![]() Glorify thyself this morning by proving thyself to be Jehovah, who looseth the prisoners." Let us breathe a prayer at the commencement of the sermon this morning, "Lord, break the fetters, and set free the captives. Some of them are mourning on account of unpardoned sin, and others of them are deploring their blighted hopes, for they have looked for comfort where it is never to be found. ![]() We send up our notes of praise right joyously to our Father who is in heaven, but our praises cannot give them joy, for alas! their hearts are unused to gratitude. We preach liberty to the captives we proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord but how many remain year after year in the bondage of Satan, slaves to sin. Alas! what a picture is this of many in our congregations. Perhaps when we sang praises to God, the prisoners, like those who were in the same jail with Paul and Silas, heard us but the free word above did not give them liberty, nor did the voice of song loose their bonds. It at once struck me as a singular combination, that we should be preaching the gospel of liberty in the upper chamber, while there were prisoners of the law beneath us. These belonged to the prison cells where persons committed for offenses within the jurisdiction of the borough were confined. ![]() ![]() WHEN PREACHING LAST TUESDAY in Dover, the mayor of the town very courteously lent the ancient town-hall for the service, and in passing along to reach a private entrance, I noticed a large number of grated windows upon a lower level than the great hall. "The Lord looseth the prisoners."-Psalm 146:7. Delivered on Sunday Morning, December 14th, 1862, byĪt the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington ![]()
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