Song of Songs: The Greatest Love Story in the World

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 30        Self-Ignorance               "Who can understand his errors?" Psa 19:12              It is the true desire of every earnest heart that preceding the Communion Service our thoughts should be turned inward in self-examination. Every astronomer worthy of the name is constantly careful to keep his lenses clean. But when he is on the verge of some great hour, then he cleanses them with double care. And so the Christian must always be watchful--must always be examining himself--but never more intensely so than at the time when he is looking for fresh discoveries of Christ. I want you, therefore, to follow me while I try to find why most of us are so ignorant of self. For of this you may be always sure, that the more we know what we really are, the better shall we ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 29        The Root and the Star               I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star--Rev 22:16              Nothing is more notable in Jesus than the union of apparent contradictories. Qualities of the most diverse characters are brought into a perfect harmony in Him. When we set out to copy any brother, we are wrested from our true development. For other lives, even at their finest, are fragmentary and incomplete. But nobody who aims at following Christ can ever be false to his true self, for the character of Christ is universal. He combines the most opposing temperaments and reconciles diversities of being. Everything that all are meant to be, our blessed Savior actually was. That is the truth which lies in the assertion, so often...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 28        The Reign of the Saints               And they shall reign for ever and ever--Rev 22:5              I venture to say that with this expression there creeps in a touch of unreality. It is difficult to associate thrones with the immortal life of our beloved dead. We can readily picture them as serving, for they loved to serve when they were here. Nor, remembering how they searched for it, is it hard to believe that they see His face. But to conceive of them as reigning and having crowns and sitting upon thrones introduces a note of unreality. For many of them that would not be heaven. It would be the last thing they would desire. For they were modest folk, given to self-effacement, haunting the shadowy avenues of life. And if individuality persists, they will ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 26        Service in Heaven               His servants shall serve him--Rev 22:3              Of the life of the glorified in heaven Scripture does not tell us very much. And not a little of what it does tell is poetically and imaginatively described. There is, for instance, the familiar figure of the harp in the hands of the redeemed. It is easy to make a joke of that and so to turn beatitude to ridicule. But what Scripture is trying to convey is that in heaven utterance shall be music, and therefore self-expression shall be perfect. Music can say what speech can never say. It is more subtle and delicate than speech. It voices the deeper yearnings of the soul in ways that words are powerless to do. And if the utterance of heaven is to be music, then self-expression w...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 25        The Problem of Pain               Neither shall there be any more pain--Rev 21:4              The problem of pain, I think, is in its full intensity a modern problem. There is today a sensitiveness to pain which in past ages was unknown. When you go back three or four centuries, you read of the most excruciating tortures. And you say how cruel must men have been in those days when they would actually use those frightful instruments. Well, of course there was much cruelty about it, but remember there was also a certain callousness--an absence of that quivering sensibility which makes us shrink from suffering today. Still more conspicuously was this the case in the ancient world of Greece and Rome. It was a cruel and a callous world. It was not alive to the my...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 24        How Science Helps Religion               And the earth helped the woman--Rev 12:16              One hears a great deal from many different quarters of the conflict of science and religion. It might be well if we heard a little more of the various ways in which science has helped faith. Of this help in the realm of applied science one scarcely needs to speak. It was science which built those mighty Roman highways which, at the Advent, carried the Gospel everywhere. And how railways and steamships and cars and planes have been the servants of missionary work is a familiar fact in all Christendom. To the scientific concept of the printing press the debt of the Gospel is incalculable. It has scattered the tidings of the Savior to the remotest corners of the worl...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 22        The Worldwide Gospel               Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature--Mar 16:15               The Gospel Deep and Wide              There are two directions in which the sway of Jesus is without any parallel in human history. The one of them is that of depth; the other that of breadth. All great movements may be judged extensively--that is, by the area which they cover; or, on the other hand, they may be judged intensively by their power of influence over the individual, and in both respects the Gospel of our Lord stands quite alone upon the page of history--in its depth and in its breadth it is unequalled. The one name for the followers of Socrates was the name of ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 19        Misunderstood               Behold, he calleth Elias--Mar 15:35               Christ's Life Began and Ended in Misunderstanding              We are here in the center of the Gospel mystery. It is the closing scene in the earthly life of Jesus. Jesus has been betrayed, He has been scourged and crucified, and in a little while the sorrow will be over. It is then that in His unutterable agony He cries, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani"--and some of them that stood by when they heard it said, "Behold, He calleth Elias." They misinterpreted that last dear cry. They thought He was speaking to Elias and not to God. So at the very end, and on the cross itself, Jesus was misunderstood.    ...

George H. Morrison - Devotional Sermons Devotional For May 16        So Near and Yet So Far               Thou art not far from the kingdom of God--Mar 12:34               Difficult to Estimate Crowds and Distances              There are two things which it is very difficult for the uninstructed eye to gauge, the one is the dimensions of a crowd, and the other is the measurement of distance. So much depends on the clearness of the air, and so much on the intervening landscape, that the most accurate observer may find himself at fault when estimating distances in unfamiliar places.               Difficult Also to Estimate How Near You and Others Are to the Kingdom of God      ...