It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian, than to be a Captain. William Gurnall.
Author: William Gurnall
OLD AB’ On the ridge of hills which divide Lancashire from Yorkshire there is a cluster of huge sandstone rocks, called, by local tradition, Robin Hood’s Bed. Standing on these rocks, with the face towards the setting sun, an irregular dale stretches out on the north-west side, about ten miles in length, bounded by broken …
BE THOU CONTENT Be thou content! be still before His face, at whose right hand doth reign Fulness of joy for evermore, Without Whom all thy toil is vain. He is thy loving spring, thy sun, whose rays Make glad with life and light thy dreary days, Be thou content. In Him is comfort, light …
MINISTERIAL EXERCISES A day of agony, but hope in the end. I went into my study, I prayed – I wept. I never recollect to have gone to the Scripture reading with a more dejected heart; I expected to be short and dry, and difficult in my delivery. I chose the 14th of John for …
THE FIRST SERMON Mr. Dallas was inducted to the living of Yardley on the 22nd of September, 1827. The following little incident afforded him much comfort and encouragement:— One Sunday morning, on his way to Church, he heard a man running after him, and as he seemed to stop to take breath, Mr. Dallas slackened …
A BROTHER BELOVED A Short Appreciation of the life and work of Stanley Delves who died on March 3rd 1978. Stanley Delves was born in 1897, the youngest of four sons of a Sussex craftsman, at Rushlake Green in the parish of Warbleton. His childhood memories of rural Sussex with its marked social classes in …
We need not fear sorrow as a guest in our homes if Christ be there also. But to have no Christ there, and only distress, disappointment, vexation, and fear, this is indeed a dark portion. Anon.
Men may love their friends more than they can help them, but the loving kindness of God is attended with a power as infinite as itself. Ps. 146.5. Charnock
COMFORTING WORDS Sermon Mr. Stanley Delves Forest Fold Chapel, Crowborough April 14th, 1968. “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thess. 4.18. The service this morning takes on a two-fold special nature. For one thing, of course, it is Easter Day. It is not that we ourselves pay all that regard to special days …
Unreasonable fears are the sins of our hearts as truly as they are thorns in our sides; they grieve the Holy Spirit. Isa. 49.14. Daniel Burgess