination service uncharitable, is the preacher uncharitable, when they tell men so?
11536Is there a God?
11536Is there not a discipline and order in all heaven and earth?
11536Is this the mind of Christ?
11536Is this the spirit whose name is Love?
11536Is your heart in it?
11536It is only in the next world, or in the case of rare and peculiar visitations and judgments in this world, that it will harm you?
11536It is written--''If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: Oh Lord, who may abide it?
11536It means do not fret; do not terrify yourselves; for the Lord is at hand; he knows what you want: and will he not give it?
11536It might be all that I was able to do: but would it justify me in the sight of God?
11536It speaks of something, certainly, which is very curious, mysterious, difficult to put into words: but what is not curious and mysterious?
11536Love of pleasure?
11536May he not punish me for the same reason that I punish them?
11536May they not rise up against some of us in the day of judgment, and condemn us, and say,--''Are you our children?
11536Must it not be so?
11536My friends, is not this just what the text is telling us?
11536My friends, was not the old Psalmist a Jew, and are not we Christian men?
11536Nay, more, what is it but a shame to us, if, while our forefathers were good heathens, we are bad Christians?
11536No doubt, my friends, if a man lives a good life, all is well: but_ do_ people live good lives?
11536Not by merely hiding in our closets to meditate, even about_ him_: but by going about our work, each in his place, dutifully, bravely, as he went?
11536Not-- Does he make you feel better?
11536Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
11536Now then, dear friends, did I not speak truth, when I said, this is a prayer for every one of us, and for every day?
11536Now what is a preacher''s fruit?
11536Now what is the mistake here?
11536Now what is this battle?
11536Now which shall he do?
11536Now, are we in love and charity with these people?
11536Now, how is this?
11536Now, in what way were they like sheep?
11536Now, is this Spirit part of our spirits, or not?
11536Now, what sort of a man was this on whom the Lord Jesus Christ put so great an honour?
11536Now, which is more high- minded; which is nobler; which is more fit for a man; to look down, or to look up?
11536O my friends, do you believe indeed?
11536Of what use to him was it?
11536Oh my friends, is not that worth knowing?
11536Oh ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
11536Or do you say to yourselves at times, I must not think too much about the Lord Jesus''s being man, lest I should forget that he is God?
11536Or,''Everybody does so; what harm can there be in my doing so?''
11536Our Lord says, that we are to copy him by making ourselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness: but how?
11536Provided a man lives a good life, what matter what his doctrines are?''
11536Reason and common sense tell them so: for how can a man expect to get to a place without travelling the road which leads to it?
11536Shall I examine into my own selfishness for a selfish end-- to get safety and pleasure by it hereafter?
11536Shall I make myself the centre round which heaven is to turn?
11536Shall I think of God and of Christ only as far as it will profit_ me_?
11536Shall I think over the sufferings of the unselfish Christ for a selfish end-- to get something by it after I die?
11536Shall give?
11536Shall not God merely speak, and be obeyed likewise?
11536Shall we be more dainty, I ask again, than the holy and perfect God?
11536Should we be so very sorry?
11536Should we have gone away, like those nine, without a word of thanks to God, or even to the man who had healed us?
11536So he called every one of his lord''s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
11536So how dare I give a positive opinion, where wiser men than I differ?
11536Some people are too apt to say now- a- days,''But what matter if one does hold false doctrine?
11536Some, for instance, are careful this week to attend church as often as possible; and who will blame them?
11536Stupid we might call it, or unreasonable: but how hypocritical?
11536Suppose my child, or even my dog, disobeyed me, would it satisfy my sense of justice to beat him?
11536That now as we speak a man is offering up before the Father his perfect and all- cleansing sacrifice?
11536That seems to have been the way in which he took our Lord''s words: but what does our Lord answer?
11536That, in the midst of the throne of God, is he himself who was born of the Virgin Mary, and crucified under Pontius Pilate?
11536The Cross?
11536The commonest things are usually the most curious?
11536The complaisant man-- the cringing man-- the man who can not say No, or dare not say No?
11536The curse is on you already?''
11536The foolishness of God?
11536The weakness of God?
11536Then answered St. Paul-- Weak?
11536Then begin once more the world- old questions, Why are we thus?
11536Then comes the awful question, Are we at the mercy of these laws?
11536Then said he to another, And how much owest thou?
11536Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do?
11536Then what was the use of God''s warning to him?
11536Then, if the old Psalmist could trust God, how much more should we?
11536These old Jews drank of the spiritual Rock which followed them, and that Rock was Christ?
11536They may live, did I say?
11536They may say, What more pleasant than to have one''s fortune made for one, and have nothing before one than to enjoy life?
11536This does not seem so very wonderful to us; and why?
11536This saying may seem at first a very simple one; and some may ask, What need to tell us that?
11536To persuade you to work?
11536To what place did his body go up?
11536Ungrateful to God?
11536Was it by these things that Hezekiah found men lived?
11536Was there any man to whom he owed money?
11536We can ask ourselves at every turn,--For what end am I doing this, and this?
11536We may cry to our Lord,''From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread in the wilderness?''
11536Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine?
11536What am I really?
11536What are these things which are fighting continually in your mind and in mine?
11536What are they thinking of?
11536What are they?
11536What can I know?
11536What could be before the country, and him, too, but utter starvation, and hopeless ruin?
11536What could those lower parts be, they asked, but the hell which lay under the earth?
11536What did he do on the first Christmas- day?
11536What did he shew himself to be on the first Christmas- day?
11536What did the Lord Jesus say himself?
11536What did the angels say the first Christmas night?
11536What do they get thereby?
11536What does he do, then, in his need?
11536What does the Bible tell us?
11536What does walking after the flesh mean?
11536What greater pain to a good son than to see his father dishonoured, and put down below him?
11536What greater pleasure could there be than that,''he asks,''or what better means to improve his soul?
11536What have I of the mind of Christ?
11536What have we ever done right, but what we might have done more rightly, and done more of it, also?
11536What have we which is fit to offer to God?
11536What higher and purer air can a man''s soul breathe?
11536What hope have we, not merely for ourselves, who are here now, but for all the millions who have died and suffered already?
11536What if he be the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever?
11536What if he hurt himself?
11536What if he lost his money?
11536What if he made a fool of himself, and came to shame?
11536What if he were found out and exposed, as we fancy that he deserves?
11536What if his children turned out ill?
11536What is his will toward us, good or evil?
11536What is it that we call remembering a place, remembering a person''s face?
11536What is it which tells us this?
11536What is more wonderful than the beating of your heart; your pulse which beats all day long, without your thinking of it?
11536What is that?
11536What is the jealousy of an earthly son for his father''s honour, compared with the jealousy of God the Son for God the Father''s honour?
11536What is the meaning of''overcoming the world?''
11536What is there about the world which we have to overcome?
11536What likeness between me and him who emptied himself of self, who humbled himself, gave himself up utterly, even to death?
11536What loftier thoughts can man have?
11536What makes them do in one minute something which curses all their lives afterwards?
11536What may we suppose is the reason of this great stillness and soberness of the gospels?
11536What might he_ not_ have said at such a moment?
11536What might we not fancy his saying?
11536What more pleasant than to be idle: or, at least, to do only what one likes, and no more than one likes?
11536What need had they of a contrite heart?
11536What ought I to do?
11536What preacher shall we trust?
11536What says our Lord in the Gospel?
11536What should man be, but like God?
11536What then does St. Paul mean, when he says,''That he may fill all things?''
11536What use in having your past sins forgiven, if the sinful heart still remains to run up fresh sins for the future?
11536What was it which enabled them to keep them in order, and, on the whole, make them happier, more peaceable, more prosperous, than they had ever been?
11536What was the use of his power?
11536What was the use of wealth?
11536What will you learn from them, but to be like them?
11536What words, grand enough, awful enough, might not the evangelists have put into his mouth, if they had not been men full of the spirit of truth?
11536What, then, is this thing?
11536What, then, will help us to overcome the fear of chances and accidents?
11536When afterwards our Lord asked him,''Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?''
11536Where am I?
11536Where in the Old Testament do we read of the Rock following them?
11536Where is it now?
11536Where is the giving of glory to God for all his goodness?
11536Which are we most like?
11536Whither shall I go, then, from thy Spirit; or whither shall I go from thy presence?
11536Whither, then, did Christ ascend?
11536Who am I, that I should comprehend God?
11536Who am I, to say that God''s mercy is not boundless, when the Bible says it is?
11536Who but that very Word of God, whom the Psalmist saw dimly and afar off?
11536Who does not know that state of mind in which, perhaps, without any great reason in reality, one has no peace?
11536Who does not know this frame of mind?
11536Who hath known the mind of the Lord; or who shall be his counsellor?
11536Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
11536Who is the man who has influence?
11536Who is the man who is respected?
11536Who made us?
11536Who put us here?
11536Who so miserable as he?
11536Who that ever came to Holy Communion in spirit and in truth, tried to put into words what he felt as he knelt before Christ''s altar?
11536Who that ever truly loved his wife talked about his love to her?
11536Who told us that we have not merely a Master or a Judge in heaven, but a Father in heaven?
11536Whom say ye that I am?
11536Why are we not to believe that he considered it as such?
11536Why are we not to believe that the Bible meaning of a curse, is simply the natural ill- consequence of men''s own ill- actions?
11536Why are we to suppose that he did not foresee the means by which that result would happen?
11536Why are we to suppose that the prophet meant anything but that?
11536Why are we, in the name of all justice, to impute to him an expectation of miraculous interferences, about which he says no word?
11536Why did he sigh?
11536Why did the Lord Jesus look up to heaven?
11536Why did the cross of Christ, and the message of Good Friday, seem to them weakness and folly?
11536Why did they answer St. Paul,''Your Christ can not be God, or he would never have allowed himself to be crucified?''
11536Why do I mention these three men?
11536Why do I say these things to you?
11536Why do I say, Let him judge?
11536Why not, indeed?
11536Why not?
11536Why should I be singular?''
11536Why should not an accident happen to us, as well as to others?
11536Why should not we have the thing we love best snatched from us this day?
11536Why should not we, then, keep Passion Week somewhat as our Lord kept it before us?
11536Why then because the other is a fact likewise?
11536Why then talk of the weakness of God, of the foolishness of God, if he be neither weak nor foolish?
11536Why use words which seem blasphemous, if they are not true?
11536Will he not say of it, as well as of almsgiving,''Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these little ones, ye have done it unto me?''
11536Will not our Lord''s own example tell us?
11536Will the Lord absent himself for ever, and will he be no more intreated?
11536Will they make you better men?
11536Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?''
11536Without wealth, where should we be now?
11536Would not our whole lives have been too short to bless God for his great mercy?
11536Would there not be hypocrisy and play- acting in that, my friends?
11536Yes, we would not hurt him for the world: but what if God hurt him?
11536and if there be, what is he like?
11536and shall he not repay it?
11536and then, after confessing that the masses are hungering for the bread of life, offer them nothing but your own nostrum, the Catechism?
11536are there not tokens enough around us now, whereby we may discern the signs of this time?
11536but-- Does he make you behave better?
11536for fame?
11536for money?
11536for pleasure?
11536for show?
11536to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
60107Are you going to make your Easter duty?
60107Which of these three,he asked of the lawyer after telling him the story,"was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers?"
60107Who knows,said St. Alphonsus Liguori,"what God requires of me?
6010724. Who is your master?
60107A corpse?
60107A man enters your house at dead of night and carries off your property; what do you call it?
60107A man meets you on a lonely road and takes your money forcibly from you; what do you call it?
60107A man picks your pocket on the street; what do you call it?
60107A person seems very good, but what is the reason?
60107Again, how about the advice of your_ father_ confessor?
60107All these are various ways of breaking the Seventh Commandment; and what is that?
60107And Jesus answering, said; Were there not ten made clean?
60107And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?
60107And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee?
60107And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
60107And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, ye of little faith?
60107And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts?
60107And answering them, he said: Which of you whose ass or his ox shall fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath day?
60107And are not kind words often of more worth than bodily refreshment?
60107And as Jesus looks out on the few who come to his feet, to the Holy Communion, he is forced to exclaim in sorrow:"Were not ten made clean?
60107And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?
60107And even setting that aside, is it not possible that those who have studied a subject know more about it than those who have not?
60107And for raiment why are you solicitous?
60107And he asked them: How many loaves have ye?
60107And he called him, and said to him: What is this I hear of thee?
60107And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
60107And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind?
60107And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one satisfy them here with bread in the wilderness?
60107And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us?
60107And how have we every one heard our own tongue wherein we were born?
60107And how?
60107And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?
60107And if it be so necessary for parents to watch over the bodies of their children, what shall I say of the duty of watching over their minds and souls?
60107And is it only those who are strangers to him that contradict him?
60107And is not that happiness?
60107And now in every- day life how must we treat our neighbor in order to fulfil the command of Jesus Christ,"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"?
60107And pride is a lie, a deceit;"for if thou hast received,"says St. Paul,"why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received?"
60107And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them saying: What think you of Christ?
60107And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?
60107And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship?
60107And then in spiritual things how do we act?
60107And then they say:"Suppose these children get worse and disgrace my name, and even, lose their souls-- what shall I do then?"
60107And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
60107And they asked him: What then?
60107And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
60107And they were all amazed and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these who speak, Galileans?
60107And what do I mean by this over- reaching or deceiving?
60107And what does a good shepherd do?
60107And what does that mean?
60107And what happened to them on the road?
60107And what have we done, many of us?
60107And what horrible mutterings are these that we hear coming up from dark corners, from workshops, from factories, from lodging- houses, from streets?
60107And what is penance?
60107And what is the word of God?
60107And what is the world''s joy compared to the joy of paradise?
60107And what sort of a penance?
60107And when he was come near, he asked him, saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee?
60107And who are those who speak in God''s name?
60107And who are_ they?_ you will ask.
60107And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?
60107And who is its master?
60107And why does it not seem to be a temptation?
60107And why is all this parade?
60107And why not?
60107And why not?
60107And why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?
60107And why, if he lets it be sown, does he not root out this bad seed, and not let it grow and choke what is good?"
60107And why?
60107And why?
60107And why?
60107And why?
60107And yet must we not confess that too often we do not even make an attempt to practise this virtue?
60107And yet what reason had the Samaritan to consider this man to be his neighbor?
60107And, lastly, you want God to forgive your sins?
60107Are not you of much more value than they?
60107Are there not found some in our own day who imitate the conduct of the Pharisee and his friends?
60107Are they spirits?
60107Are thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead?
60107Are we afraid of that?
60107Are we all going this way?
60107Are we in sorrow?
60107Are we tempted?
60107Are you afflicted with incurable illness?
60107Are you going to church or for a walk?
60107Are you humiliated?
60107Are you in a fit state to appear there?
60107Are you in business, or at work?
60107Are you in temptation and danger of losing God?
60107Are you in the fever of sin?
60107Are you punished by cold and hunger?
60107Are you ready_ now_, at this moment, to die?
60107Are you rich?
60107Are you sensible of the responsibility which lies upon you to see that the priest is sent for, especially when they are in danger of death?
60107Are you so sensitive about your neighbor''s faults because they offend God?
60107Are you so sensitive about your neighbor''s faults, then, because they offend yourself?
60107Are you very particular to keep the laws of_ mother_ church?
60107Are you weary after your day''s labor?
60107Art thou Elias?
60107Art thou the prophet?
60107As much as you want to take?
60107At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?
60107At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: Which of you shall convince me of sin?
60107At that time: The Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou?
60107Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?
60107Because they would rather not be bothered?
60107Brethren: Know you not that they who run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize?
60107But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?
60107But are those who stay outside of the one fold in the way to use this sufficient grace?
60107But are we merely to admire it in them, or have we too a share in it?
60107But do they all mean just what I have said_ he_ meant?
60107But do you dare to say this?
60107But does St. Peter mean that we actually must always obey every one, man, woman, or child, who chooses to command us?
60107But from what do these men of whom our Lord speaks in this parable wish to be excused?
60107But have you followed the example of the one grateful leper-- have you gone back to thank him?
60107But he answering one of them, said: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny?
60107But he said to him: What is written in the law?
60107But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor?
60107But how is it in fact?
60107But how shall we tell that it does exceed its rights?
60107But in thus covering the sins of others how does charity cover our own?
60107But is it certain that those whom they are tempted to envy are, in reality, in so much better a state?
60107But is it honored among Christians according to its dignity?
60107But the men wondered, saying: Who is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him?
60107But what do such excuses denote?
60107But what do we see?
60107But what do we see?
60107But what does our Divine Lord say of those who now refuse his invitation to this heavenly banquet?
60107But what is the fault?
60107But what is the need of having so many of them?
60107But what kind of Christians must we think ourselves since we all hate to suffer?
60107But what riches of injustice has he gained?
60107But what saith the Scripture?
60107But what should you be swift to hear?
60107But what went you out to see?
60107But what went you out to see?
60107But why did not our Lord let him know it?
60107But why did not our Lord suffer enough to free us from suffering at all?
60107But why is this?
60107But you will say, perhaps:"I do not need St. Joseph''s help so much, for I have Our Blessed Lady to go to; is not she more powerful even than he is?"
60107But, after all, are you not perhaps guilty of a little of the same sin yourselves?
60107By despising it?
60107Can we ever by our words bring others into the church?
60107Catholic heads of families, employers, masters and mistresses, keepers of stores and workshops, how do you look after those that work for you?
60107Christian, Catholic?
60107Could you possibly ask anything more?
60107Did he not promise a reward for even a cup of cold water?
60107Did not the devil know that he was God and could not sin?
60107Did you ever know any such case whose repentance you thought was worthy of such celestial rejoicings?
60107Did you ever spend an hour looking at the drives in Central Park on a pleasant afternoon?
60107Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
60107Do n''t you see the church looking down with eyes of mercy upon you?
60107Do n''t you sometimes envy the rich, get discontented with your position, feel rebellious against the will of God?
60107Do n''t you think if we tried that plan that the numbers on the men''s side would often be rather slim?
60107Do not our own sins, little or great, continually cry out for penance?
60107Do our sins terrify us?
60107Do people get all they pray for?
60107Do we need strength for the battle of life, and courage in the struggle against the world, the flesh, and the devil?
60107Do we want to be where Jesus is now, and where he will be for all eternity?
60107Do you correct your children when they engage in such talk?
60107Do you doubt this?
60107Do you get the doctor?
60107Do you give them time to get to confession?
60107Do you know what the word"tempt"means, my brethren?
60107Do you know what they are?
60107Do you look after the moral conduct of those you employ?
60107Do you not give back as good-- and often worse-- than you get?
60107Do you not see the cap gradually taking a form that will fit some of your heads?
60107Do you offer them such nourishment as a sick person needs?
60107Do you raise your voice in his defence?
60107Do you see that they go to Mass?
60107Do you see upon your souls great livid plague- spots of mortal offences against the Almighty?
60107Do you think they will ever be full of wisdom or have the grace of God in their hearts?
60107Do you turn out of your house those notorious backbiters and tale- bearers of your neighborhood when they begin their poisonous gossip?
60107Do you visit your servant''s sick- bed, or the beds of the poor, to whom we are all indebted for so much service?
60107Do you want to win and save those who have sinned against you?
60107Do you wish, dear brethren, to make sure of not being deceived by these wolves in sheep''s clothing?
60107Do you?
60107Does St. Peter mean, then, that we must be willing to obey every human creature, every man, woman, or child that undertakes to command us?
60107Does he pretend that the holy sacrament of matrimony is keeping him away?
60107Does his grace move them to some sacrifice of their pride, their convenience, or their means?
60107Does it mean that a good intention in itself is a thing which leads to hell?
60107Does our Lord really mean all he says?
60107Does your heart burn with sympathy for him?
60107Drink?
60107Explain the solar system to a child of five years: will he understand you?
60107Fast- days-- do you know what that means?
60107Fervent gratitude would now exclaim:"Surely no Catholic can do any of these to Jesus Christ?"
60107For instance, somebody tells something about you which you know to be false; do you put the best construction on this?
60107For what is it to be exalted in the true sense of the word?
60107For what was it which we celebrated then, and what is it which we are celebrating now?
60107For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
60107God has called you often before; now, by the voice of his priest, he speaks once more and says:"Why stand ye here all the day idle?"
60107God may well say to such a one:"Thou fool, who has told thee that?
60107Grace of God?
60107Had you the gold of Christian charity to present?
60107Had you the incense of faith and the myrrh of sweet and fragrant hope?
60107Have I a right to participate in the Easter joy of to- day, or am I only making an outside show of it, while my conscience tells me I am a hypocrite?
60107Have I kept the commandments of God and of the church?
60107Have I made my Easter duty, or resolved to make it?
60107Have they wings like the angels we saw years ago in the picture- book?
60107Have you been negligent?
60107Have you done this?
60107Have you followed it?
60107Have you neglected the sacraments?
60107Have you neglected your children?
60107Have you never, when you accused yourself of some sin, said that you could not help it?
60107Have you not listened to indecent stories?
60107Have you not often aped the manners and swagger of the worldly- minded?
60107Have you not told some such?
60107He will ask:"How are you?
60107His friend, curious to see what he would say, said:"No; what is it?"
60107How about fasting and abstinence?
60107How are we baptized in Christ''s death?
60107How are you in God''s sight?
60107How are you, baptized of God?
60107How can such an one ever kiss the crucifix?
60107How can we account for this?
60107How dare to press those lips there represented, from which blessings were always returned for cursing?
60107How do I know?
60107How do we hear his voice of truth, which can not deceive nor be deceived?
60107How do you act in that case?
60107How do you do?
60107How does charity cover a multitude of sins?
60107How is it that we are so deaf and dumb in his presence?
60107How is it that we find Catholics denying their faith and going to a Protestant place of worship for the sake of a little food and clothing?
60107How is it we hear of milk- and- water Catholics going to be married before magistrates, or, what is worse, before ministers of a false religion?
60107How is it with us?
60107How is your health, the health of your soul?
60107How many are there who reverence this sacrament as they should?
60107How many more years will you slink away from your Easter duty like cowards and cravens?
60107How much, then?
60107How often they say:"I have no time";"What are the priests for, anyhow?"
60107How shall we escape this terrible penalty?
60107How shall you make it?
60107How will he come back to us?
60107How, then, shall we account for our not hearing his voice, and not being able to say anything worth his hearing, when we set out to pray?
60107How?
60107How?
60107I ask you, here in the sacred presence of God, I ask you in the most solemn manner, when and how will you look upon his face again?
60107I do not think the same about that as the priests do; they are welcome to their opinion but I claim the right to mine"?
60107If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
60107If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me?
60107If that does not mean economy, what does it mean?
60107If we will not do this, if we will distract ourselves needlessly out of the time of prayer, what wonder if we are distracted in it?
60107In such circumstances what is generally your conduct?
60107In what state were you last night when devout hands veiled the figure of Christ?
60107Is each one of us now here present moving daily and hourly on this path?
60107Is it a mere confession that we are sinners?
60107Is it because it really has no explanation?
60107Is it from something painful and humiliating?
60107Is it lawful to give tribute to CÃ ¦ sar, or not?
60107Is it not as easy to suffer a little for the honor of God as a great deal for one''s own?
60107Is it not because parents are neglectful?
60107Is it not because people wo n''t go into the vineyard, wo n''t work, wo n''t take trouble?
60107Is it so with us?
60107Is it so with you who are poor?
60107Is it, then, really true that God will give us all good things which we ask in prayer?
60107Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment?
60107Is not this a shame?
60107Is that all?
60107Is that so?
60107Is their modesty known to all men?
60107Is this the case?
60107Is your soul really free?
60107It is always worth while to try praying for anything that is not in itself bad; we may be able to get Christ''s name for it, who knows?
60107It is death; and if God himself did not tell us, how could we know but that it is the end of all?
60107It is not much, then, is it, to eat fish instead of meat, to fast enough to have a good appetite, to lose a little sleep and get a little tired?
60107It would appear to belong partly to CÃ ¦ sar; and who can this CÃ ¦ sar be, who shares the earth with its Creator?
60107Let, then, these two questions ring in your ears: Where are you going?
60107My brethren, can this be possible?
60107My friends, does not the shoe pinch you a little?
60107Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to- day is, and to- morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, ye of little faith?
60107Now if I cast out devils in Beelzebub, in whom do your children cast them out?
60107Now, do you correct them_ in the beginning?_ Ah!
60107Now, then, you"children of an older growth,"how have you shown your obedience?
60107Now, what do I mean by worrying?
60107Now, what does all this come from?
60107Now, who are they?
60107Now, who is to form them after the model of Jesus Christ?
60107Now, why does your soul thus cling to the dead past; why does it strive to fly to the unborn future?
60107Once a year?
60107Or perhaps they say:"What shall I do now?"
60107Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it?
60107Or who hath been his counsellor?
60107Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made to him?
60107Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will?
60107Our Saviour did, indeed, by his coming make salvation easier; but how was it that he did so?
60107Over whom, then, are we going to be victorious?
60107Say, when he is uncovered on Good Friday can you, dare you add to his grief by still being what you are now?
60107Shall God not be jealous of his name?
60107Shall he not punish?
60107Such persons say, as Satan did of old,"Does Job serve God for naught?"
60107Suppose I say to one of you:"If you ask Mr. So- and so for such a position or employment in my name you will get it,"what do I mean?
60107That is just the trouble with the heretics of whom I have spoken; is it not so with you, too, perhaps?
60107That is,"Which of the three seems to have considered the poor fellow to be his neighbor?"
60107The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
60107The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
60107The church has, it is true, allowed, as the notices say, a moderate collation in the evening What does that mean?
60107The grocery- keeper, the butcher, the baker could do it, and why not the liquor- seller?
60107The question is: has the church power from God to command me, and what does the church command?
60107The yellow fever, you will hear, has appeared in some Southern town, and what has been the result?
60107Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe?
60107Then the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: Master, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field?
60107Then why did you not see that they went to confession, to Mass, to Holy Communion?
60107Therefore calling together every one of his lord''s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
60107They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us?
60107They said therefore: What is this that he saith, a little while?
60107They say: Why should the church interfere between my wife and me, or between my children and myself?
60107They say:"What have I done that these children of mine are so bad?"
60107This seems strong language; but do we not deserve it if we take from our Lord the little that he claims as his own?
60107To be happy you must be loved; and who will love one who hates?
60107Was the law then against the promises of God?
60107Was your last Easter duty made?
60107We are to forgive as God forgives; that is the bargain, is it not?
60107We hear people saying every day,"How shall we live?"
60107Well, do our good Christians show any disgust for these things?
60107Well, what does their argument amount to?
60107Were you not away from Mass last Christmas?
60107Were you not in mortal sin?
60107Were you not neglecting your religion?
60107Were you not revelling, getting drunk, thinking rather of feasting and enjoying yourselves than of devotion and thanksgiving?
60107What are Christ''s blessings?
60107What did he do?
60107What do I mean by wandering outside the fold?
60107What do men do with such plants?
60107What do people think of such a man?
60107What does St. Peter go on to say?
60107What does St. Peter mean, my brethren, by these words?
60107What does our Lord mean by this, my brethren?
60107What does the word"contradict"mean?
60107What does this mean?
60107What does this mean?
60107What example do you set him?
60107What followed?
60107What follows, then, if what you say is true?
60107What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed?
60107What gifts had you to bring to the manger- bed?
60107What hand is that which our Lord wants us to lay upon his dead children?
60107What is Easter, or Christmas, or any other feast of the church worth without the grace of God?
60107What is a Jubilee?
60107What is a farm?
60107What is a fast- day, then?
60107What is a patron?
60107What is it all but untruthfulness, want of humility, strutting up to the head of the table in one way or another?
60107What is it that lies there still, and motionless, and cold?
60107What is it that the spiritual ear ought to hear?
60107What is it to ask in his name?
60107What is it to tempt God?
60107What is it?
60107What is the difference between the two?
60107What is the first one of these notices which you have or have not just heard?
60107What is the lesson?
60107What is the matter that this temptation is not resisted like others?
60107What is the one you are most inclined to?
60107What is the reason of this?
60107What is the reason, my brethren, that people sin by anger so much?
60107What is the teaching of Christ from the ship of Peter on this subject?
60107What is this kind of good intention?
60107What is this mammon of iniquity of which, or with which( for that is the true sense of the words), we are to make friends for ourselves?
60107What is this that we are stealing?
60107What is this vainglory of which he speaks?
60107What is to be done?
60107What kind of a Christian can he be who does not go to confession or communion at least once in a year?
60107What kind of a neighbor are we to this poor brother of ours?
60107What made our Lord so severe with these people of whom the Gospel tells us, who were selling and buying in the temple?
60107What mean these stains upon your soul?
60107What more clear account could he have given them of his approaching passion, death, and resurrection?
60107What of hearing Mass on a Sunday and of abstaining from servile work?
60107What other things are included in the riches of injustice?
60107What prayers do you offer to God for the conversion of the sinner?
60107What reason can we give for this blindness to what was put so plainly before their eyes?
60107What should we ourselves mean by it?
60107What then?
60107What they mean rather by it is:"How can God allow this when I have done my duty?"
60107What use was it to try him?
60107What warnings and exhortations do you give him, especially if he be dear to you by ties of blood?
60107What was the meaning of this promise, and what was its fulfilment?
60107What was the sermon about last Sunday?
60107What were these notices, then?
60107What whisperings are these, hot and burning with the fire of hell?
60107What would they do, if called on to shed their blood for Christ, who can not bear even to be laughed at a little for being practical Catholics?
60107What would we think of one who, saved from such a place, should afterwards make light of the danger and care nothing for the one who saved him?
60107What would you think if you should see the priest, when saying Mass, making his genuflections in this way?
60107What, also, must be thought of interfering relations, cousins, aunts, uncles, and last, but not least, mothers- in- law?
60107What, then, is Benediction?
60107What, then, is a man to do who has offended God in this way?
60107What, then, must they do?
60107When and how shall we see him again?
60107When and how shall you look upon it again?
60107When any one is taken sick, what is the first cry?
60107When the priest has to rebuke you, to reprove you, how do you take it?
60107When the women came to seek the body of Jesus the angel said to them:"Why seek you the living among the dead?
60107When they are sick and suffering are you solicitous that they should have the comfort and help which the holy sacraments afford?
60107When will that trial- day come?
60107When you think of this can you care for other praise?
60107Where are they on Sundays?
60107Where are they when confession day comes around?
60107Where are you going, then?
60107Where are you going?
60107Where are you going?
60107Where is my image and likeness?"
60107Where is the white garment that I gave you?
60107Where or of whom shall we learn our Easter lesson?
60107Where were you then?
60107Where, then, is that voice to be heard?
60107Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
60107Which is that way?
60107Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers?
60107Who are these unfortunate people?
60107Who are they?
60107Who are to fill the ranks of the heavenly kingdom?
60107Who can doubt that these lost spirits are terrible enemies to our salvation?
60107Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
60107Who is scandalized, and I do not burn?
60107Who is the judge, after all, about granting prayers?
60107Who is the master of the poor?
60107Who is weak, and I am not weak?
60107Who make up the church on earth?
60107Who saved us from the awful peril?
60107Who says Christ is risen again?
60107Who was it upon whom fell the first ray of Resurrection glory?
60107Who will reap this terrible wages of sin?
60107Whom dost thou make thyself?
60107Whose son is he?
60107Whose trial?
60107Why did you not insist upon their morning and evening prayers being said?
60107Why did you not keep them at home after dark?
60107Why do n''t you say the same thing for somebody else?
60107Why do people act thus?
60107Why do you think it no sin to say the angry word, to flare up when you are provoked?
60107Why is it often so difficult for the priest to get the active co- operation of the lay people?
60107Why is it that I have so little devotion and that God seems so far away?"
60107Why is this?
60107Why is to- day called Passion Sunday, my brethren?
60107Why lay up so much treasure where rust and moth destroy, and where thieves break through and steal?
60107Why should not we do the same for the comfort of our souls?
60107Why should the head of the family be ruled by the clergy?
60107Why should we be so afraid of idleness in spiritual things and in works of charity?
60107Why should you make the Easter duty?
60107Why stand ye here all the day idle?
60107Why then was the law?
60107Why, I say, do you do so?
60107Why, then, be so particular about hunting up all the crusts of bread and bits of fish that were lying round in the grass?
60107Why, then, did you not do penance?
60107Why, then, do some people stay away from their Easter duty?
60107Why, then, if that is the object, does he promise us that if we humble ourselves we shall be exalted?
60107Why, then, not try such a simple remedy?
60107Why, then, stay?
60107Why, when called upon to bear a little part of the priest''s burden, are so many people like an old gun that hangs fire?
60107Why?
60107Why?
60107Why?
60107Why?
60107Will not God give us what our Lord approves of, any way, whether we ask it or not?
60107Will you ever look upon the old, familiar crucifix again?
60107Will you go on so to the end of your lives?
60107Will you still persist in rejecting the Saviour?
60107Would it not be so with us, too, if God should take away all the bad seed of temptation out of our hearts?
60107Yet is it not true?
60107You grumble at the inconvenience to which you are put, but what do you do to help them?
60107You know the story of the old crab, who said to her little ones,"Why do you walk sideways?"
60107You unfortunate drunkards that totter as you walk, who fall in the gutter and by the wayside, is your modesty known to all men?
60107You want men to condone your offences and look over your shortcomings and defects?
60107You want, for instance, to be kept from sin; but what sin?
60107Young men, old men, women, girls, children, people, priests, rich and poor, where are all of you going?
60107_ And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, ye of little faith?_--St. Matt.
60107_ But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor?_--St. Luke x.
60107_ Thou shalt not steal._ And what is it to deceive or over- reach some one else in business?
60107_ Were not ten made clean?
60107_ What went you out into the desert to see?
60107_ Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers?
60107_ Why do you think evil in your hearts?_--St. Matthew ix.
60107_ Why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?_--St. Luke vi.
60107a man clothed in soft garments?
60107a prophet?
60107a reed shaken with the wind?
60107a reed shaken with the wind?_--St. Matthew xi.
60107and where are the nine?
60107and where are the nine?_--St. Luke xvii.
60107but seldom do they ever think of adding,"and how shall we die?"
60107did you not know that I must be about the things that are my Father''s?
60107do n''t you feel how the mustard- seed burns and stings?
60107do n''t you feel the sharp mustard- seed getting into your eyes?
60107do n''t you think they are waiting for you-- praying for you that you may be there with them?
60107do they not both fall into the ditch?
60107he will say to you,"you tried to serve two masters, did you?
60107how are you preparing for that supreme moment?
60107how readest thou?
60107is it possible that one who has the faith and is possessed of reason can slight such a gift from the God who has redeemed him?
60107is not our lesson plain?
60107is thy eye evil because I am good?
60107just ask yourself:"Am I a peaceable, good- natured man?"
60107may we not some of us have good reason to fear that we shall one day be judged as hypocrites?
60107my friend, how are you?
60107say, shall he still find you so when he returns?
60107was it so?
60107what ails me or my family, or my neighbors, that I am always in hot water, and can scarcely call one day in ten really happy?"
60107what pity have you for the poor sinner?
60107what sawest thou in the way?
60107what sayest thou of thyself?
60107what shall we eat?
60107whence then hath it cockle?
60107where are the nine?"
60107why am I so miserable?
60107why care so much for the goods of this world?
60107{ 122} But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
60107{ 124} Why does he so often get the"cold shoulder"as people say, when he asks a little help?
60107{ 129} How does the pedestrian manage to run so as to obtain his fame, his thousand dollars, and his gate- money?
60107{ 150} But is there no excuse?
60107{ 155} How shall we live?
60107{ 167} And perhaps you are even inclined to say:"What ever did the church get up Lent for at all?
60107{ 193} What practical meaning has this Passion- time for us, my brethren?
60107{ 199} What is this lesson?
60107{ 207} Who is it upon whom the great voice of the church liturgy, in the Holy Sacrifice, calls to- day?
60107{ 20}"Where, then, shall the unjust and the sinner appear?"
60107{ 210} What kind of a life would I rise to on the day of resurrection, if I died to- night?
60107{ 211} But what is the cause of our joy?
60107{ 270} What was this change which was worked in the souls of the apostles?
60107{ 279} or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye?
60107{ 27} And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see?
60107{ 286}"Why,"then,"seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam in thy own eye thou considerest not?"
60107{ 293} And what have you done-- many of you, at least?
60107{ 303} And what is that means above all others?
60107{ 313} Are you in poverty?
60107{ 341} But who are these friends to be?
60107{ 346} Moreover, what sort of a good name is that which that man knows is a false one?
60107{ 352} He may have called those who sold in the temple thieves, because they were cheating their neighbors; but is it not as bad to cheat him?
60107{ 373} What wonder is it that it is so hard to pray, and that there are so many distractions?
60107{ 394} And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit?
60107{ 40} For who was this One who had stood in their midst, and whom they had not known?
60107{ 448} Who are these enemies?
60107{ 471} Have you been a drunkard?
60107{ 63} Who are these that I speak of?
60107{ 73} And he said to them: How is it that you sought me?
60107{ 74} What do you see?
60107{ 87} For what is marriage now in the church of Christ?
60107{ 92} How do you treat those fellow- Christians?
60267Did you not know,he said to them when they found him,"that I must be about my Father''s business?"
60267Do men,says our Divine Lord,"gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"
60267How is it that you sought me?
60267Know you not,says St. Paul,"that all run in the race?"
60267We have,he says to us,"a little to suffer here, but what is it after all?
60267We know,he says,"that we have passed from death to life"; and why?
60267What if you are weak and the temptation is strong? 60267 What shall I render to God for all he hath rendered to me?"
60267Which of you shall convince me of sin?
60267Why,said he,"did you take such trouble to see him?
6026716 Who is not shocked by the recital of Herod''s cruelty?
60267A man clothed in soft garments?
60267A prophet?
60267A reed shaken with the wind?
60267A reed shaken with the wind?_--Gospel Of The Day.
60267Am I in the employment of others, and, if so, do I fulfil my calling worthily by doing all that strict justice or Christian charity requires of me?
60267Am I not, on the contrary, forced for decency''s sake to pass over other shameless sins, which all but the blind and deaf know of among us?
60267Am I the father or mother of a family?
60267And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying: Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?
60267And Jesus saith to her: Woman, what is that to me and to thee?
60267And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this?
60267And Jesus saith to them: Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?
60267And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts?
60267And answering them, he said: Which of you whose ass or his ox shall fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath day?
60267And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?
60267And beside these, are there not more blessings which we can see if we look back on the year, standing out from the rest?
60267And do n''t you think that these"valleys"are a very good likeness of all the things which we have left undone in our lives?
60267And do you not know that your poor soul is either sick or runs the risk of catching a deadly sickness every day you live?
60267And does_ Christian humility_ mean nothing in act?
60267And for raiment why are you solicitous?
60267And have we not also to obey the special decrees of the Holy Father, of our bishop, and of our pastor?
60267And he asked them: How many loaves have ye?
60267And he called him, and said to him: What is this I hear of thee?
60267And he said to them: How is it that you sought me?
60267And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?
60267And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind?
60267And he that doth all things well, would he not do his whole duty as Son, would he not be a model Son?
60267And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one satisfy them here with bread in the wilderness?
60267And how did this unjust steward act?
60267And how have we every one heard our own tongue wherein we were born?
60267And how have you, dear brethren, requited such infinite love?
60267And how is it quenched?
60267And how is that peace gained?
60267And how will knowing that they are weak save them?
60267And if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?
60267And if one does not love God above all things, how can he be saved?
60267And if we do rightly trust in God''s favor, how can we forget that progress in virtue is a necessary condition of our remaining virtuous at all?
60267And is he not associated every way, historically and in the devotions of our religion, with the prince of the Apostles, St. Peter?
60267And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them saying: What think you of Christ?
60267And the servants said to him: Wilt thou that we go and gather it up?
60267And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship?
60267And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet?
60267And they asked him: What then?
60267And they said one to another: Who shall roll us back the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
60267And they were all amazed and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?
60267And what answers in the spiritual life to the consciousness of social position?
60267And what answers to human talents and ability?
60267And what except divine love could be as sweet as the taste the soul enjoys in the reception of the sacraments?
60267And what is this cause and source of joy?
60267And what though it be all stained and spotted with mortal sin; is there no such thing as true repentance?
60267And when he was come near, he asked him, saying: What wilt thou that I do to thee?
60267And when they went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John: What went you out into the desert to see?
60267And who is he that can hurt you, if you be zealous of good?
60267And you, fathers and mothers of families, what are these conversations which you hold one with the other?
60267And, secondly, Why is it specially selected as the object of our devotion?
60267Are not all men redeemed by the Blood of Christ?
60267Are not the newspapers filled with stories which pander to this uncharitable spirit?
60267Are not you of much more value than they?
60267Are our souls asleep?
60267Are the laws of the church irksome to you and so avoided?
60267Are the sacraments she offers you the source and support of your life?
60267Are there no fountains of living waters in the sacraments in which it may be washed whiter than snow?
60267Are there no gems of divine grace with which it may be decked out as a bride waiting for the bridegroom?
60267Are they in any way improper, or such that you would be ashamed to have them repeated in the presence of your parents?
60267Are they laboring under the incredible and awful delusion that they commit no great sin when they entertain or give expression to such thoughts?
60267Are they not doing an injury to her Son by over- honoring his Mother?
60267Are they not men, and are they not purchased by the Blood of Christ?
60267Are we always trying to give him no more than we can help, and keep as much as we can for ourselves?
60267Are we better, more perfect, nearer to God now than we were last year, or even ten years ago?
60267Are we careless or indifferent about the one thing needful for us-- our soul''s salvation?
60267Are we never to do as we desire, but always to have a restraint and a yoke upon us?
60267Are you sick?
60267Are you tempted?
60267Are you tired out?
60267Are you, my friends, willing to take that trouble for your soul''s sake, or do you prefer to fall as you have fallen before?
60267Art thou Elias?
60267Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead?
60267Art thou the prophet?
60267As St. Paul says,"If God be for us, who is against us?
60267As we do see this, are we not bound to keep in check,_ at all costs_, this source of evil?
60267As we look back on our lives, do we find that this has actually been fulfilled in them?
60267As you sit here to- day, do the words of the Apostle offer no rebuke to you, do you not feel their sting?
60267At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?
60267At that time: Jesus said to the multitude of the Jews: Which of you shall convince me of sin?
60267At that time: The Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou?
60267Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?
60267Brethren, has it ever occurred to you that each one of us has a vocation in this life?
60267Brethren, shall I say a word about gratitude due to us of the sanctuary?
60267Brethren: Know you not that they who run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize?
60267But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites?
60267But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and he saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle?
60267But again: what does a man do who takes the pledge?
60267But as the newness, the freshness of the Easter joy and triumph passes away, does not another feeling come and mingle with it?
60267But do you wish me to tell you the easiest way to be sober?
60267But have not you had a pretty good chance for these amusements for the last few months?
60267But have you done so?
60267But he answered:"Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?"
60267But he answering one of them, said: Friend, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a penny?
60267But he said to him: What is written in the law?
60267But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbor?
60267But how are they to be made?
60267But how can this be?
60267But how can we do it?
60267But how can we do this?
60267But how is the Holy Ghost in the Catholic Church?
60267But how is this leaven, or yeast?
60267But how many of the thousands who made these promises have kept them?
60267But how shall we best do so?
60267But how will it be in fact; how is it too often, after such times of grace and fervor?
60267But may we not turn the question around and learn another good lesson from it?
60267But of what do the majority of men most readily converse?
60267But once more: what does a man do who takes the pledge?
60267But somebody might say: Father, ca n''t you tell us something to make the morning prayers easy?
60267But suppose he does not die immediately after baptism, how is it with him then?
60267But the men wondered, saying: Who is this, for even the winds and the sea obey him?
60267But was this way of growing only meant for God''s church in the beginning?
60267But what are the sins of the tongue we most often hear?
60267But what does the word"mortify"mean?
60267But what is our sanctification?
60267But what saith the Scripture?
60267But what shall obtain for us at that last moment the faith, hope, and charity which we need?
60267But what that glory is who shall tell?
60267But what was their mistake?
60267But what went you out to see?
60267But what went you out to see?
60267But what, therefore, is the first thought that must enter our hearts?
60267But who among you can face, without flinching, the tears of so good a friend as our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
60267But why do we ask ourselves these questions?
60267But why do we select the Heart of our Lord, or rather why has he himself selected it, as a special object of our adoration?
60267But why should we not speak of it often?
60267But, my dear brethren, mid all these rejoicings may there not be some poor soul among us who does not participate in the joys of Easter time?
60267But, then, who, except indeed the fisherman, wants you to eat fish?
60267But, you ask again, is he a human person also?
60267But, you say, what about a purpose of amendment?
60267Can any one be a mother and not be mother of a person?
60267Can he, however, demand this permission to enter heaven immediately after his death if he has committed only venial sin?
60267Can we kill them?
60267Can we tell what the result will be?
60267Could God be long in our hearts and we be altogether ignorant of it?
60267Dear brethren, shall we be slow to go to him who comes with healing for our immortal souls?
60267Did you never notice that pride and hardness of heart go together?
60267Do I exaggerate?
60267Do I furnish them proper reading matter, or do I allow them to waste their time and ruin their souls with the vile penny literature of the day?
60267Do I make my home pleasant and agreeable for my children?
60267Do I supply them with suitable home amusements?
60267Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
60267Do not sinners rest quite secure in their wickedness just because they believe in the true religion?
60267Do our conversations, like theirs, contain nothing reprehensible?
60267Do they not feel sure of salvation because they know how to be saved?
60267Do we care, as it is, to be near Jesus?
60267Do we even care for his presence by grace in our souls, which they always had in its fulness, and never dimmed by the shadow of sin?
60267Do we not know by observation and experience that where the wrath of God sets apart a single victim his tender love wins over a thousand?
60267Do we not make rather too much fuss and complaint over what is not really such a very great penance?
60267Do we not owe them much?
60267Do we not receive in our baptism, as infants, the grace that destroys original sin?
60267Do we owe_ them_ nothing?
60267Do we try to have our own way as much as possible, and never to step out of it for his sake, unless compelled by force or threats?
60267Do you covet that happiness?
60267Do you fairly understand it?
60267Do you not see that this exhibition of mercy in the Judge only renders the justice of the sentence more evident to you and more dreadful?
60267Do you take in its full meaning and application?
60267Do you think that such a loving Father would teach us, his children, A B C except with the set purpose of going clean through to X Y Z?
60267Do you trust to your knowledge of spiritual things and your pious talk?
60267Do you want to die as you are living?
60267Do you want to know how she is able to do this?
60267Do you wish that your name, too, should be written in the book of life?
60267Does God give more of this world''s goods to one man than to another because he loves one more than another?
60267Does any one want to be God- like?
60267Does it, then, still move the world in this way?
60267Does not God forgive us also our mortal sins, giving us time to repent, and even waiting patiently for our repentance?
60267Does not St. John also make it the test of our salvation?
60267Does not that dwell specially on the future?
60267Does not the Psalmist say that God''s mercy"is above all his works"?
60267Does she feel quite certain that she may not be subjected to insult or worse?
60267Fathers, are you solicitous for the little household which Almighty God himself has so fondly entrusted to your care?
60267For if one does not love God enough to offend bad men for his sake, how can he love him above all things?
60267For is not your church named for St. Paul?
60267For what is a grace?
60267For what is it that is meant, perhaps, by that?
60267For what is it to love any one; how do we act towards one whom we really and truly love?
60267For what is this which is called flirting?
60267For who hath known the mind of the Lord?
60267Forgiving one another, as they say the Lord has forgiven them?
60267From how many shameful falls have you not been raised up?
60267Had he no special purpose in this?
60267Had they not shown enough love and care for him?
60267Had they proved themselves unworthy of him?
60267Has it ever been so?
60267Have our consciences been lulled into a false security concerning the state of our immortal souls?
60267Have they never had a favor done them?
60267Have we thanked him for all these?
60267Have you at heart the interests of God''s holy church; are her sorrows, her wants, her trials yours?
60267Have you been guilty of soul- murder?
60267Have you ever been very sick?
60267Have you ever pondered over these beautiful words, and made them the subject of your meditation?
60267Have you ever tried to find out their true meaning, and thus make them profitable to your souls?
60267Have you not bowed down to idols of clay when you have steeped yourselves in drunkenness, in impurities, in the many sins of the flesh?
60267Have you not bowed down when you chose to gratify your lower instincts at the cost of your spiritual ruin?
60267Have you not heard of a sudden and unprovided death and then remembered how years ago that man started a disreputable business?
60267Have you washed your past life clean from sin by this Easter duty?
60267Have your virtuous lives and edifying example brought home the truths and beauties of the Catholic faith to those outside the church?
60267He commands us to hope; but in what shall our hope be placed?
60267He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also with him given us all things?"
60267How about the practice of it?
60267How am I walking in the vocation in which I am called?
60267How can a young girl know the character of him with whom she is dancing?
60267How can any one seriously attempt what he believes to be impossible?
60267How can it be explained?
60267How can you ask such a question?
60267How can you sleep a moment or be at rest a single instant longer while knowing you are condemned already, because you have not made your Easter duty?
60267How could he regret what none knew so well as he was to be a punishment all too light for the crimes of the Jews?
60267How could it be otherwise?
60267How could our Saviour weep over a downfall so well deserved?
60267How did it happen, people sometimes ask concerning this or that person, that she did not marry?
60267How do we act then?
60267How do we lose the light of faith which he gives?
60267How does he treat me, notwithstanding my many, many sins?
60267How have we done this in the past?
60267How is it that we harden our hearts?
60267How is it with us?
60267How is it, then, that man finds himself in his actual condition?
60267How is this?
60267How is this?
60267How many are there who, when they examine their conscience, ever think of questioning themselves upon the duties of their position in life?
60267How many business- men question themselves as to the honesty or propriety of this or that mode of action they have been following?
60267How many graces and blessings do you not owe to that crucified Lord?
60267How many of those who were not leading a Christian life before the mission are now doing so?
60267How will that countenance look to us at that moment?
60267How will those ears listen to our reports of our own lives?
60267How will those lips speak to us in that dread moment?
60267How would I feel if I were spoken of in this manner?
60267How, then, are they to have the truth brought home to them?
60267How, then, can we best practise this forgiveness which is so necessary for us?
60267How, then, can we expect to comprehend the nature and the inner life of God?
60267How, then, will the bearing of others burdens help us to serve God better?
60267I answer by a comparison: Why do men plant and then reap a field of wheat?
60267I say, why has he himself selected it?
60267If David then called him Lord, how is he his son?
60267If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me?
60267If all that we are and have is from God, by him and in him, how can we set ourselves apart from him, or claim anything for ourselves against him?
60267If so, do I discharge the duties of my calling?
60267If so, why do we not seek it more?
60267If we know that we are in danger, and that we can escape from it, but only by God''s help, why does not that help come and save us?
60267If you can not make him better, what is the sense of making him miserable?
60267In how many bitter sorrows have you not been comforted?
60267In how many sore temptations have you not been defended and strengthened?
60267In order to be a sincere Christian, what has a man to do?
60267In such a case as this is it true that even then all will be just as if the sin had never been committed?
60267In the first place, then, we will ask, What is the nature of the worship which we render to the Sacred Heart of Jesus?
60267In the words of St. Paul, are we not continually biting and devouring one another?
60267In what way may these duller and obtuser minds learn to appreciate these higher things?
60267Indeed?
60267Is everyone who comes near a Catholic girl or woman conscious of this influence?
60267Is he not personally her son?
60267Is his presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar a consolation to us?
60267Is it because Christ our Lord has come to save us from sin and eternal ruin?
60267Is it freedom from conflict?
60267Is it not merely to make up your mind to confess your sins and to keep for a few days as you ought to be, and then be pretty much as you were before?
60267Is it not our first duty to love God so strongly that we prefer him to all things else, even our nearest relatives?
60267Is it not the best praise of an individual that he is prosperous, and of a nation that it is wealthy?
60267Is it possible that one of their Apostles told them to do that?
60267Is it that a Protestant minister is an immoral or vicious character, with whom we should have nothing to do?
60267Is it the virtues of your neighbors that are spoken of and recounted for your own edification and your children''s imitation?
60267Is it the way we consider God''s service?
60267Is n''t that enough?
60267Is not the blessed privilege of the holy faith the secret reason of many a person''s delay of repentance?
60267Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment?
60267Is not the love of God the end of all religion?
60267Is not the love of God the one absorbing duty of our lives?
60267Is not the love of our neighbor the second great commandment, like to and founded on the first?
60267Is not the possession of riches deemed the most enviable happiness?
60267Is not this the most anxious inquiry, How shall I get rich?
60267Is she not engaged in a dance which borders on immodesty?
60267Is she not the Mother of our Lord, personally his Mother?
60267Is she satisfied that her mother would be pleased to see her with her present companions?
60267Is the Christian to have no battle to fight, no enemy to overcome?
60267Is the desire for freedom, which is implanted in us, all a delusion?
60267Is the kingdom of heaven of which he was speaking that heaven into which all the saved are to enter?
60267Is there a time in our lives when that debt is not binding?
60267Is there any poor little cripple in the family?
60267Is there no special significance in his choice of those words?
60267Is there not a mystery here?
60267Is this the way we act?
60267It is a mistake, and why?
60267It is necessarily this: How will that Man receive us when we are called into his presence, one by one, as we leave this world?
60267It is this:"What am I here for?
60267It is, How is the baby this morning?
60267It might be asked, dear brethren, what need God has of_ our_ testimony, or why the creature should act the part of witness for the Creator?
60267Let me ask, however, what kind of sorrow have you?
60267Let us see how this is; how is this love going to work to keep us in the safe and sure track?
60267Mothers, do you strive to make yourselves patterns of the Christian virtues of gentleness and forbearance?
60267Need I mention them?
60267Now do you not see why our Lord, his Apostles, and his church made so much of the love of one''s neighbor?
60267Now if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to- day is, and to- morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, ye of little faith?
60267Now what can be the reason of the failure of these good people in prayer?
60267Now, I say this is very beautiful, is it not?
60267Now, brethren, what is there in the spiritual life that answers to good clothes?
60267Now, how does all this apply to us?
60267Now, how is it in fact?
60267Now, in view of what I have said, ask yourselves, is this way of acting the mark of all Catholics?
60267Now, is such our religion?
60267Now, what does our Lord say of those who thus put temptation in the way of the young and innocent?
60267Now, what is exactly this precept of the Easter duty?
60267Now, what is the faith in hell?
60267Now, what is the reason of all this sad want of perseverance?
60267Now, what is the reason of this contemptible sneaking and meanness in those who ought to be brave and generous soldiers of Christ?
60267Now, what is this that we should love; what is our treasure in heaven?
60267Now, who has done so much for us as our parents?
60267Now, why has the church, by selecting the account of the Transfiguration at this season, turned our thoughts to what seems so inappropriate a subject?
60267Now, why not try to follow this line?
60267One should get leave to do so, of course; but if you have no sin on your conscience, what is easier than to say so to the priest?
60267Or am I a business- man who deals squarely and honestly with my neighbors, never on the alert to take advantage of the ignorant and weak?
60267Or am I just to men who work for me?
60267Or are you standing afar off ready to give an approving nod when the world smiles, or slink off like a coward when the world frowns?
60267Or is there not some other meaning which we may give to the words?
60267Or what woman having ten groats, if she lose one groat, doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently until she find it?
60267Or who hath been his counsellor?
60267Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made to him?
60267Or, if he can make such an arrangement, why should he not work for one in the morning, and another in the afternoon?
60267Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will?
60267Other people have comfort; why should not they?
60267Ought it to be such a great penance for a Christian to come and spend a little while in the presence of Him with whom he hopes to dwell for ever?
60267Ought not each one of us strive to get ourselves into that blessed state?
60267Peace, then, we should have in our spiritual combat; but how in the battle for our temporal life?
60267Shall a man do less for God than for himself?
60267Shall a man not do as much for the good of his soul and for eternal life in the next world?
60267Shall we not take a little trouble when such tremendous interests are at stake?
60267Shall we simply take our trouble because we can not help it, and fret as little as we can, because fretting only makes it worse?
60267Shall we trust to luck when a little effort will make heaven sure?
60267She has been introduced, to be sure, but what of that?
60267Since, then, this our mission is so important, brethren, how are we to fulfil it?
60267So we may learn, perhaps, another lesson from the question in the Gospel by reversing it and asking,"Who is not my neighbor?"
60267Such a one is well described by our Blessed Lord as"a whited sepulchre?
60267Such do not really try to avoid it; how can they?
60267Sup- pose you had a habit of spitting on your neighbor''s face or clothes by preference to any other place, how long would he endure it?
60267Suppose our Lord should suddenly quit the sacramental form of the host and ask a communicant at the altar- rail,"What do you wish for?"
60267Tell us, therefore, what dost thou think, Is it lawful to give tribute to CÃ ¦ sar, or not?
60267That is plain enough, is it not?
60267The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
60267The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him: Do we not say well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
60267The publicans who were farthest from God came and asked:"Master, what shall we do?"
60267The thought of heaven was the joy and strength of the martyrs; why should it not be the constant support of ordinary Christians, too?
60267Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe?
60267Then the servants of the master of the house came and said to him: Master, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field?
60267There is, however, a sanctification that we ought to expect from this Lent, and what is it?
60267Therefore calling together every one of his lord''s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?
60267They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us?
60267They set out to do as they pleased, and how has it ended?
60267This is the example he has left us that we should follow his steps; shall we refuse to profit by it?
60267This is whom we have when we have Christ, and should we not rejoice at having such a one?
60267To another he says: What are you doing there, you who are so fault- finding and overbearing?
60267To lose that, had it been possible, would have been a thousand deaths to them; what is it to us?
60267Very well; was that adding anything to the Christian faith?
60267Was it because he was like a reed shaken by the wind?
60267Was it that they never expected it to be otherwise?
60267Was it that those who made their confessions then were not sincere; that they made promises which they did not really expect to keep?
60267Was the law then against the promises of God?
60267We believe his word, we are in his true church, we receive his saving and life- giving sacraments; how, then, shall we not be saved?
60267We revere that real Presence of our Lord, but do we love it?
60267Well, the witch- hazel of the Christian soul is just this question: How much confidence have you in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ for you?
60267Well, then, what is the matter?
60267Were they altogether wrong in wishing for liberty?
60267What are the topics most commonly treated of in your Christian homes?
60267What are the trials of the church now compared to those at the very beginning?
60267What are these white lies?
60267What but the grace of God, with, which our souls should be provided, and without which they are in the state of mortal sin?
60267What could our Lord have meant when he said that the two were alike?
60267What do I mean by a tolerably good Christian?
60267What do they believe, and what do they teach?
60267What do you think of persons who actually make a living in selling journals which are but the pictured proceedings of the police courts?
60267What does a man do when he takes the pledge?
60267What does he do?
60267What does the Apostle mean by this?
60267What else is that wonder of the world called the faith of Catholics?
60267What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed?
60267What is it that gives to many such that singular taste for and perception of what is pure, beautiful, and true, which they unmistakably possess?
60267What is it to follow God?
60267What is more edifying than the virtue of a good father?
60267What is that, among all religious practices, which he would have us do as a token of inner and outer reverence?
60267What is the best way?
60267What is the goal to which it is tending?
60267What is the reason, the doctrine, of the Catholic''s devotion to Mary?
60267What is the spirit?
60267What is to be thought of those who act in this way?
60267What is, then, the harm exactly of going to a Protestant minister to get married?
60267What lesson can_ we_ learn from these events?
60267What more could I have done for my vineyard which I have not done?
60267What must the murderers of little children expect?
60267What one of us but has his daily task-- his allotted work?
60267What parched his tongue with such burning thirst?
60267What peace can we have while its issue is still uncertain, its events yet unknown?
60267What platted the crown of thorns, and drove those sharp spikes deep into his sacred head?
60267What pointed the spear of the impious Roman soldier, and hurled it deep into the Sacred Heart, whence issued the red torrent of the Precious Blood?
60267What sent those nails through his hands and feet, fixing them to the tree of shame?
60267What was his special motive in this extraordinary course of penance?
60267What was the reason that they did not persevere?
60267What was this difficulty?
60267What way is there of spreading the light?
60267What were those things which he had yet to say to them, but which they could not then bear?
60267What would you have me do?"
60267What, in short, is more common than detraction, and even slander?
60267What, then, are these laws?
60267What, then, does the Catholic faith teach us about her?
60267What, then, have we to fear if we will only keep close to him?
60267What, then, is human about him?
60267What, then, is it?
60267What, then, is the nature of our worship of the Sacred Heart?
60267What, then, must we do?
60267When may we hope that the promise of our Lord will be fulfilled and labor shall be crowned with success?
60267When we have anything to do, we must say, Would God do this way or that way?
60267When, therefore, we see this great goodness of our Lord towards us, how can we be so heedless of our own good as to turn away from him?
60267Where do they get money to buy them?
60267Where is he, that we may find him?
60267Where or in what but his mercy?
60267Where, then, is our peace in this inevitable war, this contest which demands all the energies of our body and soul?
60267Where, then, is the purpose of amendment?
60267Which is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
60267Which of these three in thy opinion was neighbor to him that fell among the robbers?
60267Which of us, dear brethren, is without his burden or his care?
60267Which of you shall convince me of sin?
60267Which of_ you_, my brethren?
60267Which one of the children is best loved by the father and mother?
60267Who are these people whom he would find fault with?
60267Who are these?
60267Who can count himself safe so much as one day from his own natural feebleness, or from the wiles of Satan, or from human respect?
60267Who dare say that he has nothing to fear from the judgments of God?
60267Who in our day are like Herod?
60267Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
60267Who is it that prepares the Supper, they or the Lord?
60267Who is scandalized, and I do not burn?
60267Who is weak, and I am not weak?
60267Who will help us to persevere when the enemies of our salvation are making the most of their last chance to snatch it from us?
60267Whom dost thou make thyself?
60267Whose money pays for it?
60267Whose son is he?
60267Why can we not leave judgment to God, and treat poor sinners after our Lord''s example, praying and suffering for them?
60267Why did she not marry?
60267Why did you think so much of him?
60267Why do Catholics pay so much honor to the Virgin Mary?
60267Why do all this hard work?
60267Why do we say that"Christmas comes but once a year,"if not because we feel that there is nothing else that can take its place?
60267Why does not the world now come to us as it did in those former days of its anxiety and doubt?
60267Why is it that it has such a warm place in our hearts?
60267Why not have something to show for all our trouble at the end of our time here on earth?
60267Why not make it, as we may, into a crown to take with us into that life which has no end?
60267Why should it not be so to us all?
60267Why should they be treated so harshly?
60267Why suffer this poverty, this sickness, this worry and distress of mind?
60267Why then was the law?
60267Why was it that they had the same sad story to tell when they came back this time that they had a few years ago?
60267Why will not the generosity of God towards us lead us to show a like spirit towards our brethren?
60267Why will you not see the hand of God directing the whole course of your life?"
60267Why, then, are you so careless about morning prayers?
60267Why, then, does not the church increase more rapidly?
60267Why?
60267Why?
60267Will it make them strong?
60267Will those with whom we have enjoyed life then stand by to help us?
60267Will you heed this warning, or will you still put off the day of your conversion to God?
60267Will you remain thus, you who are in sin?
60267Would he not at least have told them if such had been his plan?
60267Would he not grant her lightest wish while he lived with her on earth, will he not gladly do so now in heaven?
60267Would he not say rather that we were indeed like reeds, turning to one side or another, according to the wind that happens to be blowing?
60267Would it not be fearful to see him stagger up to the altar of God in the state of intoxication?
60267Would it not be horrible for a man to come in on the altar and utter repeated curses?
60267Would it not, perhaps, even be a painful restraint?
60267Would our answer be as pleasing to God as theirs was?
60267Would we care for this presence which they so bitterly missed?
60267Would you find it easy to do such a thing yourself, however guilty?
60267Yes, sorrow may come in such an overflowing torrent as to break down and sweep away all obstacles in its path; but how often does it come so?
60267Yet another might say: But, Father, what about the sacraments, and what about the practice of prayer, and what about the laws of the church?
60267Yet how can we call any class of virtues little?
60267You are sorry that things were so that you had to tell a lie; but if things were so again to- morrow, would not you tell the lie again?
60267You fail, and why?
60267You wish to succeed?
60267_ And he said to them: What are these discourses that you hold one with another?
60267_ Brethren, know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize?
60267_ Shouldst not thou then have had compassion on thy fellow- servant, even as I had compassion on thee?_--St. Matthew, xviii.
60267_ What is this receiving of God''s grace in vain, my brethren, against which St. Paul warns us in these words of the Epistle of to- day?
60267_ What went you out into the desert to see?
60267_ Where are the nine?_--St. Luke xvii.
60267_ Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbor to him that fell among robbers?
60267_ Which of you shall convince me of sin?_--John viii.
60267_ Who is my neighbor?_--From the Gospel of the Sunday.
60267and where are the nine?
60267dear brethren, and what do we see in the world about us?
60267did you not know that I must be about the things that are my Father''s?
60267do they not both fall into the ditch?
60267have pity on me, for this is my dear son, dead in mortal sin?
60267he still says to us,"why are you so slow and dull of heart to understand?
60267how much you are losing, and for what?
60267how readest thou?
60267is it not our sins?
60267is thy eye evil because I am good?
60267or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull the mote out of thy eye, when thou thyself seest not the beam in thy own eye?
60267what end do I hope to obtain?"
60267what is the use, what is the purpose of all this life which I am living?
60267what sayest thou of thyself?
60267whence then hath it cockle?
60267where is thy sting?
60267where is thy victory?
60267{ 109} Is it because we fast, say long prayers, visit the church, or even because we receive the sacraments often?
60267{ 127} What does this oil mean that the foolish virgins neglected to provide for themselves and to have in their lamps?
60267{ 138} Plenty of this seed has, then, been sown in us; but where is the fruit, the harvest that should have come from it?
60267{ 158} And, when we come to look at it, is it such a very terrible infliction?
60267{ 159} Now, after the fast and abstinence, what is left?
60267{ 174} Now if I cast out devils in Beelzebub, in whom do your children cast them out?
60267{ 189} Where, then, is liberty to be found?
60267{ 195} Is there any way in which he can be made clean?
60267{ 198} What is this veil which obscures the cross of Jesus Christ and makes his Passion of no effect?
60267{ 206} Now, what is the truth which these services have it for their object to impress upon our minds?
60267{ 215} And what is the remedy for this dread?
60267{ 21} Why was it that he made such a strange choice?
60267{ 222} But what would you think if those gifts of the kind father served only to estrange from him the heart of his child?
60267{ 225} What is this peace?
60267{ 24} But would our Saviour be able to praise us so highly, my brethren, if he should come down now in our midst?
60267{ 253} What is the first thing to be done to begin to live in this way?
60267{ 256} Or, lastly, is the reason for their disappointment that they were praying for others whose will was obstinately set against their prayers?
60267{ 260} For how could they have made the purpose of amendment which a good confession requires?
60267{ 277} And why seest thou the mote in thy brother''s eye, but the beam that is in thy own eye thou considerest not?
60267{ 283} How did they understand him?
60267{ 284} Do we truly hope that this sad fate will not be ours?
60267{ 289} How would you like to have yourself thrust aside and one of them called by the Lord to take your place at his table?
60267{ 28} Now what was it that the pope did in defining the Immaculate Conception?
60267{ 340} What are the deeds of the flesh?
60267{ 341} Is it really so hard as it seems?
60267{ 346} What, then, shall be our hope?
60267{ 353} Who are they?
60267{ 35} Now, how is this"way of the Lord"to be"made straight"in the spiritual desert of our hearts?
60267{ 361} Suppose that your child is sick, what is your first word in the morning?
60267{ 381} Are not all men creatures of God?
60267{ 387} And Jesus answering, said: Were there not ten made clean?
60267{ 396} And which of you by thinking can add to his stature one cubit?
60267{ 397} Yet, brethren, is not the whole Christian world absorbed in seeking after what should be the heathen''s peculiar treasure?
60267{ 39} What is this root of sin in us?
60267{ 400} But somebody might say, How about the love of God?
60267{ 402} What does our Lord mean by this, my brethren?
60267{ 403} But I seem to hear some one say,"Father, are you not pushing this matter rather too far?
60267{ 411} But, some one might say, what if your child has got beyond you and will be bad in spite of every best endeavor on your part-- what then?
60267{ 419} Another says: Brains is the standard; good clothes and social position-- what are they but miserable vanity and prejudice?
60267{ 42} What is the reason of all this failure of what began so well?
60267{ 433} Do I oblige them to come to Mass and approach the sacraments, while I neglect these duties myself?
60267{ 436} Have you never seen a blind man whose eyes seemed perfectly good, clear, and bright, and yet utterly blind?
60267{ 451} And what is the harm?
60267{ 57} What is it to bring up children to burn in the flames of hell for ever, as some Christian parents do?
60267{ 67} And his mother said to him: Son, why hast thou done so to us?
60267{ 78} Do I say this is strange?
60267{ 83} Well, brethren, let us ask if Almighty God has not set up any particular sign of reverence that we are to pay him?
60267{ 88} Will He, then, who has done so much for us, not complete his work?
60267{ 98} Can you stand up and with a clean heart proclaim that this is honest?
10116And what will ye do in the end thereof?
10116From whence,he says,"come wars and quarrels among you?
10116Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? 10116 Lord,"they answer,"when saw we Thee?"
10116So runs my dream; but what am I? 10116 Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans?
10116To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? 10116 What?"
10116Why seek ye the living among the dead? 10116 Why should God go out of His way, as it were, to care for such a paltry folly as the pride of an ignorant, weak, short- sighted creature like man?
10116Will he be praised, rewarded, mentioned in the newspapers, if he fights well?
10116Will he get food enough, water enough, care enough, if he is wounded?
10116Will the officers lead us right?
10116? à ¦ ata à ¦ a?
10116? à ¦ ata à ¦ a?
10116? Ã ¦ ata-- sorrows are lessons; and that the most truly pitiable people often are those who have no sorrows, and ask for no man''s pity.
10116A Gospel?
10116A child''s first impressions of this life, what are they but pleasure?
10116Above all, I may say-- Who will lead us into all truth?
10116All true love of husband and wife, mother and child, sister and brother, friend and friend, man to his country,--what does it mean but this?
10116Am I discontented with myself, or with things about me, and outside of me?
10116Am I speaking almost to deaf ears?
10116And are not you, too, soldiers-- soldiers of Jesus Christ?
10116And deeper still, why does a little child know when it has done wrong?
10116And do we not know that so it is?
10116And do you not know that it is among such people as these that pestilence is always bred?
10116And even if He had not, would not common sense tell us that He intended us to do so?
10116And how can you best do that?
10116And how does he try to bring them round to him?
10116And how far shall we have to go to find ourselves face to face with God?
10116And how shall we become like God?
10116And how?
10116And how?
10116And how?
10116And if God has made it bear even the poorest fruit in me, why should He not make it bear fruit in other men and in all the world?
10116And if not, is not the pestilence of the soul more subtle and more contagious than any pestilence of the body?
10116And if they shall make answer,"And who is He that I did not know Him?
10116And if you ask me, How is it a sacrifice to God to confess to Him that we are sinners?
10116And in the kingdom of nature how does God begin with mankind?
10116And is it not as true for us now, ay, for all nations and all mankind now, as it was when it was uttered?
10116And is not the answer the most essential of all answers?
10116And know you not Who that Light is, and what He said of little children?
10116And no doubt it is perfectly and literally true: but answer me this, when does the wicked man do that which is lawful and right?
10116And 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?"
10116And now, my dear friends, what has this to do with us?
10116And shall I forget Thee, disobey Thee, neglect to praise, and honour, and worship Thee, and thank Thee day and night, for Thy great glory?
10116And shall there be no noble indignation in God when He beholds all the wrong which is done on earth?
10116And that we are chastised for pride, who does not know?
10116And the people asked him saying, What shall we do then?
10116And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do?
10116And therefore I must ask, in sober sadness, how long would His influence last?
10116And they say, How doth God know?
10116And to that the other party will answer, Has not God said,"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself?"
10116And what answer is that?
10116And what are they like, those blessed beings of whom the text speaks?
10116And what are they?
10116And what are those heavenly places?
10116And what did they do?
10116And what do they do, those blessed beings?
10116And what followed?
10116And what has He made?
10116And what if, as needs must happen at whiles, the sovereign were not a man, but a woman or a child?
10116And what is our duty in them?
10116And what is that mob?
10116And what is that?
10116And what is the grace of Christ?
10116And what is the grace of life?
10116And what is the gracious law which will save you from the terrible law which will make you go on from worse to worse?
10116And what is this but self- conceit-- ruinous, I had almost said, blasphemous?
10116And what is this witness of which the apostle speaks?
10116And what right thing?
10116And what was our Lord''s answer-- seemingly more stern than ever?
10116And when one asks in astonishment-- You call yourselves Christians?
10116And whence comes the population of parents whom these children represent?
10116And who are easy- going folk like you and me, that we should arrogate to ourselves a place in that grand company?
10116And who are they?
10116And who is He?
10116And who is the Judge but God Himself, who is set on His throne judging right, while you are doing wrong?
10116And who is the officer, to whom that judge will deliver you?
10116And who save God has put them into the world''s heart?
10116And who was that adversary?
10116And whose voice can that be but the voice of Christ, and the Spirit of God?
10116And why does that please God?
10116And why?
10116And why?
10116And why?
10116And why?
10116And why?
10116Are any of you, again, in the habit of cheating your neighbours, or dealing unfairly by them?
10116Are not such thoughts unjust and uncharitable to your neighbours, to your country, to all mankind?
10116Are not they enough to possess?
10116Are not they enough wherewith to lie down at night in peace, and rise to- morrow to take what comes to- morrow, even as he took what came to- day?
10116Are they the anxious people?
10116Are those who do most work, either the plotting or intriguing people?
10116Are we not apt to say to them"Raca"--to speak cruelly, contemptuously, fiercely of them, if they thwart us?
10116Are we not( I am, I know, may God forgive me for it) apt to be angry with our brethren without a cause, out of mere peevishness?
10116Are we selfish?
10116As for any real improvement in human nature-- where is it?
10116Ask yourselves each, Am I at peace?
10116Ay, more, which can not only make these tiny living things, but, more wonderful still, make them make themselves?
10116But Lord, how could I do less?
10116But does our Lord bid us copy a cheat?
10116But for the honour of our Lord, we may say, Does not this story shew that the Lord is humane enough, tender enough, to satisfy all mankind?
10116But from whom do they come?
10116But from whom does that good come, save from Christ and from the Spirit of Christ, from whom alone come all good gifts?
10116But how are such souls recompensed in the earth?
10116But how could that be?
10116But how is it that they are ever needed?
10116But how many?
10116But how shall we know Christ''s sheep when we see them?
10116But how shall we know these temptations?
10116But how to worship Him?
10116But how?
10116But if so; why does our Lord mention it?
10116But if that be all, why can they not say their prayers at home?
10116But if we can find a Father of our spirits, of our souls, shall we not rather be in subjection to Him and live?
10116But if you will do the thing you know to be right, and say the thing you know to be true, then what can harm you?
10116But in what sense is He not content?
10116But is that all?
10116But may not Christ have His elect among them?
10116But should we know Him merely by His bearing and character?
10116But some one will say, how can that be, when so many of the old Hebrews seem to have known nothing about the next life?
10116But the Holy Spirit is spoken of in Scripture under the likeness of a dove?
10116But then comes the question, Of all the flowers in a single field, is one in ten thousand ever looked at by child or by men?
10116But then what does he say is their sin?
10116But those who were trying earnestly to do their work, though amid many mistakes and failures, why should they dread the coming of the kingdom of God?
10116But what does that mean?
10116But what does that mean?
10116But what has that to do with us, free self- governed Englishmen, in this peaceful and prosperous land?
10116But what has that, again, to do with us?
10116But what is good?
10116But what is it that troubles you?
10116But what is our Lord''s solemn answer?
10116But what kind of comfort do we not merely like but need?
10116But what manner of man was St John the Baptist in the meantime?
10116But what name?
10116But what picture of St John the Baptist shall we choose whereby to represent him to ourselves, as the forerunner of the incarnate God?
10116But what says Easter day?
10116But what shall we say to that lost sheep?
10116But where, oh where?
10116But where?
10116But which is to come first,--love to God, or love to man?
10116But who are they?
10116But who has seen those countless tribes, which have been living down, in utter darkness, since the making of the world?
10116But who is the adversary of that man, and who is the judge, and who is the officer?
10116But who may abide the day of His coming?
10116But who will help us to drink the bitter cup?
10116But why should God resist the proud?
10116But why should it be true?
10116But why?
10116But why?
10116But with what are they not content?
10116But yet, as in Judea of old, would He not be only too successful?
10116But you may say, What is all this to us?
10116But, after all, why should you try to improve?
10116But, some of you may say, Is it not so after all?
10116Can any man put off these bad habits in a moment, as he puts off his coat?
10116Can he feel for frail me?
10116Can we suppose that God would take one view of these Corinthians, and then inspire St Paul to take another view?
10116Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
10116Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
10116Come they not hence, even of the lusts which war in your members?
10116Commended him for cheating him a second time, and teaching his debtors to cheat him?
10116Did He mean us not to love them, after He has made us love them, we know not how or why?
10116Did He say in vain,"All power is given unto me in heaven and earth?"
10116Did He say in vain,"Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world?"
10116Did He speak with a frown, or with something like a smile?
10116Did not Christ bring heaven with Him whithersoever He went?
10116Did the apostles, then, believe in these three goddesses?
10116Did they think that He had gone away and left them?
10116Did they, therefore, as would have been natural, weep and lament?
10116Do I mean that we are to submit slavishly to circumstances, like dumb animals?
10116Do I mean, then, that the text has nothing to do with us?
10116Do I say this to frighten you away from being religious?
10116Do not good men often lead lives of poverty and affliction?
10116Do not men make large fortunes, or rise to fame and power, by base and wicked means?
10116Do such people get most work done?
10116Do these men know of Whom they talk?
10116Do they find that in Scripture?
10116Do we indulge our passions?
10116Do we neglect our duty?
10116Do we not live and move and have our being in God?
10116Do we pride ourselves on being something?
10116Do we squander our money?
10116Do we?--but what use to go on reminding men of truths which no one believes, because they are too painful and searching to be believed in comfort?
10116Do you ask what will Christ give me?
10116Do you believe the Bible?
10116Do you believe the Christian religion?
10116Do you believe the Creeds?
10116Do you doubt that?
10116Do you fancy that I understand them, though my reason, as well as Holy Scripture, tells me that they are true?
10116Do you hear that there are savages and heathens, generations of them, within a rifle- shot of the house?
10116Do you know what it is?
10116Do you know who that Caesar is, my friends?
10116Do you not hear from the psalmists, and prophets, and apostles, of a God who judges and punishes such generations as this?
10116Do you not see the difference, the infinite difference, and the good news in that?
10116Do you not think that God will punish YOU for all this?
10116Do you not understand me?
10116Do you think that God is a tempter and a deceiver?
10116Does He hear me?
10116Does He see me?
10116Does any one say-- These things are too high for me; I can not understand them?
10116Does he hear voices from heaven telling little children that they are lost sinners?
10116Does he know what I go through?"
10116Does he see lightning come from heaven to strike sinners dead, or earthquakes rise and swallow them up?
10116Does it matter very much what I say and do now, provided I make my peace with Him before I die?
10116Does it not sober us to see even a picture of Christ crucified?
10116Does not God punish men every day for their father''s sins?
10116Does not this earth look brighter to him then?
10116Does that seem strange?
10116Does that sound much like a general increase of armaments?
10116Does that state of things look much like progress of the human race?
10116Does this seem strange to you?
10116Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom?
10116Doubtless it means that; but if it meant nothing more at first, why was not the plain word Gift enough for the Apostles?
10116For do we not find, do we not find, my friends, in practice, that our Lord''s words are true?
10116For is not the Old Testament spiritual as well as the New?
10116For says David again,"Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle, or who shall rest upon Thy holy hill?
10116For then comes in the question-- not merely is God good?
10116For to understand the original question-- Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar or no?
10116For was not St Paul an inspired apostle?
10116For what does he say-- and say not( remember always) of Christian magistrates in a Christian country, but actually of heathen Roman magistrates?
10116For what has a man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he has laboured under the sun?
10116For what has a slave to do with pride?
10116For what is growth, but a thing making itself?
10116For what is it that thou lovest in thy neighbour?
10116For what is life that we should make such ado about it, and hug it so closely, and look to it to fill our hearts?
10116For what keener, what nobler enjoyment for rational and moral beings, than satisfaction with, and admiration of, a Being better than themselves?
10116For what says the 26th verse of this chapter?
10116For when He ascended to heaven out of their sight, did they consider that was seeing Him no more?
10116For when I ask you the solemn question, Would you know Christ if He came among you?
10116For who is our Lord?
10116Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks?
10116Has He not commanded us to love our wives, our children?
10116Has He not meant us to use them?
10116Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?
10116Hast thou given the horse strength?
10116Have His words passed away?
10116Have his father''s sins kept him ignorant, or in anywise hindered his rise in life?
10116Have his father''s sins made him unhealthy?
10116Have the father''s sins made the son poor?
10116Have they no time-- I am sure they have the heart-- to tend the wounded and the fever- stricken, that they may rise and fight once more?
10116He will make you like Himself, partaker of His grace; and what is that?
10116High pay?
10116How are we to look at it?
10116How can He be?
10116How can I tell whether I should recognise, after all, my Saviour and my Lord?
10116How can she help being distracted by the thought of to- morrow?
10116How can they be to any finite and created being?
10116How can they be too strong, in face of what is now passing in a neighbouring land?
10116How could he be?
10116How dare any man say-- Bad I am, and bad I must remain-- while the God who made heaven and earth offers to make you good?
10116How dare he be covetous, ambitious, revengeful, false?
10116How do I know that if He said, as in Judea of old,"Will ye too go away?"
10116How else dare Abraham ask of God,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
10116How else has God''s command to the old Jews any meaning,"Be ye holy, for I am holy?"
10116How is it your duty to deal, then, with these poor children?
10116How is that, my friends?
10116How shall I make myself safe against the chances and changes of life?
10116How should I be able to pull through such a trouble?
10116How then dare I ask it of you?
10116How were they recompensed in the earth?
10116How, but by the very test which Christ has laid down, it seems to me, in this very parable?
10116How, then, shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves?
10116How?
10116I have been a philanthropist: but have I really loved my fellow- men?
10116I have given large sums in charity: but have I ever sacrificed anything for my fellow- men?
10116I should answer with St Peter,"Lord, to whom shall we go?
10116If God can give you common sense about one thing, why not about another?
10116If God were really angry with, really hated, the proud man, or any other man, would He need only to resist him?
10116If St John himself was struck down with awe, what shall we feel, even the best and purest among us?
10116If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him?"
10116If inspiration does not mean that, what does it mean?
10116If our Lord could make stones into bread to satisfy His hunger, why should He not do so?
10116If this chapter was a lesson to our forefathers, how is it to be a lesson to us likewise?
10116If we could feed ourselves by making bread of stones, would not that make us proud enough?
10116If we had such a Comforter as that, could we not take evil from his hands, as well as good?
10116If we have to rebuke our children for doing wrong, do we begin by trying to break their hearts?
10116If you and I could make the whole city worship and obey us, by casting ourselves off this cathedral unhurt, would not that make us proud enough?
10116If you had a tribe of Red Indians on the frontier of your settlement, would you take the less guard against them, because you did not put them there?
10116In the sense in which a hard task- master is not content with his slave, when he flogs him cruelly for the slightest fault?
10116Is God pure?
10116Is God sinless?
10116Is God wise?
10116Is He not as ready to hear in the field, and in the workshop and in the bed- chamber, as in the church?
10116Is it not obvious now, and has it not been notorious in every country, and in all times, that so it is?
10116Is it not the most blessed news, that He who takes away, is the very same as He who gives?
10116Is it not true?
10116Is it something outside you?-- something which is NOT you yourself?
10116Is it your will, my friends; or is it not?
10116Is not God harder on some than on others?
10116Is not Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to- day, and for ever?
10116Is not that blessed news?
10116Is not that man recompensed in the earth?
10116Is not that the question of all questions?
10116Is not the Old Testament inspired, and that by the Spirit of God?
10116Is not the adulteration of food just now as scandalous as it is unchecked?
10116Is not the condition of the masses in many great cities as degraded and as sad as ever was that of the serfs in the middle ages?
10116Is that a hard word?
10116Is that not a sin to bow our hearts as the heart of one man?
10116Is that not noble?
10116Is there a luxury in which a respectable man could safely indulge, which I have denied myself?
10116Is there in one of them the high instincts-- even the desire to do a merciful act?
10116Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
10116Is there no hint in this blessing of God of something more than our mortal life-- something beyond our mortal life?
10116Is there not in every one of them, as in you, the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world?
10116Is this theory altogether novel and unheard of?
10116Is yours the duty which the good Samaritan felt?--the duty of mere humanity?
10116It was God who sowed the seed in me; surely it is God who has sowed it in other men?
10116Know you not what I mean?
10116Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
10116Let St Paul answer once more; who should know better than he, save Christ alone?
10116May He not have His sheep among them, who hear His voice though they know not that it is His voice?
10116May not His Spirit be working in some of them?
10116Merely to be comfortable?--To be free from pain, anxiety, sorrow?--To have only pleasant faces round us, and pleasant things said to us?
10116Might He not have been with the Father during those forty days, whenever they had not seen Him?
10116Must it not be so?
10116My dear friends, are they not too high for me likewise?
10116Nay, I would go further still, and say, Is not the righteous man recompensed on the earth every time he hears a strain of noble music?
10116Nay; was He not always in heaven?
10116Not in our parish, and what of that?
10116Not that which is bad in him?
10116Now how could that be a temptation to pride?
10116Now if we can thus have hope for some among the heathen abroad, shall we not have hope, too, for some among the heathen at home?
10116Now what are these spiritual sacrifices?
10116Now what is this, but worshipping the evil spirit, in order to get power over this world, that they may( as they fancy) amend it?
10116Now what was the secret of this inspired herdsman''s strength?
10116Now, is not this self- conceit?
10116Now, my dear friends,--surely beautiful things were made to be seen by some one, else why were they made beautiful?
10116Now, what does this word grace mean?
10116Now, why do I say all this?
10116Now, why was that flower put there?
10116Of the way in which the Spirit of God works in man?
10116Oh, is there a Holy One, whom I may contemplate with utter delight?
10116On what have you set your heart and affections?
10116Our Father has given us the cup-- shall we not drink it?
10116Proud, self- willed thoughts are surely out of place to- day( and what day are they in place?)
10116Refined?
10116Say to your fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, and say too, and that boldly, to the tradesmen with whom you deal-- Do you hear this?
10116Shall not He, who suffered without hope of reward, have His reward nevertheless?
10116Shall the just and holy God look on carelessly and satisfied at injustice and unholiness which vexes even poor sinful man?
10116Shall we even allure it by promises of heaven?
10116Shall we pass over the waste, the hereditary waste of human souls, brought about by similar defects in every great city in the world?
10116Shall we pride ourselves on health and strength?
10116Shall we terrify it by threats of hell?
10116Should we not fear lest that might hurt us?
10116Should we recognise, or should we reject, our Saviour and our Lord?
10116Should we see in Him an utterly ideal personage-- The Son of Man, and therefore, ere we lost sight of Him once more, the Son of God?
10116Sickened by the follies, the failures, the ferocities, the foulnesses of mankind, for ages upon ages past?
10116So we should learn something of how all things were made; and then would come a second question, why all things were made?
10116Somebody must always be rich, why should not I?
10116Somebody must enjoy the money, why should not I?
10116That He who afflicts is the very same as He who comforts?
10116That He who brings us into"the valley of the shadow of death,"is the same as He of whom it is said,"Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me?"
10116That sort of jealousy is a base and wicked passion in man, and dare we attribute it to God?
10116That when we walk across the field, or look out into the garden, we could have the wisdom to remember, Whither, O God, can I go from Thy presence?
10116The amusement and excitement of fires?
10116The difference between our minds and the Mind of God is-- to what shall I liken it?
10116The difficulty in all ages about a standard of morality has been-- How can we fix it?
10116The minute after he has repented?
10116The people-- the farming class-- came to him with"What shall we do?"
10116The question for us is, how ought we to keep it?
10116The vanity of being praised for their courage?
10116Then I too will eat and drink, for to- morrow_ I_ die?"
10116Then came also publicans to be baptized unto them, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
10116Then is not God merciful to the world in punishing them, even in destroying them out of the world, where they only do harm?
10116Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
10116Then said the Jews unto Him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?"
10116Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we Thee an hungred, and fed Thee?
10116Then why does St. Peter give it as a reason for expecting blessing and happiness in the life to come?
10116These are awful words, but, my dear friends, I can only ask you if you think them too awful to be true?
10116These are serious words; for which of us dare to say that we are greater than John the Baptist?
10116Think ye that they whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
10116This is God''s method with us in His Church, and what is it but St Paul''s method with these Corinthians?
10116Those who imagine to themselves possible misfortunes, and ask continually-- What if this happened-- or that?
10116Thou did''st die for me-- for whom have I ever died?
10116Thou did''st hunger for me-- for whom have I ever hungered?
10116Thou did''st suffer for me-- for whom have I ever suffered?
10116Thou hast the words of eternal life, and we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God?"
10116Thou lovest God?
10116Thou lovest God?
10116To make you fear and dread the Spirit of God?
10116To take away comfort from you?
10116True, our hands are more or less clean: but what of that?
10116Was He not always with the Father, the Father who fills all things, in whom all created things live, and move, and have their being?
10116Was it not so?
10116Was not heaven very near them?
10116We let the guilty criminal eat and drink well the morn ere he is led forth to die-- shall we not do as much by those who are innocent?
10116We may, therefore, believe that He would condescend to the level of our modern knowledge; and what would that involve?
10116We say with Abraham,"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"
10116Were you never not merely puzzled-- all thinking men are that-- but crushed and sickened at moments by the mystery of evil?
10116What are a child''s first impressions of this life?
10116What are we to do?
10116What but this?
10116What but your own faculties, your own emotions, your own passions-- in one word, your own selves?
10116What comfort, what example to us here struggling, often sinning, in this piecemeal world?
10116What did he believe?
10116What did he preach?
10116What do I mean?
10116What do you fancy keeps them up to their work?
10116What do you want with it?
10116What does God''s Spirit give us?
10116What does the preacher know of a woman''s troubles?
10116What else could it do?
10116What had our Lord to do, what have we to do, with the opinion of so foolish a man?
10116What have I been after all, with all my philanthropy and charity, but a selfish, luxurious, pompous personage?
10116What helped him to face priests, nobles, and kings?
10116What humility which will not seem self- conceit?
10116What if He gave them their wish?
10116What if He took them at their word?
10116What if they departed and entered the presence of Christ, only to meet with a worse fate than that of Gerontius?
10116What is it you want altered?
10116What is our cleverness-- our strength of mind?
10116What is our knowledge of the world?
10116What is our wisdom-- What does a wise man say of his?
10116What is the grace of Jesus Christ like, and how is it the same as the grace of God''s Spirit?
10116What is the spreading power of fever to the spreading power of vice, which springs from tongue to tongue, from eye to eye, from heart to heart?
10116What is the use of the service, as we call it, if the sermon is the only or even the principal object for which we come?
10116What is there in the character of God which makes it reasonable, probable, likely to be true?
10116What it is?
10116What justice which will not seem unjust?
10116What manner of personage would He be did He condescend to appear among us?
10116What matter to a mother to be called a dog, if she could thereby save her child from a devil?
10116What matter whether they be one mile off or five?
10116What mean the words that we partake of a divine nature?
10116What means the command to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect?
10116What more wholesome than to be made holy and humble men of heart?
10116What picture of him and his character can we form to ourselves in our own imaginations?
10116What proverb more common, what proverb more true, than that after pride comes a fall?
10116What purity can we bring into His presence which will not seem impure to Him?
10116What reason is there for it?
10116What says St. James to that?
10116What says a wiser and a better man than I shall ever be, and that not of noble music, but of such as we may hear any day in any street?
10116What was that glory which, as far as we can judge of divine things, He resumed as on this day?
10116What wisdom which will not seem folly?
10116What would become of me then?
10116What, some one will ask, when a man loves a fair face, does he love Christ then?
10116What, then, does this word mean?
10116What, then, was John the Baptist like?
10116What?
10116When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
10116When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
10116Whence comes this large population of children who are needy, if not destitute; and who are, or are in a fair way to become, dangerous?
10116Where is that Comforter?
10116Where shall I find friends?
10116Whither can I flee from Thy Spirit?
10116Whither can we go from His spirit, or whither can we flee from His presence?
10116Who am I, that God can not govern the world without my help?
10116Who dare say,--I can not amend-- when God Himself offers to amend you?
10116Who is Lord of joy and sorrow?
10116Who is Lord of life and death?
10116Who is he that God should care more for him than for others?
10116Who is he that God should help him when he prays, more than He will help His whole church if it will but pray?
10116Who is his adversary?
10116Who is our Governor?
10116Who is our Guide?
10116Who is our King?
10116Who is our Lawgiver?
10116Who is she?
10116Who knoweth the spirit of man that it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that it goeth downward to the earth?"
10116Who loved Him better, and whom did He love better, than St John?
10116Who save the Cause and Maker, and Ruler of all things, past, present, and to come?
10116Who will be the comforter, and give us not mere kind words, but strength?
10116Who will give us the faith to say with Job,"Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him?"
10116Who will give us the firm reason to look steadily at our grief, and learn the lesson it was meant to teach?
10116Who will give us the temperate will, to keep sober and calm amid the shocks and changes of mortal life?
10116Who will harm you, asks St Peter himself,"if you be followers of that which is good?
10116Who, then, was He whose ascent we celebrate?
10116Why can you not open your eyes and of yourselves judge what is right?
10116Why care for any born of woman, if the happiness which depends on them is exposed to a thousand chances-- a thousand changes?
10116Why did God make the worlds?
10116Why did He make it lovely?
10116Why did He put us into it, if He did not mean us to enjoy it?
10116Why did they use Grace?
10116Why do we come to church at all?
10116Why does a little child dance when it hears a strain of music?
10116Why does a little child pick flowers?
10116Why does it love to hear of things beautiful and noble, and shrink from things foul and mean, if what I say is not true?
10116Why has God so ordered the world and human nature, that pride punishes itself?
10116Why has our anxiety come?
10116Why is it so?
10116Why relieve distress which fresh accidents may bring back again to- morrow, with all its miseries?
10116Why seek Him among the dead?
10116Why should it seem strange, my friends, to us, if we are in the habit of training our children, and rebuking our children, as we ought?
10116Why should they shrink from remembering that, though God''s kingdom is not come in perfection and fulness, it is here already, and they are in it?
10116Why should they shrink from that thought?
10116Why should we care for it, even if it be true?
10116Why should we try and say anything more for him?
10116Why should you hurry, if you remember that you are in the kingdom of Christ and of God?
10116Why take so much trouble?
10116Why then love man?
10116Why, where else is every man, you and I, heathen and Christian, bad and good, save in the presence of his Maker already?
10116Will He find me out?
10116Will not they corrupt our servants; and those servants again our children?
10116Will you let the shades of that prison- house of mortality be peopled with little save obscene phantoms?
10116Will you send your help across the Atlantic; and deny it to the sufferers at your own doors?
10116Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion?
10116With such a King over us, how can the world but go right?
10116Would He not be at once too liberal for some, and too exacting for others?
10116Would it not be our concern if there was small- pox, scarlet fever, cholera among them?
10116Would you not bestir yourselves then?
10116Would you not question whether the prayers offered up in that chapel would have any answer from Him, save that awful answer He once gave?
10116Would you not turn away from that palace with the contemptuous thought-- Civilized?
10116Wrath and terror and destruction?
10116Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?"
10116Yes, my friends, why seek the living among the dead?
10116You ask, with astonishment and disgust, how comes that there?
10116You believe in God, and the Bible, and Christianity?
10116an actor doing my alms to be seen of men?
10116and are not these words of his inspired by the Holy Spirit of God?
10116and at the same time, what is the reason why he has not the same right over the lives of his fellow- men?
10116and if it be inspired by the Spirit, what can it be but spiritual?
10116and if so, where is He?
10116and in thy name cast out devils?
10116and in thy name done many wonderful works?
10116and is there knowledge in the most High?"
10116and may not He accept us likewise?
10116and who shall stand when He appeareth?
10116and why so many do not obtain it, and are, therefore, not at peace?
10116be justified by having it proved to all the world that God had not forsaken Him?
10116but am not I impure?
10116but, am not I a sinner?
10116but, am not I bad?
10116by the imperfections even of the holiest few?
10116do I not ask myself a question which I dare not answer?
10116doth the eagle mount up at thy command?"
10116for some among that mass of human corruption which welters around the walls of so many of our cities?
10116hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
10116how shall they converse with them?
10116how shall they know them?
10116how we can obtain it?
10116or fill the appetite of the young lions?
10116or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
10116or rather like Christ who is both God and man?
10116or the day after?
10116or thirsty, and gave Thee drink?"
10116or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?
10116saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?"
10116say rather weltering in their own life- blood-- and all because they have forgotten the living God?
10116simply to let it all, as it were, run to waste, till after thousands of years one traveller comes, and has a hasty glimpse of it?
10116that is, what sort of thoughts ought to be in our minds upon this day?
10116then am not I a fool?
10116what proportion do those who do good bear to those who do nothing?
10116who is He that I should know Him now?"
10116who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
10116who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"
10116why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
10116why he may not use them for food?
10116why he may use them for his food?
10116why not be content to be just what you are?
10116would He have to wait till the next life to punish him?
58812Can that be the true preaching of''the Word''where the language of that Word so seldom enters in?
58812Can two walk together,says Holy Scripture,"and not be agreed?"
58812Could that be the true preaching of''Christ, and Him crucified,''where any mention of the simple gospel story was almost systematically shut out?
58812Dost Thou not hear,the demon once more cries out impatiently--"Dost thou not hear what the angel says?
58812Is there really a way through this world to heaven? 58812 Jesus saith to her: Woman why weepest thou?
58812O my Divine Spouse,she said,"where wast thou when I was enduring these conflicts?"
58812What is that to thee? 58812 What is that to thee?"
58812What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? 58812 What was it they were required to do?
58812What, with all these filthy abominations?
58812Why stand ye all the day idle?
58812Why stand ye all the day idle?
58812Why stand ye here all the day idle?
58812Why stand ye here all the day idle?
58812_ How can this man give us his flesh to eat?_they said.
58812_ What shall I offer to the Lord that is worthy? 58812 _ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?"
58812_ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul?
58812_ What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?_Will you sin against your own soul?
58812_ What shall we say then to these things? 58812 _ Who shall stand to see Him?
58812_ Why weepest thou? 58812 _ Woman why weepest thou?
58812( a cousin of mine, who is an Episcopalian clergyman) do the same thing?"
588123:] Why does the winter come upon us with desolation and storm?
58812A man approaches, and addresses Magdelene in the same words that the angels had used:"Woman, why weepest thou?
58812After all, what has she done?
58812Alone, or only with a feeble woman like herself, she goes out late at night, and whither?
58812And are there not some who do this?
58812And are we now really doing any thing for heaven?
58812And by what law is he to be tried?
58812And for what have you done all this?
58812And has not God promised to protect the orphan?
58812And how does our Lord answer her?
58812And if merely to think about God in this life can make us so happy, what must it be to see Him in the life to come?
58812And if not, why are Roman Catholic bishops schismatical intruders in London and New- York?
58812And if the soul is so beautiful in the little rays that escape from the body, what must it be in itself?
58812And is He not present to you as truly as if you saw Him, hearing each imprecation and blasphemy which you utter?
58812And is it so?
58812And is it, then, not credible?
58812And is it, then, only God for whom we are unwilling to do any thing hard?
58812And is not this our crime, that we are idlers and triflers in religion?
58812And is there any thing in this joy and confidence which reason or Christianity would condemn?
58812And oh, are the judgments of God so strict?
58812And that precious soul of yours, before which all the wealth of the world is but worthless dross with what care have you kept that?
58812And the disciples seeing it, wondered, saying: How is it presently withered away?_"[ Footnote 86][ Footnote 86: St. Matt.
58812And the soldiers asked him, saying:"And what shall_ we_ do?"
58812And they spoke to her:"Woman, why weepest thou?
58812And what does that mass think of the Catholic Church?
58812And what is that?
58812And what is to secure you from dying in such a state?
58812And what we do willingly for the world, for our families, for our health, our pleasure, our sins, shall we refuse to do for the great and good God?
58812And when He comes to judgment will not the stars fall from the sky and the heavens be parted as a scroll?
58812And why was all this?
58812And why?
58812And why?
58812And would you attribute conduct so disgraceful among men to our Father in heaven?
58812Are all our real sorrows removed or alleviated by the resurrection of Christ?
58812Are not all times alike to God?
58812Are our faces, my brethren, turned toward the heavenly city?
58812Are the Anglican bishops in these places schismatical intruders or not?
58812Are the stars inhabited?
58812Are there any here to- night in mortal sin?
58812Are there few or many that will be saved?
58812Are there none of you, my brethren, who recognise this as the secret language of your hearts?
58812Are these children faithful Catholics?
58812Are these orgies meant to insult the dead?
58812Are these wishes executed?
58812Are we as faithful to pray for our departed friends, and to get prayers said for them?
58812Are we hastening thither, acknowledging ourselves strangers and pilgrims on the earth?
58812Are we left to our own fancyings and feelings to decide whether we are pardoned or not?
58812Are we living the lives God intended us to live?
58812Are we not afraid of wounding your pride, of alienating your affections?
58812Are we not too apt to speak so of the work of an opponent?
58812Are we really redeeming the past by a true penance?
58812Are we to have no interest, no feeling for each other?
58812Are you distressed and suffering?
58812Are you in doubt about religious truth?
58812Are you in sin?
58812Are you in sin?
58812Are you leading a tepid, imperfect life?
58812Are you not afraid of His vengeance Whom you have offended?
58812Are you not ready to condemn him yourselves to hell?
58812Are you old?
58812Are you sorely tempted to sin?
58812Are you spending your time as you would wish to spend the last year of your life?
58812Are you willing to practise what you do believe?
58812Are you young?
58812Art thou guilty?
58812Art thou in sin after baptism?
58812Art thou sad and lonely?
58812Art thou weak?
58812As he was on his way, St. Laurence followed him weeping and saying:"Father where are you going without your son?
58812As heaven fills up with saints flaming with love, He says,"Whence are these?
58812As reasonable men, I have appealed to you: what is your decision?
58812Ask the Gospel, Who is that servant whom his Lord at His coming will approve?
58812Ask the Psalmist who of us shall see heaven, and he will answer you,"_ Lord, who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle, or who shall rest on Thy holy hill?
58812But do you think we have none of the charity of the Angels?
58812But does this law reach also to the supernatural world?
58812But how can they turn away from Catholicity as it is expressed by the great saints of the Church?
58812But how did you come by that belief?
58812But how does he believe you?
58812But how will you bear the taunts and jeers of the devil and his angels?
58812But is it not necessary to go to communion?
58812But some of you may say, why tell us this?
58812But suppose these evil temptations are importunate, and remain in the soul even when we resist them, and try to turn from them?
58812But the question with many will be, is it possible to attain it?
58812But when?
58812But who are those young people, that young man and young woman?
58812But why is this necessary?
58812But, it may be asked, does man need a revelation on this point?
58812By what means can I be united to Christ?
58812By what way is light spread, and heat divided on the earth?
58812Can God remain united to the soul which has cast Him off by an act of complete and formal rebellion?
58812Can He be very much displeased at my follies?
58812Can He care what my religious belief is?
58812Can He speak, and you go on as if He had not spoken?
58812Can Jesus Christ resist such an appeal?
58812Can there be any thing more dreadful still?
58812Can there be hope for one like that?
58812Can we doubt to what effect our Saviour would have answered?
58812Can we not believe Jesus Christ?
58812Can we say,"I am fulfilling the requirements of my conscience, in the standard which I propose to myself?"
58812Can you blame her for weeping, as she looks, for the last time, on that dear form?
58812Can you carry away a heavy corpse?
58812Can you doubt His power?
58812Can you doubt His truth?
58812Can you pick and choose among His doctrines, and take up one and reject another?
58812Can you, then, innocently refuse to listen?
58812Could any thing He had made escape His knowledge, or any sorrow fail to awaken His compassion?
58812Cut it down therefore; why doth it take up the ground?
58812Did God require to be reminded of the woes and wants of any child of man, by the sympathizing cries of his fellow- creatures?
58812Did He not manifest Himself to the patriarchs?
58812Did His words ever so abide in any heart as in hers?
58812Did any remain in Christ as she did?
58812Did he not speak face to face with Moses?
58812Did it not carry them through fire and sword?
58812Did it not enable them to meet death with joy?
58812Did not our Lord love his Mother?
58812Did not the sun hide its face at the crucifixon of our Lord, and the earth tremble under His Cross?
58812Did the sad news of the daughter''s death go out to the poor mother in the old country, softened with the evidence of that daughter''s piety and love?
58812Did they ever look at a crucifix, or read the story of the Passion?
58812Did you hear that howl?
58812Do these revellers wish to make us believe that their departed friend was, body and soul, the child of Hell as much as they?
58812Do they know in whose name they are baptized?
58812Do we not, like the Pharisees, give an undue value to outward observances?
58812Do you ask me to what I allude?
58812Do you ask me what has been done for your souls?
58812Do you ask me what has been done for your souls?
58812Do you ask what has been done for your souls?
58812Do you hear this, O sinner?
58812Do you hear this, my brethren?
58812Do you judge of a man as you do of a horse or a dog?
58812Do you think that poor widow of whom the Gospel speaks to- day could help weeping?
58812Do you want a better worship than that which His Eternal Son offers?
58812Do you want to have faith?
58812Do you want to know what a mortal sin is?
58812Do you wish to advance in a good life?
58812Do you wish to die with that veil not taken away?
58812Do you wish to go before God as careless and as sensual as you are now?
58812Do you wish to know how to advance in God''s love?
58812Docs she not run a thousand risks?
58812Does God this night see in this church some heart that is in mortal sin?
58812Does it not look like me?
58812Does not Nature sympathize with man?
58812Does not Scripture itself fashion out for her the glorious throne on which the Catholic Church places her?
58812Does not every creature groan and travail for our redemption?
58812Does not the very word, God, mean something different to us from what it does to a saint?
58812Does sin wage a war against you?
58812Does the Bible teach us this?
58812Does the Catholic Church, as you understand it, come up to these descriptions?
58812Does the world allure thee?
58812Dost thou ask the way back to God?
58812Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth?
58812Dost thou wish to know the life thou must practise?
58812Dost thou wish to know where thou wilt gain strength to keep these laws?
58812Even supposing she reaches the place in safety, will she be permitted to approach the grave?
58812For a momentary gratification of appetite?
58812For what are they but the evidences of the greatness of our religion?
58812God is immutable, and yet He is perfectly free: who shall reconcile these together?
58812Grant that yon are not bound to do precisely what they did, are you at liberty to do nothing?
58812Had not St. Paul and St. Peter influence enough with Heaven to carry their wants directly to the throne of grace?
58812Has Christianity, then, accomplished the results that might have been looked for?
58812Has Jesus Christ always been so near me?
58812Has an angel spoken to him, as of old to the prophet Zacharias?
58812Has he seen a vision?
58812Has it awakened you to new life, new hopes, new aspirations?
58812Has it been a task to you to listen to the sermon?
58812Has not God given His revelation complete credibility?
58812Has not St. Magdalene preached an Easter sermon?
58812Has not the solitary place been made glad by the hymns of its anchorites, and the desert blossomed like a rose under their toil?
58812Has that debt been paid?
58812Has the grace of God also its seasons and its times?
58812Have my guardian angel and the demon that has tempted me been always in this very room?
58812Have not empires owned its sway, and kings come bending to seek its blessings?
58812Have not millions of martyrs loved it better than their lives?
58812Have you a secret sorrow?
58812Have you been critical and captious?
58812Have you found me wanting to my duty?
58812Have you kept it as your most sacred treasure?
58812Have you sought only to be amused?
58812Have you valued that soul of yours?
58812Have you, my brethren, so regarded yourselves?
58812He asks:"Is this binding under mortal sin?
58812He had his little trials, but what was it all-- what was poverty or sickness or disappointment?
58812He listens, and asks,"May I believe this?"
58812He says:"Offer it now to thy prince, will_ he_ be pleased with it, or will_ he_ regard thy face?"
58812He whom they loved and trusted is no more; and they, whither shall they go?
58812Hear the Holy Ghost, Himself interpret it:"_ The voice said, cry; and I said, what shall I cry?
58812How can I describe to you the change that takes place in that moment?
58812How can a person"abjure the Catholic Communion"at Rome, by joining that which is confessedly the principal branch of the Catholic Church?
58812How can it be otherwise?
58812How can there be the guilt of apostasy involved in such an act?
58812How could she go fast?
58812How did he prepare men for the coming of Christ?
58812How did the Blessed Virgin arrive at such glory?
58812How did this happen?
58812How do men act about religion?
58812How does it come to pass that there are those two principles within us?
58812How has it been with each of you?
58812How much of good, then, has been and is in the world?
58812How must, then, a man forget himself whose occupation is more secular?
58812How old is the earth which we inhabit?
58812How shall we abide His coming, my brethren I how shall we prepare to meet Him?
58812How shall we express the thoughts of Him that fill our souls?
58812How shall we worship Him?
58812How were they to preserve the continuity of organization and the apostolic succession?
58812How will men attain that which they do not care for, to which they give no thought?
58812I err by excess or defect in my conduct; I bring evil on myself it is true; but what difference can that make to the Supreme Being?
58812I know there are times when every man has felt the words of the Psalmist:"_ What have I in heaven?
58812If God be for us, who shall be against us?
58812If He did, who of us could be saved?
58812If no rule obliges you to spend the night in prayer, are you not obliged to pray often?
58812If not, why not?
58812If she had not believed, if she had not assented, what would have come of it?
58812If we look back at our own lives, do we not see that we have had our special times when Christ visited us?
58812If you are not called to forego all innocent pleasures, are you exempt from every sort of self- denial?
58812If you are not required to flee from your homes, are you not required to forsake the occasions of sin?
58812If you can be chaste in the presence of a virtuous female, why can you not be chaste everywhere?
58812If you can be honest when the eye of man is on you, why can you not be honest when no eye sees you but that of God?
58812In a family, who is so much loved as the one whose thoughts are all for others?
58812In the first place, then, what is the source and nature of the conflict thus indicated by our Lord?
58812In the sense in which the teaching of an uninspired man can be so designated, have you thus listened to the preacher''s words?
58812In what consists the beauty of a man?
58812In what house, indeed, is the family unbroken?
58812In what, then, does our Lord''s Priesthood since His Crucifixion consist?
58812Is Catholic truth, as you appropriate it, so high and glorious a thing as this?
58812Is confession difficult?
58812Is it a light thing that could have bound Me to this cross?
58812Is it a light thing that could have reduced Me to such a state of woe?
58812Is it a mere prejudice that melts before investigation?
58812Is it a mere regularity of form and feature?
58812Is it a stupid fanaticism?
58812Is it hard to bear the remarks of companions?
58812Is it hard to lose a little gain?
58812Is it not a failure?
58812Is it not a story to make one weep?
58812Is it not an unconscious acknowledgment of the presence of God?
58812Is it not superstition?
58812Is it not very caustic?
58812Is it now safe and secure?
58812Is not God always ready to save the sinner, and to bestow the graces necessary to his salvation?
58812Is not faith an act purely intellectual?
58812Is not his fall certain?
58812Is not his presence an offence?
58812Is not the earth for the elect?
58812Is not the natural reason and the natural conscience sufficient to tell us that sin is wrong?
58812Is not this to betray the souls of his own children?
58812Is she not afraid?
58812Is that boy, the object of a mother''s dying tears and prayers, regular at the sacraments?
58812Is that principle so deeply seated in our nature to have no play in Christianity?
58812Is that what you will be punished for?
58812Is the return we are actually making such as He deserves?
58812Is there no trouble in your conscience?
58812Is there not an impression in your minds that the law of God is too strict, or at least that it is too strict for you, and that you can not keep it?
58812Is there nothing frightful to you in a sleepless night, or a sickbed?
58812Is this question answered in the affirmative?
58812Is thy heart weary and inconstant?
58812It is true there are candles and holy water, but where are the pious prayers?
58812Listen to the description which God Himself gives of the results of the gospel:"_ Who are these, that fly as clouds, and as doves to their windows?
58812Look at it; see if it does not belong to me?
58812Mary, dost thou not remember My words-- My promise-- that I would rise again?
58812Mary,--dost thou not believe My angels, bearing testimony to My Resurrection?
58812May He not dishonor it?
58812May he not falsify his message?
58812May we not worship God at home just as well?
58812Me, the Creator of all things, to whom you owe all life and liberty?
58812Men do not ask:"What shall I do to be saved?"
58812Merely because he saw Him with his bodily eyes?
58812Must I forever despair?"
58812Must we go trembling all our days, and be terror- stricken at the hour of death?
58812No matter: are you willing to serve God with a cold heart?
58812No matter: you know what is right; are you willing to do it?
58812Now, amid such ceaseless controversies, what means has our Lord left to protect and defend His people from doubt and error?
58812Now, can salvation be a work so serious to them and so trivial for us?
58812Now, how did these things happen?
58812Now, if she did not merit heaven by becoming the Mother of God, how did she merit it?
58812Now, if you can stop cursing before the priest, why can you not before your wife and children?
58812Now, supposing the offence they take to be justly taken, which is not always the case, what does it prove?
58812Now, to these persons it is a question of the most pressing urgency,"Am I now as I would wish to be when I die?
58812Now, what else could be the result of all this, but a disesteem of Christianity itself?
58812Now, what is all this?
58812Now, what is the blight that destroys all their goodness?
58812Now, what takes place under such circumstances?
58812Now, what was it all about?
58812Now, whence comes this deep and fixed certainty in religion?
58812Now, who can tell us in practice when we have arrived at the limit of venial sin, when we have passed beyond it and are in mortal sin?
58812Now, who does not see here the realization and fulfilment of the great promise of Christ which I have quoted as my text?
58812Now, why is this?
58812Now, why was this?
58812Now, will you tell me that you can not help doing what the martyrs would not do to save them from death?
58812O Dwight, what is there in such a situation to make one remain in it, if one could conscientiously leave it?
58812O my brethren, is the service you are rendering Him at all worthy of Him?
58812O my brethren, need I say more?
58812O my brethren, why do we grovel on earth, when we might have our conversation in heaven?
58812O thou who art afflicted, tossed with tempests and not comforted, what dost thou want?--what wouldst thou have?
58812Of whom it can be said literally,"Whatever thou askest of Me I will do it,"because the condition of union with God is perfectly fulfilled?
58812Oh, why did not the priest speak of this?
58812On the principle of a Protestant, or a Catholic?
58812On the principle of private judgment, or on faith in an infallible authority?
58812One of the strongest things that St. Paul said in his defence before Agrippa was the appeal:"_ King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?
58812Or has it a reasonable basis, and are its foundations deep in the laws of the human mind?
58812Or that married woman who has stepped aside from the path of virtue, did she realize what she was doing?
58812Or, acknowledging the truth you have heard, have you been careless about putting it in practice?
58812Or, if it did, was the intercession of Christ insufficient that any other had to be called in to supplicate?
58812Or, is that sympathy to be a barren sentiment, and to have no results?
58812Or, like Abel, shall we take the firstlings of our flocks, and slay them in His honor?
58812Or, like the Indian devotee, shall we throw ourselves under the wheels of the car that carries the image of the Divinity?
58812Qu.--How many parts are there in a Sacrament?
58812Qu.--What are the benefits whereof we are partakers thereby?
58812Qu.--What is the inward part, or thing signified?
58812Qu.--What is the outward part or sign of the Lord''s Supper?
58812Shall I bring them up?"
58812Shall I give my first- born for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?_"[ Footnote 97][ Footnote 97: Mich. vi.
58812Shall I never see Jesus Christ again?
58812Shall I offer holocausts unto Him, and calves of a year old?
58812Shall she wait to see Him?
58812Shall there be no sympathy between us?
58812Shall we dress an altar, and pile upon it the smoking victims?
58812Shall we make our children pass through the fire in His Name?
58812Shall we never, after we have sinned, have again the assurance that we are pardoned?
58812Shall we never_ hear_ that sweet consoling word:"_ Go in peace, thy sins are forgiven thee?_"Yes, Christ is risen.
58812Shall we not feel an ample respect for each other, my brethren, when we think of what we are?
58812Shall we, like Cain, gather the fairest fruits and flowers, and bring the basket before the Lord?
58812Should our lives be cut off at this moment, of what kind of texture would they be found?
58812So, I ask you, who are you?
58812Some Catholic who has renounced, if not his faith, at least the practice of his faith?
58812Such a friend?
58812Suppose I am in mortal sin, how can I be forgiven?
58812Suppose it is: may not the wind be speaking for the dead?
58812Suppose you do refuse to listen to the warnings which Death suggests, are you therefore free from anxiety?
58812Surely it is as a Catholic he believes?
58812Tell me, O my brethren, did you not, when you were deeply plunged in sinful enjoyment, feel a dreadful pang at your heart?
58812Tell me, did you not at the moment you sinned hear a stern voice speaking in the depths of your heart?
58812Tell me, now that you stand in God''s holy presence, tell me now, is there not something within you that tells you, you are ruined?
58812Tell me, tell me, young men, tell me, children, tell me truly, one and all, what have been the happiest moments of your life?
58812That duty is irksome; is it a great matter if I omit it now and then?"
58812The heart asks,"What is to become of the body that I loved so much?"
58812The only question is, how is it to be attained?
58812The people came to him and asked him,"What shall we do?"
58812Then the officers of the custom came and asked:"What shall_ we_ do?
58812Then, who are the Catholic bishops in Canada, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and California?
58812They died rather than lift a hand to do a forbidden thing; have you not the same power over your hand that they had?
58812This being so, how is it possible for a man of real merit to remain long unrecognized?
58812This being so, is not her power of intercession fixed beyond dispute?
58812This is the practical question for each one of us: To which of these classes do I belong?
58812This is what the Psalmist expresses so beautifully:"_ Whither shall I go from Thy spirit?
58812To commence with the commencement, then, what shall I say of Trinity Church?
58812To go hence"with the sign of faith,"with the blessing of the Mother of Saints upon you, and the grace of her sacraments within your heart?
58812To have the body of the dead taken away from us, is not that a grief?
58812Upon what are its bases grounded?
58812Very well; but how were they required to deny Christ?
58812Was He not disposed to be obedient to her as his mother?
58812Was he not a Christian?
58812Was he not a friend of God, was not his soul beautiful in God''s sight?
58812Was it for this that He hung on the cross, that_ only now and then_ we should omit some important duty?
58812Was it for this that He sweat those great drops of blood, that we should live a slothful and irreligous life?
58812Was it the hour of some earthly success or triumph?
58812Was it the moments you have spent in sin?
58812Was not God''s own heart as large as theirs?
58812Was not the way of access to God open and easy for every one?
58812Was there ever love like this?
58812Well, is it not better to feel that this life is a state of exile?
58812What aileth thee, O sea, tossed and driven with the waves?
58812What are all the attainments of learned men to Him who is all- wise?
58812What are all the conceptions of genius to Him who is all- beautiful, or the moral excellencies of good men to Him who is all- holy?
58812What are those duties?
58812What are you?
58812What but sin?
58812What could hinder me from being a Roman Catholic but for the fear of doing wrong?
58812What devotion to pleasure?
58812What did they want with Christ?
58812What did you think of Mr. Bennett''s course?
58812What does it matter?
58812What does it mean?
58812What does reason, what does conscience, what does self- interest say?
58812What does the Holy Scripture say?
58812What does the Holy Scripture say?
58812What does the Scripture say?
58812What does this mean?
58812What excessive anxiety about this world?
58812What grief is there that I have not removed?"
58812What has He not done for you?
58812What has gathered these crowds of busy, practical men?
58812What have our past lives been?
58812What is it that has destroyed the peace of so many families?
58812What is it that has happened?
58812What is it that has ruined so many reputations, that once were fair and unblemished?
58812What is it, then, that gives such interest to this scene?
58812What is that reason?
58812What is that sacrifice?
58812What is that worship?
58812What is that?
58812What is the cause of much of the sickness that affects our race?
58812What is the cause of these convulsions of nature, and this terror of the people?
58812What is the end for which God created us?
58812What is the event that can interrupt the great harmonies of Heaven, and furnish the Angels with a new song?
58812What is the history of this universe?
58812What is the meaning of this?
58812What is the point of this observation?
58812What is the reason that Christian art has so far surpassed heathen art?
58812What is the reason that every thing thus honors you?
58812What is the sound that reaches us to- day?
58812What is there, in the act of believing or disbelieving, that is of a moral nature, that deserves praise or blame?
58812What is thy misery?
58812What is thy sorrow?
58812What is thy trial?
58812What keeps them kneeling, or standing quietly in solid masses, for an hour before the exercises commence?
58812What kind of a death naturally follows such a life?
58812What kind of creature is that which renders to God a reluctant and imperfect service?
58812What long periods of utter forgetfulness of God?
58812What loss of time?
58812What makes the character of a mother so beautiful but the trait of self- sacrifice?
58812What more can we want?
58812What must be the wickedness that can force Me to withstand the power of such an appeal?"
58812What need for me to know the very words the priest is using?
58812What of that?
58812What other preacher can say the same words again and again, and never make us weary?
58812What shall it then profit me what others have said in my favor or against me?
58812What shall keep me back?
58812What shall we do?
58812What then?
58812What though many refuse to listen?
58812What was he then?
58812What was his office?
58812What was it that took place on the Cross?
58812What will become of my companions whom I left on the earth, wild and reckless like my self?
58812What wonder is it that men have imagined Fortune to be blindfold[ed], and the ups and downs of life the chance revolutions of her wheel?
58812What would a master do if his slave should strike him?
58812What years spent in neglect, or even in sin?
58812What, then, delayed St. Mary Magdalene so long?
58812What, then, is God''s estimate of sin?
58812What, then, should be each one''s resolution?
58812When did we shut our hearts to Thy grace?"
58812When it speaks of a"way"to heaven, does it not mean that all must walk in that way to reach there?
58812When you come to die, will you not wish to have those sins blotted out?
58812Whence does it arise?
58812Where are such tears shed as over the fresh grave of a self- forgetful friend?
58812Where is there not a vacant seat at the table?
58812Where were they to get bishops?
58812Wherewith shall I kneel before the High God?
58812Wherewith shall I kneel before the High God?"
58812Which of the saints was ever wafted to heaven in this passive way?
58812Which was the acceptable sacrifice?
58812Which was the place where men ought to worship-- Mount Gerazin; or Mount Sion?
58812Which was the right temple?
58812While gratitude lives among men, what shall be the return given to Christ by those whom He has redeemed?
58812Whither are you going, O holy priest, without your deacon?
58812Who are they that are truly happy on this day?
58812Who are they?
58812Who are we?
58812Who but He knew how perfectly to mingle dignity with familiarity, zeal with serenity, and austerity with compassion?
58812Who can give peace to a soul that has sinned?
58812Who can tell how many are living in a state of mortal sin, month by month, day by day, year by year?
58812Who could ever speak an impure word before another if he thought of the dignity of a human soul?
58812Who could listen to His voice in its untempered majesty and not be afraid?
58812Who does not admire a generous, self- sacrificing man?
58812Who is Christ?
58812Who is he that shall condemn?
58812Who is that, that is standing at the foot of his bed?
58812Who is that?
58812Who is the father of the rain, or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
58812Who is there that needs to be told that the Blessed Virgin is splendid in sanctity, dazzling in beauty, and exalted in power?
58812Who makes any sacrifice for it?
58812Who of us does not know such?
58812Who of us has not lost a friend?
58812Who of us has not seen such?
58812Who shall lay anything to the charge of the elect of God?
58812Who shall this be whom Holy Scripture thus clothes with this tremendous power, if it be not the Blessed Virgin Mary?
58812Who takes any pains for it?
58812Who thinks about it?
58812Who went first to China and India?
58812Who will dare to break the seal?
58812Who will roll the stone from the door?
58812Who would lie, or cheat, or steal, if he thought of his soul?
58812Who, I say, can wonder at this, when he looks around him, and sees how little the soul is valued?
58812Who, then, shall be the favored child of man, the favored saint, who shall exercise this power in the fullest degree?
58812Whom seekest thou?"
58812Whom seekest thou?"
58812Whom seekest thou?_"He challenges us.
58812Whom seekest thou?_"These are the first words our Lord spoke after His Resurrection.
58812Whose tones are there that linger in our ears like His, and come like a spell to our hearts in times of temptation and sorrow?
58812Why are men so slow to be wise, and to be happy?
58812Why are the angel and the demon there?
58812Why are we not more active in laboring for them?
58812Why are we so weak in temptation, so despairing in trial, when we might have the peace and joy of the children of God?
58812Why are you not religious?"
58812Why did our Lord become man?
58812Why did you rush into the presence of your Maker without forethought?
58812Why do men grope in darkness?
58812Why do not men take advantage of this loving condescension?
58812Why do summer and winter, seed- time and harvest, return so regularly?
58812Why do they not converse with God?
58812Why do they not think of Him?
58812Why do we follow the Evil One, when He that is beautiful above the sons of men is our Master and our Lord?
58812Why do we not take our place at once, where we shall wish to be found at our Saviour''s coming?
58812Why do we set our hearts on creatures, when we might have the Creator for our friend?
58812Why does He come at all to consciences which do not crave rest, and wills that need no strength?
58812Why does he interrupt the Mass?
58812Why does our Lord leave us subject to this strife?
58812Why does the sun rise in the morning, and go down at night?
58812Why dost thou seek the living among the dead?"
58812Why has not the sound of the gospel gone into all lands, and its words to the end of the world?
58812Why is Jesus Christ there?
58812Why is it always thus?
58812Why is it that the just man perisheth?
58812Why is this?
58812Why is this?
58812Why should their influence be dreaded?
58812Why should we fear?
58812Why should we shut our eyes to the hosts of heaven that march unseen by our side?
58812Why so?
58812Why stand we all the day idle?
58812Why tarry we here in the bondage of Egypt?
58812Why, then, do they commit it?
58812Why, who are you, my brethren?
58812Will He be appeased with thousands of rams?
58812Will His serene Majesty in heaven be affected because I on this earth am carried too far by passions?
58812Will not a careless, thoughtless man, such as I have described, will he not be certain sometimes to go over the fatal line?
58812Will those misgivings help you to die easily?
58812Will you grieve because he has secured for himself the Blissful and Eternal Vision of God?
58812Will you renounce your birthright?
58812Will you tell me they were but seeking a_ more perfect_ life?
58812Will you then forego as you do now those absolving words which our Lord has promised to ratify in heaven?
58812Will you trust all to the uncertain chance of confession in that hour, or to a doubtful contrition?
58812Will you wait, as your Protestantism requires you to do, till he is grown up, for him to form his religious convictions?
58812Will you weep because one you love is taken away from sin, from temptation, from the trouble to come?
58812Will you, by mortal sin, throw away that immortal crown?
58812Will you, by sin, take the course that leads you away from your heavenly home?
58812Wilt thou take a soul like that and place it in thy paradise?"
58812Would it not be taken as an act of contempt and an offence?
58812Would it not be the same, if he were to close His eyes, and yet be aware of His presence?
58812Would it not seem, otherwise, that God made Himself a party to our sins by keeping silence?
58812Would men speak so, if they realized that God and Christ were then and there present?
58812Would they insult God to His face?
58812Would you excuse a son from the guilt of parricide who should strike a knife to his father''s heart, and should miss his aim?
58812Would you know Who it is Whom you have offended?
58812Would you know what the Autumn teaches?
58812Would you know who, at the end of the world, shall reap a rich harvest?
58812Would you not like, as you go out of this world, to step on the firm rock of Peter?
58812Would you not, like St. John, fall down before his feet and adore him?
58812Yet what was the result of all?
58812You were not wo nt to offer sacrifice without me your minister, wherein have I displeased you?
58812[ Footnote 121] Who could look upon the Lord and live?
58812[ Footnote 217] Do you understand?
58812a sure, clear, easy way?"
58812and are not we too called the"_ Sons of God?_"[ Footnote 208][ Footnote 203: Apoc.
58812and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 204] Is she called the"Morning Star?"
58812and are not we too promised a place at his right hand, and to"_ sit on thrones?_"[ Footnote 204] Is she called the"Morning Star?"
58812and besides Thee what do I desire upon earth?
58812and does not our Lord''s question convey to us the keenest reproach?
58812and who are my brethren?
58812and who hath begotten them?"
58812and why did He become Man in the way He did?
58812are you not afraid to add to the sin of irreligion and injustice the crime of breaking faith with the dead?
58812are you not ashamed to do that before the living God which you would be ashamed to do before a man like yourself?"
58812are you sick?
58812can I, a frail creature,"say they,"ignorant and passionate, can I do an injury to God?
58812does he breathe at all?
58812for Christ our Saviour, who did not refuse the Cross to give us an example of the obedience we owe His Father?
58812has not the demon made out his case?
58812he will say, what is this that I see and hear?
58812how can men turn away from Catholicity?
58812if you will not listen to reason, to God, to the angels; will you not listen to your companions lost?
58812is he not a blot on the scene?
58812is not this our misery, that we have left off striving?
58812is this Christianity?
58812it is hard to see one we love die, but is it not harder to our sensitive nature to bury them?
58812my brethren, is not this joy?
58812or was the money retained and squandered?
58812or whither shall I flee from Thy face?
58812or who laid the corner- stone thereof?
58812or will He separate Himself from me eternally because I have happened to violate some law?"
58812our times of grace?
58812red- letter days in the calendar of our life?
58812saved by''sprinkling?'']
58812shall I do this wicked thing, and offend against God?"
58812so prompt and eager in setting out, so tardy in arriving?
58812that the Madonna is so far more beautiful than the Venus de Medicis?
58812that the will is too weak to decide this fearful contest?
58812that we are doing nothing, or at least nothing serious and worthy of our salvation?
58812they were but following the counsels of perfection, which a man is free to embrace or decline?
58812what is thy request?
58812what voice is that which speaks:"_ Woman, why weepest thou?_"It is the voice of Jesus himself, of Jesus whom she mourns.
58812what voice is that?
58812what will it be to the sinful Catholic?
58812who do not seek temptation, but invariably yield to it when it comes across them?
58812why did you not think of these things before?
58812would you hear with equanimity that you had a hopeless disease?
58812{ 214} And how do I establish my proposition?
58812{ 217} But have we not cause enough to honor man, in the fact that he has a soul, an immortal soul, a soul which shall one day see God?
58812{ 226} Is it hard to break a tie of long standing?
58812{ 262} Will you draw back, Christian?
58812{ 324} Was it for this that He died, that we should not commit_ quite so many_ mortal sins?
58812{ 328} If you are not bound to a perpetual fast, are you at liberty to darken your mind and inflame your passions by immoderate drinking?
58812{ 334} What is there in this execution thus to gather together all classes of the people?
58812{ 348} What kind of death often, in point of fact, follows such a life?
58812{ 356} Now, must we for ever go on in this uncertainty?
58812{ 359} So, my brethren, as you weep at the graves of your friends, those very friends stand near you and say,"Why weepest thou?"
58812{ 360} Has this day been a day of joy to you?
58812{ 390} Do you say that I put too much on the will?
58812{ 415} Do you ask what has been done for your souls?
58812{ 426} What are the precise obligations binding on me as a Christian?
58812{ 433} What is it that has impressed on men this universal fear of detection?
58812{ 442} They died rather than utter a sinful word; have you not as much power over your tongue as they?
58812{ 452} How does he receive it?
58812{ 465} Do you feel in yourselves a vocation to a religious or sacerdotal life?
58812{ 468} Well, ought you not, then, to rejoice at his safe departure?
58812{ 472} Do you call this a decent funeral?"
58812{ 492} How can we forego that sweet and solemn action?
58812{ 495} And what does all this mean to us?
58812{ 75} Do you know any thing about it?
49618Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
49618Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
49618Art thou he,asks the King,"that troubleth Israel?"
49618Ave Marias?
49618Can these dry bones live?
49618Come thou and thy family into the ark,--what time could be more opportune than this first day of another year of God''s grace?
49618Have we trials and temptations, is there trouble anywhere?
49618He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things?
49618If God,says the apostle,"spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
49618If Thou, O Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, O Lord, who shall stand?
49618Is thine eye evil because I am good?
49618Is this vile world a friend to grace to help me on to God?
49618Lovest thou me--is the question,"more than these,"and where is the evidence?
49618Lovest thou_ me_?
49618Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou_ me_?
49618Thou fool, this hour thy soul shall be required of thee,--and how do you know whether the next summons may not mean you?
49618What are you doing?
49618What hast thou that thou hast not received?
49618What is there to confirmation?--teaching children in their teens to confess a faith they do not half comprehend?
49618What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
49618What''s the use of going to church? 49618 What''s the use of going to the Lord''s Supper?
49618Which of you,He challenged His enemies,"convinceth me of sin?"
49618Who by searching,asks Job,"can find out God?
49618Who minds a monk? 49618 Why a priest?"
49618Why instruct the juvenile mind in such fetters of theology?
49618--that is, can such an idle, empty faith save him?
49618A man?
49618A more powerful one held him at his mercy; and what could he do to pluck out the sting of death beneath whose dominion he had completely fallen?
49618After our own plans, doing things to suit our own selves?
49618Again, when we are the recipients of gifts, we examine them, we give them careful scrutiny, we desire to know: What is that which we have received?
49618Am I His, or am I not?
49618And Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions?
49618And are the returns adequate to the cost?
49618And are there any happy effects to be realized from the faithful performance of this duty?
49618And by what influences and agencies is His will done on earth but by this organization established by Himself for that purpose,--His holy Church?
49618And by whom, to continue the parable, will the separation be made?
49618And coming to the Reformed Churches, which of them believes in baptismal regeneration, accepts Baptism to be a christening?
49618And did not Abimelech, when about to fall into a like error, offer apology and make restitution?
49618And even granted that everything shall be propitious in that respect, have you ever seen persons on a sick- or death- bed?
49618And has that original scene on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and that question no concern and no application whatever for us?
49618And having regarded the prevalency of the evil eye, what shall we say to it?
49618And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
49618And how can God blame and punish us for not being better than He made us?
49618And how is this done?
49618And how is this vital question to be decided?
49618And how may I know whether my name is inscribed in this book of life?
49618And how shall we observe it?
49618And how will they look?
49618And how?
49618And in consideration of gifts so unspeakable is any offering of gold, or frankincense, or myrrh too large?
49618And in what way, coming to the second consideration, may we overcome this dangerous evil, worldliness?
49618And is Protestantism exempt?
49618And is his appeal not applicable in our own day?
49618And is the Church exempt?
49618And is there a single heart among the sons and daughters of Adam that dare offer remonstrance?
49618And is there a way of escape, as in the case of Egypt''s death and destruction?
49618And is this a sin to think little of?
49618And now let us regard: How should we read it?
49618And now turn to Christ and His Word,--what does it say?
49618And so, if I choose to remunerate these men after the manner that I have, what hurt or worry is that to thee?
49618And that duty-- where does it begin?
49618And that only- begotten Son, did He not love the world when He gave His heart''s blood to redeem it?
49618And the sorry consequence of all this?
49618And then, to conclude, the members of what Church are we?
49618And think you God is pleased with the dregs of the cup, the refuse and few declining years of a man''s life?
49618And this salvation is to be accomplished in what way?
49618And to this brilliancy of light was added a clear and distant voice ringing through the air,"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
49618And to whom, as you examine the Inspired Volume, are most of its contents directed?
49618And we should go borrowing to them, or hesitate to speak a modest word in our favor?
49618And what are they worrying about?
49618And what assurance have you, my youthful hearers, that you may not be among his victims in the succeeding year?
49618And what can you do to rid yourself of this?
49618And what did Jesus see in any of us to lead Him to visit us with His salvation?
49618And what dispensation is made of this light?
49618And what does a careful survey of that hymn- book reveal to us?
49618And what does it possess?
49618And what does that teach those of maturer years?
49618And what does the disciple reply?
49618And what is it?
49618And what is more God- honoring?
49618And what is that arrangement in respect to the future?
49618And what is the superstructure?
49618And what is to be done, with the scales always rising higher and higher and striking the very beam?
49618And what is to be done?
49618And what sort of a life is it?
49618And what teaching?
49618And what was the decision?
49618And what was the nature of his offense?
49618And what was there in it that is common to every case?
49618And what will that destiny be?
49618And what-- to consider the second and larger part of our discourse-- are some of the distinguishing traits of its members?
49618And when it comes to the New Testament,--how are we to understand the conception of the virgin birth of our Savior?
49618And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto His disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?
49618And whence was deliverance to come?
49618And which are these lessons, and how may this enemy be overcome?
49618And which are these?
49618And which is it?
49618And which is our spiritual sword?
49618And who can resign himself to sleep, the emblem of death, and to his bed, the type of his grave, without saying a few words of Christian committal?
49618And who has not heard and read of the Romans and the ancient Egyptians and Persians?
49618And who is not bent with grief as he reads of David and of Solomon?
49618And who is to blame?
49618And who, during the day, can not find a few moments to lift up his thoughts on high?
49618And why did He love man?
49618And why is a deserter''s doom made so awful?
49618And why not?
49618And why, brethren, bring before you these solemn truths?
49618And why, to come to our next consideration, why is this?
49618And why-- that is the concluding feature of our contemplation, why has it visited us?
49618And why?
49618And why?
49618And will you contend that the Word of God and the water of Holy Baptism make those who hear and receive it hypocrites and spiritual counterfeits?
49618And yet is it not this ordinary, common- sense method, which they apply so keenly otherwise, that so many disregard in matters of soul?
49618And yet, glorious as this all is, is it not true that the Bible is a book that is shut and sealed?
49618And yet, was there no badge, no mark of distinction?
49618Anything further than that the land was fertile?
49618Are there no formalists among those who profess to be members of, and visit, our churches?
49618Are we to say, I am very sorry, and thus hide our light under a bushel?
49618Are you a man, or woman, of prayer?
49618As you grow in age, do you grow in heavenly- mindedness, draw closer to your God?
49618At present we have all living bodies, but in those living bodies, what is the state of the soul?
49618At such times are we shy of doing differently from other people when we know and feel what is right?
49618At that time it was,"Is Jehovah the Lord God?"
49618Aye, does it not frequently call for courage even to be known as a church- member?
49618Because he was so lovable?
49618Because it solves, as nothing else can solve, the great problem of Religion,"How can man be saved, justified before God?"
49618Believe it that when a man can look up like the man Saul of Tarsus, and say,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
49618Beloved, are we not rapidly falling upon such times?
49618Beloved, as to what is the proper ideal and purpose of the Church, that is for Him to say who founded the Church; and what does He say?
49618Beloved, is this not a particular which many who profess to be Christians do not apprehend?
49618Beloved, when you reflect what this world would be without this divine Christmas gift, then we might well ask, Would life be worth living without Him?
49618Below is its gigantic base; then your eye runs up the mountain side, and you see-- what?
49618Bind yourself?
49618But are we quite sure that we have not imbibed a little of it unconsciously?
49618But does he, therefore, desist from completing the structure?
49618But does not the Bible teach that"by one sacrifice,"_ viz._, by His sacrifice upon Golgotha,"Christ hath forever perfected them that are sanctified"?
49618But does not the Church of Rome believe that too?
49618But had the man nevertheless gone back to his sinful life, would that have made the healing of no account?
49618But have those that so feel ever thought it over?
49618But have you, my dear hearers, ever known of a noble and holy work, no matter what it is, that did not meet with some criticism?
49618But how can the lamb cope with the lion?
49618But how do we secure this satisfaction of an almighty Savior?
49618But how was it to be done?
49618But how were those two mites viewed by Him whose eyes were as a flame of fire, and who searcheth the reins and the hearts?
49618But is it not a delusion?
49618But it was now too late, and yet, whose fault was it?
49618But let us ask ourselves, What if everybody around us did not do so?
49618But let us come to the final question: By what power or remedy does Christian Science heal, or, rather, claim to heal?
49618But shall we abandon to him the territory?
49618But since when are silver and gold and splendid edifices the marks of the Church?
49618But these things must be put in their right place; and which is that?
49618But to whose efforts is this mainly due?
49618But what advantage have they over us?
49618But what means that statue at His side-- whose is it?
49618But what of an explanation of these apparently so contradictory passages?
49618But what say the Scriptures?
49618But when it comes to the questions: Who is God?
49618But where is now his vow, where his altar, where the tenth of all his possessions, as he had promised?
49618But whose shall be the blame, who be the loser?
49618But, asks the voice of our text:"Lovest thou me more than these?"
49618But-- what when the entertainment is over, and your wraps carefully labeled with your name are handed back to you?
49618By attending a few services during which we are present in body, but largely absent in spirit?
49618By lighting up a few candles on our trees?
49618By social science and service?
49618By what are they to know each other and to be known of one another?
49618Can any one take coals of fire into his bosom and not be burned, handle pitch and not be soiled?
49618Can any two opinions be more opposite in appearance?
49618Can faith save him?"
49618Can the Church, through its called ministers, forgive sins?
49618Can we think of these things, and not blush at our own selfishness?
49618Can you bear to be thus slain by the Law?
49618Can you bear to be told that, virtuous as many of you may be, you must seek salvation as sinners?
49618Can you bear to have it forced upon you:"Be not conformed to this world"?
49618Coming down the ladder of life, who were the people that murmured against the owner of the vineyard?
49618Could Peter forgive sins?
49618Could it be He?
49618Could it be true that He whom His nation had crucified was indeed the Messiah, risen and alive?
49618Could the apostles forgive sins?
49618Decorating our windows and walls with some sprigs of garlands and green?
49618Desiring to bear our part in that tuneful service, can our lips be silent on earth?
49618Did God actually create man out of the dust of the ground, or is he the creature of evolution?
49618Did He not perform a miracle, turning water into wine?
49618Did he go to labor elsewhere?
49618Did his health fail?
49618Did not Paul love the world?
49618Did the judgment- hall echo the words of the Philippian jailer,"What shall I do to be saved?"
49618Did virtue conquer?
49618Divorce, what is it practically, in effect, but enabling men and women to live in successive polygamy?
49618Do men act with such infatuation in other and far less important matters?
49618Do not most clergymen of progressive ideas put allegorical interpretations upon its stories, for instance, the fall of man into sin?
49618Do not the hymns drag along at times so dull and spiritless because many never open their lips?
49618Do the fruits of your discipleship abound in greater liberality and activity?
49618Do these things not constitute the light of life of man?
49618Do they think they can, as they claim, improve upon, perfect, that propitiatory sacrifice?
49618Do we not read that God so loved the world that He gave His only- begotten Son?
49618Do you influence it, or are you influenced by it?
49618Do you know of none in your circle of acquaintances swept low by the grim reaper whom we call death?
49618Do you make your choice of friends from these professed worldly men and women?
49618Do you pray thoughtfully, regularly, cheerfully?
49618Do you read God''s Word at home, say grace at table, have family devotion?
49618Do you rejoice at His coming with holy joy?
49618Do you, then, belong among the good?
49618Does Baptism work forgiveness of sin?
49618Does it not lie in the very nature of the Book?
49618Does it pay to be one?_ To begin with, let it be noted that Christianity connects with cost; it_ does_ cost to be a Christian.
49618Does it pay?
49618Does it secularize you and make you unfit for prayer?
49618Does it silence your testimony of Christ, and cool down your interest and enthusiasm for the Church?
49618Does one contract good habits easier than bad, or the reverse?
49618Does this doctrine sound strange and hard to believe to the carnal understanding?
49618Education of mind, culture of intellect?
49618Elijah''s question,"How long halt ye between two opinions?"
49618Else why these perplexing anxieties, this tormenting solicitude?
49618For the clergy, that the ministers might have some texts to preach on?
49618For the determining of the question,"Is Jesus Christ God?"
49618For what is a Christian?
49618For what is a man of prayer?
49618For what is man?
49618For what is the Church?
49618For what?
49618For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
49618For whom did He cause it to be written?
49618For you to live-- is it Christ?
49618Formulated by the Lord Himself in the Gospel- lesson of this day, it now reads:"What think ye of Christ?
49618From man?
49618Go, and question among Christ''s followers, consult the thousands of books that are flooding the market,--what do they teach?
49618Has death broken the family circle, and is the heart bleeding under bereavement?
49618Has it ever brought you any gain?
49618Has sickness prostrated one?
49618Has that ever been done, you question?
49618Have I not the right to do as I like with my own money?"
49618Have they forgotten the First Commandment which says:"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness to bow thyself down to them"?
49618Have you ever seen anything but a cross raise men?
49618Have you ever, since connected with this church, made one serious attempt to reclaim an erring brother or sister?
49618Have you grown in grace and in the knowledge of your Lord and Savior?
49618Have you paid the first cost?
49618Have you remained unmarried because some people have proved failures in marriage?
49618He asks:"What doth it profit though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works?
49618He had been persecuting the Christians, and now comes a voice from heaven, saying,"Why persecutest thou Me?"
49618He saith to him the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
49618He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?
49618He should neglect His loving providence, leave and forsake thee this year?
49618He stands before us this very moment again, that omnipotent Son of God, that compassionate Savior, and asks,"Wilt thou be made whole?"
49618He thought within himself:"What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?"
49618Helpless, powerless, hopeless creature, how could he cancel the curse that rested upon soul and body and ailing earth?
49618Here is a man who insures his life,--why?
49618Here was the voice of Jehovah Himself,--what could he do but submit?
49618Here, then, are a few criterions, and now, with all sincerity, repeat the question once more,"Lovest thou me?"
49618His great question was,"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
49618How about God''s Christmas gift?
49618How can I overcome my worldliness?_ And may God''s wisdom and blessing attend our meditation!
49618How can a man be a proper child of God who will not so much as give His name as a believer?
49618How can any one who has looked up to that divine Sufferer in faith crucify Him anew by unholy living?
49618How can faith in the Savior then be wrought, maintained, forgiveness of sins secured, hope and salvation?
49618How can they be?
49618How can they prove that the human race and language do not extend back to one common stock?
49618How can they tell that this world of ours is too small to engage Jehovah so deeply for its welfare?
49618How can we expect to conquer that enemy who conquered our first parents in the strength of their original purity?
49618How can you thus be light- bearers, according to God''s direction?
49618How could He secure it?
49618How could I refuse to shun Every sinful pleasure, Since for me God''s only Son Suffered without measure?
49618How could a man tread upon the waters?
49618How could he tell when he was converted?
49618How could the hearers do this if they were prohibited from reading the Bible?
49618How did they get light?
49618How do you regard the things of the world in your heart, and how do you regard the people of the world?
49618How frequently does this lamentation reach a pastor''s ear,"What have I done that God should thus deal with me?"
49618How has it been with the worship, the attendance at services?
49618How imperative, then, that we should analyze what worldliness is and plant an interrogation in our heart: Am I worldly?
49618How is it possible to work for God, or fight for Him, if we are tardy in holding communion with Him?
49618How is that a proof of Christ''s divinity?
49618How is that to be understood?
49618How is the dispute to be settled?
49618How many a one when he asks himself, How was it possible that I should have fallen so deeply and strayed so far from my God?
49618How many ever give thought as to this providential dealing-- have stopped to ask whence it comes, or what profit and lessons may be in it?
49618How many parents cooperate with the Christian instructors?
49618How many times have you gone in these twelve months, these fifty- two Sundays?
49618How often do parents inquire about the Catechism and Bible history lesson?
49618How receive its spiritual and highest blessedness unto ourselves?
49618How shall we face it?
49618How shall we receive Him?
49618How soon this may take place, who can declare?
49618How was it at the time of the Savior?
49618How was it possible for Timothy to tell when he commenced to be a Christian?
49618How were the Israelites affected when God appeared at the Red Sea?
49618How, I ask, can these things be?
49618How, in this busy life of ours, shall we ever be able to give ourselves over to never- ceasing prayer?
49618How, then, does this touchstone apply to you?
49618How, then, to make a few direct words of application, is it with you, my dear hearer?
49618How?
49618How?
49618How?
49618How?
49618I am clear from all sin"?
49618If we are to rise, some to rewards and some to punishments, what-- let each conscience ask-- what shall be my position?
49618If we see a relative or friend deliberately going into danger, taking a course which means ruin to his character, ruin to his soul, what is our duty?
49618If you see young people neglecting religious duties, slinking about after dark in bad company, going with those who bet and gamble,--let them go?
49618In other words, are you a sincere and simple believer in Christ Jesus?
49618In other words, without figure, lay before you the question: Why are you not a church- member?
49618In our own strength?
49618In what respect?
49618Is Baptism administered, the Lord''s Communion received?
49618Is a doctor to be blamed for entering a hospital full of suffering invalids?
49618Is financial depression over all the land, labor unobtainable, wages low, and bread scarce?
49618Is ghastly pestilence mowing down its victims?
49618Is it easier for a sober man to become a drunkard than for a poor, miserable, besotted drunkard to trace his steps back and to become sober?
49618Is it much different-- to take up another point-- with our partaking of the Lord''s Supper?
49618Is it not because you permit every one, without distinction and discrimination, to read the Bible?
49618Is it not fitting that it should be so?
49618Is it not just as incongruous, my dear Christian, for you to perplex yourself with thoughts of anguish that God can not provide for you any more?
49618Is it not rather a blessed demonstration of His fidelity to his profession to go to such ailing people?
49618Is it not simply a matter of convenience, custom, inheritance, yes, sometimes of fashion or of business?
49618Is it reasonable to do this?
49618Is it so now?
49618Is it the Lord''s message, or is it some conceit of his own?
49618Is it the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, as St. Paul says to Titus, chapter 3?
49618Is it to torment you before the time?
49618Is it, therefore, necessary that every believer should be able to designate the precise time of his conversion?
49618Is my service thy delight?
49618Is not ancient Greece with its music, painting, poetry, and the arts the model of modern states?
49618Is not everything that we find recorded in the Scripture written for our learning, our warning?
49618Is that all that his sickness was intended for, that is included in his recovery?
49618Is that the best that God can give us?
49618Is that the way it is in a well- regulated household?
49618Is the Word of God preached in the"Big Church"?
49618Is there a doubt?
49618Is there a personal devil, or is the devil only to stand for evil in the abstract?
49618Is there an explanation?
49618Is there any sin the grace of Jesus can not pardon, or His blood wash away?
49618Is there any wound this great Physician can not heal?
49618Is there no halting, limping, swaying, and swerving between two opinions?
49618Is there no indecision of conduct there, no limping, no dividing of one''s heart between Baal and Jehovah?
49618Is there no outward ceremonial observance there, no form of godliness without the power thereof?
49618Is there no page of your history that you would obliterate, no leaf that, with God''s permission, you would tear from the book of life''s story?
49618Is there no speech to unsay, no act to undo, no day, Sunday, or evening to spend better?
49618Is this right?
49618Is this the fault of marriage or education?
49618Is your name enrolled among the list of passengers?
49618Is, to conclude, Christ such a light to you?
49618It is Christ''s provision for the salvation of man,--how?
49618It is an old problem and a constantly recurring problem: Why does God deal so, and why does He deal so with those who are His people?
49618It is so with Him who asks"Lovest thou me?"
49618Laughingly he rejoined,"You will never be able to do that, will you?"
49618Listen to the trend of conversation, the topic of discussion in people''s homes-- what is it?
49618Lives there a person so happy as to look back on the past and feel no remorse, or forward to the future and feel no fear?
49618Lord Lyttleton asked,"What is the result of your work?"
49618Lord, what wilt Thou have me do?"
49618Lovest thou my Word, my house, my sacraments?
49618Lutherans?
49618Moreover, what are we coming to if we regard only the rich as under obligation to give?
49618Moreover, what does all this envy of a fellow- man''s better fortune avail?
49618My beloved hearer, what is the measure of your love?
49618My beloved, have you ever reflected what a most excellent appointment that is?
49618My dear hearer, have you entered into that ark?
49618My dear hearer, have you undergone that change of heart, experienced that inner sorrow?
49618My dear hearers, did this love ever in the history of the Church form such a distinguishing badge?
49618Need I inform you what that typified, of whom that lamb was a type and shadow?
49618No one among those with whom you are now living or among those that have gone before-- to whom you would bear yourself otherwise than you have done?
49618Now, beloved, we leave it to the smallest child-- is this making Christ the foundation?
49618Now, how are we to distinguish between the real and pretended messengers of Christ?
49618Now, this is the most important part, how may it be overcome?
49618Now, what shall we make of this wonderful dualism, as we may call it?
49618Now, what shall we think, what say, to sustain ourselves amid experiences like that?
49618Now, whence did this evil come from?
49618Now, where should a physician be but with the sick and the dying?
49618Of the congregation that is looking up into my face this morning, twenty, thirty, fifty years, where shall it be?
49618One has only to look into one''s own heart, and what do you find there, good or evil?
49618Or are there no tests by which to find out?
49618Or are you able to say with the Apostle,"Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee"?
49618Or do you claim you do not know how?
49618Or do you keep your children from being educated because some educated people are great rascals?
49618Or need we any examples for what harm they have done?
49618Or what to him whose dwelling is in flames, to place a ladder for his rescue, if he will not so much as step upon it?
49618Or, in other words, Is He, Jesus Christ, God?
49618Others come with a commendable degree of regularity, but is there participation in the services and punctuality in arriving?
49618Our question is,_ Why_ does the needle so turn?
49618Over against this, what possessions does our Church glory in?
49618Overcome with remorse, Saul raises his sightless eyeballs on high and asks,"Who art Thou, O Lord?"
49618Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me?
49618Prayer: What is there to it?
49618Rather, should I say, who has made that which is great and grand in art, in music, in literature-- the masterpieces, the sublimest productions?
49618Read those letters:"Wanting,"and ask yourself, Does that mean me?
49618Saints and popes?
49618Shall I for that reason keep my hands from filling grapes into my church basket?
49618Shall the Savior say unto thee as Delilah said unto Samson:"How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me?"
49618Shall we not make reprisal upon the enemy, consecrate to the divine Giver His first- fruits?
49618Shall we refuse to take it?
49618Shall we say that we will have none of it?
49618Should we therefore avoid it and dislike it?
49618Should we therefore dislike it, reject it, or should we cleanse the furniture and the floor?
49618Should you, because you are no church officer or esteemed pillar in the sanctuary?
49618Simple, is it not?
49618Simply enough; a man who has been in the very grip of the last enemy and has recovered, can not but reason thus:"What if I had died?
49618So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?
49618Something within us-- something confined to this world?
49618Support of body?
49618Take, drink; this is my blood,"literally or figuratively,"is"meaning"represents"?
49618Taking up some practical lessons on the subject of conversion: What was there in St. Paul''s case that need not be looked for in other cases?
49618That question is,"What''s the use?
49618That where faith in Jesus Christ exists, it must show itself by works._ To begin with,--what is it for a man to be justified?
49618The Mother of Protestantism,--what church is it?
49618The application of all this?
49618The civilization of to- day-- whose product is it but of His religion?
49618The difference?
49618The divine Householder still has occasion to ask,"Is thine eye evil?"
49618The good old Bible Book--"is it really what has been claimed for it?"
49618The malice of the chief priest, the treachery of Judas, the cowardice of Pontius Pilate?
49618The narrative of Balaam, or Jonah, of the men in the fiery oven,--are they to be received as they read?
49618The only determining factor in this, as in all articles of our religious belief, is, What saith the Scripture?
49618The question at issue:"Is the Lord God?
49618The reflections, my beloved, and the constant cry,"What is the Church doing for its members?
49618The supply of man''s foremost and chief requisite-- what is that?
49618The truth had smitten to the heart, and then?
49618The truth of his remarks, however, who would wish to contest?
49618The voice said:"Cry,"and the faithful messenger said:"What shall I cry?"
49618Then saith the woman of Samaria unto Him:"How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?"
49618Then why envy the man whom God has gifted with talents of mind and tongue?
49618Then, too, when does the Bible say that a man can convert himself at any time that he chooses?
49618There is none of us who fails to take a glance at the daily paper,--why not at the Bible?
49618There was one thing they possessed, which is now so largely lacking,--what is it?
49618These are faults, and when one is overtaken in such a fault, then it becomes my Christian duty and yours to restore such a one-- how?
49618These men gave"much"( much when the amount was considered, much according to their own opinion and their admirers); yet, was it much relatively?
49618They are sometimes disposed to cry out with terror,"What can it mean?"
49618This child resting at His mother''s breast( who can grasp it?)
49618This is our second consideration: Where?
49618This night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?
49618This we learn from the next point of consideration: Who shall be the judged?
49618Those four words, and particularly, the one chosen for our immediate devotion,"Tekel,"has it no spiritual warning for us?
49618Through whom has the whole Church been redeemed from the bondage of Antichrist?
49618To David''s prayer,"Lord, remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions,"have you no solemn and hearty Amen?
49618To a life of godliness, to a conduct becoming a Christian, to the duties incumbent upon a member?
49618To amass wealth?
49618To conclude,--there should be any right- thinking, calculating person that, having begun, will fail to complete the building of this tower?
49618To conclude: How far, Christian brethren, have we been faithful to the admonition of the text?
49618To discredit it is to discredit the Bible, to contradict our blessed Lord, to shut one''s eyes willfully against the truth, and what is it?
49618To procure honor?
49618To provide for your family?
49618To repeat and publicly set aright one objection sometimes met with in our circles: What good does Baptism do?
49618To serve the Lord, to speak for Him, is this your delight?
49618To what end had all his efforts in the interest of true religion been if he was to be cut down before they could be carried through?
49618To what extent has it entered, and does it enter, into your religious life?
49618To what?
49618Trembling and astonished he said,"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
49618Was it to conceal his grief at the fatal intelligence he had received from the prophet?
49618Was it, too, dissolved, forfeited, lost?
49618Was there not something very instructive in this appearance at such a time?
49618Was truth victorious?
49618We call this adding of the superstructure, consecration, and what does it involve?
49618We glory that we accept the whole Bible, but who studies the Bible as a whole most earnestly?
49618We had respect to the evil example of parents,--why, correspondingly, should it not make for good?
49618We have in our midst a willing band of Sunday- school teachers; what are they doing but helping to bring the message to the hearts of our youth?
49618We need only settle down to a faithful and impartial scrutiny with ourselves to find out,"Lovest thou me more than these?"
49618Wealth, affluence of estate?
49618Weighed in this balance, what shall we say of our Communion Table?
49618Weighing ourselves, what report have these fifty- two Sundays to give of our congregation as a whole and of you, my dear member, as an individual?
49618Well, then, what right had these self- constituted saints and judges to find fault?
49618Were not the words rather applicable to the early disciples than to us and our days?
49618Were they not common laborers, who had been hired to work for the day, day laborers?
49618What Christian, arising from his bed in the morning, can neglect his prayer?
49618What His purposes toward us men, purposes of damnation for offenses and sins committed against His holiness?
49618What about them?
49618What are health and comfort and wealth, and all earth''s emoluments in comparison with the life hereafter?
49618What are these but the forms of godliness without the power thereof?
49618What are they but vultures that feed on the carrion of sin, making men''s lusts and depraved animal passions a source of ungodly gain?
49618What are those but just so many places and occasions of direct temptation to sin?
49618What are you doing unto the Lord''s brethren and thus unto Him?
49618What attitude, then, becomes those who have upon them declining years?
49618What authority have they for their high- sounding, but hollow assertions?
49618What benefit has it ever brought you?
49618What benefit is there in being a Christian, erecting such a tower?
49618What can afford me peace against a conscience that convicts me of wrong and offense against the holy God?
49618What caused the twenty and three thousand to perish in one day, their white carcasses to strew the wilderness sand?
49618What could he do to show the danger signal?
49618What could it be, that moving form?
49618What did He mean by"life"?
49618What did that prove?
49618What did the Apostle mean by"wood, hay, and stubble"?
49618What does a foundation amount to if the superstructure be not reared?
49618What does it cost to be a Christian?__ II.
49618What does it mean?
49618What does our Lord Himself say was His mission in this world?
49618What does that mean?
49618What does the king do?
49618What does the priest do?
49618What effect has it upon your religious life and professions?
49618What else does?
49618What good does food do you if you do not digest it, take the strength out of it, the necessary qualities?
49618What good does it do?
49618What guarantee has he to count securely on salvation if he refuses to say before men whether he takes Christ as his Redeemer, or not?
49618What guarantee have you that there is a life beyond this?
49618What has it been?
49618What have you that you would n''t have if you had not prayed?"
49618What hinders us from doing likewise, pastors and teachers, educating, tending, and feeding the flock of God?
49618What if the incoming rays do show us the dust that lies upon furniture and floor?
49618What if the spiritual Sun reveals to us our darling sins and ignorances?
49618What if there was a St. Paul and an Augustine and a Luther and a Walther, and if to- day we have men in the ministry who quite overshadow me?
49618What illustrations might I employ?
49618What is His will?
49618What is Lent?
49618What is confirmation?
49618What is it in its significance but the conflict of Mount Carmel over again?
49618What is it that they are holding in their hands, busily twisting the beads while their lips move in devotion?
49618What is it?
49618What is it?
49618What is its object in doing so?
49618What is sin?
49618What is that experience?
49618What is that key?
49618What is that?
49618What is the Lord''s message?
49618What is the best way to prepare for a profitable and advantageous Lent?
49618What is the burden of their care?
49618What is the cause?
49618What is the doctrine of the Trinity?
49618What is the meaning of all this?
49618What is the office or the power of the Keys?
49618What is the remedy, or the remedies, that might be suggested?
49618What is the use of being over- much concerned about the future?"
49618What is this but being ashamed?
49618What is this but being, in reality, ashamed of His words?
49618What is this but staying away because they are ashamed to confess Christ and His words before men?
49618What is worldliness, and how can I tell whether I am worldly or not?__ II.
49618What jurisdiction and power?
49618What kind of report will yours be?
49618What lesson may be gathered from this thrilling story?
49618What message does he deliver?
49618What more satisfactory assurance would we desire for that than what is told us in the text?
49618What parent or mother has not discovered, in correcting a disobedient boy, that he is uniformly punishing the wrong one?
49618What prompted this poor widow to give?
49618What sacrifice art thou bringing?
49618What say you?
49618What secret and invisible hand twists it around and causes it to point always the same way?
49618What self- denial was there connected with it?
49618What sentiment prompted it?
49618What sort of Christian are you?
49618What tactics does this spiritual enemy employ?
49618What was it that caused Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain, to go down in fire and brimstone?
49618What was it?
49618What was it?
49618What was this but the form of godliness without the power?
49618What would our Lutheran Church be and do with it?
49618What would we do without it?
49618What would we think of a child accepting its holiday gifts without showing appreciation, and speaking not a word of acknowledging thanks?
49618What"these"?
49618What''s the use of prayer?
49618What, then, became of the marriage relation?
49618What, then, is our duty-- to come to the second consideration-- in this respect?
49618What, then, is worldliness?
49618What, then, must their number be?
49618What, then, to come to the next particular, shall we do if we have become guilty in this respect?
49618What, then, was left for Him to do but to return where He had come forth, to ascend on high?
49618What, to begin with, is meant by an"evil eye"?
49618What, to come to the next consideration, is the duty of Christ''s people?
49618What?
49618What?
49618When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
49618When Jesus, therefore, passed by and saw him in this helpless condition, and knowing his past history, He asked him,"Wilt thou be made whole?"
49618When Saul was smitten down on the way to Damascus, he was asked by a heavenly voice,"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
49618When does His kingdom come?
49618When is God''s name hallowed?
49618When the head of the family commands his children to attend divine service, but himself does not, what, in fact, is he teaching but to stay away?
49618When the minister turns to the people and says,"The Lord be with you,"is he supposed to address only four singers and an organist?
49618When they had finished their meal, Jesus said to Simon Peter,"Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?"
49618When, then,--that is the question to which our text leads up,--when have we the form of godliness together with the power thereof?
49618Whence came all these hundred and one different sects, these endless conflicting opinions, this skepticism among you Protestants?
49618Whence comes the revenue for the support of our Orphanage, Altenheim, Hospital, City Mission?
49618Where are those brilliant statesmen, a Bismarck, a Webster, a Calhoun, and a Clay, upon whose lips admiring senates hung with wonder and delight?
49618Where does the sanctification of that day take place but in His Church, in the observance of its institutions?
49618Where shall I stand?
49618Where shall be_ our_ place, what_ our_ portion at that time, in that day?
49618Where, then, is the exaltation?
49618Where, then, was there room for a sudden and marked change in him?
49618Whether our Lord was a Socialist, or not, that depends upon the definition,"What is a Socialist?"
49618Which are the richest and most prosperous and flourishing nations in our day?
49618Which are we?
49618Which believes in the real presence of Christ''s body and blood in the Sacrament?
49618Which is that seal?
49618Which is that?
49618Which is the correct Bible teaching and practice?_ The Lord grant us understanding and wisdom!
49618Whither?
49618Who are those who have done good?
49618Who can alter them?
49618Who can find out the Almighty to perfection?"
49618Who can question that there is as much to awaken our grateful joy in our Savior''s ascension as in any other event of this marvelous destiny?
49618Who can say what this is?
49618Who dare say that the world in its present condition would be what it still is without this check, this intruder upon the affairs of life?
49618Who does not sleep?
49618Who first gave the Bible to the people?
49618Who has ever brought us information regarding it?
49618Who has footed the bills?
49618Who has taken possession of everything great and grand in our age?
49618Who is the one that is willing to give a helping hand?
49618Who is the sympathetic person?
49618Who is to blame?
49618Who was the first to begin modern mission work?
49618Who will dispute that Rome is rich, possesses much?
49618Who, then, was it?
49618Who, to mention one more particular, gives most liberally for the support of the Church and for charity?
49618Who, we question, was this man Demas?
49618Whoever builds a house without having some unpleasantness, and sometimes great unpleasantness?
49618Whom do they treat of?
49618Whose Son is he?"
49618Whose bosom has failed to beat higher with noble resolution and holy endeavor when kneeling before his God in prayer or at the sacred Communion?
49618Why are we so weak in Christian faith?
49618Why did Ahab shed the blood of Naboth?
49618Why did God address him thus?
49618Why did God ever permit such a dangerous foe to exert his malicious power and tempt mankind?
49618Why did the fabric of their grandeur crumble to pieces?
49618Why did these nations not last?
49618Why do the nations write 1912 in the enumeration of time?
49618Why do what my father fails to do?
49618Why do you not join?
49618Why do you stand aloof from the church?
49618Why else would there be so many apostates, fallings away, in the ranks of confessed believers?
49618Why go farther than our own selves?
49618Why had he been delivered from the Assyrian king if he was thus and now to be removed?
49618Why have sinful habits such power over us?
49618Why not take and drink it?
49618Why not"Peter,"the name He had Himself once bestowed?
49618Why this distinction between the early disciples and our present- day confessors of Christ?
49618Why tinker and twist in order not to make the writings say but the one thing they do say?
49618Why was David persecuted by King Saul?
49618Why was Joseph cast into prison?
49618Why were the martyrs put to death?
49618Why, then, make such conclusions regarding ourselves and others?
49618Why, then, should it not be the rapture of our hearts, the topic of our triumphant song, as it was of his?
49618Why, then, this mass?
49618Why, then, was the great Healer of souls to confine Himself to them?
49618Why?
49618Will you not seize it?
49618Wilt thou receive the absolution of thy God, the forgiveness of thy sins, through the mediation of my suffering and death?
49618With Felix:"Not now,"or,"I will"?
49618Would he remain quiet and let the accident happen?
49618Would such empty professions of charity prove a man to have charity?
49618Would you permit this season to pass without diligently inquiring whether"the Dayspring from on high"has visited your souls?
49618Would you thank any one to offer you the shell without the kernel, or the stalk without the flower, or a purse without the money?
49618Yes, we may press the question still further and ask, Can every Christian forgive sins?
49618Yet, apart from these, what is the religious life of Christians?
49618You are bound already, why speak about binding yourself?
49618You feel the drops of rain falling in gentle showers; what would the soil be without these rivulets and streams that fructify its acres?
49618You go into society, what is the result?
49618_ Our conduct respecting it._ Which is it?
49618_ Which is this gift?_ II.
49618could it be possible that God identifies Himself with these people he, Saul, was seeking to destroy?
49618could you answer as promptly, as heartily as the Apostle did,"Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee"?
49618e._, those who have their souls appareled in the garments of Christ''s goodness?
49618how His descent into hell?
49618how His glorious ascension?
49618is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?"
49618much compared with what others gave whose means were unspeakably less?
49618no possibility of its being said:"I will pass over you"?
49618or, like the publican, did he smite upon his breast, saying,"God be merciful to me a sinner"?
49618sing with their children the religious songs taught?
49618the duty of Christ''s people,--what is it?_ The office of Christ''s ministers,--what is it?
49618the duty of Christ''s people,--what is it?_ The office of Christ''s ministers,--what is it?
49618what ointment of spikenard too costly?
49618who should not prize it, read it, search it?
49618why so wayward and sluggish in our Christian life?