The Archive · 1923

The Parable of the Sea

A Sermon Preached in July by the Rev. A. N. Rowland in Union Church, Shanghai "Hear now this, a people without sense and without heart Hear ye me, saith the Lord, will ye not tremble at any presence, which have, placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it, and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar they cannot pass over it," Jer. V. 21. that hava experienced its working. For outsiders the proof of God lies in the fact that Nature's laws are kept, not transcended. Jeremiah founds his argument on tha soft but efficient boundaries of the sea, the limitation of its forces by law, and further on, in verse 24, he adds the witness of the regular rains and orderly seasons,"

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