THOUGHTS ON HEARERS AND HEARING What is merely heard is liable to be forgotten; but what is practised is sure to be remembered. If I sincerely desire a gracious frame in going to hear the Gospel, the Lord alone must frame that gracious desire. When the Lord applies wisdom to the heart of a hearer …
Issue: Issue 3
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MINISTER Lay open the spirituality of the law, and its extent, reaching to every thought, word, and action, and declaring every transgression, whether by omission or commission, deserving of death. Declare .man’s utter helplessness to change his own nature, or to make his peace. Pardon and holiness must come from the …
FEMALE PREACHERS Is there any new thing under the sun? (Eccles. 1.9). In the light of current controversy on women in the ministry, it is of interest to note how the subject was handled in 1865. The anonymous article following was contributed to the Gospel Magazine in that year. There were orders and degrees in …
COMPARISONS A rough hand is better than a smooth tongue. God’s hand is not disturbed by man’s wickedness. Those who are stedfast in Christ ought to be stedfast for Him. The peace of God in the soul is an excellent remedy for a quarrelsome temper. Satan’s servants do not always perform their work in their …
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.
PASTORS GIVEN BY GOD “I will give you pastors according to my heart” is God’s promise through Jeremiah to a very wayward family of backsliding children! The sovereignty and amazing graciousness of God’s giving could not be more clearly expressed; and it is a sovereignty which is also expressed by the Apostle Paul, “And he …
PERFECT UNION HEREAFTER I have seen a field here and a field there stand thick with corn, a hedge or two has separated them; at the proper season the reapers entered. Soon the earth was disburdened and the grain was conveyed to its destined resting place where, blended together in the barn or sack, it …
And they went forth and preached every where the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. Mark 16.20.