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SERMONS | | I. | | CHRIST AT THE DOOR | 81 | | "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me."—Rev. iii. 20. | | | II. | | THE DARK ENIGMA OF DEATH | 92 | | St. John xi. | | III. | | THE STORY OF DORCAS | 108 | | Acts ix. 36-43. | | IV. | | UNFULFILLED CHRISTIAN WORK | 118 | | "And unto the angel of the Church in Sardis write; These things saith He that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God."—Rev. iii. 1, 2. | | | Reading the last clause a little more literally will more fully bring out the meaning: "For I have found no works of thine fulfilled before my God."—R.V. | | | V. | | A LESSON IN CHRISTIAN HELP | 133 | | "Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the [en]feeble[d] knees; and make straight [smooth] paths for [with] your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed [or, in order that that which is lame may not be caused to go astray, but may rather be healed]."—Heb. xii. 12, 13. | | | VI. | | JOSEPH'S FAITH | 149 | (Preached on Sunday Evening, October 20th, 1889, in
St. John's Wood Presbyterian Church.) | | "By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones."—Heb. xi. 22. | | | VII. | | THE BRAZEN SERPENT | 162 | | "He [Hezekiah] removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan."—2 Kings xviii. 4. | | | VIII. | | THE GRADATIONS OF DOUBT | 175 | | Psalm lxxiii. | | IX. | | THE STORY OF QUEEN ESTHER | 192 | (Preached in Balham Congregational Church, on Sunday
Evening, August 11th, 1889.) | | Esther iv. 13-17. | | X. | | THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROPHETS | 205 | | "Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example."—James v. 10. | | | XI. | | THE MAKING OF A PROPHET | 220 | (Preached at Nottingham, before the Congregational
Union of England and Wales, on Monday Evening,
October 8th, 1888.) | | "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train overspreading the temple floor. Seraphs were poised above, each with six wings, with twain veiling his face, with twain veiling his feet, and with twain hovering. And those on one side sang in responsive chorus with those on the other side, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The fulness of the whole earth is His glory.' And the foundations of the threshold trembled at the sound of that singing, and the house was filled with incense smoke. Then cried I, 'Woe is me! for I am a dead man; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.' Then flew one of the seraphs unto me, having in his hand a burning ember, which with a tongs he had taken from off the incense altar; and he touched my mouth with it, and said, 'Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.' Thereupon I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' Then I cried, 'See me; send me.'"—Isaiah vi. 1-8 (annotated). | | | XII. | | FOR AND AGAINST CHRIST | 230 | | "He that is not with Me is against Me: and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth."—Luke xi. 23. | | | "He that is not against us is on our part."—Mark ix. 40. | | | XIII. | | THE PROPHECY OF NATURE | 240 | | "When 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? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet."—Psalm viii. 3-6. | | | "But now we see not yet all things put under Him."—Heb. ii. 8. | | | XIV. | | CHRISTIAN GIVING | 248 | | (Pr
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