These Three: A Sermon Preached at Woodbury, Conn., on Occasion of Its Bi-centennial Celebration, July 5, 1859

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Pàgina 4 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, give unto us the increase of faith, hope, and charity ; and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.
Pàgina 4 - O LORD, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth ; send thy HOLY GHOST, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace, and of all virtues ; without which, whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee : Grant this for thine only Son JESUS CHRIST'S sake. Amen.
Pàgina 10 - And hence it does not follow that an object of faith is not an object of sight. But it is better that we should use the word "faith" as the Scriptures have taught us, applying it to those things which are not seen.
Pàgina 4 - Lord, Who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth ; Send Thy Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of Charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before Thee; grant this for Thine Only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
Pàgina 9 - It transforms itself into Expectation, and inspires us with fresh trust to quietly wait. It invades the domain of disappointment and the chill recesses of deep grief, and peoples them with glad sounds and happy sights It makes the parched ground to become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water.
Pàgina 8 - Whether in things earthly and temporal, or in things heavenly and eternal, HOPE is the quickening principle which nerves to energy the heart of man, and leads him forward amidst fear and doubt to tread with a firm step the ascending path of life. " Now abideth hope." It is the soul's youthful impulse, by which we are cheered and comforted in the vicissitudes and adversities of our present lot ; and through which, as seeking a more enduring substance than it yields, we receive accessions of courage...
Pàgina 10 - ... to tempt the adventurous way once more. It renews the face of things, and transmutes to a seeming preciousness the crude rough elements it touches. Oh, it has a charmer's power. There is a wilderness before it, and a...
Pàgina 13 - In the broad, full sense in which it is defined and described in the chapter to which our text belongs, we must accord to " that most excellent grace" 12 the dominion which it claims, and obey the motions of its will : for '' the end of the commandment is charity." We must open our hearts to its gracious influence, that it may enter and abide in us. Thus every Christian principle will be ripened into mature development and harmonious action ; all
Pàgina 14 - Without it, all other gifts and graces are vain and nothing worth, and stand in the religious account only as dross and tin. This is a most important consideration ; and there grows out of it a wholesome lesson for the present time to learn. What we need for a harmonious religious development, is less 14 talk and more action — less ritualism and more earnestness — less1 "church" and more Gospel — less theology and more LOVE.
Pàgina 9 - ... along its course. Beautiful are its feet upon the mountains, bringing glad tidings of good. The lanes and valleys of life rejoice in its visitation, and the wilderness and the solitary place are glad for it. It comes to us in our days of darkness, which are many, and cheers us with the indications of a bright to-morrow. It finds the sky of life with clouds upon it, and tinges them with radiant hues ; and even when the storm is dark, bursts through its gloom, and spans the firmament with its bow...

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