A
SHORT SERMON
Given below is an extract from a
sermon delivered by a profound believer in Christianity. He was a follower of the teachings of Jesus.
His favourite religious book was the Bible. The date of this sermon is very
old. It was delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 19th, 1857, by the
Reverent C. H. Spurgeon.
Sabbath is a day, i.e. Sunday, kept
by most of the Christians for religious observance and abstinence from work .
A sermon is universally defined as a
talk on a religious or moral subject.
The sermon under reference praises
God. As such it aims at fostering
gratitude and joy, and strengthening faith.
Here is the extract referred to above.
“A book is the expression of the
thoughts of the writer.
The book of nature is an expression
of the thoughts of God. We have God’s terrible thoughts in the thunder and
lightning; God’s loving thoughts in the sunshine and the balmy breeze; God’s
bounteous, prudent, careful thoughts in the waving harvest and in the ripening
meadow. We have God’s brilliant thoughts in the wondrous scenes which are beheld
from mountain-top and valley; and we have God’s most sweet and pleasant
thoughts of beauty in the little flowers that blossom at our feet.
But you will remark that God has in
nature given most prominence to those thoughts that needed to have the
pre-eminence. He hath not given us broad acres overspread with flowers, for
they were not needed in such abundance, but he hath spread the fields with
corn, that thus the absolute necessities of life might be supplied.
We needed most of the thoughts of
his providence; and he hath quickened our industry, so that God’s providential
care may be read as we ride along the roads on every side.
Now God’s book of grace, the Bible,
this most precious volume is the heart of God made legible; it is the gold of
God’s love beaten out into leaf gold, so that therewith our thoughts might be
plated, and we also might have golden, good, and holy thoughts concerning him.
And you will mark that, as in nature
so in grace , the most necessary is the most prominent. I see in God’s word a
rich abundance of flowers of glorious eloquence; often I find a prophet
marshalling his words like armies for might, and like kings for majesty. But
far more frequently I read simple declarations of the truth.:
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G.R.Kanwal
28 July 2025
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