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Chaplain’s Corner: Christmas Sermon
hopeful thoughts of Christ's second Advent, of their own resurrection from the grave, of their reunion with all the saints who have gone before them, of eternal blessedness in Christ's kingdom. Happy are they who have such thoughts! They sweeten life and lift men over many cares. Reader, have you such thoughts? Reader, thoughts such as these are the property of all true Christians. Some of them know more of them, and some know less. But all know something about them. They do not always feel them equally at all times! They do not always find such thoughts equally fresh and green in their minds. They have their winter as well as their summer, and their low tide as well as their high tide. But all true Christians are, more or less, acquainted with these thoughts. In this matter, churchmen and dissenters, rich and poor, all are agreed if they are true Christians. In other things, they may be unable to agree and see alike. But they all agree in their thoughts about Christ. One word they can all say, which is the same in every tongue. That word is "Hallelujah," praise to the Lord Christ! One answer they can all make, which in every tongue is equally the same. That word is "Amen," so be it! And now, reader, I shall wind up my Christmas tract by simply bringing before your conscience the question which forms its title. I ask you this day, "What think ye of Christ?"
Matthew 22:42 (KJV)
Christmas is a season that almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another, Christmas is kept. True Christians have hopeful thoughts of Christ . They expect to receive far more from Him one day than they have ever received yet. They hope that they shall be kept to the end and never perish. But this is not all. They look forward to Christ's second coming and expect that then they shall see far more than they have seen and enjoy far more than they have yet enjoyed. They have the earnest of an inheritance now in the Spirit dwelling in their heart. But they hope for a far fuller possession when this world has passed away. They have
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