Sermons and Lectures Author:James Hamilton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. THE WORD OF CHRIST : ITS TRUTHS AND ITS TONE. " Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another ... more »in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord."—Col. in. 16. " The Bible has been my guide in perplexity, and my comfort in trouble. It has roused me when declining, and animated me in languor. Other writings may be good, but they want certainty and force. The Bible carries its own credentials along with it, and proves spirit and life to the soul . In other writings I hear the words of a stranger or a servant. In the Bible I hear the language of my Father and my Friend. Other books contain only the picture of bread. The Bible presents me with real manna, and feeds me with the bread of life." So wrote one whom I knew familiarly, and in whom the Word of Christ dwelt richly. You, my friends, have got the same Bible. Have you got the same good of it ? Is it your comfort in trouble, your guide in perplexity ? Is it full of certainty and force ? Is it to you the language of a Father and friend ? And is it your spirit's food ? Is it real manna ? Do you often get strength andanimation from it ? Do you sometimes find it a feast and a reviving cordial ? The Word of Christ dwells in our houses. Every one here present has it in some form. One possesses it in large typography and lit up with splendid illustrations— a luxury for the eye to look upon. Another has it in all the varieties of ancient speech and modern, and finds it curious to compare the apt and forceful renderings of Wicklif, Erasmus, Luther, Coverdale, with the Hebrew and Greek originals. Another glories in possessing the identical copy on which some man of God was wont to study—the handbook, marked and lined, which acco...« less