Then all these distresses and pestilences, which, as I
have shown you, come from breaking the will of God, will have passed
away like ugly dreams, and all the earth shall be blessed, because
all the earth shall at last be fulfilling the words of the Lord's
Prayer, and God's will shall be done on earth, even as it is done in
heaven. Oh! my friends, have hope. Do you think Christ would have
bid us pray for what would never happen? Would He have bid us all to
pray that God's will might be done unless He had known surely that
God's will would one day be done by men on earth below even as it is
done in heaven?
XIV--SECOND SERMON ON THE CHOLERA
Visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children.--EXODUS xx. 5.
In my sermon last Sunday I said plainly that cholera, fever, and many
more diseases were man's own fault, and that they were God's
judgments just because they were man's own fault, because they were
God's plainspoken opinion of the sin of filth and of habits of living
unfit for civilised Christian men.
But there is an objection which may arise in some of your minds, and
if it has not risen in YOUR minds, still it has in other people's
often enough; and therefore I will state it plainly, and answer it as
far as God shall give me wisdom.
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