...men, it becomes us, if so we may, to meet and dissipate such objections ; " being ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear." The objection in tho present case is, as L have already intimated, founded on a postulate which I must...

...hold the Christian faith, we should understand the principles of that faith, and be "ready to give an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us."1 " The preparations of the heart in man," says Solomon, " and the answer of the tongue, is...

...which brought forth out of his treasures things new and old,"* and we must " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us."f The proverb, no doubt, still holds good that a " prophet has no honour in his own country,"...

...inheritance, and as we are commanded to be 'ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear,' allow me, in obedience to this command, to state that my hope for future salvation is by a true and...

...action and feeling from principle, that if applied generally, it would render us incapable " of giving an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." Its extreme development is exhibited in that notorious line, " He can't be wrong whose life is in the...

...and accurate description of a mind thus chastened does St. Peter give us, when he bids us " give a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear." " Meekness and fear;"—an acknow-ledgment that we may be wrong, that truth is not always on one side;...

...and accurate description of a mind thus chastened does St. Peter give us, when he bids us " give a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear." " Meekness and fear ;" — an acknowledgment that we may be wrong, that truth is not always on one...

...the Lord God in our hearts, that we may be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear " (1 Peter iii. 15). But,' I apologized, ' I have occasioned a long digression in your narrative, my...

...make it. For it is part of our privilege no less than our duty, to be "able to give an answer to him that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." What is our confidence wherein we trust ? Surely we can both look up to God and say, " I hope in Thy...

...be dumb and confounded before the first difficulty suggested to us; but may be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. Now the verses which I have taken for a text supply such a reason. They furnish us with the surest,...