Words Of Truth And Wisdom | by Rev. Frederic W. Farrar

Contains Words Of Truth And Wisdom that will enlighten the readers and will teach them to the path of righteousness.

Title	Words Of Truth And Wisdom
Author	Rev. Frederic W. Farrar
Publisher	John Grant
Year	1892
Copyright	1892, John Grant
Amazon	Words of truth and wisdom

By the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. Canon Of Westminster

Third Edition

Christian Statesmanship: THOSE who worship here will, I think, have recognised my desire that, amid the daily endeavour to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, we should not forget our national duties, our duti...

Legislative Duties: YOU have just heard, my brethren, that ancient bidding prayer, which reminds us that the Parliament of England has been, once more, summoned to meet for a special session. It reminds us also that, by ...

The Use Of Gifts And Opportunities: THE full, rich, innocent use of gifts and opportunities how little do we understand it! For every purpose of noble gladness, how much more might almost every one of us make of our life than we do ! Ho...

The Brotherhood Of Man: And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must brings and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one flock, one shepherd. John x. 16. THERE is an almost inexhaustib...

Energy Of Christian Service: Why stand ye here all the day idle ? Go ye also into the vineyard. Matt. xx. 6, 7. WHEN God in bad times has good soldiers, He places them in the thick of the battle, and they have fallen unde...

Energy Of Christian Service. Continued: Our blessed Lord came to strengthen, to inspire, to stamp with divinest sanction, to render alone and eternally effectual by His life and by His death—this work and this protest—this hard fighting and...

Christianity And The Human Race: IF then we look at Christianity in its freest action and purest essence, we see that it wiped out the worst curses of Heathendom. Nor was this the only way in which, beyond all dispute, it lay the ver...

Christianity And The Human Race. Continued: Thus then does History set to her seal that God is true. And whence, my brethren, in the face of these glorious facts, and a thousand more on which it is impossible to dwell—whence then arises the ...

Christianity And The Individual: 1 Thess. v. 23. And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and 1 pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. THE Cross c...

Christianity And The Individual. Part 2: Since then such is the superiority of Christianity, since it comes before us not as a mere collection of dogmas, or series of aphorisms, but as a living faith able to bridge over the broad gulf betwee...

Christianity And The Individual. Part 3: But let me add that there is something far beyond the well-being of the body, far beyond the cultivation of the mind, it is the salvation of the soul. Here was the greatest part of that finished work....

The Victories Of Christianity: IN rudest outline suffer me rapidly to sketch what the progress of Christianity has been, and when you have heard it, judge for your own selves whether men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from this...

The Victories Of Christianity. Part 2: In its terror and hatred, Paganism essayed a triple resistance. First, it tried the experiment of an eclectic revival. But the revival, with all its paraphernalia of mathematicians and jugglers, lustr...

The Victories Of Christianity. Part 3: Then arose a fresh danger from without. It might well have been thought that in the wild storm of northern barbarian invasion the Church must perish. But it was not so written in the book of God's Pro...

The Victories Of Christianity. Part 4: It is abundantly clear, even from this rough survey, what causes make the Church unassailable, and what makes her weak. Wealth, luxury, ambition, worldliness, vice; these have wounded her well-nigh to...

The Christian's Remedy Against The Frailties Of Life: And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would 1 fly away, and be at rest, etc. Ps. lv. 6—8. A GREAT living painter (Sir F. Leighton) has endeavoured to express the thought of the...

The Christian's Remedy Against The Frailties Of Life. Continued: A godless experience curdles at once into acrid pessimism. It is the philosophy at this moment of many materialists—the sour unwholesome sediment left in souls from which all hope has evaporated. It i...

Prayer, The Antidote To Sorrow: And being in an agony, He prayed. Luke xxii. 44. WHEN the last supper was over, and the last hymn had been sung, our Lord and His Apostles—with the one traitor fatally absent from their number...

The Conquest Over Temptation: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. 1 Cor. x. 13. THESE, like most of St. Paul's words, real and burning words as they always are, acquire a yet intenser significa...

Too Late: If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes. Luke xix. 42. ON Friday evening, a week before the Cruc...

Too Late. Continued: And why ?—At His feet the olives were flinging their broad shadows over green Gethsemane, the scene of His coming agony,—but it was not that. Opposite Him, on the rocky plateau beyond the Kidron, Calv...

The Souls Of The Departed: The first day of this month was the grand festival of All Saints, so in past centuries the second of November was set apart in honour of All Souls. The motives which led to its abolition were doubt...

What Heaven Is: i believe in God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; I believe in the Communion of Saints, in the forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the body, and the Life Everlasting. MY ...

No Discharge In The War Against Sin: Eccles. viii. 8. And there is no discharge in that war DEATH is the immediate enemy spoken of in this verse; but the language of all Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, warrants us in exten...

The Dead Which Die In The Lord: Rev. xiv. 13. And their works do follow them TO those who can read it aright, few books are more full of sublime comfort,—few books are more illuminated with the glory of a heavenly hope,—than...

The Resurrection Of The Dead: I KNOW that ye seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; He is risen, as He said. So spake the sweet angel voices to those devoted women whose love made them the last beside the cross of Jesus, ...

The Blighted Life: FOR a pastoral people, a people who lived under their own vines and their own fig-trees, amid the luxuriant herbage of rich valleys, or on the slope of hills whose terraces were beautiful with the whi...

The Blighted Life. Continued: Most of us, my brethren, are young no longer. Much of our destined term of life lies already behind us, and silently the chariot of the hours and days and weeks is rolling on, and bearing us to a dark...

Wisdom And Knowledge: Proverbs iv. 7. Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get wisdom : and with ah thy getting get understanding. THERE are two features of the Book of Proverbs which will immediately strike t...

The Voice Of History: EVERY great historian should be no dull registrar of events, but a prophet, standing, like him of old, amid the careless riot and luxurious banqueting of life, and teaching men to decipher that gleami...

The Voice Of History. Continued: Take but one more prominent example from ancient days to show that there is no distinction between the sacred and the secular, and that profane history is sacred too. From the palsied hands of Greece,...

Saintly Workers. The Monks: MONASTICISM grew naturally out of the necessities of the age in which it first appeared. The multitudes who flocked round hermits like Antony and Pacho-mius became the inevitable germ of monastic inst...

Saintly Workers. The Monks. Continued: And as we may learn from this byegone type of saintly workers in their social life, in the principles (that is) which guided them as members of a community, — so most assuredly we may sit at the feet ...

The Early Franciscans: J N a Church at the very zenith of her splendid predominance and her ambitious ease there was need to fan, out of the whitened embers of religion, the smouldering flame of zeal and love. That work was...

The Early Franciscans. Continued: Let me, then, as briefly as I can, tell you one or two of the facts of his life. Francesco Bernardone was a son of a merchant of Assisi, in Umbria. In his boyhood and youth he was the gayest of the ga...

The Hermits: The old order changeth, giving place to the new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. LET us not sever ourselves by any sharp discontinuity from an...

The Missionaries: Is. lii. 7. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace. THOUGH other types of self-dedication have become partly or wholly extinct —...

The Missionaries. Continued: What shall I more say? The time would fail me were I to attempt even the catalogue of all the true saints and dauntless heroes of the mission cause from age to age. But may I not dwell for one moment ...

The Martyrs: He that loseth his life for My sake shall find it. Matt. x. 39. THE quality which St. Stephen displayed in eminence was courage, and courage is essentially the martyr's virtue. But it was not ...

Seekers After God. Seneca: FROM the habitual reticence of the ancient writers respecting the period of their boyhood, it is not easy to form a very vivid conception of the kind of education given to a Roman boy of good family u...

Seekers After God. Seneca. Continued: In another lively passage, Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. After observing that philosophy exercises some influence even ov...

Seneca And St. Paul: IN the spring of the year 61 there disembarked at Puteoli a troop of prisoners, whom the Procurator of Judaea had sent to Rome under the charge of a centurion. Walking among them, chained and weary, b...

Gallio And St. Paul: MARCUS Annaeus Novatus (Seneca's elder brother) is known to history under the name of Junius Gallio, which he took when adopted by the orator of that name, who was a friend of his father. He is none o...

The State Of Roman Society In The Days Of Seneca: WE have gleaned from Seneca's own writings what facts we could respecting his early education. But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those...

The State Of Roman Society In The Days Of Seneca. Continued: Each of these gorgeous criminals lived in the midst of a humble crowd of flatterers, parasites, clients, dependants, and slaves. Among the throng that at early morning jostled each other in the ma...

Language And Languages. Sanskrit: THE year 1808 may be fixed on as the year of the discovery of Sanskrit. Now what do we mean by the discovery of Sanskrit ? We mean that up to this time there had appeared to be an absolute distinction...

Greek And Hebrew: IT is deeply interesting to pursue the contrast of the Aryan and Semitic languages—or, let us say, of two such representatives of them as Greek and Hebrew. The metaphysical subtlety of Greek, its rich...

Greek And Hebrew. Continued: Nor must we forget the extreme probability of our having owed to the Semitic race another most memorable gift—the gift of an alphabet, the gift of those ingenious symbols which can alone give perpetui...

Aryan Migrations: HE epoch of the migration of the Aryans from their common home cannot be determined with any certainty, but possibly it may not have been earlier than 2000 B.C. The most ancient name by which they cal...

Aryan Migrations. Continued: Whether ultimately all languages are not dialects of one—whether millenniums back, in the impenetrable night of ages, there ever was a period when all the representatives of the entire human family (i...

Words: BY earnestly studying words we are enabled historically to resuscitate the long-forgotten history of bygone millenniums, and to catch some glimpses into the past fortunes of nations whose very name an...