C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
Now, a happy Christmas to you all; and it will be a happy Christmas if you have God with you. I shall say nothing today against festivities on this great birthday of Christ. I hold that, perhaps, it is not right to have the birthday celebrated, but we will never be among those who think it as much a duty to celebrate it the wrong way as others the right. But we will tomorrow think of Christ’s birthday; we shall be obliged to do it, I am sure, however sturdily we may hold to our rough Puritanism. And so, “let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the un-leavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Do not feast as if you wished to keep the festival of Bacchus; do not live tomorrow as if you adored some heathen divinity. Feast, Christians, feast; you have a right to feast. Go to the house of feasting tomorrow, celebrate your Savior’s birth; do not be ashamed to be glad, you have a right to be happy. Solomon says, “Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God now accepts your works. Let your garments be always white and let your head lack no ointment.” —
Religion never was designed
To make our pleasures less.
To make our pleasures less.
Recollect that your Master ate butter and honey. Go your way, rejoice tomorrow; but, in your feasting,think of the Man in Bethlehem; let Him have a place in your hearts, give Him the glory, think of the virgin who conceived Him, but think most of all of the Man born, the Child given. I finish by again say-ing — “A HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!”
Charles Hadden Spurgeon
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon № 2392
Delivered Lord's Day, December 24th, 1854
New Park Street Chapel, Southwark
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon № 2392
Delivered Lord's Day, December 24th, 1854
New Park Street Chapel, Southwark
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