Grain From the Granary Sermons Author:Stephen Jenner General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Salt. " Salt is good." -- Luke xiv. 34. '7"OU all know, Brethren, the common uses of salt. You all know, also, what a needful thing salt is, and for what a variety of purposes in life it is good. But perhaps it has never occurred to you to notice how often salt is spoken of in the Bible, nor in what senses the term is there employed. This is a point which is very instructive. Out of this little common thing we may derive many a Christian lesson. Let me draw your attention : -- I. -- To the nature and properties of salt in the material world. 2. -- To notice, as you may see from this, how fitting the term is when applied to things in the spiritual world. 3. -- To its practical applications in Scripture. I. -- Now, first, salt is an essential element in life ; it enters more or less into everything animal, vegetable, and mineral. It is the great preserving power in the whole earth. So small as to be almost invisible, it is to be detected everywhere -- subtle, self-communicating, pervasive, active in its operations, yet untraceable; known and felt only in its effects, it is the secret at once of fertility, health, and life. This being so, God has made a large provision ofit in His creation. The ocean is a huge reservoir of salt, and most instructive and interesting would it be, if I had time to point out to you, what is continually going on in regard to it -- the interchange between the ocean and the earth, and the earth and the ocean. The exhalations and vapours rising from its parent bosom go forth on their varied missions of beneficent love, giving and receiving continually ; carrying the refreshin...« less