THE PRECIOUSNESS OF PRAYER What a rich merchant is the saint, who has a stock going in so many hands! In heaven Christ is at prayer for him, on earth his brethren. What can he want? Christ has such an interest in His father’s heart, that He can deny Him nothing; the saint such an …
Issue: Issue 2
SAFE KEEPING When perils surround us, and subtle and dangerous foes watch for our hurt on every hand, shall we not find relief in knowing that we have a reliable assurance of safe keeping? This assurance is given by he Lord Jesus Christ to His faithful people. Satan and his angels cannot be seen by …
THE SHIP GLORY, OR, THE VALUE OF TRUE RELIGION The following copy of a letter picked up in a bottle thrown overboard from a vessel which foundered at sea, which otherwise would never have been heard of, gives pause for thought: At Sea, October 19th, 1862. “My Dear Wife, Before you get these few lines …
CONVERSION OF THOMAS ADAM OF WINTRINGHAM Many years ago there was a vigorous-minded man, and an able scholar, the rector of Wintringham, in Lincolnshire. Entering the ministry without love to God, or to the souls of men, for years he spent his professional income in self-indulgence; and, whilst the pastor amused himself, the people perished. …
THE PARDON OF SIN Pardon is God’s family blessing, and the peculiar mercy of His choicest children. He hands out other things to wicked men, but He grants this only to His family members. This blessedness consists in enjoying God’s favour. We may be sick to death, with Lazarus, and be God’s friends; sold to …
A Sermon preached by Mr. Kenneth J. Cordle at Swaffham Prior Cambs. September 7th 1980 Colossians 4.3.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. Ps. 68.6.
THE SILENCE OF GOD (2)* There is a silence, or an apparent silence of God in some of His providential dealings with one and another of His people. They seem so mysterious that to the eye of sense God’s moral government of the world is strangely uneven. The wicked are often rich and prosperous, and …