Sermons Author:Joseph Harrington Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SEEMON III. FIDELITY IN THE FEW THINGS. HIS LORD SAID UNTO HIM, " WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT ; THOU HAST BEEN FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS, I WILL ... more »HAKE THEE EULER OVER MANY THINGS ; ENTER THOU INTO THE JOY OF THY LOBD." — Matthew XXV. 23. Christ came into the world to save the whole family of man. His kingdom must embrace Gentiles and Jews; those from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, — every tongue and kindred and people and nation. The providence of God is every moment over the whole earth and all its inhabitants. This universality of interest, of care, and of grace, is one of the teachings of revelation, is one of the marks of the Fatherhood of the Creator. Of course all theories, treatises, schemes, that have for their end the well-being of man, take their scope from the Gospel; that is, they look to the benefit of all mankind; and some political economists, making philanthropy the basis of their plans and systems, would adjust them for the benefit of no one people, but for the world at large. Active reformers often pursue something of thismethod. They aim at the good of large communities ; they speak to the ear of the multitude; they write for the eye of the million. The man of abounding energy and large sympathies, overleaps his little domestic pale, and seeks to throw his activity into a broader sphere. Such aims are surely not to be condemned; especially when they spring from the wide charity of the religion of Christ. Every heart ought to entertain them. There are those to whom such a broad and general field of labor is, as it were, their special province, — possibly, they could work efficiently within no narrower circle; if so, God meant them for just such work, and just such work for them. But, ordinarily speakin...« less