These who go with the baggage waggon are as much a part of the army as those who go in front of the battle. Tiptaft.
Author: A. W. Pink
A CHARGE TO A CHURCH “Thou hast ascended on high,” (Psalm 68.18) Some think it refers to God’s goings forth on behalf of His people Israel, leading them forth to victory, taking their enemies captive, and enriching them with the spoils. Suppose it be so, we are warranted to consider it as mainly referring to …
Christ taketh as poor men may give: where there is a mean portion. He is content with the less, if there be sincerity; broken sums and little feckless obedience will be pardoned, and hold the foot with Him . . . He breaketh not a bruised reed, nor quencheth the smoking flax: but if the …
THE THANKFUL PENITENT Once I find Christ invited by a publican, now by a Pharisee. Wherever He went. He made better cheer than He found, in a happy exchange of spiritual repast for bodily. Who knows not the Pharisees to have been the proud enemies of Christ; men over-conceited of themselves, contemptuous of others, severe …
RURAL DEANS & RAMBLING BISHOPS If every parish church were blessed with a gospel minister, there could be little need of itinerant preaching; but since these ministers are thinly scattered about the country, and neighbouring pulpits are usually locked up against them, it behoves them to take advantage of fields or barns to cast abroad …