. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. hat our duty isthat of business, or public cares, or private ministrations. This, too,is enough. It shows the path before us straight and clear; it makesus indifferent of what people say or think of us ; it makes us forgetourselves; it makes life worth living for; it makes death Keep innocency, says the Psalmist, 6 and do the thing that is right;for that will bring a man peace at the last. To have said the rightthing, though it cost us an effort; to have done the right thing,though it seem
. The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days]. hat our duty isthat of business, or public cares, or private ministrations. This, too,is enough. It shows the path before us straight and clear; it makesus indifferent of what people say or think of us ; it makes us forgetourselves; it makes life worth living for; it makes death Keep innocency, says the Psalmist, 6 and do the thing that is right;for that will bring a man peace at the last. To have said the rightthing, though it cost us an effort; to have done the right thing,though it seemed hard at the time, this, you may be sure, leaves atranquillity behind, which long outlives the moment, and makes usfeel as if we were in a haven of rest, because the peace of conscienceis indeed the peace of the Holy Spirit of Christ. II. There is also another peace—peace with one another. ChristHimself was the great Peacemaker. In Him, Jew and Gentile,Greek and Barbarian, came together, and were one. He saw the goodin publicans and sinners ; He bore with the infirmities of the weak ;28. OUTLINES ON THE GOSPEL He gathered around Him characters most opposite each to each—Peter the rough fisherman, John the loving friend, Thomas the doubt-ing sceptic, .Joseph the rich councillor, Paul the eloquent, energetic,free-minded teacher. In that peace, too, each one of us may takepart. It does not mean that we are all to think, and speak, and actin the same way. The world would be a very dull world, verydifferent from what God intended it to be, if we all did think andspeak exactly alike. The world of nature derives its beauty and itsgrace from the ups and downs, and rents and fissures, and straits andseas which cut it asunder, and give it all its various shapes and so it is with the world of man. We must differ. We cannotmake all men to be of the same character, of the same pursuits, ofthe same tastes, and of the same opinions. But here, as in thenatural world, we can, an
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