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I. R. BUTTS........PRINTER.......... .....2 SCHOOL STREET.

JESUS CHRIST

THE

CHIEF CORNER-STONE.

A PROMINENT thought suggested by the New Testament writers is, that Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone of the Christian Church; that on him the edifice is built, the apostles and early Christian teachers occupying a subordinate place. I shall speak of Jesus as the foundation of our faith, our practice, and our hopes. In the first place, however, I ask your attention to the relation. in which the foundation of the Church stands to God; to the fact that is implied in the passage that Jesus Christ is himself a part of the Church, though the most important part of it. He is not represented as the architect of the Christian Church, but the chief corner-stone of it. The architect of the Christian Church, he who laid the chief corner-stone of the foundation, the ultimate source of the Christian's confidence, is the God ad Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; the same being in whom he trusted, to whom he prayed, in fulfilling the will of whom he

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