Phillips Brooks 
Sermons 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. All this, I think, applies to what St. Paul says about the comfort which God had given him. He gave to it its deepest and most unselfish reason, and so the fact of God’s comforting him became the exaltation and the strengthening of his life. I should like to study his feel ing about it all with you this morning. Out of your closets and pews, from many hearts that need it, hearts sore and wounded with the world, there go up prayers for comfort. This verse of St. Paul seems to me to shine with a supreme motive for such prayers as those, a mo tive which perhaps as we first look at it will seem over strained and impossible; but which I hope we shall see is really capable of being felt, and of stirring to their deep est depths the desire and the gratitude of a strong man.