For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds 2 Cor. 10.4.
Issue: Issue 8
CAST DOWN? A bad day at work? The children awake half the night? Failure in an important examination? The aftermath of influenza? Weeks of dull cloudy weather instead of warm spring sunshine? These and many other factors affect our feelings and, both for the believer and for the unbeliever, the tendency is the same – …
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD If the very greatest of all Christian books, after the Word of God, were to be placed side by side, the Letters of Samuel Rutherford would stand with Augustine’s Confessions, Calvin’s Institutes, and Bunyan’s Pilgrim. A Scottish Presbyterian divine, saint, and pastor, he was born in 1600 and died in 1661. He was …
THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT The eminent Archbishop Ussher being once on a ‘visit to Scotland, heard a great deal of the famous Mr Samuel Rutherford, who, he understood, spent whole nights in prayer especially before the Sabbath. The archbishop wished much to witness such extraordinary down-pouring of the Spirit, but was utterly at a loss how …
Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it.Psalm90.16.17.
Gone, they tell me, is youth; Gone is the strength of my life. Nothing remains but decline, Nothing but age and decay. Not so, I’m God’s little child, Only beginning to live. Coming the days of my prime, Coming the strength of my life, Coming the vision of God, Coming my bloom and my power!
THE END OF THE WAY The following lines were written by a young woman in Nova Scotia, an invalid for many years with spinal disease, and a great sufferer, but in whom the grace of God was most wonderfully manifested. My life is a wearisome journey, I’m sick with the dust and the heat, The …
THE LAST ENEMY Rev. Murdoch Campbell, M.A.* A famous preacher once said that there were golden hours in the lives of many of God’s people when they could, without fear, look beyond the trials of this life, the grave, and even their final judgment before God, to the day when they would see their Lord …
FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK (4) The people of God are fruitful in every good work, only because they are the children of God by the new birth. A creation relationship is never spoken of as being “born of God.” Nicodemus enjoyed a creation relationship, but was informed by the Lord Jesus Christ that he …