LECTURE V – William Elbert Munsey
LECTURE V – William Elbert Munsey THE BIBLE. “Thy word is truth.” — John xvii. 17. LET us have a plain practical talk about the Holy Scriptures this morning. I. A Divine revelation is a necessity. Man’s nature demands a religion. Progress and development are impossible in the absence of certain […]
LECTURE IV – William Elbert Munsey
LECTURE IV – William Elbert Munsey INTEMPERANCE. ” Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their naked- ness ! “— Habakkuk 2:15. IF Satan by proclamation was to reassemble the famous council of Pandemonium, where […]
LECTURE III – William Elbert Munsey
LECTURE III – William Elbert Munsey MUSIC. THERE is nothing but what has its ideal. There is such a thing, if we can properly call it a thing, which we express by the word Beautiful. There is real beauty, and ideal beauty. Real beauty is always imperfect, therefore it is finite ; ideal […]
LECTURE II – William Elbert Munsey
LECTURE II – William Elbert Munsey MAN. “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained: ” What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him? ” For thou hast made him a […]
LECTURE I – William Elbert Munsey
LECTURE I – William Elbert Munsey ELIJAH. ” And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the Lord in thy mouth is truth.” — I Kings, 17:24. THE widow of Zarephath said to Elijah, ” I know that […]
SERMON XXVII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXVII – William Elbert Munsey A fragment. THE DYING YEAR: — WATCHNIGHT. THIS is the first Sabbath and the first day in 1871. Last night the Old Year died. — Did you see that old man, so pale, frail, and ghostly, who stood out upon the bleak and icy hills last night, […]
SERMON XXVI – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXVI – William Elbert Munsey THE RESURRECTION OF THE HUMAN BODY. ” How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? ” I Cor. 15:35. WE are all standing upon the threshold of an awful future, replete with facts and instinct with entities, about which we know but […]
SERMON XXV – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXV – William Elbert Munsey “NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY.” ” For Now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face ; no* I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”— i Cor. xiii. 12. THE word translated […]
SERMON XXIV – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXIV – William Elbert Munsey THE FUTURE AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED (DISCOURSE IV.). ” Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness ; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” — Matt. 22:13. PUNISHMENT is […]
SERMON XXIII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXIII – William Elbert Munsey THE FUTURE AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED (DISCOURSE III.). ” If thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : where their worm […]
SERMON XXII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXII – William Elbert Munsey THE FUTURE AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE W CKED — (DISCOURSE II.). ” These shall go away into everlasting punishment : but the righteous into life Eternal.” — Matt. 25:46. THE same words used to express the duration of God and the duration of the reward of […]
SERMON XXI – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XXI – William Elbert Munsey THE FUTURE AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED – (DISCOURSE I) ” These shall go away into everlasting punishment; but the righteous into life eternal.” — Matt. 25:46. THERE is a state of future rewards for the righteous, therefore there is a state of future punishment for […]
SERMON XX – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XX – William Elbert Munsey MAGNITUDE OF THE DIVINE COUNSEL’S AND WORK. ” Great in counsel, and mighty in work.” — Jer. 32:19. THE prophet is exhibiting God as the Governor and Rewarder of men, the Maker and Ruler of the universe ; and the text appears to be the expression of […]
SERMON XIX – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XIX – William Elbert Munsey Peter’s defection from Christ. “Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off. “And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them. “But a […]
SERMON XVIII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XVIII – William Elbert Munsey RETRIBUTION. ” Be sure your sin will find you out.” — Num. 32:23. THIS is no philosophical aphorism, no empty threatening, but the language of Divine inspiration, clothed with the eternal truth of Him who cannot lie, and backed by the arm of inexorable Justice which […]
SERMON XVII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XVII – William Elbert Munsey THE LAST WORDS OF JESUS. “It is finished.”— John 19: 30. THE text is short, but it records the end of the grandest and most momentous tragedy ever enacted in this sin-scarred, sin- cursed world. It is the conclusion of a drama whose opening scene is a […]
SERMON XVI – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XVI – William Elbert Munsey THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. ” But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein […]
SERMON XV – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XV – William Elbert Munsey ” WHY HAST THOU MADE ME THUS ? “ ” O, man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shalt the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?” — Romans ix. 20. ALL that is said about Jacob […]
SERMON XIV – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XIV – William Elbert Munsey Ezekiel’s vision — (discourse III.). Unity of God’s Designs in Providence. “Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over above them. ” — Ezekiel 11:22. BETWEEN all these symbols, […]
SERMON XIII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XIII – William Elbert Munsey Ezekiel’s vision (discourse II.). The Mysteriousness of Providence. ” Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.” — Ezekiel 11:22. THE structure and relative position of the […]
SERMON XII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XII – William Elbert Munsey Ezekiel’s vision (discourse 1.) Dispensations of Divine Providence. “Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them ; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.” — Ezekiel 11:22. SPEAKING of the wheels, the prophet says: ”Their […]
SERMON XI – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON XI – William Elbert Munsey CHRIST THE WAY (DISCOURSE III.) ” I am the way, the truth, and the life.”— John 14:6. CHRIST became “the way” from death to life — How? By first removing all difficulties out of the way. I. The first difficulty […]
SERMON X – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON X – William Elbert Munsey CHRIST THE WAY (DISCOURSE II.) ” I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” — John 14:6. WHEN the great question of death and continued life was presented to man’s power of choice, alas! he chose Death. This involved: — I. The destruction of […]
SERMON IX – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON IX – William Elbert Munsey CHRIST THE WAY (DISCOURSE I.) ” I am the way, the truth, and the life.” — John 14:6. THE text is generally conceived to consist of three parts, each part independent of the other parts, and complete outside of its relations to the other parts. […]
SERMON VIII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON VIII – William Elbert Munsey THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL. — (DISCOURSE III.) “Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid ; yea, we establish the law.” — Rom. 3:31. IN my first discourse I showed you the origin, nature, and immutability of the moral law. In the second discourse […]
SERMON VII – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON VII – William Elbert Munsey THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL (DISCOURSE II.) ” Do we then make void the law through faith ? God forbid : yea, we establish the law.”— Rom. 3:31. III. God’s law cannot pardon. NO law*can ; call it law of the Gospel, law of Christ, law […]
SERMON VI – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON VI – William Elbert Munsey SERMON VI. THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL (DISCOURSE I.). ” Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea we establish the law.” — Rom. 3:31. THE student of Christian theology is perplexed and con- founded upon the very threshold of his studies, […]
SERMON V – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON V – William Elbert Munsey THE MUTABILITY AND PERISHABLENESS OF ALL EARTHLY THINGS, AND THE IMMUTABILITY AND ETERNITY OF GOD. ” Of old hast thou laid the foundations of the earth : and the heavens are the work of thy hands. ” They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall […]
SERMON IV — A Fragment – THE OCEAN OF TIME – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON IV — A Fragment – THE OCEAN OF TIME – William Elbert Munsey THERE is that home — but here is this world. Between this world and that Heaven-Home is the Ocean of time. The world side of this ocean is disfigured by a thousand volcanoes of human corruption in constant […]
SERMON. III – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON. III – William Elbert Munsey A DISEASE; A PHYSICIAN; A REMEDY; A CURE; A REASON ” Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? ” — Jer. 8:22. THE children of Israel are here represented […]
SERMON II – Isaiah’s Vision (Discourse ii) – William Elbert Munsey
SERMON II – Isaiah’s Vision (Discourse ii) – William Elbert Munsey Isaiah’s Vision (Discourse ii) ” In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. “Above it stood the seraphims ; each one had six wings ; with […]
SERMON I. – ISAIAH’S VISION. (DISCOURSE I.) – William E Munsey
SERMON I. – ISAIAH’S VISION. (DISCOURSE I.) – William E Munsey ” In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. “Above it stood the seraphims : each one had six wings : with twain he covered his […]
Isaiah’s Vision
Isaiah’s Vision – William E Munsey “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, […]
O Eternity
O Eternity Eternity is an infinite line. The strongest winged angel who cleaves the illimitable ether may track it, and track it forever, yet he can no more find its end than he can find the cradle or tomb of God. The plodding and incarnated soul of man can find it just as quickly. It […]