This sermon is a prayerful plea for holiness, repentance, and spiritual transformation. It emphasizes the need to surrender negative thoughts and hindrances to the Holy Spirit, seeking purification and obedience. The congregation is urged to turn away from worldly distractions and focus on Jesus Christ, the source of everlasting life and peace. The speaker prays for spiritual growth, humility, and a deepening faith in Christ, culminating in a call to embrace the urgency of following Jesus wholeheartedly.

O Son of God, most holy, that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. O holy thing, born, crucified, risen, and thrown, we beseech thee that thou rebuke all the unholiness in us. It would be thy spirit promised. Rebuke, we beseech thee, all of the flesh and of the mind that is even negative and that thus hinders the operation of the spirit. O, we beseech thee, let the shekinah be seen today. Let it hover over each habitation, showing that the Lord is now. We beseech thee, may we go away from this place serious, if we be perturbed, bothered, until we have done something with this injunction. And have sought to be holy as thou art holy, and have tried by surrender and faith to purify our hearts and obedience. Grant, we beseech thee, to answer all this in Christ our Lord. Amen. O God, we pray thy blessing upon us. O Lamb of God, we love thee so. We would with thee, life's journey go. We pray thou would help us this morning, hurt and humbled by our own unworthiness, the knowledge and haunting memories of sins committed in the past. But by thy grace at the moment, we have no wish to sin. We wish only to love thee and live as we should. So please help us now, for Jesus' sake. Brethren, we'll now gather while we sing. Father, we pray thy blessing upon this world. Now as we enter new service, we pray that in utter humility, maintenance and holiness of spirit, we may be men, insist upon being what thou dost prepare us to be. We may deduce from thine own characterizations of us what kind of holy men and women we ought to be. Showing forth the praises of him who brought us out of darkness into his marvelous light. Take away all bitterness, all resentment, all disquietude, all discontent. And bring us eternally into mental and spiritual harmony, as we think together of the shed blood in the broken body. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, God bless us. It's time we wake up, and I pray with the prophet who is the hymn writer awake. God turn, almighty God, turn off their eyes from all these alluring vanities. And let the thunder of thy word awake their souls to hear the Lord. May it be so. We pray thee, shut around us today by thy grace. Shut us out from the world's clamor, from the wagging tongues and the noisy booming voices. And the example that would lead us not toward thee, but toward the world. Save us from it. And shut us in with thee, who may we think and talk and meditate on holy things today. This message is now with our blessing. May it be so. Our Father, we well know that spiritual things can't be reduced to formulas, even though we struggle so hard to do it. An impulse of faith, a sudden reckless daring of the soul in its leap after God, could do more for us than all the carefully laid-out sermons could ever do. We've done all we can do. We've appealed to the intelligence, made some explanations, tried to say in our gracing modern English what has been said with great and stately dignity in our Bibles. My God, now take this that's been spoken and apply it to our hearts. May we, one after the other, turn from Adam's unbelieving world with its self-confidence, its self-reliance, its arrogance, its pride, its mad pleasures, its love of wealth, its love of praise, its love of publicity, its inordinate love of clothing and of fine things and of rich things. Turn us, we pray thee, from it all, not only in our hearts but in reality. And then turn us to Jesus Christ thy Son. We need him, Lord. If we gave up the world and didn't have him, we'd be in a vacuum. Thou quickly take us through that little vacuum and take us to Jesus Christ who is the radiant source of everlasting life and peace, joy, world without end. Thou bless us now as we go on into the Lord's Supper. We ask it in Christ's name. Heavenly Father, we pray that thou wilt single us out as all that were and many others in lonely singleness and speak to us. Lord, it isn't thy will that we should fail in our Christian progress. Lead us, Lord. Thou hast spoken this morning, that we're quite certain. Continue to speak. Save us, we pray thee, from the result of our own foolishness. Save us from the traits of our own nature. Save us, we pray thee, from our own laziness. And make this afternoon, for a sum of time, a crossing over. In the name of grace and mercy and peace and the prime of God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, be with us forever. Lord, we pray thee, help us this moment. We can't ask that we might be worthy to receive of the communion, but we do ask that we might in a worthy manner receive it. Prepare our hearts, O God, to think seriously and reverently and with joy over thy blood and body and righteousness, which are to be to us glorious gifts in the heavenly, bringing our minds from considering the world, and that we think only about thee. Christ's name. Father, we pray thy blessing upon the word given. We pray that thou wilt help us, that our faith might mount up like an eagle, stretch its broad wings and soar so high that nothing can pull it down. And that the eagle can look upon the sun. And we pray that we may look upon thy Holy Son with the right hand of the Magistrate. And that we may be grateful to the point of tears and tenderness that he who is God and very God and very God gave himself and hung on yonder tree. Bless us as we receive of the Lord's Supper. In Christ's name, amen. Father, we pray thee, bless this truth. Long ago thy servant wrote these words, we thy servants in this time long after hear them. There is a living as if they had been written yesterday and delivered this morning. O God, we lift our eyes to thee, thy Son, Jesus Christ the Lord, who is above angels. You sit at thy right hand, and we pray, give to us a spiritual urgency. Give to us a longing which is more than human. Give to us, we pray thee, the desire that's like a fire burning in our bones, that the claims of Christ thy Holy Son may be so strong within us that we cannot neglect them. We shall press on like the day spring, rise higher and higher to the shining light and unto the perfect day. We ask it in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.