Sermons on National Subjects
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Subjects: Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Literary Collections / Essays Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books ed...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Subjects: Fiction / Religious Fiction / Christian / General Literary Collections / Essays Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IV. A PREPARATION FOR CHRISTMAS. FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT. Phil. iv. 4. " Eejoice in the Lord always." This is the beginning of the Epistle for to-day, the Sunday before Christmas. We will try to find out why it was chosen for to-day, and what lesson we may learn from it. Now Christmas-time was always a time of rejoicing among many heathen nations, and long before the Lord Jesus Christ came. That was natural and reasonable enough, if you will consider it. For now the shortest day is past. The sun is just beginning to climb higher and higher in the sky each day, and bring back with him longer sunshine, and shorter darkness, and spring flowers, and summer crops, and a whole new year, with new hopes, new work, new lessons, new blessings. The old year, with all its labours and all its pleasures, and all its sorrows and all its sins, is dying, all but gone. It lies behind us, never to return. The tears which we shed, we never can shed again. The mistakes we made, we have a chance of mending in the year to come. And so the heathens felt, and rejoiced that another year was dying, another year going to be born. And Christmas was a time of rejoicing too, because the farming work was done. The last year's crop was housed ; the next year's wheat was sown ; the cattle were safe in yard and stall; and men had time to rest, and draw round the fire in the long winter nights, and make merry over the earnings of the past year, and the hopes and plans of ...
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