SPIRITUAL BEAUTY A minister had been delivering a lecture in a village in Hampshire at a distance from his usual field of labour. His homeward walk led him past a little cluster of cottages hidden amongst some green banks and shady slopes. One of the cottages was a hut, desolate in the extreme, and shewing …
Author: Krummacher
THE STORY OF A HYMN OR HOW GEORGE NEUMARK SUNG HIS HYMN FOR THE CHURCH OF CHRIST I The Thirty Years’ War was over, and Germany rested from blood. About 1650, two years after the peace, a young man was living in one of the narrowest and filthiest lanes of Hamburg. No one visited him, …
KING CHARLES II, HIS CHAPLAIN, AND HIS SCOTTISH COOK. The witty Earl of Rochester being in company with King Charles II, his Queen, the Chaplain, and some ministers of state, after they had been discoursing on business, the King suddenly exclaimed: “Let our thoughts be unbended from the cares of state, and give us a …
THE BEATITUDES H. P. Wotton ‘Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.’ Matthew 5. 4. I. This Beatitude does not apply to all who mourn This beatitudes belong only to the born-again children of God, for none but they have these spiritual attitudes brought about in their hearts by the work of …