Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 24 · 1878
Sorrow at the Cross Turned into Joy
John 16:20-22
WE were singing just now a hymn in which the first verse started a difficult question— “‘It is finish’d;’ shall we raise Songs of sorrow, or of praise? Mourn to see the Saviour die, Or proclaim his victory?” The case is very well argued in the second and third verses— “If of Calvary we tell, How…