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Selection Adapted to the Seasons of the Christian Year, From the Quebec Chapel Sermons of Henry Alford (2)
Selection Adapted to the Seasons of the Christian Year From the Quebec Chapel Sermons of Henry Alford - 2 Author:Henry Alford Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: Rivingtons Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the ... more »General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SERMON III. (preached In 1856.) anU " Them that honour Me I will honour, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed," -- I Sam. ii. 30. THERE could not be a more forcible illustration of the truth of these words than the sad story of which they form a part. Eli was judge of Israel, and the high priest of the Lord in His tabernacle at Shiloh. From what we know of him, we should be disposed to imagine that he was a pious, easy man, correct in the performance of his duties, and expecting that correctness from others. When he supposed Hannah to be drunken, he visited her with a sharp reproof: when he discovered that it was not so, but that she was a woman of a sorrowful spirit, he gracefully compensated for his injustice to her, by an answer of softness and kindness -- " Go in peace -- and the Lord God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of Him." Outwardly, we see nothing to blame in the personal conduct of Eli. It was, as that of so many men is, up to the mark, and faultless. All that can be expected, is found : all due respect for his office, all proper solemnity in the discharge of it. He is just the character who would have been eulogized by the men of his day as doing honour to the post which he filled : who, as the saying is, would have been respected in his life, and lamented at his death. At length he begins, by the weight of years and infirmities, to be incapable for his own duties. And then for the first time, we hear of something which g...« less