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SERMON I.

ISTHMIAN GAMES.

1 Cor. ix. 24, 25.

"Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible."

It is interesting to observe, in various Epistles of St. Paul, many indications of the habits, characters, and situation of the people whom he addresses. One Epistle declares itself, by its internal marks, to be written to a wealthy city, another to a poor one; one to persons under persecution, another to converts in danger from the temptations of peace and prosperity; one to ignorant and simple people, another to those of greater refinement, philosophy, and knowledge.

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