Truth and Righteousness - Baccalaureate Sermon to the Class of '92 #230066

Heaven and earth were made for each other. The same infinite God created both. I am not here to tell you when He made them, or how He made them, but the fact upon which I insist is that He did make them by methods and processes of His own choice. He linked them together in sympathy and interest. It was His evident intention that each should sustain fixed and definite relations to the other. Earth received love, care and counsel from heaven, and gave back love, reverence and loyalty to heaven. Each needed the other. When sin came and threatened to divorce earth from heaven, God would not allow the two worlds to be separated. When the bonds by which they were first joined together failed, He replaced the broken bonds by others that were better and stronger.