And my treasure is where it was--in my heart; and
what it was,--the Holy Spirit of God, the spirit of goodness, of
faith and truth, of mercy and justice, of love to God and love to
man, which is everlasting life itself. That I have. That time
cannot abate, nor death abolish, nor the world, nor the destruction
of the world, nor of all worlds, can take away.
Choose, my friends, which of these two frames of mind would you
rather be in when the great day of the Lord comes, foretold by that
earthquake, and by all earthquakes that ever were.
Will you be then like those whom St. John saw calling on the
mountains to fall on them, and the hills to hide them from the wrath
of Him that sat on the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb?
Or will you be like him who saith--God is my hope and strength, my
present help in trouble. Therefore will I not fear, though the earth
be shaken, and though the mountains be carried into the depth of the
sea?
SERMON XVI. THE METEOR SHOWER
(Preached at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, Nov. 26, 1866.)
ST. MATTHEW x. 29, 30.
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not
fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your
head are all numbered.
It will be well for us to recollect, once for all, who spoke these
words; even Jesus Christ, who declared that He was one with God the
Father; Jesus Christ, whom His apostles declared to be the Creator of
the universe.
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