Select Sermons (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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There is a feeling in all men that they are sinners, a conviction that they have broken the law of God and are the objects of the divine displeasure. Much as man has fallen from that moral excellence which once surrounded him, as with a garment, it is not possible to obliterate all traces of his original grandeur. The temple which was once constructed by the Almighty to show forth his own glory is now in ruins, but the broken columns and mouldering remains prove the extent and magnificence of the building, before the hand of the spoiler was raised up against it, and it became an habitation of owls and of dragons. Man is conscious that he is not now in the position that he formerly occupied. He feels that he has sunk low from what he once was, and that he is far inferior to what he might yet be. He is dissatisfied with himself, and has the melancholy impression, that he has never yet known what true and abiding happiness is. Even in his deepest degradation, there are aspirations after good which he has never yet reached, and which he despairs ever now to realize. And as the shell, though carried far away from the sea, when applied to the ear still murmurs of the music of those distant waters which formed its native bed; so the human spirit has an instinctive yearning after that felicity which it originally enjoyed with God, and which can never again be experienced, until brought into communion with him.

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