Town and Country Sermons

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Charles Kingsley. Town and Country Sermons

SERMON I. HOW TO KEEP PASSION WEEK

SERMON II. THE DIVINE HUNGER AND THIRST

SERMON III. THE TRANSFIGURATION

SERMON IV. A SOLDIER’S TRAINING

SERMON V. CHRIST’S SHEEP

SERMON VI. THE HEARING EAR AND THE SEEING EYE

SERMON VII. THE VICTORY OF FAITH

SERMON VIII. TURNING-POINTS

SERMON IX. OBADIAH

SERMON X. RELIGIOUS DANGERS

SERMON XI. BLESSING AND CURSING

SERMON XII. WORK

SERMON XIII. FALSE PROPHETS

SERMON XIV. THE ROCK OF AGES

SERMON XV. ANTIPATHIES

SERMON XVI. ST. PAUL

SERMON XVII. THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART

SERMON XVIII. ST. PETER

SERMON XIX. ELIJAH

SERMON XX. THE LOFTINESS OF HUMILITY

SERMON XXI. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

SERMON XXII. THE TORMENT OF FEAR

SERMON XXIII. THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT

SERMON XXIV. THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON

SERMON XXV. THE SIGHS OF CHRIST

SERMON XXVI. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA

SERMON XXVII. THE INVASION OF THE ASSYRIANS

SERMON XXVIII. THE TEN LEPERS

SERMON XXIX. PARDON AND PEACE

SERMON XXX. THE CENTRAL SUN

SERMON XXXI. CHRISTMAS PEACE

SERMON XXXII. THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT

SERMON XXXIII. THE UNCHANGEABLE ONE

SERMON XXXIV. ΕΝ ΤΟΥΤΩ ΝΙΚΑ

SERMON XXXV. THE ETERNAL MANHOOD

SERMON XXXVI. THE BATTLE WITHIN

SERMON XXXVII. HYPOCRISY

SERMON XXXVIII. A PEOPLE PREPARED FOR THE LORD

SERMON XXXIX. THE WRATH OF LOVE

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(Preached before the Queen.)

Psalm xxxvi. 7, 8, 9.  How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.  They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

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Thou feelest, perhaps, how poor and paltry thine own life is, compared with what it might have been.  Thou feelest that thou hast never done thy best.  When the world is praising thee most, thou art most ashamed of thyself.  Thou art ready to cry all day long, ‘I have left undone that which I ought to have done;’ till, at times, thou longest that all was over, and thou wert beginning again in some freer, fuller, nobler, holier life, to do and to be what thou hast never done nor been here; and criest with the poet—

Then have patience.  With God is the fount of life.  He will refresh and strengthen thee; and raise thee up day by day to that new life for which thou longest.  Is not Holy communion his own pledge that he will do so?  Is not that God’s own sign to thee, that though thou canst not feed and strengthen thine own soul, he can and will feed and strengthen it; and feed it—mystery of mysteries—with himself; that God may dwell in thee, and thou in God.  And if God and Christ live in thee, and work in thee to will and to do of their own good pleasure, that shall be enough for thee, and thou shall be satisfied.

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