JESUS, THE CRUCIFIED Jesus, the Crucified, pleads for me, While He is nailed to the shameful tree. Scorned and forsaken, derided and cursed, See how His enemies do their worst! Yet, in the midst of the torture and shame, Jesus, the Crucified, breathes my name! Wonder of wonders, oh! how can it be? Jesus, the …
Author: F.L. Rowell
And now O Lord GOD thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
And now O Lord GOD thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:
Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21 36.
I am mostly gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself. S. Rutherford.
THE POOR STONEBREAKER’S BIRTHPLACE In a village in Wiltshire there lived a Curate, who did the duty of the Parish Church, also the Union-house. He was necessarily often brought into contact with its inmates, and knew most of his parishioners, who greatly respected him. But some of them who had heard purer truth than he …