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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1918 Excerpt: ... Giving a Son John M. Vander Meulen, D. D. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Oak Park, Illinois GIVING A SON "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son."--John 3:16. This, by a sort of unspoken but universal agreement, is the greatest text in the Bible. It is the epitome of the gospel. For the heart of the Bible is the Gospel of John. And this sixteenth verse of the third chapter is a still further reduction of it. So it is the greatest text in the Bible. It is so great, that during all my ministry I have never dared preach on it. Its very bigness has appalled me. Many an artist may paint a creditable picture if he do not attempt too great a subject. Many a singer may sing an acceptable song if she do not dare too immense a theme. So many a sermon may go fairly well if it be not built on too tremendous a text. That is why during all the previous years of my ministry I have let this text alone. But we are living now in a tremendous hour of the world's history, an hour that demands themes commensurate with it, an hour, moreover, in which sermons have a way of writing themselves as they never have before in all my ministerial career. We are living in a tremendous hour of the world's history, the most tremendous, perhaps, since that outstanding hour when Jesus hung upon his cross. This hour calls back to that hour with a new understanding and in its answer seems to hear the voice as of one of its own kin. This hour is crying back to that: "Men so love the world to-day, that they are giving their sons for its salvation." And that hour answers: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son for its salvation." Men are understanding that hour and its answer better than they have understood it for many a day. Two men, hith...
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