The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent

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Baring-Gould Sabine. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent

XXXVII. CHRISTIAN UNITY

XXXVIII. GREAT SURPRISES

XXXIX. THE HOLY COMMUNION

XL. RECEIVING AND REJECTING

XLI. RASH DECISIONS

XLII. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

XLIII. PERSISTENCY IN WRONG DOING

XLIV. THE MEASURE OF SIN

XLV. CASTING BLAME

XLVI. PETTY DISHONESTY

XLVII. THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN

XLVIII. SELF-INSPECTION

XLIX. PERFECTION TO BE SOUGHT

L. ZEAL

LI. GRATITUDE

LII. TRUST IN GOD

LIII. THE CONTEMPLATION OF DEATH

LIV. HUMILITY

LV. PROFESSION AND PRACTICE

LVI. EVIL THOUGHTS

LVII. THE HEAVENLY BANQUET

LVIII. EXAMPLE

LIX. THE PREACHER AND HIS HEARERS

LX. THE IMAGE OF SELF

LXI. DREAD OF RIDICULE

LXII. WHAT LASTS, AND WHAT PASSES AWAY

LXIII. THANKFULNESS TO GOD

LXIV. THE FORMATION OF HABITS

LXV. RELIGIOUS ZEAL

LXVI. THE MEETING HEREAFTER

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1st Sunday after Trinity.

S. Luke xvi. 23.

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III. No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance, and power of seeing whither he goes. The prophet led these soldiers of Syria into the midst of their enemies, but God's good Spirit, which is our guide, will lead us into the Land of Righteousness if we will listen to His voice, and go where he points the way.

We have no right to plead blindness and ignorance, if hereafter we find that we have gone astray, and our eyes are opened when we are in the midst of our enemies, for blindness can not come upon us unless we wilfully shut our eyes to the light, and with the teaching of Christ and His Church ever sounding in our ears, we have no right to plead ignorance.

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