PARTICULAR QUESTIONS A few particular questions about frequenting the public house. Will drinking improve your health? Have you any right to damage your health? Do you like to see drunkards? How can you be sure that you will not become addicted to drink? Is it right deliberately to weaken your self control? Does the conversation …
Author: J.C. Ryle
TO THE MEMBERS OF A PRAYER MEETING A letter by Robert Murray McCheyne. It has been a matter of great joy to me to hear that you meet together from time to time to read the Word of God and pray — to pray for a blessing on yourselves and families, that you may be …
Were the stock in our hands, we should soon prove broken merchants. God knows we are but leaking vessels; when fullest, we could not hold it long, and therefore He sets us under the streamings forth of His strength; and a leaking vessel under a cock gets what it loseth.
As a child that travels in his father’s company, all is paid for, but his father carries the purse, not himself. So the Christian’s shot is discharged in every condition, but he cannot say, I did this, or suffered that, but. God wrought all in me and for me.
Thou temptest God to suffer thy locks to be cut, when thou art so bold to lay thy head in the lap of temptation. William Gurnall 1617 – 1679
BETTER THINGS Notes of a sermon preached by E. G. Rowell on March 1, 1948, at Ebenezer Chapel, Old Hill. “But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.” Hebrews 6, 9. Having had a special time in speaking at both services from Hebrews 6, 9, …
THE BIRMINGHAM THIEF AT OLD HILL CHURCH James Ormiston The usual weekly vestry meeting for prayer was held on Tuesday, March 13th, 1877, when the blessing of God the Spirit was desired on behalf of the forth-coming Sabbath meetings. While the prayer-meeting was being held at Old Hill, and God’s people were engaged in pleading …
PREACHING IN BARNSLEY. Incidents in the life of James Taylor, (died 1795) great grandfather of James Hudson Taylor. Long before this, however, he had been privileged to “make full proof of his ministry in truly apostolic ways. Down on the Old Bridge and in the Market Place he had been in danger of his life …
TO A GAY FRIEND A letter by John Newton Dear Sir, Though I truly love you, and have no reason to doubt of the reality of your friendship to me; yet I cannot but apprehend, that notwithstanding our mutual regard, and my frequent attempts to be witty (if I could) for your diversion, there is …
Free will has carried many souls to hell; but never a soul to heaven yet. C. H. Spurgeon.