Romans, that " whosoever shall reverently call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Reverently, I say, for says Our Lord: " not every man that calls Me Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but only he that does My Father's will." Invoke His name, not alone in word and tongue, but in deed and in truth. A virtuous career is a lifelong invocation of the Lord, and the surest pledge that our names will be enrolled beneath the sacred names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in the illuminated book of life.
Third Sunday after Epiphany.
Submission to Ecclesiastical Authority.
"Be not wise in your own conceits" — Rom. xii. 16.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : I. Epistles and Gospels. II. To-days. III. Docility.
I. Self-conceit : i. In general. 2. The Romans. 3. St. Paul's reproof.
II. Submission : 1. Child and man. 2. Christ's example and teaching. 3. Leper, Centurion.
III. Naaman's : 1. History and disease. 2. Cure. 3. GiezL Per. : 1. Swimming. 2. Stephen. 3. Degrees of docility.
SERMON.
Brethren, the arrangement of those passages of Scripture which constitute the Epistles and Gospels of the various Sundays dates from the early ages of Christianity, when the word of God was studied more deeply and more reverently than it is today. It is but natural, therefore, to expect, and it is an interesting and profitable exercise
