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  Section forty seven of the World's Best Orations, Volume one. This is a
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  LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by David Coberling.
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  The World's Best Orations from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume one
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  by David J. Brewer and Edward A. Allen, A sermon for any
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  day, beloved brethren. It is time to pass from evil to good,
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  from darkness to light, from this most unfaithful world to everlasting joys. Lest
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  that day take us unawares, in which our Lord Jesus Christ shall come to
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  make the round world a desert, and to give over to everlasting punishment sinners
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  who would not repent of the sins which they did. There is a great
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  sin in lying, as saith Solomon, the lips which lies slay the soul.
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  The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God, no more doth
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  his covetousness. Whence the Apostle saith. The love of money and pride are
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  the root of all evil, pride by which that apostle Angel fell, who,
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  as it is read in the prophecy despise the beginning of the ways of
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  God. How art thou fallen from heaven? We must avoid pride, which
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  had power to deceive angels, how much more will it have power to deceive
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  men. And we ought to fear envy, by which the devil deceived the
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  first man. As it is written, Christ was crucified through envy. Therefore,
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  he that envieth his neighbor crucifieth Christ. See that ye always expect the
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  advent of the Judge with fear and trembling, lest he should find us unprepared.
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  Because the apostle saith my days shall come as a thief in the night.
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  Woe to them whom it shall find sleeping in sins. For then,
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  as we read in the Gospel, he shall gather all nations, and shall
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  separate them one from the other, as the shepherd divideth the sheep from the
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  goats. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come,
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  ye, blessed of my Father. Whether there is no grief nor sorrow,
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  where there is no other sound but love and peace and everlasting gladness with
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  all the elect of God, where no good thing can be wanting, Then
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  shall the righteous answer and say, Lord, why hast thou prepared such glory
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  in such good things? He shall answer for mercy, for faith, for
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  piety, and truth and the like. Lord, When didst thou see these
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  good things in us? The Lord shall answer verily, I say unto you,
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  inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my
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  brethren, ye have done it unto me. And what ye did in secret
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  I will reward openly. Then shall the King say unto them on his left
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  hand depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil
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  and his angels. Where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth and tears of
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  eyes, where death is desired and comes not, where the worm dieth not
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  and the fire is not quenched, where is no joy but sorrow, where
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  is no rest except pain, where nothing is heard but lamentations. Then they
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  also shall answer and say, Lord, why hast thou prepared such punishments for
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  us? For your iniquity and malignity? The Lord shall say, Therefore,
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  my brother, and I beseech you that they who are in the habits of
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  good works would persevere in every good work, and that they who are evil,
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  would amend themselves quickly before sudden death comes upon them. While therefore we
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  have time, let us do good to all men, and let us leave
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  off doing ill, that we may attain to eternal life. End of Section
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  forty seven.