Personal Faith the Only Source of Peace

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Excerpt from Personal Faith the Only Source of Peace: A Sermon Preached in S. Barnabas' Church, PimlicoThere seem to be two especial characteristics of the so-called religious world of our day, which cannot fail to strike any thoughtful person. One is a certain restlessness, and seeming inability to find peace in the position in which god has placed us, and the other, which is probably its consequent, a tendency to divide ourselves into sects and parties, and to confine the possession of truth, not only to the body of co-thinkers to whom we have given in our adhesion, but one might almost say, to the particular congregation in which we are accustomed to worship, in place of rejoicing in the thought that all who love the lord jesus, possess some portion at least of His saving health, - may be, something that we ourselves have practically let slip.The never-ending secessions from our Communion - the dismay that is occasioned whenever the externals of religion are in any way, and owing to any circum stances, affected, are reasons for suspecting that all is not sound with us. A building usually becomes unsettled when the foundation, not the superstructure, is weakened, does it not then become us to look to the ground whereon our faith and practice is built, when we find persons' stability depending upon the preservation, not of the Holy Scriptures or of theiv Earner?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.