Sermons and Biblical Studies

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”

The House On the Hills Joh_14:2 : ’93In my Father’92s house are many mansions.’94 Here is a bottle of medicine that is a cure-all. The disciples were sad, and Christ offered heaven as an alterative, a stimulant, and a tonic. He shows them that their sorrows are only a dark background of a bright picture … Continue reading “438. The House On the Hills”

Revision of Creeds Joh_11:44 : ’93Loose him and let him go.’94 My Bible is, at the place of this text, written all over with lead-pencil marks, made in December, 1889, at Bethany, on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan … Continue reading “437. Revision of Creeds”

Literature of the Dust Joh_8:6 : ’93Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground.’94 A Mohammedan mosque stands now where once stood Herod’92s temple, the scene of my text. Solomon’92s temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thundered it down. Zerubbabel’92s temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take … Continue reading “436. Literature of the Dust”

The Glorious Christ Joh_3:31 : ’93He that cometh from above is above all.’94 The most conspicuous character of history steps out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, pointed down to him from the Bethlehem sky, was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of genealogy, the finger of chronology, … Continue reading “435. The Glorious Christ”

An Oriental Wedding Joh_2:10 : ’93Thou hast kept the good wine until now.’94 If the hard brow ever relaxes, it is at the wedding. The nature cold and unsympathetic thaws out under the glow, and the tears start as we hear the bride’92s dress rustling down the stairs, and the company stands back, and we … Continue reading “434. An Oriental Wedding”

John Autor: T. De Witt Talmage

Washington for God Luk_24:47 : ’93Beginning at Jerusalem.’94 ’93There it is,’94 said the driver, and we all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, coroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked up at from the valley … Continue reading “432. Washington for God”

Suffering Luk_24:46 : ’93It behoved Christ to suffer.’94 There have been scholars who have ventured the assertion that the pains of our Lord were unnecessary. Indeed, it was a shocking waste of tears and blood and agony unless some great end were to be reached. If men can prove that no good result comes of … Continue reading “431. Suffering”

Sunset Luk_24:29 : ’93Abide with us; for it is towards evening.’94 Two villagers having concluded their errand in Jerusalem have started out at the city gate and are on their way to Emmaus, the place of their residence. They go with a sad heart. Jesus, who had been their admiration and their joy, had been … Continue reading “430. Sunset”