The World's Great Sermons, Volume 07: Hale to Farrar
Religion
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 07: Hale to Farrar
Sermons
We want to walk at liberty. How can we do it? If
we do not thus walk at liberty, there is only one alternative--stay
in bondage and walk in bondage, moving about indeed, and apparently
free, but with moral chains binding our natures and our whole
being in bondage to the powers that will rejoice in our misery and
ultimate ruin. It is to make men understand this that we have such
institutions as we enjoy to-day. For this end church edifices are
reared. For this end people are invited to come and be regularly in
them and under their influence. For this end God has been pleased
to give us the day of holy rest. For this purpose the ministry has
been instituted. Our business is to make men seek and know God's
precepts and statutes, that they may do them and that they may walk
at liberty. "We ministers are for you; our business is to seek
your moral and spiritual good, your full and complete liberation.
Our business is to enlighten you with the truth as God has been
pleased to reveal it unto us. You do not come to these churches for
our sakes, to hear us. You do not give your money that we may be
sustained and upheld. I tell you I would rather sweep the streets,
I would rather carry bricks on my shoulder to the builder, than be
a mere official person maintained because he can teach so much and
get so many people to hear him. Brethren, it is that you may be
enlightened and saved with the light of life, that God has brought
us into the position in which we are now together. Keep this in your
thoughts; and that you may be enlightened and free, look upward and
not downward, nor around you. In that statue in our harbor, the
light that will shine is light that comes, I suppose, from the heart
of the earth; but the light that is to enlighten the world is the
light of the sun, the Sun of Righteousness. See that you have that
shining into your souls, that you may walk at liberty.
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