Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 28        The Tent and the City               By faith he [Abraham] sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations--Heb 11:9-10               The Unfaltering Faith of Abraham              In this great chapter, the roll call of the heroes, Abraham occupies a very honorable place. His life was so pre-eminently one of faith in God that in this muster of the faithful that was inevitable. There have been men who in some great hour of life or death have risen to a sublime heroism of trust. There have been others whose faith has been most notable in the quiet tenor of...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For October 4        The Attraction of Agnosticism               I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD--Act 17:23               Atheism and Agnosticism              Not very long ago in Glasgow there was a criminal trial which attracted much attention, not only by reason of its peculiar circumstances, but also because of certain observations of the judge. When the prisoner was being examined by counsel one of the questions asked was, "Are you an atheist?" That was a very unusual question to be put in a modern court of law. No one, therefore, was very much surprised when Lord Guthrie, in giving the charge to the jury, dwelt with undisguised severity on that unusual interrogation. Now had the learne...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 21        Christ and the Fear of Death               And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage--Heb 2:15               We Face Death with Curiosity              There are two feelings which the thought of death has always kindled in the human breast, and the first of them is curiosity. Always in the presence of that veil through which sooner or later we all pass, men have been moved to ask with bated breath, What is it which that veil conceals? It is as if the most diaphanous of curtains were hung between our eyes and the great secret, making men the more wistful to interpret it. It has been said by a well-known Scottish essayist that this would account for the ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 26        The Anguish of the Light               But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions--Heb 10:32               Battle After Illumination              This is a very remarkable conclusion to a verse that suggests the blessings of the light: it is one of those suggestive anticlimaxes that are so familiar to students of the Scriptures. No blessing is nobler than illumination. It tells of the benediction of the light. It speaks of a life that has arisen from darkness and moved into the glorious shining of the sun. And yet, when we expect to hear of summer's gladness and to catch the sound of music in the blue heaven, we hear of b...

`George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 20        The Selective Power of Personality               Unto the pure all things are pure--Tit 1:15               Misapplications of Scripture              It would be an interesting but a melancholy study to consider the texts of Scripture which have been misapplied. It would not only illuminate many a heresy; it would lead also to the secret springs of conduct. Some misapplications we should group together as arising from the imperfections of our version. Others we should find taking their rise in the sinful bias of the will. Others rather owe their origin to the proverbial character of certain words of Scripture and to the constant tendency of men to use proverbs in a mistaken way. It takes more wit to use a ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 19        The Tragedy of Renounced Service               Demas...my fellowlabourer--Phm 1:24.               Demas--Col 4:14              Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world--2Ti 4:10               The Downfall of Demas              The disloyalty of Demas has had a strange grip upon the minds of men. It has appealed to the imagination. The fact that we know nothing of him save in these three texts, his presence in the little company that moves in and out of Paul's imprisonment--these glimpses have arrested men and drawn their thoughts to Demas as to someone mys...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For November 18        Christ and the Hope of Immortality               Our Savior Jesus Christ...hath brought...immortality to light through the gospel--2Ti 1:10               The Mingling of the New and Old              There are two ways in which Christ has worked in His long task of the regeneration of mankind. He has brought among us from heaven what is new, and He has consecrated what was old. There is a widespread tendency in theological thought to belittle the originality of Jesus just as once there was the opposite tendency to ignore Jesus' relation to the past. But both extremes are not only false to Scripture, but they are also false to Christian experience which always blends the new and old together. If a...