But will he do it? My friends, if we wish for the salvation of all
Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, do you suppose that we are more
compassionate to them than God who made them? Who is more likely to
pity the heathen? We who send a few missionaries to teach them: or
God who sent his own Son to die for them?

Oh trust God, and trust Christ; for this, as for all other things.
Believe that for the heathen, as for us, he is able to do exceedingly
and abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think; and believe too,
that if we do ask, we do not ask in vain; that this collect which has
gone up every Good Friday for centuries past, from millions of holy
hearts throughout the world, has not gone up unheard; that it will be
answered--we know not how--but answered still; and that to Jew and
Turk, Heathen and Heretic, this day will prove hereafter to have
been, what it is to us, Good Friday.



SERMON VI.--FALSE CIVILIZATION



JEREMIAH xxxv. 19.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of
Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

Let us think a while this morning what this text has to do with us;
and why this strange story of the Rechabites is written for our