TIME AND ETERNITY We’ve got to save time is the theme of today, We cut the hours short as we scurry away; Dash here, and dash there, is what all have to do, Then gaze at `the box’ nearly half the night through. `How can you save time – can you bank it like money, …
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COMFORT IN BEREAVEMENT When dearest ones are taken, and sorrow fills the breast, Come unto Me, says Jesus, and I will give you rest, ‘Twas for the joy before Me, I died upon the cross, And rose that I might show you, My comfort in your loss. For I will walk beside you, you will …
GIVE ME THY HEART `My son, give me thy heart,’Jehovah speaks the word, The most amazing thing,that surely I have heard; That God, the mighty God above, Desires to have my worthless love. `My son give me thy heart,’ The voice of God’s own Son, Reminding me of what He once for me had done, …
THE LORD WILL PROVIDE Praise the Lord by whose controlling Seasons come and go; Praise the Lord whose kind consoling Day by day we know. Praise the Lord for gracious guiding And providing Here below. Praise the Lord at whose commanding Harvest time appears, When the fields of corn are standing, Rich with golden ears; …
CHEERFUL GIVERS Part of an address by George Muller. I have been for fifty years, by God’s grace, acting on the principle of Christian giving according to the Scriptures, and I cannot tell you the abundance of spiritual blessing I have received to my own soul through acting thus; that is, seeking to be a …
THE TWO SENDERS Notes on John 20.21 by Paul Watts The risen Jesus said to His disciples, ‘…as my Father has sent me, even so send I you’. The two Senders are two Persons of the Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son. Reflecting the unity of the one Godhead they send in a similar …
LOVEST THOU ME? John 21.16 1) Hark, my soul! it is the Lord; ‘Tis thy Saviour, hear his word; Jesus speaks, and speaks to thee: “Say, poor sinner, lovest thou me?” 2) “I delivered thee when bound, And when wounded healed thy wound; Sought thee wandering, set thee right, Turned thy darkness into light. 3) …
THE BREATH OF GOD Our breath can warm our hands when they are cold, So numbed, that they an object could not hold, When they are warmed, the blood can freely flow, Quicken the pulse, and make the fingers glow And when the fire is getting very low, It soon revives when with our breath …
TRAVAILING IN BIRTH FOR SOULS by John Newton Gal. 4.19 Olney Hymns 26 What contradictions meet In the minister’s emplo It is a bitter sweet, A sorrow full of joy. No other post affords a place For equal honour or disgrace Who can describe the pain Which faithful preachers feel Constrained to speak in vain …
PRAYING FOR RELATIONS by Joseph Hart Kind souls who for the miseries moan Of those who seldom mind their own, But treat your zeal with cold disdain, Resolved to make your labours vain; You, whose sincere affection tends To help your dear ungrateful friends, That think you foes, or mad, or fools, Because you fain …