They have but little praise and
reward from the partisans who are loud in indiscriminate censure and
applause. But, like Samuel, they have a far higher reward, in the
Davids who are silently strengthened and nurtured by them in Naioth
of Ramah--in the glories of a new age which shall be ushered in
peacefully and happily after they have been laid in the grave.' {0b}
That such, my dear Stanley, may be your work and your destiny, is
the earnest hope of
Yours affectionately,
C. KINGSLEY.
EVERSLEY RECTORY,
July 1, 1863.
SERMON I. GOD IN CHRIST
(Septuagesima Sunday.)
GENESIS i. I. In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
We have begun this Sunday to read the book of Genesis. I trust that
you will listen to it as you ought--with peculiar respect and awe,
as the oldest part of the Bible, and therefore the oldest of all
known works--the earliest human thought which has been handed down
to us.
And what is the first written thought which has been handed down to
us by the Providence of Almighty God?
'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'
How many other things, how many hundred other things, men might have
thought fit to write down for those who should come after; and say--
This is the first knowledge which a man should have; this is the
root of all wisdom, all power, all wealth.
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