SERMON I. 'FATHERS AND CHILDREN.' MALACHI iv. 5, 6. 'Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.' THESE words are especially solemn words. THE They stand in an especially solemn and important part of the Bible. They are the last words of the Old Testament. was God's will that they I cannot but think that it should stand where they Malachi, the prophet who are, and nowhere else. wrote them, did not know perhaps that he was the last of the Old Testament prophets. He did not know that no prophet would arise among the Jews for 400 years, till the time when John the Baptist came, preaching repentance. But God knew. And by God's ordinance these words stand at the end of the Old Testament, to make us understand the beginning of the New Testament. For the Testament ends by saying that God would B |