Yes, if you will receive it, that is the joy of Christ--the glorious
knowledge that he is doing endless good, and calling out endless love
to himself and to the Father, till the day when he shall give up to
his Father the kingdom which he has won back from sin and death, and
God shall be all in all.

That is the joy of your Lord. If you wish for any different sort of
joy after you die, you must not ask me to tell you of it; for I know
nothing about the matter save what I find written in the Holy
Scripture.



SERMON VI. WORSHIP



ISAIAH i. 12, 13.

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your
hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is
an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn
meeting.

This is a very awful text; one of those which terrify us--or at least
ought to terrify us--and set us on asking ourselves seriously and
honestly--'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I
after all? What sort of show should I make after all, if the people