The World’s Great Sermons, Volume 4: L. Beecher to Bushnell
Overview
Volume four of The World’s Great Sermons includes: Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) • “The Government of God Desirable” William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) • “The Character of Christ” Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) • “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection” Alexander Campbell (1788–1866) • “The Missionary Cause” Edward Irving (1792–1834) • “Preparation for Consulting the Oracles of God” Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) • “Alive in God” Francis Wayland (1796–1865) • “A Day in the Life of Jesus of Nazareth” Alexander Vinet (1797–1847) • “The Mysteries of Christianity” John Summerfield (1798–1825) • “The Heavenly Inheritance” John Henry Newman (1801–1890) • “God’s Will the End of Life” Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) • “Unconscious Influence”
Top Highlights
“It must be by substituting another desire, and another line or habit of exertion in its place, and the most effectual way of withdrawing the mind from one object is not by turning it away upon desolate and unpeopled vacancy, but by presenting to its regards another object still more alluring.” (Page 59)
“The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one.” (Pages 65–66)
“The love of God, and the love of the world, are two affections, not merely in a state of rivalship, but in a state of enmity, and that so irreconcilable that they can not dwell together in the same bosom.” (Page 65)
“The love of the world can not be expunged by a mere demonstration of the world’s worthlessness. But may it not be supplanted by the love of that which is more worthy than itself? The heart can not be prevailed upon to part with the world, by a simple act of resignation. But may not the heart be prevailed upon to admit into its preference another, who shall subordinate the world, and bring it down from its wonted ascendency?” (Pages 64–65)
“Let us not cease then to ply the only instrument of powerful and positive operation, to do away from you the love of the world. Let us try every legitimate method of finding access to your hearts for the love of Him who is greater than the world.” (Pages 67–68)
- Title: The World’s Great Sermons, Volume 4: L. Beecher to Bushnell
- Author: Grenville Kleiser
- Series: The World’s Great Sermons
- Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
- Print Publication Date: 1908
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sermons
- Resource ID: LLS:WRLDGRTSERM04
- Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:47:18Z