shall finish our course. We are not two companies, the militant and
triumphant are one. We are the advance and rear of one host travelling
to the Canaan of God's rest. God grant that we, too, may so follow
Christ that we may have an abundant entrance to His eternal kingdom.





V. /SERMON AT THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF
ST. ANDREW IN CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPT. 29, 1889/.


"/God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life/."--ST. JOHN, iii. 16.


SIN, sorrow and death have not been invented by Christian priests. They
are world facts, they belong to every home, and are hid in every man's
heart. There can be no design without a designer, no law without a
lawgiver, no creation without a creator. So I say, with the leading
scientist of England, "God is a necessity of human thought." Is this
God an inexorable ruler, whose right is His infinite might? or is He an
eternal Father, whose might is His infinite right? And so the question
comes home to the heart: Does God care for us? The body is cared for.
Every invention of man ministers to the life that is between the cradle
and the grave. Man has created nothing. The lightning would run its
circuit in the Garden of Eden as well as when Morse made it man's
messenger. The veil has been lifted so that man can look into God's