_Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see and see not._ THE DISUSE OF SPIRITUAL FACULTIES Eyes and ears are for many reasons the most important and valuable organs of the human body, the chief “gates”--to use the language of Bunyan--to the famous town of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Prepare thee stuff for removing._ A DRAMA OF EXILE I. The vision in its historical fulfilment. II. The vision in its practical lessons for the present. 1. The consequence of sin is moral exile. All evil, not only in act, but in thought and in wish, involves in greater or less degree a going awa... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel._ MEN AND MINISTERS Ideas may be communicated quite as effectively through the eye as through the ear, by visible signs as by audible words. Thus our cemeteries display a profusion of emblems which eloquently, though silently, express the sentim... [ Continue Reading ]
_The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth._ PROPHECY A LIVING FORCE Right in the midst of the history of Israel, when Divine purposes of the highest moral and spiritual importance were being wrought out in her, in the very centre of one of her grandest outbursts of revealing thought upon t... [ Continue Reading ]
_It shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God._ CRITICAL MOMENTS Do not enter a fool’s paradise; do not enter upon vain imaginations, saying, As it was yesterday, so it will be tomorrow,--for there is a moment whic... [ Continue Reading ]
_The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off._ NOW (a sermon for young men and young women):--One would have thought that if the glorious Lord condescended to send His servants to speak to men of the way of salvation, all mankind would delight... [ Continue Reading ]