The Feast of the Assumption.
The Assumption of the Mother of God.
"Jesus entered into a certain town, and a certain woman, named Martha, received Him into her house" — Luke x. 38.
SYNOPSIS.
Ex. : I. Mary's lowliness. II. Assumed, soul and body. III. Mary and Martha.
I. House built on faith: 1. One rock. 2. Indivisible. 3. Firm.
II. Walled with hope : 1. Sustaining. 2. True. 3. Practical.
III. Roofed with charity: 1. Mary's love. 2. Waiting. 3. Proofs of glorious assumption.
Per. : Exhortation to Faith, Hope, and Charity.
SERMON.
Brethren, the feast of the Assumption, celebrated last week, gives us for a subject this morning one of whom I love to speak, and one whose praises you love to hear — Mary, our Virgin Mother. As we struggle on through the spiritual life— on through temptation and sin — we naturally look for guidance and encouragement to those that have gone before. We look at Christ, and our souls recoil from the task of imitating Him; we look at the saints, and weak human nature rebels against the austerities they endured— and often, God knows how often! we are tempted to give up the struggle in sheer despair. But then we turn to Mary, and there we find consolation and support. For she — that little village maiden — she was neither God nor angel but a poor mortal like ourselves, the lowliest of the low — who trod our earth and hungered and thirsted as we do. Through
