enough for us to be sure that truly to know God is everlasting life;
and that the more we think of God by his own revealed name of Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost, the more we shall enter, now and hereafter, into
eternal life, and into the peace which comes by the true knowledge of
him in whom we live, and move, and have our being.



SERMON VIII.--THE END OF RELIGION



EPHESIANS iv. 23, 24.

Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and put ye on the new man,
which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

This text is exceedingly valuable to us for it tells us the end and
aim of all religion. It tells us why we are to pray, whether at home
or in church; why we are to read our Bibles and good books; why we
are to be what is commonly called religious.

It tells us, I say, the end and aim of all religion; namely, that we
may put on 'the new man, which after God'--according to the likeness
of God--'is created in righteousness and true holiness.' So says St.
Paul in another place: 'Be ye therefore followers'--literally,
copiers, imitators--'of God, as dear children.'

Now this is not what you will be told from too many pulpits, and in
too many books, now-a-days, is the end of religion. You will be told