Our Duties and Opportunities

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Excerpt from Our Duties and Opportunities: Annual Sermon, by Rev. R. W. Norman, Preached in St. George's Church, Montreal, April 22nd, 1877Holy Scriptures, for hastening the coming of Christ. No element in the christian world has done so much to spread the knowledge of God's revelation as the Anglo Saxon race. Joshua, the servant of the Lord, was the first man who received a portion of the Holy Scripture to be his guide. He was always referred to' the book of the law of the Lord. That shews the estimation in which Holy Scripture should be held. And it is to our glory that we profess to make that sacred book our rule and guide. Joshua conquered his enemies, led by God's law. May not we, led also by its teaching, achieve a greater victory - the civilization and christ ianizing of the ignorant, the heathen, the ungodly. And if so, what a glorious mission is ours. How in finitely secondary, how contemptible do all selfish per sonal motives appear in the light of the great work which God has put before us. All Christian bodies should share in this. And the Church of England is destined to play a considerable part in this history. She contains all spiritual truth as held and taught in the purest times. She presents some of the features which, in our civil constitution, excite admira tion. I mean the combination of great freedom with needful law. As we believe the British Constitution ensures the greatest possible amount of genuine and rightful liberty to all men, whether rich or poor, so the Church of England offers perhaps the greatest freedom and latitude of all Christian Communions on earth. Sometimes, to outsiders, this very feature of freedom may seem anomalous, but it would be a hazardous matter to curtail it. The Church of England was pro nounced by Dr. Newman as one great bulwark of Revelation. Coming from such Ia source, this testi mony is as striking as it must be impartial. The Church of England has been one great means of pre Serving orthodoxy among Protestant bodies generally. The wisely moderate character of her reforms, her con.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.