Sermons Author:Price Collier 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: "Ah," but you say, " whatever Christ is, however beautiful the little child picture, the world will have none of them, and the men who do the will of the world a... more »nd win their way are not childlike." And it is folly to stand here and contradict you. What is my word worth? But, nevertheless, I do not believe it. And in a long stretch of years history will, I believe, bear me out in saying that the unworldly and the unsophisticated have had the preponderating influence, and that whether it be so to-day in the markets and march of affairs or not, in the sweep of centuries the wise men, and the rich, and the powerful have been seen following the star to bear their gifts to the little Child. However much you may doubt the value of the theological Christ, however little faith you put in the Christ of history, however little influenced you may be by the Christ of religion, if you were to stop for a moment to consider, can you conceive, even with the boldest imagination, of the coming of the Saviour in any other form than as a little child, or can you wish that He should ever grow out of His childlikeness? I have admired wit in men and the weird power of influence in men, and there are scores of graces, beauties, virtues in women that one admires; but I find, alas! that one distrusts these, grows indifferent to' them, is little touched by them as one grows older and sadder and wiser and wearier, but loves in men and women the little child; longs for some one not to admire, not to praise, not to be charmed by, not to be influenced by, or even inspired by, but some one to love, so that loving shall be peace. Again, this Christmas morning I sing no song of power, of greatness, of achievement, but the gentleness of the little child: " My song, save this, is little worth; I lay the w...« less