Those, the deadly enemies of the human
race, you are all bound to attack, if you be good men and true,
wheresoever you shall meet them invading the kingdom of your Saviour
and your God. But you can only conquer them in others in proportion
as you have conquered them in yourselves.
May God give you grace to conquer them in yourselves more and more;
to profit by the discipline which you may gain by this movement; and
bequeath it, as a precious heirloom, to your children hereafter!
For so, whether at home or abroad, will you help to give your nation
that moral strength, without which physical strength is mere violent
weakness; and by the example and influence of your own discipline,
obedience, and self-restraint, help to fulfil of your own nation the
prophecy of the Seer -
'He couched, he lay down as a lion; and as a great lion. Who dare
rouse him up?'
SERMON II.--THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM
(Preached at Wellington College, All Saints' Day, 1866.)
PROVERBS ix. 1-5.
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
she hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also
furnished her table. She hath sent forth her maidens; she crieth
upon the highest places of the city, Whoso is simple, let him turn in
hither: and to him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
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