Things New and Old

Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, the successor of D. L. Moody at Northfield, seems to have the apt way of putting things scriptural that distinguished his illustrious predecessor. In a recent sermon he said: "Things new and old. What are these? They are one in essence. There may be neither the one nor the other without each and both. What is old? The principle. What is new ? The application. What are the things that are old? The roots. What are the new things ? The blossoms; and the two are necessary to growth and advancement. If you destroy the old, there will be no new; the absence of the new proves the death of the old. If you destroy the roots of the tree, there can be no blossoms; and if there be no blossoms, no fruitage, you at once become anxious and begin to question the life of the tree. The root is old, the blossom is new; the principle is old, the application is new. And you may always take these new things and test each by their interrelation. The new which contradicts the old is false, whether it be a woman, or a journalism, or a theology; but the old which has no new is dead, whether it be a woman, or journalism, or theology."