Excerpt from The Clergy and the Creeds: A Sermon Preached Before the University of Oxford on Trinity Sunday, 1887, With an Appendix on a Recent Work, Entitled "the Kernel and the Husk," and an Article by the Hon. And Rev. W. H. Fremantle, Canon of Canterbury This little band of Apostles watched class after class fall away watched inquiring curiosity and interest pass into aversion, hostility, hatred and through all this long continuedthey had remained loyal and at the Last Supper their reward came. Their Master contemplates them with a grateful satisfaction: Ye are they which have continued with Me in My temptations, and inasmuch as My Father appointed a Kingdom unto Me, I appoint unto you to eat and drink at My table in My Kingdom, and ye shall sit on thrones. True, the approving words pass immediately into warning still there lay before the Apostles the most thorough sifting they had to experience Satan had desired to have them, that he might sift them as wheat. In large measure they would fail but their faith would revive, and on a basis of assurance which should not again be shaken, for they were, as the reward of their loyalty, to be witnesses of the Resurrection, witnesses that that Jesus, who was crucified in weakness, lived again and eternally by the power of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.