Notes of a sermon preached by the Rev. C. E, Darwent in Union Church, Tientsin, on Sunday evening, February 13. Text: "Now in the morning as He returned to the city He hungered. And seeing a fig trea by the wayside, He came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only; and He said to it:; Let there be no fruit on thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away." St. Matthew XXI. 18—20.
What pathos in the first few words of this story! He hunger-' ed." Do we well fed Christians ever think of that? The Lord 9f All could not get even the most elementary necessity of human nature—food. We are dissatisfied if} we cannot get nice food. He had none at all. He went up to fig tree
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