A City Set On a Hill Matt V 4 An Address to the Association of Lay Helpe
A City Set On a Hill Matt V 4 An Address to the Association of Lay Helpe
James Augustus Hessey
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A man may apply the Holy Scriptures with great force and propriety to the poor, to children, to the sick, to the distressed, to the dying, yet be insensible to tlieir applicability to himself. These cases are not imaginary ones. Solomon's words prefigured them : ' They made me keeper of vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. ' (Cant. I. 9. ) St. Paul's words described them, for, no doubt, they were actually before him : ' If I give all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity ...' — i. E. True Christian love — •' I am nothing. ' And this same writer's fears for their end are solemnly admonitory : •' Lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. ' So our Lord lias told us in the text that we are cities set on a hill, and that cannot be hid, and thus that our failure, if discovered, as it may be sooner or later, may pull down the truth with it, and discredit the doctrines which we have delivered. There are few things under which people are more im- patient than what are called 'talking good' and ' acting good.
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