PREACHED ON SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1837.
Re-opening of Trevor Chapel, Brompton,
REV. J, HARRIS, OF EPSOM,
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My house shall be called a house of prayer for all
people."-Is. lvi. 7.
IN the ordinary course of preaching it is, perhaps, de-
sirable to limit the attention to particular truths, and to
such as admit of personal application, and practical obser-
vation. Occasions sometimes arise, however, where sub-
jects present themselves which seem to invite the mind
to a loftier range and a more comprehensive view of
truth: occasions, when, almost unbidden, the past yields
up its treasures; and ages, with the men who have made
them memorable; dispensations, with the miraculous facts
and sublime disclosures which distinguish them; and the
futurity of time, with its distant horizon clothed in flames;
and eternity, with all the plans of God fulfilled, pass in
succession before our eyes.
The dedication of a house to the worship and service of
God, or the re-opening of such a place, may be regarded
as one of those occasions. For it is an event which
springs out of all the past, and stands related to all the