Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Gaelic and English sermons of the late Rev. John Macalister, with memoir

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of wrath, and thereupon the remission of sin, and a right to
everlasting righteousness. On the cross the sacrifice was
given for us : in the sacrament it is given to us, to put us
in mind of what He did for us.
3. Remember this death with reverence of the holiness
of God. Here you see God's purity, His hatred of sin.
Remember it with reverence of the justice of God. " God
spared not His own Son."
4. Remember this death with mourning hearts for sin.
A broken Christ must not be remembered without a broken
heart. A bleeding Christ and a hardened spirit, a suffering,
weeping Christ, and a senseless heart are unsuitable. Our
passover should be eaten with bitter herbs, with sorrow for
sin Commemorate the death of Christ with
deep considerations of the cursed nature and demerit of sin.
Must not sin be bitter, killing, cursed sin which brought
Christ to such a bitter death 1 Many of the great pro-
fessors and ministers of this day seem to lose sight of
Christ, and to be altogether swallowed up in themselves,
swallowed up in their own experience of sorrow and joy, and
to forget the soul-sorrow of the Saviour. They seem not to
have a heart to feel for Christ, or to think much of what He
suffered, or what He is ; but what He did for them, and
what they are in themselves. Lord, preserve me from this
spirit ! " They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced,
and they shall mourn for Him" &c. (Zechariah xii. 10).