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Alexander Maclaren’s Sermons for All Seasons is a compilation of fifty-two scholarly, insightful sermons. Originally published in two volumes entitled A Year’s Ministry, these sermons demonstrate Maclaren’s years of experience in ministry; his precise, scholarly approach to the study of Scripture; and the eloquence of this famed expositor and orator. Maclaren’s sermons will undoubtedly touch you...

If you expect, and expecting, hope to be like Jesus Christ yonder, you will be trying your best to be like Him here. It is not the mere purifying influence of hope that is talked about, but it is ultimate assimilation to Christ leading to strenuous efforts, each a partial resemblance of Him, here and now. And that is the subject I want to say a word or two about this morning. I. First, then, notice the principle that is here, which is the main thing to be insisted upon, namely, If we are to be pure,