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Fifty-Six Short Sermons for the Use of Lay Readers
FiftySix Short Sermons for the Use of Lay Readers Author:Gilbert White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Subjects: Christian life Spiritual life God Sermons, English Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Life / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Spirituality Re... more »ligion / Christianity / Denominations 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: X. -- FOE US AND AGAINST US Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. -- II Kings vi. 16. THE circumstances were striking. The servant of Elisha went forth early in the morning and saw the little city of Dothan entirely surrounded by a great host of Syrians assembled to capture his master. He runs to him in terror, and is told that they are defended by a yet greater host: " then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." It is good at times, lest we also should be discouraged, that we should ask God to open our eyes that we too may see the forces that defend the citadel of the Christian faith as well as those that are arrayed against it. Some of the forces that are arrayed against the Christian faith are easily seen and are soon recognised. One of the most serious was pointed out many years ago by Mr. Gladstone. It ia the weakened sense of sin. It is not that our generation is so much more wicked than other generations, though the low moral standard of the present day is most painfully apparent and threatens not only the Christian faith, but the whole foundations of Christian civilisation. It is that many things which used to be almost universally regarded as sin, even by those who were most...« less