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...Gerge A. Gordon, of Boston, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening taking as his text, Genesis, 1 - 31: "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good...
...third chapter of Exodus, where God speaks to Moses from the burning bush He expresses a great truth in saying that He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. These three men were of very different types. Abraham was a leader of men and his faith in God was great. Isac was a plain "everyday" man and does not seem to have seen visions. And yet his trustfulness is seldom duly appreciated. If Abraham was faithful in his willingness to sacrifice his son at God's bidding. Isaac was also trustful in giving...
...startling vividness and originality of touch in the descriptions of the death-bed conversation of a woman "who deserted husband and child to follow a lover," and who acknowledged that it was almost divine to sin as she did, "not with a mean desire to cheat the devil or God, but freely anxious to have what she sinned for and not to repine." Certainly the theme is one which we seldom see elaborated...
...question is not who wrote these books nor when they were written nor whether the authors were inspired but are the promises true, in a word are the promises God's, and not merely those of an old Hebrew preacher? Of the many reasons for believing these promises true I shall tonight consider but one, the fact that today those very promises are being fulfilled. I turn to one of these promises. "And God said let us make man in our image after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl...
Life opens with a cry and ends with a sigh, and throughout it all there is a minor key. Every one has his troubles; each life its rainy and gloomy days. But God paints the rain-bow only on the clouds, and the Christian rejoices in those trials that give him a greater supremacy over himself and open larger possibilities for the future...