So we shall be
ready for the day in which Christ shall have accomplished the number of
His elect, and hastened His kingdom. So we shall be found in that dread
day, not on the side of evil, but of God; not on the side of darkness,
anarchy, and vice, but on the side of light, of justice, and of virtue,
which is the side of Christ and of God. And so we, with all those that
are departed in the faith of His holy name, shall have our perfect
consummation and bliss in His eternal and everlasting glory, to which may
He, of His great mercy, bring us all. Amen.
SERMON XXXIX. THE DISTRACTED MIND
Eversley. 1871.
Matthew vi. 34. "Take no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall
take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof."
Scholars will tell you that the words "take no thought" do not exactly
express our Lord's meaning in this text. That they should rather stand,
"Be not anxious about to-morrow." And doubtless they are right on the
whole. But the truth is, that we have no word in English which exactly
expresses the Greek word which St Matthew uses in his gospel, and which
we are bound to believe exactly expresses our Lord's meaning, in whatever
language He spoke.
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