New Wine in New Bottles
“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.” — MAT THEW ix. 17.
IT is the first Sunday of a new year, and there are none of us, I think, who are not feeling some thing of that sense of newness and freshness which belongs to such a time. It is a strange and universal thing — this constant desire of men to make a fresh start. They create epochs, or starting moments; and those which nature and time furnish, such as the dawn of a new day or the birth of a new year, are eagerly seized upon to mark a new beginning, to separate old failures or old partial successes from the completer success which we never get tired of expecting in the future. What would life be without its nights to rub the blurred slate clean, and its returning mornings, each bringing the fresh spring and vigor and hopefulness almost of a new creation? This pleasure in a fresh start comes partly from man’s disappointment in his past, and partly from the way in which every best satisfaction of the past has always suggested another satisfaction completer than itself, to which it has spurred on his hopes. And so it belongs not to one class of minds or experiences alone; but all men, the despondent and the sanguine, those who have failed and those who have succeeded, are glad of the opportunity to start .again; and so the New Year’s dawn is welcome to us all.
The world has learned to date its years from the coming of Jesus Christ. Then, it seems to us, many things became new; as if the great caravan of humanity, which had been toiling on for centuries in one direction, having rested itself, as it were, in the stagnation of the century that preceded Him, started anew; and ever since has moved in new directions, on a march of which He seems to be everywhere the Leader. As we look back to His time, we can see many signs that some sense of this newness, which His life had brought, was in the minds of men who felt His influence. There are clusters of figures which seem to be always representing this idea: an axe laid to the root of a tree, that it may come down and a sounder one grow in its place; a leaven that has entered into a dead, heavy mass, and made it stir with life; an absent householder that has come to live on his estate; and finally, a new vintage just brought in from the wine-press, full of the ferment of its new, tumultuous life. It is this last figure which Christ is using in our text. As He thinks of His own new influence, He is compelled to think also how it will adapt itself to the old ways and thoughts and habits which it finds. To put this new life into the old world seems to be like taking one of the half-tanned skins in which the people used to carry their wine — one that had been used before, an old one, dry and cracked and rotten — and filling it with the exuberant and boisterous spirit fresh from the vine. “The bottle breaks and the wine runneth out.” The old will not hold the new. The Jewish conceptions of life, hard, arid, rotten, cannot contain the new fiery inspirations and ways of living which He brings.
It is not necessary now to go more fully into Christ’s first application of His figure. Enough for us at present that it contains this idea: that what is new and strong and fiery must have something solid and strong to hold it. This is the truth which we need to-day. The New Year’s time is full of resolutions. I should be sorry indeed to look over such a congregation as this, gathered on the first Sunday of a New Year, and not believe that there were many people here who had resolved on better lives, and taken up new ways of living for this new opening period of their life. To give up some old wasteful, foolish, wicked habit; to face and wrestle with some old persistent sin; to take up some known duty that has been long neglected; to draw away from some companionship which we know is harming us; to make amends for some injury and reclaim some friend whom we have wronged and lost; — these are the resolutions of which the air is full. How many of us have made them in the silence of the first night, or the bustle of the first day, of a New Year! And with them all there has been a deep misgiving lest they should all be broken — so many have been made before, at other New Year’s times, and not been kept! You cannot have been very thoughtful in your resolving unless you have asked yourselves with some anxiety, “What is the trouble? Why are so many strong, good resolutions scattered and lost?” I want, if I can, to help you to the answer to that question. The difficulty comes in great part, I am sure, from the absence of any large, comprehensive plan of life, as strong as, and as worthy of, the resolutions and habits of life which we want to keep in it. It is the lack of a bottle fresh and strong enough to hold the wine. This is the idea to which I most earnestly ask your attention.
For every life has two parts, is capable of being looked at in two different ways. It has its general idea or purpose, and its special habits. In every life there are its particular employments; the things which the man or woman does from morning to night on all the successive days; the occupations that employ his hands, the thoughts that occupy his mind, the habits of his daily living. And then, around them all, holding them all into some kind of unity, giving them all its spirit and really making a unit of living out of what otherwise would be a mere series of disjoined actions, there is the plan of life, — what, on the whole, the man or woman means to be, the purpose which runs through all the days binding them all together. And, however it may seem to us, every life has both of these; the general purpose and the special habits. It is not confined to those who are conscious of it, who have deliberately made for themselves a plan by which they live.
We think about St. Paul. We are sure that he had thought out with himself what life was for. A great, pervading purpose held it all together. “To me, to live is Christ,” he said; and every act he did, every thought that his mind dwelt upon, came out from and returned into that comprehensive scheme — the realizations of Christ in himself and in the world. But just as real, though not as clearly realized, there is a plan of life in a poor creature of our town, who, cursed and satisfied with wealth, is merely trying to put into every hour of his useless days some occupation which shall bring that hour pleasantly on to its death. As truly as the glory of Christ comprehended all the activity of Paul, so his own amusement, his own pleasure, embrace all of this man’s life. There is not one of us who, whether he keeps it out of sight and never owns it to himself, or holds it up before him for continual inspiration, has not a ruling purpose, a comprehensive thought of his existence within which everything that he does is enclosed and finds its place.
How various they are, these plans or ideas of life! One man’s is social ambition, another man’s is political success. One man lives that he may become learned, another man lives that he may be thought learned, another man that his children may prosper, another man that his country may be magnified, another man that his soul may be saved. Around all the acts that each one of us does is wrapped a reason for which we do them all, — a great enveloping purpose in or conception of the whole of life.
And there is a certain relationship between the general purpose and the special acts of life. There is a constant tendency for them to come into and to keep in harmony. The general plan, as the most constant element, is always trying to draw the special actions into its own likeness. Life is in disturbance when the two are out of harmony. Life is at peace only when the two completely coincide, only when each special action tends to fulfil the general purpose for which the man is living. Otherwise there is disturbance and unrest.
Now, the truth which is presented by the figure of our text is this: that the special habits of a man’s life cannot be effectively changed and made new while he keeps the old general purpose or plan of life to which his old habits were adapted. You cannot put new wine into old bottles. You must have new bottles for your new wine. A man says to himself — perhaps on New Year’s day, perhaps at some other time when life seems to him solemn and his conscience is awakened — “I will change this habit”; “I will give up this wickedness”; “I will take up this duty.” He says it to himself and he says it before God. How is it that so soon that resolution, earnestly, seriously made, has melted away and been lost? Is it not that it came, a single, unsupported, uncongenial thing, into a life with which it had no true belonging? The general plan of the life was not altered. It remained what it had always been, — as frivolous, as worldly, as unconscientious; and this new act of goodness found itself alone. It was not part of any consistent whole; and, unsupported, unaccounted for, by and by it fell away and died.
It made disturbance and confusion in the life where it did not belong.
It is like an artist who is painting a picture. His outline is all drawn. The great conception of the whole stands out on canvas. And then a change of mood makes him want to change some detail of his painting to something wholly different. He does it, but there is no adaptation of his general design to this new alteration; and, in a scheme where it does not belong, his alteration, which is really an improvement, seems ugly and incongruous, and is painted out. So of the builder who tries to change some vital portion of his building, without making a new plan which shall suit the change. He weakens and distorts the whole. So of the statesman who tries to alter his action in this or that affair without forming some clear, new policy in which the altered action shall have its reasonable, intelligible place. Everywhere the general design and the details be long together; and to attempt to put the new wine into bottles that are not new makes mischief. The general design is broken and loses even the symmetry and wholeness that it had before, and the detailed attempts result in nothing. “The bottles break, and the wine runneth out.”
Let us think of one or two instances of this way in which a special resolution comes to nothing be cause it is embraced in no comprehensive, enveloping purpose of a new life. I am sure you will recognize what two or three instances only can suggest. A man is used to self-indulgence. That is the rule and purpose of his life. To do what gives him the most pleasure — that is his only law. His living has been shaped by that ever since he was a mere boy. You know such men. It would be strange if, out of such a company as is gathered here, some of you were not such men. Your own indulgence, the greatest pleasure that you can get from living, is your rule of life. But something stops you at some special point. Some deed of self-denial which you see done seizes upon your imagination or your conscience and fascinates it. You take your self-indulgence at one point and subdue it. There is some one thing which goes against your convenience, which you resolve to do. There is some one satisfaction in which you delight, which you resolve to surrender.
Our history, as we look back upon it, is flecked and spotted all over with such resolutions. You make your resolution of self-sacrifice earnestly, but it stands all alone in your life. Never does it occur to you that your whole thought of life is wrong. Never do you think how the whole life ought to be self-devotion, how the noblest life, the true life, can not be lived for a man’s self, but must be counted only as belonging to one’s brethren, must be consecrated as a whole. Into a plan of life all self-indulgent, this one self-sacrificing habit is set down; and when it dwindles and grows puny, wasting itself away and only worrying and exasperating the uncongenial life in which it stands, you wonder. You need not wonder. It is the weakness that belongs to every attempt to reform the details of living with out conceiving a new plan of life.
You make a rule for yourself that you will visit some poor people, teach in some charity school, work for some hospital. How dull and weary it grows by and by, when the novelty is worn away, unless you have begun by rising to the great conception that your life is not your own, that it belongs to God, and therefore that it belongs to God’s children. Start out from that. Let that be your great habitual, controlling thought of life, and then your visit to the poor or to the hospital or to the school will come in simply as one utterance of this great consecrated life. It will be enshrined and preserved by all the thoughts and hopes of life about it. It will be like a tree growing in its native soil, not like a foreign plant set out in its own little flower-pot of earth in the midst of the great foreign desert.
Or, take the matter of honesty. Your law of life is not the law of truth. There is nothing in you of that high moral health which feels a falsehood just as the physical health feels a tremor of weakness or a sting of acute disease. Your life is false and unreal. But in the midst of your unreal life something sets you against one special act or kind of falsehood. Some circumstances reveal to you its meanness, and you feel that you would be ashamed to commit it. You resolve that that one special lie you will not tell; in that one point you will be honest. You fail. Your resolution goes to pieces. By and by you are false in that one guarded point, and why? Because this act of truth is guarded by no large, consistent law of truth. Imagine, if you can, that a sense of the wickedness and meanness of all falsehood had taken possession of you. Imagine that by the know ledge of Christ the very spirit of truth had entered into you, so that to do or say the truth was your new nature; to do or say the false was utterly abhorrent to you. Then, how different it would have been! Each truthful act then would have been only a new flower on the great, healthy tree, only another natural effort of the new nature that is in you. It would not be then, as now, a single drop struggling against the stream, struggling up while the stream is all hurrying down; but a changed stream, with this one drop borne on its bosom to the end which it is all seeking.
Or, take again a business man’s life. Two business men’s conceptions may differ much about it all — what it is all for, this striving and wrestling and laboring for wealth. To one man it seems to be for the mere getting of the wealth — nothing beyond. To another man it seems to be for charity; in getting wealth, he may be able to give help and comfort to his fellow-men. Let those two men be stirred together to some charitable resolution, both together set to relieve some misery. Is not the result different? How, in the one life, this new impulse is all strange and foreign! How the mercenary merchant flutters and worries over his one act of charity! How, in the other life, it falls like the most natural and familiar thing, like one more snowflake dropped on the great white mountainside, which is preserved by finding itself at once with its own, where it belongs!
There is hardly anything sadder than to see a man trying to do a single noble act in the midst of an ignoble conception, a low idea, of life. It is not an uncommon sight. Some cynic who has taught him self to think that life is all a fraud, some trifler who has persuaded himself that life is all a play, cannot escape the impulse to do some one generous, brave, earnest action, which implies that life is serious and real. It is contrary to all the cynic’s or the trifler’s theories of living. It finds no countenance in any of his other actions. He is ashamed of it and does it stealthily. Its freshness and vigorousness confuse all his daily composure. How like it is to what the figure of our text describes. A brave and generous deed has in it all the fire and life of new wine. It is full of ferment and disturbance. It is tumultuous with the very essence of the grape. It must have room to grow and to mature. It cannot be shut up. It must have a fresh, large life-idea to hold it. It must have room to work in; otherwise the life is all confused and broken by it. A hypocrite who is betrayed into one earnest word, a misanthrope who catches one strong clear glimpse of the dignity of man, a brutal employer who tries just at one point to be kind and gentle to his underlings, — all of these have the single effort crowded and hampered by the general spirit; and the struggle, after a little spasmodic heaving and restlessness, dies out and is lost.
Perhaps all this is truer about the religious life than anywhere else. For it would seem as if there were no place where men’s good sense deserts them so utterly as where they need it most, in their relationships to Him who requires our highest and completest service. Tut men make one religious resolution or take up some one religious habit. Men make up their minds that they will go to church. Men set apart some hour which shall always find them on their knees in prayer. Men determine that every day they will read a chapter of the Bible. The resolution is a good one, and has in it the power of great things. It has in it the crude and unripe essence of holiness. It is big even with the capacity of heaven.
But what does some man do? He takes that one religious resolution and sets it down into the midst of a perfectly unreligious life. That daily prayer to God, which implies a complete dependence on the Almighty strength, is flung into the midst of a day that is all hard with self-reliance. That reading of the Bible brings a stray idea of Christ and plants it into the most secular associations. The going to God’s House is a solitary, exceptional act, right in the midst of a career that never otherwise goes up or looks up to God. What chance is there for such a resolution? What wonder if, before the year grows two months old, the prayer has dwindled to a moment’s form, the Bible has become a wearisome book, the church a barren duty that will soon drop altogether, that any small excuse can easily dispense with! It is the commonest of sights. I doubt not many a prayer has been said and many a chapter read to-day, and there are many men and women in many a church from just that new sense of duty. It is clear enough what you need: some comprehensive reverence and faith into which these reverent and faithful acts may enter as its most natural expressions, and in which they shall be able to utter and develop their full life. You must begin by loving and fearing God, and then your several acts of love and fear will find their places and blossom into interest and delight.
So, my dear friends, what we want to plead for to-day is not primarily new resolutions. It is a new life. I hope that I have made you see the difference. You need a new conception of what you are living for, a new picture of the sort of life which it is worthy of a man to live. You must have this or your good resolutions surely come to nothing.
This is what is really meant by what puzzles us sometimes, as we find it in the Bible and in religious books — that the bad deed in a life that has a noble plan is not desperate, and that a good deed in a life that is set on evil scarcely gives us any encouragement or hope. David is very wicked in one instance, and yet God claims him for His own. Pharaoh and Judas feel some impulse of pity or repentance, but it is swallowed up and lost in the ungodliness and evil of their whole plan and thought of life. This seems to us strange at first. I hope that we begin to understand what a deep reason, what a true philosophy, is really at the bottom of it. The life rules the action as the stream rules its drops. That is the primary, the essential, need of a conversion. Before there really can be a new conduct there must be a new plan of life.
And how can that be? The master of a life really is the plan of that life. He whom we serve really marks out for us the ambition which becomes our law. How simple, then, that makes it! If you want a new life you must have a new master. Not by sitting down and saying with yourself, “Now I will change. I will be reverent. I will not be selfish. I will make a high plan of life instead of a low one.” Not that will change you. That comes to nothing. You must make Him your Master whom you can completely reverence, who can draw you away from your slavery to yourself, who can lift you to His own exaltation.
Men say, “Why do you always preach, ‘Believe in and follow Christ?’ Why not say always, ‘Do this! Do that! Make this new habit! Leave off that old sin?’ Why always faith? Why not always duty?” Because there can be no truly new habit without a truly new life, and there can be no new life without a new master. And there is no other master strong enough. There is no other name by which we can be saved but Christ’s.
Again, men stand off and look at what Christians are doing, and they say: “How could I ever do such things as those? Can you think of me as praying? Can you imagine me praising God? My life will not hold this habit. It never can.” No, surely; it never can; not this life, this worldliness, this selfishness, this sensuality. But there is a life more truly yours than this in which you live. If you will make Christ your Master, this new life shall open to you; and in it all these new, deep, bright habits shall enter and not seem strange, — new wine in new bottles, the service of Christ in the faith of Christ.
Oh, let that new service come with the New Year — a new Master, a new life, and then new words and deeds and thoughts, new pleasures and new hopes, rilling the years that you are yet to live here, and making them anticipations of the blessed New Year of Eternity.
COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE
SERMONS IN THE TEN VOLUMES BY
Accumulation of Faith
All Saints’ Day.. ...
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Candle of the Lord
.... Use of Comfort
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320
117
Ark of the Covenant
Ascension Day
. 9th..
. 7th..
.. ..Law of Growth
Church Year
Ash Wednesday
Average and Absolute Virtue..
Backgrounds and Foregrounds.
Battle of Life
. 7th..
. ioth..
6th..
Church Year
Seeking Life
Light of the World
Battle of Life
no
224
106
71
Battlements of the Lord
Beautiful Gate of the Temple..
Beloved Physician
. 9th..
. 4th..
«;th..
.... Law of Growth
. Visions and Tasks
Light of the World
80
127
216
Blessing of the Lord
8th.
New Starts in Life
21?
Brotherhood in Christ
Bulk and Essence
Candle of the Lord
Certain End....
. 4th ..
.ioth..
. 2d...
.Visions and Tasks
Seeking Life
Candle of the Lord
Light of the World
295
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Child’s Leadership
Choice Young Man
Christian Charity
.ioth..
. 5th..
. 2d...
Seeking Life
Light of the World
Candle of the Lord
Christian Church
Light of the World
Christian City
Christian Ministry
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
Christ our Life
. 6th..
. 7th..
. 7th..
.. English Churches
Battle of Life
Church Year
Church Year
.... Law of Growth
327
85
72
99
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SERIES
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Christ’s Wish for Man
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Use of Comfort
Christ the Food of Man
ad..
. Candle of the Lord
Church of the Living God
4th.
. .Visions and Tasks
Come and See
6th..
Battle of Life
Conquerors from Edom
I St..
.... Use of Comfort
Consolations of God
ist..
.... Use of Comfort
Curse of Meroz
2d
Candle of the Lord
Danger of Success
9th.
.... Law of Growth
Deep Calling unto Deep
5th.
. Light of the World
Delight in the Law of God
gth..
.... Law of Growth
Destruction and Fulfilment
4th..
.Visions and Tasks
2IO
Dignity and Greatness of Faith..
6th..
Battle of Life
Disciples and Apostles
4th.
.. Visions and Tasks
Dispensation of the Spirit
8th.
.New Starts in Life
Double Cause
9th..
Law of Growth
Duties of Privilege
8th.
New Starts in Life
Earth of the Redemption
4th..
.. Visions and Tasks
Easter Day
7th.
.. Church Year
Easter Sermon
I St..
.... Use of Comfort
2IO
Egyptians Dead upon the Sea
shore
6th.
Battle of Life
Endless Conflict
ioth..
Eternal Humanity
6th.
Battle of Life
Evil Spirit from the Lord
4th..
. Visions and Tasks
Eye of the Soul
ad
Candle of the Lord
Fasting. A Sermon for Lent...
ad..
.Candle of the Lord
20C
Feast of Tabernacles
9th..
.... Law of Growth
Fifth Sunday in Lent
7th..
Church Year
Fire and the Calf
3d..
.. English Churches
First Sunday in Advent
7th..
Church Year
First Sunday in Lent
7th..
Church Year
Food of Man
I St..
.... Use of Comfort
Foreign Missions
6th.
.. Battle of Life
Fourth Sunday in Advent
7th..
Church Year
Fourth Sunday in Lent
7th.
Church Year
Gamaliel
3d..
.English Churches
Giant with the Wounded Heel...
4th.
..Visions and Tasks
Gift and its Return
3d..
.. English Churches
Gifts of God..
8th.
. New Starts in Life
Glory of Simplicity
SERIES
8th.
VOLUME
New Starts in Life
Going up to Jerusalem
4th.
..Visions and Tasks
Go Into the City
9th..
.... Law of Growth
Good Friday
7th..
Church Year
Good Friday Sermon
ist..
... .Use of Comfort
Great Attainment
8th.
.New Starts in Life
Great Expectation
4th.
.. Visions and Tasks
Greatness of Faith
3d..
.. English Churches
Half Life
9th..
.... Law of Growth
Heavenly Wisdom
8th.
. New Starts in Life
Help from the Hills
2d..
. Candle of the Lord
Heroism of Foreign Missions
2d..
. Candle of the Lord
Higher and Lower Standards...
6th..
Battle of Life
Holiness of Duty
9th..
.... Law of Growth
Homage and Dedication
6th.
Battle of Life
How Many Loaves Have Ye?...
2d..
. Candle of the Lord
How to Abound
5th.
. Light of the World
How to be Abased
5th..
Light of the World
Humility
ist..
Use of Comfort
Identity and Variety
5th.
. Light of the World
Illumination of Obedience
5th.
. Light of the World
ioth..
Individual and Collective Humanity
loth..
In the Light of God
3d...
.. English Churches
Is it I?
ist..
Use of Comfort
Joy and Sorrow
8th..
New Starts in Life
Joy of Religion
8th.
, New Starts in Life
Joy of Self-Sacrifice
ad..,
, Candle of the Lord
Joy with God
5th.,
. Light of the World
Keeping the Faith
ist..
. Use of Comfort
Knowledge of God
4th..
.. Visions and Tasks
Law of Growth
9th..
.... Law of Growth
Law of Liberty
2d..
. Candle of the Lord
Law of the Spirit of Life
8th..
.New Starts in Life
Leadership of Christ
6th..
Battle of Life
ioth..
Light of the World
5th.
. Light of the World
Little Sanctuaries of Life
8th.,
New Starts in Life
SERIES
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Seekingf Life
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Make the Men Sit Down
Manliness of Christ
Man of Macedonia
Man’s Wonder and God’s Knowledge
4th..
ad..
2d..
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.. Visions and Tasks
.Candle of the Lord
. Candle of the Lord
English Churches
226
253
91
6?
Man with One Talent
Man with Two Talents
Marks of the Lord Jesus
I St..
4th..
2d
.... Use of Comfort
.Visions and Tasks
Candle of the Lord
138
192
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Material and the Spiritual
Mind’s Love for God
Mitigation of Theology
Mothers Wonder
Motive of Religion
9th..
3d..
8th.
4th..
8th
.... Law of Growth
.. English Churches
.New Starts in Life
.Visions and Tasks
New Starts in Life
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My Brother’s Keeper
Mystery of Iniquity
9th..
6th.
.... Law of Growth
Battle of Life
US
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Mystery of Light
Mystery of Man
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.Candle of the Lord
Seeking Life
3°5
Natural and Spiritual Forces....
Natural and the Spiritual
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6th..
, Seeking Life
.... Battle of Life
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2A.2
Nature and Circumstances
Nearness of Christ
Nearness of God
Necessity of the Social Life
Need of Self- Respect
New and Greater Miracle
New Birth
3d..
6th..
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ioth..
ad...
5th..
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. .English Churches
Battle of Life
Seeking Life
Seeking Life
Candle of the Lord
Light of the World
.. Seeking Life
200
277
37
9i
147
24
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New Experiences
New Starts in Life
New Wine in New Bottles
Old- New and the New-Old
Opening of the Eyes
Passion Week
5th..
8th.
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ioth..
5th.,
7th..
Light of the World
.New Starts in Life
Seeking Life
Seeking Life
. Light of the World
Church Year
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353
57
194
Pattern in the Mount
Peace in Believing
3d..
6th..
. .English Churches
Battle of Life
I
l87
Peace which Passeth Under
standing
Perfect Faith
Pillar in God’s Temple
9th..
5th..
ad...
.... Law of Growth
Light of the World
Candle of the Lord
2I9
306
SERIES VOLUME PAGE
Planter and the Rain 5th.. Light of the World 270
Positiveness of the Divine Life.. ist Use of Comfort 353
Power of an Uncertain Future.. Qth Law of Growth 39
Prayer 6th Battle of Life 296
Pre-eminence of Christianity.... 8th. .New Starts in Life 320
Present and Future Faith ist Use of Comfort 157
Principle of the Crust 6th Battle of Life 153
Priority of God 5th.. Light of the World 40
Purpose and Use of Comfort.... ist Use of Comfort i
Relative arid the Absolute 9th Law of Growth 236
Rest 9th Law of Growth 133
Sacredness of Life 8th. .New Starts in Life 106
Safety and Helpfulness of Faith. 4th Visions and Tasks 333
Sanctuary of God 6th Battle of Life 108
Sea of Glass Mingled with Fire.. 4th.. .Visions and Tasks no
Second Sunday in Advent 7th Church Year 18
Second Sunday in Lent 7th Church Year 150
Secret of the Lord 8th. .New Starts in Life 271
Seeking Life loth Seeking Life i
Self-Consciousness and Self-Forgetfulness zoth Seeking Life 178
Seriousness of Life 5th .. Light of the World 73
Shortness of Life ist Use of Comfort 315
Silence of Christ 5th .. Light of the World 1 24
Sons of God 9th Law of Growth 346
Soul’s Refuge in God ist Use of Comfort 78
Spiritual Man 9th Law of Growth 294
Spiritual Struggle 9th Law of Growth 61
Standing Before God 4th. ..Visions and Tasks 60
Stone of Shechem 6th Battle of Life 260
Storm and Calm 8th. .New Starts in Life 193
Strength of Consecration 9th Law of Growth 253
Sufficient Grace of God 3d .... English Churches 112
Sunday after Christmas 7th Church Year 97
Sunday next before Easter yth Church Year 209
Sword Bathed in Heaven 4th.. .Visions and Tasks 262
Symbol and the Reality ist Use of Comfort 282
Symmetry of Life 2d... Candle of the Lord no
Tares and the Wheat... 8th. .New Starts in Life 20
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Timeliness
Transfiguration of Christ.
Tree of Life
Trinity Sunday
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Truth Passes Through
Into Power
Unseen Spiritual Helpers 8th.
Unspotted from the World ist..
Valley of Baca 6th..
Visions and Tasks 4th..
Whitsunday 7th..
Whitsunday Sermon 2d...
Whole Views of Life 6th..
“Why Could not We Cast Him
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Willing Surrender 3d..
Wings of the Seraphim 5th..
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Work and Rest ioth..
Young and Old Christian 2d..
“Your Joy no Man Taketh from
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New Starts in Life
... Use of Comfort
Battle of Life
.Visions and Tasks
Church Year
Candle of the Lord
.. Battle of Life
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.. English Churches
Light of the World
... Use of Comfort
Candle of the Lord
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