The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . Saviourwould not press His request, but leave us, at least for a time. Wouldit be, « Come or < Depart1 ? J. B. C. MURPHY. IV OUTLINES ON THE LESSONSThe Province of Feeling in Religious Experience. Oh that I were as in months past; as in the days when God preserved xxix. 2, 3. OB was, indeed, terribly afflicted. He had lost allhis property, and been bereaved of all his children ;his wife had tempted him to curse God, and hisfriends, who had come to sympathise with him,had remained to pronoun
The Anglican pulpit library, [sermons, outlines and illustrations for Sundays and Holy Days] . Saviourwould not press His request, but leave us, at least for a time. Wouldit be, « Come or < Depart1 ? J. B. C. MURPHY. IV OUTLINES ON THE LESSONSThe Province of Feeling in Religious Experience. Oh that I were as in months past; as in the days when God preserved xxix. 2, 3. OB was, indeed, terribly afflicted. He had lost allhis property, and been bereaved of all his children ;his wife had tempted him to curse God, and hisfriends, who had come to sympathise with him,had remained to pronounce condemnation on enough, therefore, he had for the timebeing come to think that God had forsaken , natural though it was, this opinion was nottrue. So we judge of this outcry of misery from his heart. For Godwas as really with him then as ever He had been, and he himself wasas good a man as ever he had been. Nay, more, he had as much ofGods grace as ever he had been favoured with, only that had gonemeanwhile into another direction than the emotional. He was judg- %3. FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY ing of Gods attitude toward him by his emotions, and as these hadfallen below zero, he concluded that God had forsaken him. But hewas not the last, by any means, who had fallen into that mistake;and therefore this explanation of his case may fitly form the starting-point for an attempt to define and illustrate the proper province offeeling in religious experience. L First of all, then, note that feeling follows intelligent convictionand belief of the truth of something that immediately concerns us asindividuals. It is not first the feeling and then the faith ; but it isfirst intelligence, then faith, then direct and immediate personalinterest in that which is believed, and then feeling. But if this be acorrect analysis, you will see at a glance how far wrong those are whomake the absence of feeling in them an excuse for not coming toChrist, as well as those who a
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