Trust in God;
trust in God; that is the key to all greatness. Courage, modesty,
truth, honesty, and gentleness; all things, which are noble, lovely,
and of good report; all things, in short, which will make you men
after God's own heart, are all only the different fruits of that one
blessed life-giving root--FAITH IN GOD.
XXV--DAVID'S EDUCATION
Made perfect through sufferings.--HEBREWS ii. 10.
That is my text; and a very fit one for another sermon about David,
the king after God's own heart. And a very fit one too, for any
sermon preached to people living in this world now or at any time.
"A melancholy text," you will say. But what if it be melancholy?
That is not the fault of me, the preacher. The preacher did not make
suffering, did not make disappointment, doubt, ignorance, mistakes,
oppression, poverty, sickness. There they are, whether we like it or
not. You have only to go on to the common here, or any other common
or town in England, to see too much of them--enough to break one's
heart if--, but I will not hurry on too fast in what I have to say.
What I want to make you recollect is, that misery is here round us,
IN us. A great deal which we bring on ourselves; and a great deal
more misery which we do not, as far as we can see, bring on
ourselves; but which comes, nevertheless, and lets us know plainly
enough that it is close to us.
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