Memorial Sermons Delivered to the Theological Students of Queeen's College, Birmingham

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel. I PROPOSE, asking God's blessing, to bring before you this morning the character of Elijah, --not so much Elijah the prophet or the worker of miracles, as Elijah the man, the man of God. And I have chosen for our consideration to-day the life of God's saints because I have never yet spoken to you of any example of the holy men of old; and I therefore wish to take this my last opportunity to urge upon you the biographical study of the Bible. The Bible is, as you must have remarked, beyond all others the book of biographies. Throughout it we find men and women, of all times, and all nations, and all characters, limned, one and all, by prophetic hands, sketched with inspired pens. There we see them as they judge themselves and as others judge them, and there we also read God's verdict upon them. "We hear the noble Baptist proclaiming himself to be a voice, --to re-echo what God should speak, --nothing more, and we hear a few among the crowd tru, e enough and courageous enough to proclaim him a prophet; but we also hear the blessed words of Christ, declaring that this so humble Baptist is "far more than a prophet," even His own forerunner. Here, then, as in no other book, are laid bare the most secret mainsprings and real motives of men's actions. The seal of God or the mark of the adversary is upon them all, and the inspired verdict we may accept unhesitatingly. And it is a great blessing for us that we are not left to frame our lives according to the abstract precept of the Bible only, but that God in His goodness has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, "for the perfecting of the saints," and for ensamples how we, too, ought to wa...