Twenty-Five Village Sermons

What does this Bible talk of, then? It talks of God; not of religion, but of God. It tells us not to be religious, but to be godly. You may think there is no difference, or that...

Now, at first sight, one does not see what this has to do with the disciples’ question—it seems no answer at all to it. But we must remember who it was who gave that answer. The...

Now come the questions, _Why_ did Christ rise from the dead?—and _how_ did he rise? And, first, I will say a few words about how he rose from the dead. And this the Bible will a...

And then at last, after all these blessed privileges, these tokens of God’s kingdom have been neglected through a long life, does Christ neglect us in the hour of death? Ah, no!...

THIS is a command from God, my friends, which well worth a few minutes’ consideration this day;—well worth considering, because, though it was spoken eighteen hundred years ago,...

And, lastly, you who, without running into any especial sins, as those which the world calls sins, still live careless about religion, without loyalty to Christ the Lord, withou...

But next, and I wish you to pay special attention to this point: We have no right to believe,—we have every right _not_ to believe, that these evil spirits can make us sin in th...

Therefore the body is dead because of sin, says St. Paul, doomed to die, carrying about in it the seeds of death from the very moment it is born. Death has truly passed upon all...

Now in the 14th chapter of Genesis there is an account of Abraham’s being called on to put in practice what he had learnt, and, by doing so, learning a fresh lesson. We read of...

To understand what I mean, consider any animal—a dog, for instance—how much every animal has in it what men have,—a body, and brain, and heart; it hungers and thirsts as we do,...

And again, they would have been ready to say, ‘This God, whom our forefather Noah said sent floods, we cannot see Him; but the floods themselves we can see. All these clouds and...

PSALM civ. 13–15. He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is 13 satisfied with the fruit of thy works. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the s...

Here was an actual sign and witness that His words were true—here was Moses, the giver of the Law, and Elijah, the chief of the Prophets, talking with Him, bearing witness to Hi...

If you accustom yourselves to think in the same way of the infinite wisdom of God, and the infinite love of God, they will both teach you the same lesson; they will shew you tha...

Again, how these thoughts ought to make us reverence all books. Consider! except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book!—a message to us from the dead—from hu...

Now, first of all, consider this,—that though St. John calls you “little children,” because you are still weak, and your souls have not grown to manhood, yet he does not speak t...