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Thought for the Day 24 May 2009

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Sunday, May 24th, 2009
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O Thou who wast so gentle and familiar with us, who didst converse with us by the way, and sit at meat with us, and didst enter the vessel with us, and teach us on the Mount, and bear the malice of the Pharisees, and feast with Martha, and raise Lazarus, art Thou gone, and shall we see Thee no more? Yet so it was determined: privileges they were to have, but not the same; and their thoughts henceforth were to be of another kind than heretofore.

From the sermon ‘Warfare the Condition of Victory’ (1838) Click here for the full text (leaves site)