THE FEAST OF THE LORD: Sermon NO. 226

I HAD exhausted my time this morning by describing the feast of Satan—how at the four tables where the profligate sat, the self-righteous, the worldly and the secretly sinful. The course of Satan was always on this wise—first the good wine and when men had well drunk, that which was worse. His feast diminished in its value as it proceeded and went from the bright crackling of the thorn under the pot to the blackness of darkness forever! I had then in my second point to show that the rule of Christ’s ban- quet is just the very reverse—that Christ always gives the best wine last—that He saves the good things until the end of the feast. I pointed out that sometimes the first cups at the table of Christ are full of wormwood and gall and are exceedingly bitter—but that if we tarry at the feast, they will grow sweeter and sweeter and sweeter until at last, when we shall come into the land Beulah and especially when we shall enter into