Homilist Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. The seasonable changes to which our earth is subject are of vast importance to man. They serve — 1. To impress us with the fact of the brevity of life. 2. To keep the soul in constant action. 3. To revive the recollections of old truths. What are the truths that nature reproduces in winter? I. THE EVANESCENT FORMS OF EARTHLY LIFE. Individuals, families, and nations have their seasons — their spring, summer, autumn, winter. II. THE STERN ASPECTS OF NATURE'S GOD. Winter significantly hints that the Absolute cannot be trifled with — that He curses as well as blesses, destroys as well as saves. III. THE RETRIBUTIVE LAW OF THE CREATION. Winter brings on men the penalties for not rightly attending to the other seasons. IV. THE PROBABLE RESUSCITATION OF BURIED EXISTENCE. The life of the world in winter is not gone out, it is only sleeping.. 1. The resuscitation of Christian truth. 2. The resuscitation of conscience. 3. The resuscitation of the human body. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. |
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