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title: 'New Year’s Sermon for 1848: Dependence on the Future'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Erskine Mason, Sr.'
date: 1848-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Providence'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 6'
- 'James 4'
- 'Matthew 10'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mason-1848-new-years-sermon-for-1848-dependence-on-the-future
---

# New Year’s Sermon for 1848: Dependence on the Future

A New Year sermon warning against living in imagined futures and procrastination. It urges trust in God's providence, contentment in the present, and preparation for eternity.

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