2 sermon illustrations on order — stories, anecdotes and meditations from classic illustration collections, each credited to the book it came from.
Order is fundamental to mind, body, society, and all creation.
Order is heaven's first law. — Pope. — Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. — Southey.
Order produces good results; disorder leads to ruin and chaos.
In human doings and human productions, we see everywhere manifestations of order. Well-ordered stones make architecture; well-ordered social regulations make a constitution and a police; well-ordered ideas make good logic; well-ordered words make good writing; well-ordered imaginations and emotions make good poetry; well-ordered facts make science. Disorder, on the other hand, makes nothing at all, but unmakes every thing. Stones in disorder produce ruins; an ill-ordered social condition is decline, revolution, or anarchy; ill-ordered ideas are absurdity; ill-ordered words are neither sense nor grammar; ill-ordered imaginations and emotions are madness; ill-ordered facts are chaos. Blackie.
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