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The Sun Put Out Act_2:20 : ’93The sun shall be turned into darkness.’94 Christianity is the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the uprolling vapors of scepticism, and the smoke of their blasphemy, to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose the archangels of malice and horror should be let loose a … Continue reading “448. The Sun Put Out”

The Witness-Stand Act_3:15 : ’93We are witnesses.’94 In the days of George Stephenson, the perfector of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railway train could never be driven by steam-power successfully without peril; but the rushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have made all the nations … Continue reading “449. The Witness-Stand”

The Field of Blood Act_1:19 : ’93Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.’94 The money that Judas gave for surrendering Christ was used to purchase a graveyard. As the money was blood-money, the ground bought by it was called in the Syriac tongue, Aceldama, meaning ’93The field of blood.’94 Well, there is one … Continue reading “446. The Field of Blood”

Acts Autor: T. De Witt Talmage

(An Easter Sermon.) The Decorated Grave (An Easter Sermon.) Joh_19:41 : ’93In the garden a new sepulchre.’94 Looking around the church this morning, seeing flowers in wreaths and flowers in stars and flowers in crosses and flowers in crowns, billows of beauty, conflagration of beauty, I feel as if I stood in a small heaven. … Continue reading “444. The Decorated Grave”

(an Easter Sermon.) New Lessons (an Easter Sermon.) Joh_20:15 : ’93She, supposing him to be the gardener.’94 Here are Mary Magdalen and Christ just after his resurrection. For four thousand years a grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them into his cold palace. He had a passion for human skulls. For … Continue reading “445. New Lessons”

What Were You Made For? Joh_18:37 : ’93To this end was I born.’94 After Pilate had suicided, tradition says that his body was thrown into the Tiber, and such storms ensued on and about that river that his body was taken out and thrown into the Rhone, and similar disturbances swept that river and its … Continue reading “442. What Were You Made For?”

Sour Experiences Joh_19:30 : ’93When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar.’94 The brigands of Jerusalem had done their work. It was almost sundown, and Jesus was dying. Persons in crucifixion often lingered from day to day’97crying, begging, cursing; but Christ had been exhausted by years of maltreatment. Pillowless, poorly fed, flogged’97as bent over and tied … Continue reading “443. Sour Experiences”

The Capstone Joh_17:4 : ’93I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.’94 There is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation. While, on the other hand, there is nothing more disappointing than, after having toiled in a certain direction, to find that … Continue reading “441. The Capstone”

Harvest Home Joh_15:1 : ’93My Father is the husbandman.’94 Will it not be appropriate if I preach a harvest sermon? This summer having gone in different directions over between five and six thousand miles of harvest fields, I can hardly open my Bible without smelling the breath of new-mown hay and seeing the golden light … Continue reading “439. Harvest Home”