item: #1 of 78 id: 10116 author: Kingsley, Charles title: All Saints' Day and Other Sermons date: None words: 118057 flesch: 76 summary: And God hath put you in a blessed place, even His wondrous and fruitful world, which praises God day and night, fulfilling His word; for it continues this day as in the beginning, and He has given it a law which cannot be broken. So we should do God justice, by confessing all we owe to Him; and so, we must believe, we should please God; for if God be indeed our Father in heaven, as surely as a parent is pleased with the affection and gratitude of his child, so will our Father in heaven be pleased when He sees us love Him, who first loved us. keywords: believe; children; christ; church; day; death; duty; earth; evil; far; father; friends; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; help; holy; human; kingdom; law; life; like; lord; lord god; love; man; men; people; poor; power; right; sins; son; soul; spirit; things; think; thou; thy; time; unto; way; words; world; wrong cache: 10116.txt plain text: 10116.txt item: #2 of 78 id: 10325 author: Kingsley, Charles title: The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons date: None words: 56963 flesch: 78 summary: But man is made in the image of God; and therefore God, in whose image he is made, could take on himself his own image and likeness, and become perfect man, without ceasing to be perfect God. What more important than to know that the flood did not come of itself, that the rainbow did not come of itself, and therefore that no flood comes of itself, no rainbow comes of itself; nothing comes of itself, but all comes straight and immediately from the one Living Lord God? keywords: abraham; bible; children; christ; day; earth; egypt; faith; father; god; good; heaven; jews; land; life; living; lord god; man; men; moses; nation; people; right; spirit; things; thou; time; world cache: 10325.txt plain text: 10325.txt item: #3 of 78 id: 10326 author: Kingsley, Charles title: David: Five Sermons date: None words: 15283 flesch: 74 summary: Every form of human sorrow, doubt, struggle, error, sin; the nun agonising in the cloister; the settler struggling for his life in Transatlantic forests; the pauper shivering over the embers in his hovel, and waiting for kind death; the man of business striving to keep his honour pure amid the temptations of commerce; the prodigal son starving in the far country, and recollecting the words which he learnt long ago at his mother's knee; the peasant boy trudging a- field in the chill dawn, and remembering that the Lord is his shepherd, therefore he will not want--all shapes of humanity have found, and will find to the end of time, a word said to their inmost hearts, and more, a word said for those hearts to the living God of heaven, by the vast humanity of David, the man after God's own heart; the most thoroughly human figure, as it seems to me, which had appeared upon the earth before the coming of that perfect Son of man, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Better would it be for any one of you to be the stupidest and the ugliest of mortals, to be the most diseased and abject of cripples, the most silly, nervous incapable personage who ever was a laughingstock for the boys upon the streets, if only you lived, according to your powers, the life of the Spirit of God; than to be as perfectly gifted, as exquisitely organised in body and mind as David himself, and not to live the life of the Spirit of God, the life of goodness, which is the only life fit for a human being wearing the human flesh and soul which Christ took upon him on earth, and wears for ever in heaven, a Man indeed in the midst of the throne of God. keywords: character; david; god; good; jonathan; life; lord; love; man; men; right; sin; soul; spirit; words; world cache: 10326.txt plain text: 10326.txt item: #4 of 78 id: 10517 author: Adams, E. E. (Ezra Eastman) title: Government and Rebellion A Sermon Delivered in the North Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1861 date: None words: 7839 flesch: 63 summary: What is good government?_ II. But we have a right to ask for good government. keywords: duty; god; good; government; law; laws; man; national; people; power; rebellion; war cache: 10517.txt plain text: 10517.txt item: #5 of 78 id: 11381 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Sermons for the Times date: None words: 86999 flesch: 70 summary: Lord God of Hosts, Heaven and Earth are full of the majesty of Thy glory;' after he has spoken of the mystery of the Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Ghost, of Christ's redemption and incarnation, and ascension and glory; of His judging the world; of His government, and His lifting up His people for ever; after he has prayed God to keep them this day without sin, and to let His mercy lighten upon them; after all this, at the end of this glorious hymn, all that he has to say is, 'O Lord, in Thee have I trusted: let me never be confounded. And therefore, St. Paul says, the sinful heathen were without excuse, because, he says, 'that which may be known of God is manifest, that is plain, among them, for God hath showed it to them. keywords: children; christ; church; day; duty; earth; father; friends; god; good; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; know; law; life; lord; love; man; men; people; right; righteousness; sin; sins; son; spirit; things; thou; way; words; world cache: 11381.txt plain text: 11381.txt item: #6 of 78 id: 11536 author: Kingsley, Charles title: Town and Country Sermons date: None words: 89307 flesch: 81 summary: When they shut themselves up from the world to worship God in prayers and hymns, they found that, without working, without hard work either of head or hands, they could not even be good men. And so they worked, and worked hard, not only at teaching the children of the poor, but at tilling the ground, clearing the forests, building noble churches, which stand unto this day; none among them were idle at first; and as long as they worked, they were good men, and blessings to all around them, and to this land of England, which they brought out of heathendom to the knowledge of Christ and of God; and it was not till they became rich and idle, and made other people work for them and till their great estates, that they sank into sin and shame, and became despised and hated, and at last swept off the face of the land. keywords: believe; christ; day; death; earth; father; friends; glory; god; good; heart; heaven; jesus; life; lord; lord god; love; man; men; mind; paul; peace; people; right; sin; son; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 11536.txt plain text: 11536.txt item: #7 of 78 id: 11627 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02: Hooker to South date: None words: 55926 flesch: 69 summary: And now I stand here, and am judged, for the hope of the promise made unto the fathers; unto which promise our twelve scribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come; for which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Great men and gentlemen think God will spare them. keywords: abraham; blood; body; christ; day; dead; death; faith; god; good; hath; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; judge; know; life; light; lord; love; man; men; nature; power; reason; resurrection; run; salvation; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; world cache: 11627.txt plain text: 11627.txt item: #8 of 78 id: 11693 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 08: Talmage to Knox Little date: None words: 54778 flesch: 75 summary: A bishop's daily round, they said, his endless correspondence, his hurried journeyings, his weight of anxious cares, the misadventures of other men, ever returning to plague him,--how can he bring himself to stoop and deal with these? Do I say, then, that Jesus Christ was a man like other men? keywords: believe; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; evil; experience; faith; father; god; good; heart; heaven; human; jesus; know; life; like; little; lord; love; man; men; nature; need; new; night; power; pride; self; sin; soul; spirit; spiritual; things; think; thou; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 11693.txt plain text: 11693.txt item: #9 of 78 id: 11713 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 03: Massillon to Mason date: None words: 51884 flesch: 71 summary: Great God! To a question so often proposed, and still oftener resolved, our Savior answers you here, that there were many widows in Israel afflicted with famine; but the widow of Sarepta was alone found worthy the succor of the prophet Elias; that the number of lepers was great in Israel in the time of the prophet Eliseus; and that Naaman was only cured by the man of God. keywords: christ; death; divine; earth; faith; father; felix; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; hour; jesus; knowledge; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; peace; righteousness; sin; son; soul; spirit; things; thou; time; truth; way; world cache: 11713.txt plain text: 11713.txt item: #10 of 78 id: 11760 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and General Index date: None words: 53988 flesch: 77 summary: Nor had they come to him as many men falsely suppose revelation and inspiration exclusively have come to mankind, by means, namely, that were extraordinary and miraculous. It was not altogether satisfactory, many men revolted from it, and in the seventeenth century a Dutchman, Hugo Grotius, a lawyer, brought forth another interpretation, which is known in theology as the governmental theory. keywords: bible; book; character; christ; christian; christianity; church; day; death; divine; earth; fact; faith; father; god; good; great; hand; heart; heaven; hope; human; ideal; infidelity; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; light; little; lord; love; man; men; nature; new; paul; people; power; religion; sins; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; voice; way; william; words; work; world; years cache: 11760.txt plain text: 11760.txt item: #11 of 78 id: 11981 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01: Basil to Calvin date: None words: 54627 flesch: 72 summary: Altho we may not attain to the truth, if, with the help of the Spirit, we do not fall away from the meaning of Holy Scripture, we shall not deserve to be rejected, and with the help of grace, we shall contribute to the edification of the Church of God. The fertility of the earth is its perfect finishing; growth of all kinds of plants, the up-springing of tall trees, both productive and unfruitful, flowers' sweet scents and fair colors, and all that which, a little later, at the voice of God came forth from the earth to beautify her, their universal mother. keywords: body; bread; christ; day; death; earth; faith; father; god; good; hath; heart; holy; jesus; jesus christ; law; life; light; lord; love; man; men; satan; son; spirit; thee; things; thou; time; truth; works; world cache: 11981.txt plain text: 11981.txt item: #12 of 78 id: 12746 author: Swift, Jonathan title: The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 date: None words: 101526 flesch: 58 summary: The same may be affirmed of many other great men of antiquity. I have the common excuse of other men, when I think myself bound by all religious and civil ties, to discharge my conscience, and to warn my countrymen upon this important occasion. keywords: act; author; church; clergy; conscience; country; day; dissenters; doctrine; duty; england; evil; faith; footnote; general; god; good; government; hath; heart; holy; house; ireland; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberty; life; lord; love; man; manner; men; nature; number; opinion; parliament; party; people; persons; poor; popery; power; presbyterians; present; prince; principles; public; reason; religion; repeal; sacramental; shew; state; subject; swift; t.s; test; things; thought; time; want; way; wicked; wisdom; words; world; years cache: 12746.txt plain text: 12746.txt item: #13 of 78 id: 13204 author: Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) title: Sermons to the Natural Man date: None words: 112856 flesch: 68 summary: Faith is that inward sense and act, of which prayer is the _expression_; as is evident, because in the same manner as the freedom of grace, according to the gospel covenant, is often set forth by this, that he that _believes_, receives; so it also oftentimes is by this, that he that _asks_, or _prays_, or _calls upon_ God, receives. But, we may go a step further than this, though in the same general direction, and remark, in the second place, that _elevated moral sentiments are no certain proof of piety toward God and man_. keywords: character; christ; christian; conscience; creature; day; death; divine; duty; earth; eternity; fact; fear; feeling; future; god; good; guilt; heart; holiness; holy; human; knowledge; law; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mercy; mind; nature; perfect; place; power; religion; righteousness; self; sense; sin; sinful; soul; spirit; state; subject; things; thou; thy; time; truth; work; world cache: 13204.txt plain text: 13204.txt item: #14 of 78 id: 13824 author: Leland, Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) title: The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. date: None words: 9825 flesch: 66 summary: If the righteous are said to enter into _life eternal_, so are the wicked to go away into _everlasting punishment_. Waterville, B. Chase, P.M. Bangor, Royal Clark, P.M. Bristol, Aaron Blaney, P.M. Vassalboro', Theodore S. Brown, Lubec, Moses Fuller, P.M. Bloomfield, Joseph Locke, P.M. Whitefield, David Crowell, P.M. Ellsworth, Joseph A. Wood, P.M. West Jefferson, F. Shepherd, P.M. South Berwick, Charles E. Norton. keywords: character; christ; cross; day; death; doctrines; foolishness; glory; god; gospel; heart; john; judgment; life; man; mercy; new; p.m.; preaching; salvation; truth; work; world cache: 13824.txt plain text: 13824.txt item: #15 of 78 id: 14139 author: Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) title: New Tabernacle Sermons date: None words: 99529 flesch: 81 summary: Many men you have known and loved have had few charms of physiognomy. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh, his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city, taking an attitude defiant of everything. keywords: ages; away; battle; bible; blood; book; children; christ; christian; church; city; coming; country; cry; day; dead; death; die; door; earth; eternity; fact; feet; field; friends; glory; god; good; gospel; half; hand; head; health; heart; heaven; home; hour; house; human; jerusalem; jesus; judgment; king; know; land; law; life; live; look; lord; lord god; lost; love; man; men; morning; nations; new; night; pay; people; place; power; religion; road; room; sea; sin; sins; soul; spirit; stand; sun; text; things; throne; time; want; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 14139.txt plain text: 14139.txt item: #16 of 78 id: 14453 author: MacDonald, George title: The Hope of the Gospel date: None words: 52823 flesch: 76 summary: Who has not seen or known men who _appeared_ not to have passed, or indeed in some things to have approached the development of the more human of the lower animals! All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them. keywords: children; creation; earth; evil; father; god; good; heart; heaven; hope; house; jesus; life; light; lord; love; man; men; reward; righteousness; sins; son; soul; things; thou; thought; thy; way; words; world cache: 14453.txt plain text: 14453.txt item: #17 of 78 id: 14497 author: Brooks, Phillips title: Addresses by the Right Reverend Phillips Brooks date: None words: 39183 flesch: 73 summary: Is it not exactly like the mountain at whose foot there seems to be the open sunshine where men see everything, and on whose summit there is the sunshine, but on whose sides, and half way up, there seems to linger a long cloud, in which man has to struggle until he comes to the full result of his life? It is not very strange to think that men should have sometimes come to think that the religion of Jesus Christ was a slavery that was laid upon the mind of man, because very often those who have been the disciples of that religion, those who have been the preachers and exponents of that religion, have claimed just exactly that thing. keywords: christ; christian; day; faith; freedom; god; jesus; jesus christ; life; man; men; nature; power; sin; soul; thing; truth; words; world cache: 14497.txt plain text: 14497.txt item: #18 of 78 id: 15031 author: Lee, Andrew title: Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume date: None words: 98455 flesch: 74 summary: Neither do they remain inactive--They serve God day and night --in his temple, some may say. Of certain glorified spirits it was declared to the apostle, as we have seen, that they serve God day and night--They have no need of rest--they never grow weary. keywords: character; christ; day; death; divine; doth; duty; earth; evil; faith; fear; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; heart; heaven; israel; judgment; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mercy; moses; nature; people; power; reason; religion; saints; salvation; sin; sins; spirit; state; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; way; world cache: 15031.txt plain text: 15031.txt item: #19 of 78 id: 16309 author: Benson, Robert Hugh title: Paradoxes of Catholicism date: None words: 35076 flesch: 72 summary: Here is one, born of a woman, hungry and thirsty by the wayside, increasing in wisdom; one who works in a carpenter's shop; rejoices and sorrows; one who has friends and enemies; who is forsaken by the one and insulted by the other--who passes, in fact, through all those experiences of human life to which mankind is subject--one who dies like other men and is laid in a grave. (i) He begins to read, of course, with the assumption that this Life is as others and this Man as other men; and as he reads he finds a hundred corroborations of the theory. keywords: body; catholic; christ; church; day; death; divine; faith; father; god; human; humanity; jesus; jesus christ; life; men; nature; paradox; peace; reason; religion; society; soul; things; truth; world cache: 16309.txt plain text: 16309.txt item: #20 of 78 id: 16423 author: Ward, Samuel title: A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich date: None words: 14405 flesch: 75 summary: It was sayd of olde, that zeale was an _Intension of love_: of late, that it is a compound of _love and anger, or indignation_. And whereas _Paul_ bids _Titus_ preach zeale with all authoritie; though in mine owne name I crave your patience, and audience, yet in his name that is the first of the creatures, and _ keywords: bee; christ; church; doe; fire; god; gods; good; hath; heart; hee; lord; love; man; men; object; owne; people; selfe; sidenote; spirit; thou; thy; wee; world; zeale cache: 16423.txt plain text: 16423.txt item: #21 of 78 id: 16645 author: Robertson, Frederick William title: Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series date: None words: 93531 flesch: 72 summary: The characteristic of this dispensation was, that God revealed Himself by an authoritative Voice, speaking from without, and the highest manifestation of God whereof man was capable, was a Divine Humanity. But if you look simply to the question of resemblance to God, then the man who makes it a habit to select that one in life to do good to, and that one in a room to speak with, whom others pass by because there is nothing either of intellect, or power, or name, to recommend him, but only humbleness, _that_ man has stamped upon his heart more of heavenly similitude by condescension, than the man who has made it his business to win this world's great ones, even for the sake of truth. keywords: apostle; body; brethren; character; christ; christian; church; conscience; day; death; earth; faith; father; feeling; form; god; good; great; heart; human; john; law; life; like; love; man; men; mind; nature; paul; peace; power; present; principle; right; self; sin; son; soul; spirit; spiritual; state; things; thought; time; truth; unity; way; words; work; world; wrong cache: 16645.txt plain text: 16645.txt item: #22 of 78 id: 16856 author: Percival, John title: Sermons at Rugby date: None words: 36960 flesch: 62 summary: If, then, we have really learnt the lesson which He thus presses upon us, we shall feel something like reverence for every young life, as it begins its perilous and uncertain course on the sea of man's experiences; and with this feeling we shall be eager to help and protect such lives whenever we have the chance of doing it, and we shall be very careful to do them no wrong. From this thought we naturally turn to the thought of God's mercy, and pray that He may yet sow the seeds of new hope in the dismal waste of such lives. keywords: christ; day; feeling; god; good; heart; influence; life; lord; man; men; power; prayer; shall; sin; society; soul; spirit; things; thought; way; world cache: 16856.txt plain text: 16856.txt item: #23 of 78 id: 16979 author: Potter, John Hasloch title: The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent date: None words: 19994 flesch: 71 summary: In these Addresses we have said much about those large results which God is allowing us already to see as obviously coming out of the war; on our Day of Humble Prayer to Almighty God we solemnly thanked Him: For the laying aside of controversies at home, and for the unity of the Nation and Empire; For the loyal and loving response of our fellow-subjects beyond the seas; For the full harmony between our Allies and ourselves, and for the success which has already been granted to our common efforts; For the devotion of those who have laid down their lives for their country; For the revelation in danger, in suffering, and in death, of the power of the Cross and the benefits of the Lord's Passion. May God the Holy Ghost, without Whom man's best labours are in vain, bless this little book to its purpose. keywords: body; christ; church; communion; day; death; discipline; god; holy; lent; life; lord; man; power; prayer; self; soul; spirit; suffering; thought; time; war; world cache: 16979.txt plain text: 16979.txt item: #24 of 78 id: 17122 author: Dods, John Bovee title: Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation date: None words: 61929 flesch: 71 summary: This objection is futile unless it can be proved that Christ _creates_ life and immortality. The apostles in no instance say, that _works_ purify the heart, or overcome the world--or that this is the victory, even your _works_; The whole is ascribed to _faith_; because that is the living tree on which the good fruits grow. keywords: birth; body; christ; come; coming; day; dead; death; end; existence; faith; god; good; gospel; happiness; heart; heaven; immortal; jesus; judgment; kingdom; law; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; resurrection; sin; things; time; truth; world cache: 17122.txt plain text: 17122.txt item: #25 of 78 id: 17273 author: Boys, John title: An Exposition of the Last Psalme date: None words: 9947 flesch: 82 summary: [g]Euery good and perfit gift is from aboue, descending from the father of lights, a good thought in a saint is _gratia infusa_, a good word in a saint is _gratia effusa_, a good deed in a saint is _gratia diffusa_, through his grace which is the God of [h]all grace, saints are [i]whatsoeuer they are. An Idoll as _Paul_ affirmes, 1. Cor. keywords: bee; cap; church; daies; day; euery; god; gods; good; hath; haue; heauen; holy; loc; lord; man; men; praise; saints; sanctuarie; sidenote; text; thou; vnto; vpon cache: 17273.txt plain text: 17273.txt item: #26 of 78 id: 17939 author: Holmes, John Haynes title: A Statement: On the Future of This Church date: None words: 8108 flesch: 65 summary: We will have groupings not of Methodist churches, and Baptist churches, and Unitarian churches, to remind the world of ancient differences, but of New York churches, and Boston churches, and San Francisco churches, to teach the world of present needs and future hopes. Almost a year ago I resigned the office of vice-president of the Middle States Conference of Unitarian churches, which have held ever since I came to New York. keywords: church; churches; new; people; place; problem; question; social; time; unitarian; years cache: 17939.txt plain text: 17939.txt item: #27 of 78 id: 18329 author: Patton, William title: The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers date: None words: 8868 flesch: 74 summary: Waterville, H. Chase, P.M. Bangor, Royal Clark, P.M. Bristol, Aaron Blaney, P.M. Vassalboro', Theodore S. Brown. Lubec, Moses Fuller, P.M. Bloomfield, Joseph Locke, P.M. Whitefield, David Crowell, P.M. Ellsworth, Joseph A. Wood, P.M. West Jefferson, F. Shepherd, P.M. South Berwick, Charles E. Norton. keywords: cities; city; country; day; god; holy; influence; jerusalem; john; land; lord; men; new; p.m.; power; rev; spirit; thousands; work; world cache: 18329.txt plain text: 18329.txt item: #28 of 78 id: 18578 author: Savage, Minot J. (Minot Judson) title: Our Unitarian Gospel date: None words: 90390 flesch: 72 summary: The difference between Jesus and other men, as we hold it, is not a difference in kind: it is a difference in degree. We need to know other men. keywords: belief; church; day; divine; doubt; earth; faith; father; god; good; human; jesus; kind; life; little; look; love; man; matter; means; men; nature; need; new; note; people; place; point; power; question; right; theory; things; thought; time; truth; universe; way; wish; world; worship; years cache: 18578.txt plain text: 18578.txt item: #29 of 78 id: 20138 author: Kingsley, Charles title: True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries date: None words: 74184 flesch: 83 summary: Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. Let them see you going out and coming in, whether on duty or by your own firesides, as men who feel that they are ever beneath their great taskmaster's eye; who have a solemn duty to perform, namely, the duty of living like good men toward your superior officers, your families, your neighbours, your country, and your God--even towards that Saviour who so loved you that He died for you on the cross, to set you the example of what true men should be; the example of perfect duty, perfect obedience, perfect courage, perfect generosity--in one word--the example of a perfect Hero. Live such lives, and then, will be fulfilled to you, and to your children after you, from generation to generation, the promises which God made, ages since, to the men of Judea of old; keywords: bible; children; christ; david; day; death; earth; father; fear; friends; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; jesus; king; life; like; lord; lord god; love; man; men; people; right; saul; sea; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; time; want; way; words; work; world; years cache: 20138.txt plain text: 20138.txt item: #30 of 78 id: 20430 author: Winnington Ingram, Arthur F. (Arthur Foley) title: The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral date: None words: 10476 flesch: 70 summary: If they were done away with, then society would be a gathering of true men and women, true to themselves, true to one another, and true to God, and would be a society which God could bless. There was an atmosphere of goodness, of innocence, of pure home life, which constituted a beautiful rainbow round the throne. keywords: courage; god; home; life; queen; rainbow; round; sympathy; throne; world cache: 20430.txt plain text: 20430.txt item: #31 of 78 id: 20446 author: Newman, John Philip title: "America for Americans!" The Typical American, Thanksgiving Sermon date: None words: 7879 flesch: 68 summary: That convention, composed of fifty-five men, and such men! South of this zone are Egypt and Arabia and India, and other nations that have lived in splendor. keywords: american; applause; church; country; day; foreign; men; millions; nations; vote; wealth; years cache: 20446.txt plain text: 20446.txt item: #32 of 78 id: 21987 author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) title: The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year date: None words: 39337 flesch: 86 summary: 13. The publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. keywords: children; christ; church; david; day; evil; eyes; father; god; good; heart; heaven; king; life; lord; man; men; people; sermon; sin; son; sunday; thee; things; thou; time; trinity; way; work; world cache: 21987.txt plain text: 21987.txt item: #33 of 78 id: 22482 author: Shepherd, Ambrose title: Men in the Making date: None words: 44433 flesch: 75 summary: I have known fathers and mothers who had the reputation of being good men and women, sternly forbid their daughters to engage themselves to young men who had most things to recommend them, except too much means; and I have known them encourage the advances of men whose past and present should have excluded them from any decent home--only because these men had money. There is always room for a book to young men; whether or not the book I now offer them is worth its room, is a matter about which I, possibly, am not the best judge. keywords: christ; day; evil; god; good; hope; human; law; life; love; man; means; men; nature; need; people; place; power; question; right; self; sin; success; things; time; truth; way; work; world; wrong; years cache: 22482.txt plain text: 22482.txt item: #34 of 78 id: 22821 author: Hillis, Newell Dwight title: The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon date: None words: 36491 flesch: 78 summary: Must German Men Be Exterminated? III. Must German Men Be Exterminated? keywords: american; belgium; berlin; body; boys; children; city; country; day; england; france; french; german; girls; god; good; government; great; half; hand; heart; home; kaiser; life; little; men; officer; paris; people; place; right; secret; service; soldiers; states; time; united; war; women; words; work; world; years cache: 22821.txt plain text: 22821.txt item: #35 of 78 id: 23096 author: Chapman, J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) title: And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses date: None words: 68689 flesch: 80 summary: even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Under his direction simultaneous evangelistic campaigns have been held in many of the leading cities of the land, and the Christian Church and the world have had an experience of a new, aggressive and emphatic evangelism that has stirred the Church, revived Christian service and been the means under God of turning thousands to a life of allegiance to Jesus Christ. keywords: bible; boy; chapter; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; father; god; hand; home; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; lost; man; men; mother; people; power; prayer; read; second; sin; spirit; text; thee; things; thou; thy; time; verse; way; word; work; years cache: 23096.txt plain text: 23096.txt item: #36 of 78 id: 2458 author: Latimer, Hugh title: Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses date: None words: 37619 flesch: 72 summary: Truly I know him too well, and have obeyed him a little too much in condescending to some follies; and I know him as other men do, yea, that he is ever occupied, and ever busy in following his plough. Thus the evil is much better set out by evil men, than the good by good men; because the evil be more wise than be the good in their generation. keywords: armour; card; children; christ; christian; church; day; devil; father; forth; god; good; hath; holy; king; light; lord; man; men; neighbour; paul; people; saith; thee; things; thou; time; unto; works; world cache: 2458.txt plain text: 2458.txt item: #37 of 78 id: 25894 author: Walker, James title: The Spirit Proper to the Times A Sermon preached in King's Chapel, Boston, Sunday, May 12, 1861 date: None words: 3009 flesch: 71 summary: I am to speak of public spirit, as manifested in a willingness to make sacrifices for the public good. How often are we to be told that our present troubles are sent upon us in order to lift the whole community out of the mire of money-getting propensities, where every thing like public spirit was in danger of being swallowed up and lost? keywords: men; people; public; sacrifices; spirit cache: 25894.txt plain text: 25894.txt item: #38 of 78 id: 25900 author: Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) title: Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner. date: None words: 4776 flesch: 66 summary: He stands not strong among men of strength, thinkers and benefactors at first hand, germinators of thought and heroism in the van of the race,--such as bear the stamp of a primitive and primeval energy, like Abraham, Noah, Moses, David and Paul, Buddha and Mohammed, Socrates and Plato, in the East; Garrison and John Brown among ourselves. Mr. Rubinstein was displeased with the preacher who said, Men must be expected to do no more than they can. keywords: burke; hands; honor; john; land; man; men; senate; sumner; years; | | cache: 25900.txt plain text: 25900.txt item: #39 of 78 id: 26035 author: Tulloch, John title: Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of Crathie, fifth September and in the College Church, St Andrews date: None words: 5708 flesch: 70 summary: Shut out conscience as a true source of knowledge, and the very idea of righteousness will disappear with it--there will be nothing to fall back upon but the combinations of intelligence, and such religion as may be got therefrom; admit conscience, and its verifying force transcends a mere order or impersonal power of righteousness. There is much talk in the present time of the difficulties of religion. keywords: christ; christian; divine; good; life; religion; sphere; theology cache: 26035.txt plain text: 26035.txt item: #40 of 78 id: 26097 author: Doddridge, Philip title: Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old date: None words: 12565 flesch: 76 summary: GOD _in all,--chearfully to subscribe to his Will,--cordially to approve it as merciful and gracious,--so as to be able to say, as the pious and excellent Archbishop of _Cambray_ did, when his Royal Pupil, and the Hopes of a Nation were taken away_[+], _ Death_, that inexorable Destroyer, _shall be swallowed up in Victory_[f], while we and ours surround the Throne with everlasting Hallelujahs, and own, with another Evidence than we can now perceive; with another Spirit than we can now express, that _All was indeed well_. keywords: child; children; friends; god; good; hath; heart; hope; life; like; lord; love; parent; reason; thou cache: 26097.txt plain text: 26097.txt item: #41 of 78 id: 26441 author: Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) title: Humanity in the City date: None words: 43243 flesch: 67 summary: I observe, in the second place, that the words of the text accord with the testimony which machinery bears to the _dignity of man_. Hence the peculiar anxiety of good men to rescue _children_ from the influences of a bad home. keywords: children; city; conditions; day; duty; evil; forms; friends; god; good; heart; help; home; human; humanity; influence; life; light; living; look; love; man; men; nature; people; place; poor; power; precedence; present; public; religion; soul; spirit; street; things; time; way; work; world cache: 26441.txt plain text: 26441.txt item: #42 of 78 id: 26760 author: Macduff, John R. (John Ross) title: Memories of Bethany date: None words: 52757 flesch: 75 summary: _happier_ history, for it will not _then_ be to come forth once more, like _him_, into a weeping world, to renew our work and warfare, feeling that restoration to life is only but a brief reprieve, and that soon again the irrevocable sentence will and must overtake us! Yes, there is _tarrying_ love as well as _succouring_ love. keywords: bethany; brother; come; day; dead; death; disciples; earth; earthly; faith; friend; glory; god; grave; heart; heaven; holy; home; hour; human; jerusalem; jesus; lazarus; life; lord; love; man; martha; mary; moment; power; saviour; sorrow; spirit; tears; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; voice; words; world cache: 26760.txt plain text: 26760.txt item: #43 of 78 id: 27280 author: Gamon, Hannibal title: The Praise of a Godly Woman date: None words: 18154 flesch: 92 summary: of formall Hypocrites are heartned and | true Happinesse, p. 61.] hardned in their lewd courses & | false conceits of happinesse, when | they heare more infamous Sinners | than themselues, gloriously and | flatteringly commended at their | Deaths; yet we need not feare any | such bad effect by the | Funerall-commendation of Gods true | Saints; because the publike | Testimonie of their iust Praises | doth not onely make the wicked more | inexcusable, and the Glory of Gods | Graces shine farre brighter to | Posteritie; but also enkindleth in | the hearts of the godly a greater | fire of Zeale for imitation. at | their Deaths, as _Hezekiah_ was by | all _Iudah_ & _Ierusalem_: | _Valentinean_, _ keywords: cap; children; cor; death; eccles; enim; esai; est; euery; feare; feareth; fearing; god; godly; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; ier; lord; non; note; pet; praise; prou; psal; quia; quod; rom; saint; saith; sed; shee; sinne; tim; tom; vnto; woman; yea; | | cache: 27280.txt plain text: 27280.txt item: #44 of 78 id: 27316 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: That Gospel Sermon on the Blessed Hope date: None words: 4750 flesch: 89 summary: D. L. Moody, who is perhaps the most popular and efficient preacher of the gospel of Christ in the world, to-day, is evidently fully committed to a belief in the speedy coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to judge the world and establish his eternal kingdom. Go out on the streets of Chicago and ask men about the return of our Lord, and that is just what they would say: Ah, yes, the Lord delayeth his coming! Behold, I come quickly, said Christ to John, and the last prayer in the Bible is, Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly. keywords: christ; church; coming; god; lord; world cache: 27316.txt plain text: 27316.txt item: #45 of 78 id: 27649 author: Strange, Robert title: Church work among the Negroes in the South The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2 date: None words: 6128 flesch: 66 summary: What we white men of the North and South ought to do to encourage and help this better class of negroes is, in brief phrases, this: First, to keep our faces as flint against all social intermingling that looks toward amalgamation. not _from_ but _in_ the Church between the two races, for the growth of the Church among white men and black men, and for the development of Christian manhood among the black men. keywords: bishop; church; men; negroes; people; south; white; work cache: 27649.txt plain text: 27649.txt item: #46 of 78 id: 28464 author: Luther, Martin title: Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost date: None words: 119489 flesch: 74 summary: They are children who cleave to the message that through Christ God forgives their sins and receives them into his favor; who adhere to this promise in all temptations, afflictions and troubles. Unquestionably, then, Paul proclaims Christ true God. keywords: apostle; blood; body; children; christ; christian; church; death; doctrine; earth; eternal; evil; fact; faith; flesh; gifts; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; heaven; holy; honor; kingdom; law; life; lord; love; man; men; neighbor; office; paul; people; peter; power; sacrifice; sin; sins; spirit; spiritual; text; things; time; word; works cache: 28464.txt plain text: 28464.txt item: #47 of 78 id: 30619 author: Luther, Martin title: Epistle Sermons, Vol. 3: Trinity Sunday to Advent date: None words: 137373 flesch: 74 summary: Especially the Gospel of St. John has been subjected to attack, which was written for the special purpose of fortifying this dogma against the attacks of Cerinthus the heretic, who in the apostolic age already attempted to prove from Moses the existence of but one God, which he assigned as reason that our Lord Jesus cannot be true God on account of the impossibility of God and man being united in one being. Now, in view of the fact already established that the persons are distinct, and of the further statement that God has purchased the Church through his own blood, we inevitably conclude that Christ our Saviour is true God, born of the Father in eternity, and that he also became man and was born of the Virgin Mary in time. keywords: apostle; body; children; christ; christians; church; death; devil; doctrine; earth; fact; faith; father; flesh; gifts; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; holy; holy spirit; honor; human; knowledge; law; life; lord; lord god; love; man; men; paul; people; power; reason; righteousness; shall; sin; spirit; things; time; unto; wisdom; word; works; wrath cache: 30619.txt plain text: 30619.txt item: #48 of 78 id: 30657 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects date: None words: 34110 flesch: 89 summary: He must warn the openly wicked man that if he persists in his evil courses, the just judgments of God will inevitably overtake him; he must unmask the hypocrite; he must utter no uncertain protest against the crooked and devious ways of the self-seeker and the time-server. But if he enters into the Spirit of his Master, no part of his public work will be more congenial or delightful than the proclamation of the full, free, and sovereign grace of God, manifested towards sinful men in the gift of His Eternal Son, to be the Saviour of the world. keywords: christ; come; day; faith; gift; god; good; grace; heart; jesus; law; life; lord; man; salvation; sin; sins; son; word; work cache: 30657.txt plain text: 30657.txt item: #49 of 78 id: 3150 author: Butler, Joseph title: Human Nature, and Other Sermons date: None words: 47321 flesch: 56 summary: The natural supremacy of reflection or conscience being thus established, we may from it form a distinct notion of what is meant by _human nature_ when virtue is said to consist in following it, and vice in deviating from it. A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many_; _strong cities hath it pulled down_, _and overthrown the houses of great men_. keywords: affection; benevolence; creatures; degree; god; good; happiness; interest; life; love; man; men; mind; nature; object; principle; respect; self; things; way; world cache: 3150.txt plain text: 3150.txt item: #50 of 78 id: 31670 author: Furness, William Henry title: A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church date: None words: 5348 flesch: 66 summary: So, then, the fact that private men are interested in public affairs, even though it be attended with a good deal of excitement,--that is not the thing to be deplored. If your public affairs, as they are directed in your Public Councils, were uncontrolled by the sentiments of private men, they would soon be coming down into our streets and into our private dwellings with a most disastrous influence. keywords: interest; life; man; men; people; public cache: 31670.txt plain text: 31670.txt item: #51 of 78 id: 33340 author: Moody, Dwight Lyman title: Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments date: None words: 32709 flesch: 84 summary: We come back to Paul's words, and get consolation for time and eternity:--We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. If it were known that God Himself was going to speak once again to man, what eagerness and excitement there would be. keywords: bible; children; christ; christian; commandment; day; days; father; god; good; great; heart; law; life; lord; love; man; mother; people; right; sabbath; sin; think; thou; thy; time; worship; years cache: 33340.txt plain text: 33340.txt item: #52 of 78 id: 33515 author: Brown, James Baldwin title: Misread Passages of Scriptures date: None words: 48364 flesch: 74 summary: For much of the pain of life man himself is, directly and in the first instance, responsible. If it pleases God to make some men to be saved and other men to be damned, who shall question His rights? keywords: christ; day; death; divine; earth; esau; forth; god; good; great; hand; heart; history; human; jacob; kingdom; life; lord; love; man; men; nature; pain; power; question; sar; sin; things; thou; thy; toil; words; work; world cache: 33515.txt plain text: 33515.txt item: #53 of 78 id: 34632 author: Edwards, Jonathan title: Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards date: None words: 71942 flesch: 66 summary: And as it is God that gives, so 'tis God that accepts the Saviour. Thus 'tis God that has given us the Redeemer, and 'tis of him that our good is purchased: so 'tis God that is the Redeemer and the price; and 'tis God also that is the good purchased. keywords: christ; church; day; divine; edwards; father; glory; god; good; grace; heaven; hell; holy; house; judgment; knowledge; life; light; lord; man; means; men; mind; ministers; nature; people; place; power; public; reason; sermon; spirit; state; strong; things; time; tis; work; world; wrath cache: 34632.txt plain text: 34632.txt item: #54 of 78 id: 36332 author: Codman, John title: An Address Delivered at the Interment of Mrs. Harriet Storrs, Consort of Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Braintree, Mass., July 11, 1834. date: None words: 3546 flesch: 65 summary: There are some events, in the providence of God, so completely overwhelming as to render it extremely difficult, almost impossible, to give utterance to the full feelings of the soul through the medium of words. We have not the shadow of a doubt, that the spiritual intelligence, which once beamed upon us with such mild and gentle lustre, and which was, for a short season, shrouded in darkness, is now rekindled by the same gracious hand that so mysteriously overshadowed it, to burn, with increasing and never-ending brightness, with seraphs that surround the throne of God. keywords: church; friends; god; life; rev; service; storrs cache: 36332.txt plain text: 36332.txt item: #55 of 78 id: 36351 author: Thompson, A. C. (Augustus Charles) title: Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868. date: None words: 3467 flesch: 71 summary: One of the senior members of this church hands me, by request, the following memorandum:[Footnote: Rev R. Anderson, D.D.]-- I have known Mrs. Marsh since the year 1820, or about forty-eight years. Soon after, there began a remarkable work of grace in that town, and during the short ministry there, till death closed her husband's labors, Mrs. Marsh toiled and prayed, and rejoiced over a spiritual harvest. keywords: church; city; god; marsh; mrs; school; years cache: 36351.txt plain text: 36351.txt item: #56 of 78 id: 36694 author: Defoe, Daniel title: The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle date: None words: 6361 flesch: 65 summary: England_ is hardly ever to pass over the _Jourdan_ before her, till these Immoderate Men of Strife and Storms are laid by. Navy_ of _England_ had been at Stake; had rather have lost it than the _Bill against Occasional Conformity_; that had rather the _French_ should have taken _Landau_ and Beat the Prince of _ keywords: church; god; heaven; man; men; moderation; nation; tis; way cache: 36694.txt plain text: 36694.txt item: #57 of 78 id: 4052 author: Johnson, Richard title: Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island date: None words: 12798 flesch: 77 summary: If, in direct opposition to this plain, precept, you will work and labour, as on other days, what ground can you have to expect that God will bless and prosper your undertakings? My times are in the hand of God. keywords: christ; day; death; god; gospel; holy; life; lord; sin; sinners; time; world cache: 4052.txt plain text: 4052.txt item: #58 of 78 id: 42518 author: Spurgeon, C. H. (Charles Haddon) title: Talks to Farmers date: None words: 97806 flesch: 83 summary: Are they not brought forth of the earth on purpose that they may show us what sin has done, and the kind of produce that will come when we sow the seed of rebellion against God? I have met with persons who thought they perfectly understood the doctrines of grace, who could accurately set forth the election of the saints, the predestination of God, the firmness of the divine decree, the necessity of the Spirit's work, and all the glorious doctrines of grace which build up the fabric of our faith; but these gentlemen have inferred from these doctrines that they have to do nothing, and thus they have become sluggards. keywords: christ; come; corn; day; earth; faith; father; field; god; good; gospel; grace; grass; great; hand; harvest; heart; heaven; holy; hope; jesus; joy; life; like; look; lord; lord jesus; love; man; master; men; people; place; plough; power; seed; sin; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thy; till; time; truth; way; wheat; word; work cache: 42518.txt plain text: 42518.txt item: #59 of 78 id: 44053 author: Bailhache, Clement title: Sermons: Selected from the Papers of the Late Rev. Clement Bailhache date: None words: 54542 flesch: 76 summary: Christ bids us reason from both bad men and good men to God, and it is well for us that He does so. Many men, even professing Christians, suffer in consequence of sins known only to God and to themselves; secret luxuries and excesses, or a trifling, perhaps half unconscious, with some of the simplest laws of Nature. keywords: christ; christian; day; faith; god; good; gospel; grace; heart; heaven; holy; influence; jesus; joy; life; lord; love; man; men; paul; prayer; salvation; sin; soul; spiritual; things; thought; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 44053.txt plain text: 44053.txt item: #60 of 78 id: 44071 author: Cushman, Robert title: The Sin and Danger of Self-Love Described by a Sermon Preached At Plymouth, in New-England, 1621 date: None words: 12822 flesch: 73 summary: so sore vexed, because _Mordecai_ bowed not to him, because he highly valued himself, _Esther_, 3. 5. I would not advise them to come there, for as yet the country will afford no such matters: But if there be any who are content to lay out their estates, spend their time, labors, and endeavors, for the benefit of them that shall come after, and in desire to further the gospel among those poor heathens, quietly contenting themselves with such hardship and difficulties, as by God's Providence shall fall upon them, being yet young, and in their strength, such men I would advise and encourage to go, for their ends cannot fail them. keywords: cushman; england; god; good; hath; love; man; men; self; thou; time; world; yea cache: 44071.txt plain text: 44071.txt item: #61 of 78 id: 44411 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 04: L. Beecher to Bushnell date: None words: 58076 flesch: 66 summary: Preparation for Consulting the Oracles of God 101 ARNOLD (1795-1842). Alive in God 131 WAYLAND (1796-1865). keywords: character; christ; christian; day; death; divine; earth; faith; glory; god; good; gospel; government; heart; heaven; human; influence; jesus; kingdom; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; object; pleasure; power; religion; sin; soul; spirit; things; thy; time; truth; unto; way; work; world cache: 44411.txt plain text: 44411.txt item: #62 of 78 id: 44420 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 05: Guthrie to Mozley date: None words: 55355 flesch: 70 summary: We have known men preach themselves out by incessant repetitions of the scene at Calvary,--a scene thrilling in itself, and on that very account not bearing to be presented in its details, every Sabbath day. Give other men their will, full swing to their passions, and they would be worse than they are; give that to him, and he would be better than he is. keywords: body; character; christ; christianity; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; glory; god; good; heart; heaven; holy; human; jesus; jesus christ; life; light; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; place; power; religion; son; spirit; things; tho; thou; time; truth; voice; words; work; world cache: 44420.txt plain text: 44420.txt item: #63 of 78 id: 44439 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 06: H. W. Beecher to Punshon date: None words: 54876 flesch: 70 summary: That which the structure of man is to the structure of the limpet, that which the universe is to a single country, the complex and boundless soul of Christ was to the souls of other men. To take the judgment and conscience of other men to live by, where is the humility of that? keywords: christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; eternal; father; form; god; good; gospel; heart; heaven; holy; hope; human; immortality; jesus; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; morality; motive; nature; new; place; power; present; religion; right; self; sense; sin; soul; spirit; things; thought; time; truth; words; work; world cache: 44439.txt plain text: 44439.txt item: #64 of 78 id: 44441 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 07: Hale to Farrar date: None words: 55391 flesch: 72 summary: The creed of the Church of Christ, in its beauty and its power, has been flashed by the Divine Spirit upon their hearts and understandings; and they are other men. It is not within the ability of man to teach other men how to speak to the weary-hearted, the wounded in spirit, the sore in the innermost feelings of the being. keywords: bible; book; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; hand; heart; heaven; history; holy; infinite; jesus; liberty; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; mind; nature; new; place; power; prayer; save; sense; soul; spirit; things; thou; thought; time; voice; way; wind; words; work; world; years cache: 44441.txt plain text: 44441.txt item: #65 of 78 id: 44450 author: None title: The World's Great Sermons, Volume 09: Cuyler to Van Dyke date: None words: 54715 flesch: 75 summary: Great men, it has been said by one of our own great teachers, are men who live very largely in their own age; that is to say, they are persons the drift and set of whose mind does not belong to the generation before themselves exactly, altho they may be possest of powers of insight, nor to the generation after their own age, but have much power of sympathy and comprehensiveness toward the interests and exigencies of their own time. Good men live forever. keywords: blood; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; end; faith; god; good; gospel; heart; hope; human; jesus; jesus christ; john; life; light; lord; love; man; means; men; mind; nature; new; people; place; power; religion; sin; son; soul; spirit; temptation; thee; things; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 44450.txt plain text: 44450.txt item: #66 of 78 id: 45272 author: Kellogg, Frederic B. title: Nine O'Clock Talks date: None words: 9842 flesch: 74 summary: Great men live and die, unrecognized and misunderstood. On the other hand, many men are coming back from the war who have lost the sight of their eyes, but it would be fatal for the world to imagine them all blind. keywords: christ; god; good; life; lord; man; men; new; people; spirit; time; way; world cache: 45272.txt plain text: 45272.txt item: #67 of 78 id: 48349 author: Terry, Isaac title: The religious and loyal subject's duty considered: with regard to the present Government and the Revolution A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, on Wednesday, January 30, 1722-3 date: None words: 6926 flesch: 52 summary: To be sure we do all of us, from the very bottom of our hearts, detest and abominate it; unless we have been all this while in this holy place prevaricating with God and man, and adding a feigned humiliation to the number of our former provocations. MOREOVER, since God is the supreme Monarch of the universe, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; since his power alone is unlimited and irresistible; and by consequence, the primary and most proper object of men's fear; it is manifest, that no human laws whatsoever, can bind men to act contrary to the divine. keywords: authority; change; fear; god; government; king; laws; power; soveraign cache: 48349.txt plain text: 48349.txt item: #68 of 78 id: 48370 author: Snape, Andrew title: A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor : the aldermen and citizens of London at the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul on Monday the 30th of Jan. 1709/10 being the anniversary fast for the Martyrdom of King Charles date: None words: 6921 flesch: 68 summary: Such Jealousies and Surmises, such _Names of Distinction_, and forming of _Parties_, were the fatal Beginnings of that _ Before they had thus compass'd their wicked Ends, and were become Masters of all without Controul, whilst there was yet the Appearance and Shadow of Kingly Government, and nothing cou'd be valid without the Royal Sanction; even then, tho' they left him the _Name_, they arrogated to themselves the _Power_. keywords: blood; church; cou'd; day; god; justice; king; lord; man; men; naboth; person; royal; tho cache: 48370.txt plain text: 48370.txt item: #69 of 78 id: 49618 author: Buchheimer, L. B. (Louis Balthaser) title: Faith and Duty: Sermons on Free Texts, with Reference to the Church-Year date: None words: 140247 flesch: 75 summary: For the determining of the question, Is Jesus Christ God? In the rush and tug of life men are too much inclined to concern themselves with the affairs of this life, to lose sight of the greater value of the unseen and eternal. keywords: apostle; beloved; bible; blood; body; book; children; christ; christian; church; day; days; death; divine; duty; earth; evil; faith; father; god; good; gospel; grace; hand; heart; heaven; holy; house; human; jesus; know; life; light; look; lord; lord god; love; man; matter; means; men; mind; paul; people; person; place; power; prayer; reason; regard; religion; salvation; savior; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; sunday; text; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; trinity; truth; unto; water; way; words; work; world; years cache: 49618.txt plain text: 49618.txt item: #70 of 78 id: 58812 author: Baker, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) title: Sermons of the Rev. Francis A. Baker, Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul With a Memoir of His Life date: None words: 180148 flesch: 75 summary: We believe that Jesus Christ, true God and true man, with His deity, His soul, His flesh and blood, is present in the holy sacrament of the altar. But I have had a higher motive as my chief reason for undertaking the task: a desire to promote the glory of God, by preserving and extending the memory of the graces and virtues with which He adorned one of His most faithful children. keywords: baker; bishop; body; brethren; catholic; children; christ; christian; church; communion; day; days; dead; death; doctrine; earth; faith; father; footnote; friend; god; good; grace; hath; heart; heaven; holy; house; human; jesus; john; life; light; look; lord; love; man; mass; men; mind; mission; morning; nature; new; number; people; place; power; prayer; present; priest; protestant; reason; religion; religious; sacrifice; salvation; sermon; shall; sin; sins; soul; spirit; sunday; tell; thee; things; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; way; words; work; world; years; young cache: 58812.txt plain text: 58812.txt item: #71 of 78 id: 59041 author: Paulist Fathers title: Sermons Preached at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York, During the Year 1861. date: None words: 69884 flesch: 81 summary: But we trust that they will be found plain, simple, and direct, and that there may be those among our Catholic brethren who will derive an appreciable benefit from their perusal--some clearer view of Christian doctrine or moral duty, some thought to touch the heart, and draw it upward to God. The Love Of God 93 VII. keywords: body; brethren; christ; christian; church; day; dead; death; desire; devil; divine; earth; faith; father; footnote; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; john; life; light; look; lord; love; man; men; mother; nature; paul; self; sin; soul; things; thou; time; truth; way; words; world cache: 59041.txt plain text: 59041.txt item: #72 of 78 id: 59991 author: Paulist Fathers title: Sermons by the Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, Volume VI. date: None words: 76314 flesch: 78 summary: [Footnote 46] [Footnote 46: Wisdom i. 7.] It is the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, the Lord and Life-giver, who, as holy Job declares, hath adorned the heavens with their radiant beauty, who hath filled the whole earth, and vivified it, so that it is not a dead but a living image of the Eternal, Omnipotent, Living God. {92} The Israelites had been commanded by Almighty God, through Moses, to prepare for this, and what they did became, as God intended, a ceremony typical of the greatest mystery the world has ever known--the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross, the deliverance of the world from the slavery of sin and hell by that death, and the institution of a sacrifice which, should be an ever-present, continual, and lively memorial of that act. keywords: brethren; catholic; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; earth; faith; father; footnote; ghost; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; kingdom; life; light; living; lord; love; man; men; people; peter; poor; power; religion; sin; son; soul; spirit; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; words; world cache: 59991.txt plain text: 59991.txt item: #73 of 78 id: 60107 author: Paulist Fathers title: Five Minute Sermons, Volume I. For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. Paul date: None words: 138044 flesch: 84 summary: Great God! The motive for doing this was that the great number of persons who generally attend only a Low Mass on Sundays might enjoy the advantage of hearing the word of God preached, without being delayed too long for their convenience. keywords: --st; brethren; charity; children; christ; church; come; day; dead; death; devil; epistle; faith; father; friends; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hear; heaven; help; holy; jesus; jesus christ; know; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; men; neighbor; people; place; priest; sermon; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; sunday; things; think; thou; thy; time; try; want; way; words; world cache: 60107.txt plain text: 60107.txt item: #74 of 78 id: 60267 author: Paulist Fathers title: Five Minute Sermons, Volume II. For Low Masses on All Sundays of the Year by Priests of the Congregation of St. Paul date: None words: 141125 flesch: 80 summary: She bids us contemplate, so far as it is possible for us, the great and ineffable mystery into the faith of which we have been baptized, and to join with the angels and saints in the canticles of heaven, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. Our religion is one of joy, because we are Christ's and he is ours; and what more can we ask, or what greater can be bestowed upon us, than the having of Christ; Christ, at once perfect man and true God; Christ, whose life is the model of our lives, whose grace is the source of all joy; Christ, to have whom is to have a brother, and, at the same time, the eternal God; the God by whose word were made all things that are, who knows no limit to his power, who has in himself all perfections that man can desire or conceive of; a brother--a man like ourselves, with a human heart like our own, with affections like those of other men; a brother burning with tender love for us, knowing our weakness, knowing our wants and ready to succor us; a man who was himself tempted, who has himself suffered the miseries of this life, who, in a word, was made like to us in all save sin. keywords: brethren; catholic; children; christ; christian; church; day; death; divine; easter; epistle; faith; father; glory; god; good; gospel; grace; hath; heart; heaven; holy; hope; jesus; joy; know; law; life; lord; love; man; means; men; mortal; neighbor; people; place; power; religion; sermon; sin; sins; son; soul; spirit; state; sunday; thee; things; thou; thy; time; truth; way; words; work; world cache: 60267.txt plain text: 60267.txt item: #75 of 78 id: 60915 author: Duché, Jacob title: Discourses on Various Subjects, Vol. 1 (of 2) date: None words: 47060 flesch: 59 summary: There is a peculiar beauty and propriety in this similitude, and every part of it bears a wonderful analogy to that spiritual life, into which fallen man hath been reinstated by the MEDIATION OF THE SON OF GOD. FOR ALL THINGS ARE YOURS; WHETHER PAUL, OR APOLLOS, OR CEPHAS, OR THE WORLD, OR LIFE, OR DEATH, OR THINGS PRESENT, OR THINGS TO COME; ALL ARE YOURS, AND YE ARE CHRIST'S, AND CHRIST IS GOD'S. These words contain a complete and beautiful enumeration of those distinguishing privileges to which human nature is exalted, by virtue of that glorious plan of Redemption, which JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD hath accomplished for our whole fallen race. keywords: christ; divine; evil; faith; father; god; happiness; hath; heart; heavenly; jesus; knowledge; life; light; lord; love; man; men; nature; outward; peace; power; present; religion; righteousness; soul; spirit; state; thee; things; thou; time; truth; world cache: 60915.txt plain text: 60915.txt item: #76 of 78 id: 6669 author: Booth, Catherine Mumford title: Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at James's Hall, London, W. during 1881 date: None words: 46889 flesch: 84 summary: If, twenty years ago, I had stopped for Christian friends to sanction and to open the door, I should have waited till today, and the number of souls God, in His infinite mercy, has given me, I should not have gathered. I am well aware that, in such imperfect reports of, for the most part, extemporaneous utterances, often most hurriedly corrected, there may be found abundant ground for criticism; but, if this book may be the means of leading only a few souls to devote themselves more fully to God and to the salvation of men, I shall be more than compensated for any unfriendly criticism with which it may meet. keywords: believe; charity; children; christ; divine; faith; god; heart; holy; jesus; kingdom; lord; love; man; men; mind; people; power; right; sin; soul; spirit; things; thou; want; way cache: 6669.txt plain text: 6669.txt item: #77 of 78 id: 7786 author: Clayton, Louisa title: The One Great Reality date: None words: 36170 flesch: 89 summary: We have the same assurance when the Holy Ghost says in St. Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. keywords: christ; day; faith; father; footnote; glory; god; heart; holy; jesus; john; life; light; lord; love; man; sin; son; spirit; voice; word cache: 7786.txt plain text: 7786.txt item: #78 of 78 id: 8191 author: Booth, Bramwell title: Our Master: Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord date: None words: 36496 flesch: 81 summary: Man sins, of course, against himself. We care nothing for the position of a church or sect; we care everything for a real control over the souls and conduct of living men and women, that we may lead them to God and use them for His glory. keywords: christ; cross; day; dead; death; faith; father; god; heart; hope; human; jesus; life; lord; love; man; men; nature; power; salvation; sin; son; sorrow; soul; spirit; things; time; way; work; world cache: 8191.txt plain text: 8191.txt