Author: T. B. Strong

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-27

Total Pages: 862

ISBN-13: 9780282055264

Excerpt from Christmas and the War: A Sermon St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians, and St. John in the Revela tion, are prepared to see a tide of evil rising higher than ever before, and they do not falter at the vision God has His hand upon the world and guides it, and He knows when and how the power of evil can be met and finally crushed. The Parable of the Tares, from which my text comes, puts this lesson in a most vivid form. It describes for us, if we may say so, the look of the Kingdom of God in the world. Our Lord had come preaching the King dom, and He knew that many people expected that when the Kingdom came it would come with a great convulsion of nature and social life; the King would come and visibly destroy His enemies, banish all evil, and produce at a blow times of peace and righteousness. And 'the parable warns us against this expectation. The householder has sown good seed, of that there is no doubt but there is a watchful enemy near who is sure to sow tares if he can. So when the servants come and tell him that the tares have already begun to appear, he is sad but he is not surprised. He knows the work of the enemy, and he knows what the result - so harassing and perplexing to faith - will necessarily be. It is that his field over which he has taken so much pains will bring forth a mixed crop, like fields over which no such trouble has been taken. There will be wheat, no doubt, but there will also be tares; people will come and look and take note and say that after all it is very like other fields, that it is clear that you cannot keep tares out, however hard you try, and that, perhaps, as they seem part of the nature of things, they cannot be so mischievous after all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.