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One Hundred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers
One Hundred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers Author:S. Baring-Gould General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: J. Masters Subjects: Homiletical illustrations History / General Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s 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: I see one heaping up sin upon sin, and saying, Oh, there is time enough, I will repent at my leisure. What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise and call upon thy God. I see one greedy of gain, gathering to himself treasures, scrupling not at the means whereby he accumulates money, so long as he may make money. What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise and call upon thy God. I see one with opportunities of serving God before him -- the church bell calling, the altar spread -- but all opportunities systematically neglected. What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise and call upon thy God. I see one given wholly to pleasure, with no thought save how self may be gratified, the senses tickled, the time passed -- a butterfly life, a profitless life. What meanest thou, 0 sleeper ? arise and call upon thy God. Conclusion. Arise and call upon thy God, arise from thy lethargy, from thy sin, from thy vanities, from thy self- seeking ; arise even from thy necessary business; arise and call upon thy God to forgive thee that which is past, to make thee decline from sin and incline to righteousness, that death may not come upon thee unawares. "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." XIII. THE WATERS OF GRACE. '' Behold, maters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward . . . And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the wa...« less