This book, first published in 1889, is a collection of sermons given by the late Alexander Maclaren. His works have been a favorite among students of the Bible for many years, and this collection is no exception.
This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.
Contents:
CHAPTER I - JESUS CHRIST THE SAME YESTERDAY TODAY AND FOREVER
CHAPTER II - THE SECRET OF IMMORTAL YOUTH
CHAPTER III - NEXT THE THRONE
CHAPTER IV - THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY
CHAPTER V - THE PORTRAIT OF THE BRIDE
CHAPTER VI - SIN OVERCOMING AND OVERCOME
CHAPTER VII - WHY THE TALENT WAS BURIED
CHAPTER VIII - GOD'S CERTAINTIES AND MAN'S CERTITUDES
CHAPTER IX - THE ANOINTING WHICH ESTABLISHES
CHAPTER X - THE SEAL AND EARNEST
CHAPTER XI - THE WARRIOR PEACE
CHAPTER XII - THE VISION OF GOD AND THE FEAST BEFORE HIM
CHAPTER XIII - WHAT COMES OF A DEAD CHRIST
CHAPTER XIV - FENCES AND SERPENTS
CHAPTER XV - STRENGTH IN WEAKNESS
CHAPTER XVI - HOW TO KEEP IN THE LOVE OF GOD
CHAPTER XVII - A DEATH IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER XVIII - FROM CENTRE TO CIRCUMFERENCE
CHAPTER XIX - THE GUIDING PILLAR
CHAPTER XX - RIGHTEOUSNESS FIRST THEN PEACE
CHAPTER XXI - THE NEW NAME
CHAPTER XXII - THE HEAVENLY VISION
CHAPTER XXIII - THE THREEFOLD COMMON HERITAGE
CHAPTER XXIV - ANATHEMA AND GRACE
CHAPTER XXV - THE SUPREME DESIRE OF THE DEVOUT SOUL
CHAPTER XXVI - THE DELAYS OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXVII - A PARABLE IN A MIRACLE
CHAPTER XXVIII - THE BURDEN BEARING GOD
Maclaren had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his pulpit, his pen.
He subdued action to thought, thought to utterance and utterance to the Gospel. His life was his ministry; his ministry was his life. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. He was tall, shy, silent and looked no older than his sixteen years. But his vocation, as he himself (a consistent Calvinist) might have said, was divinely decreed. "I cannot ever recall any hesitation as to being a minister," he said. "It just had to be."
In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching. Before Maclaren had finished his course of study he was invited to Portland Chapel in Southampton for three months; those three months became twelve years. He began his ministry there on June 28, 1846. His name and fame grew.
His ministry fell into a quiet routine for which he was always grateful: two sermons on Sunday, a Monday prayer meeting and a Thursday service and lecture. His parishioners thought his sermons to them were the best he ever preached. In April 1858 he was called to be minister at Union Chapel in Manchester. No ministry could have been happier. The church prospered and a new building had to be erected to seat 1,500; every sitting was taken. His renown as preacher spread throughout the English-speaking world. His pulpit became his throne. He was twice elected President of the Baptist Union. He resigned as pastor in 1905 after a ministry of forty-five years.
Maclaren's religious life was hid with Christ in God. He walked with God day by day. He loved Jesus Christ with a reverent, holy love and lived to make Him known. In his farewell sermon at Union he said: "To efface oneself is one of a preacher's first duties."
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