Eight Sermons Addressed To Children

Author : A. Peabody
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722966034
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Sermons for Children written by A. Peabody and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introductory to Sermon I: HOW TO BE RELIGIOUS. There is a class of our congregation which has been too much neglected in the common services of public worship, -- I mean the children; whose patient attendance is seldom rewarded by anything directly addressed to them, or expressly designed to interest them. One of the little flock has repeatedly asked me to preach a sermon to children, and I know that I shall have their attention while I attempt to comply with a request so reasonable, and so entirely in accordance with my own feelings.... Introductory to SERMON II: USE AND ABUSE OF THE TONGUE. Children, I have taken for my subject this afternoon the government of the tongue, and I will tell you my reasons for doing so. You are now forming habits of talking which will be likely to last as long as you live; and these habits will affect your whole character. Let me hear a boy or girl talk, when there is no restraint from the presence of a stranger, -- at home, or among playmates, -- I can tell what sort of a child that boy or girl is, and what sort of a man or woman he or she is likely to become.... Introductory to SERMON III: FALSE SHAME. My text was written by Paul, at a time when it was not thought respectable to be a Christian. The rich and great men of the world, the kings and rulers, the men of science and learning, were almost all of them either Jews, or worshippers of idols, or believers in no religion of any kind. Paul was very learned, had been the companion and favorite of distinguished men, and belonged, we have reason to suppose, to a rich family; but he had become a Christian, and on that account the rich people, the learned men, the rulers, and the priests, who had before been very fond of him, had turned against liim, and done everything they could to injure him. For preaching such truths as are preached in this pulpit every Sunday he had suffered everything but death. Sometimes he was whipped publicly.... Introductory to SERMON IV: MEMORY. I Am going to preach to you, children, on a subject which is more important, and ought to be more interesting to you, than to those who are older. I will introduce my subject by telling yon of a conversation that I had a few days ago. 1 called, one afternoon, on an old lady between eighty and ninety years of age. She had been for many years a Christian, and, as she talked about death, she expressed no fear, but the assurance that she was going home to her Saviour. After we had conversed for a while on the blessedness of this hope, she commenced telling me how all the events of her early life were coming back to her mind in her old age. Said she, "There is nothing that I ever did when I was a child that I do not think of now....