Pastor Arthur John Gossip gave a sermon the Sunday after he tragically lost his wife. This is that sermon.
Gossip had reached the bottom of who he was in his grief, and he let's the congregation see this bottom. But at the bottom, he reached the core of all that he believed: "You people in the sunshine may believe the faith, but we in the shadow must believe it. We have nothing else."
The sermon is often called one of the ten greatest sermons ever delivered.
Arthur John Gossip was Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University from 1939 until 1945.
Born in Glasgow, Gossip graduated MA from the University of Edinburgh and was licensed as a Free Church of Scotland minister in 1898. He was minister of a number of churches before coming to St Matthew's United Free Church in Glasgow in 1910; he served as a chaplain in Belgium and France during the First World War, and he returned to Scotland as minister of Beechgrove Church in Aberdeen.
In 1928, Gossip was appointed Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Training in the United Free Church's Divinity school in Glasgow (known as Trinity College after the reunion of the United Free and Church of Scotland in 1929, and the amalgamation of the Divinity schools at the College and the University). The University's Chair of Ethics and Practical Theology was suppressed after Gossip's retirement in 1945.
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