3 Sermon Illustrations on Faithfulness Rewarded

History informs us of an old Roman soldier who served forty years in the cause of his country, — ten as a private, and thirty as an officer. He had been present in one hundred and twenty battles, and had forty-five times been severely wounded. He had obtained fourteen civic crowns for having saved the life of a Roman citizen, three mural crowns for having been the first to mount the breach, and eight golden crowns for having rescued the standard of a Roman legion from the hands of the enemy. He had in his house eighty-three gold chains, sixty bracelets, eighteen golden spears, and twenty-three horse-trappings, the spoil of war. Let the Christian be equally faithful to his Saviour, and the glory and value of his reward shall far exceed that of this old Roman soldier. Bate.

Bishop Kingsley's is the proudest ecclesiastical distinction of the century. If spared to complete his tour, his name will have historic conspicuity as the first of his office who ever inspected the Lord's great flock the whole world round. History relates, that, when the first actual circumnavigator of the globe reported to his king, the king embraced him with delight, elevated him at once to noble rank, and granted him a coat of arms of fit devices, in which a globe was bordered with the proud inscription, Primus me circumdedisti. Such a reception, such distinctions, await our toiling bishop at the hands of Jesus Christ. Dr. W. F. Warren.