Fifty-Six Short Sermons for the Use of Lay Readers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... real trust in Him at all times and under all circumstances. "Heaviness may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning." The old Hebrew prophet cried: "Though He slay me yet will I put my trust in Him," and we in the fuller light of the Gospel echo the words of St. Paul, " I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." XXX.--A FUTURE LIFE How say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?--1 Corinthians Xv. 12. THE thought of the future life was at one time, perhaps, over prominent in the popular conception of Christianity. Men tended to think of the Faith as though it were only concerned with provision for the future instead of being vitally concerned with every day and hour of our life here on earth. There is a danger now of running to the opposite extreme and ignoring the future life altogether in favour of the practical claims on this life. Let us note, to begin with, that our bodies are not our life. They are only the instruments through which our life expresses itself in relation to the material things by which we are surrounded. The eye for instance, does not see. It is only an instrument, a more perfect telescope with living instead of dead lenses, through which the living person sees. So too even with the brain. It too is an instrument just as the eye is. It is not the brain that sees and feels and hears, but the living person who sees and feels and hears through that wonderful instrument the brain. What life is really in itself the wisest man of science cannot tell us. He simply does not know, ...