A WORD TO WOULD-BE GREAT PREACHERS The best method of preaching Christ is living Christ. It is the finest eloquence, the most powerful logic, the most effective of all the arts and schemes of human wisdom and learning; the greatest evidence of Christianity, and the grandest demonstration of the power of God in the midst …
Issue: Issue 5
Love with a stammer rather than be dumb. Robert Leighton
From a letter from Mr. Rowland Minister at Hopewell to Mr. Prince Minister at Boston printed at Philadelphia 1745.
In October 1891 while Charles Haddon Spurgeon set out on his last journey to Mentone where he died on 31st January 1892 the British Weekly published a letter written by him at the age of fifteen in 1849. It ran as follows:
FORGIVENESS AMONG CHRISTIANS* by W. F. BeU Is it not a sad fact that there are few Christian duties so little practised as forgiveness? Is there not too much bitterness, unmercifulness, spite, hardness, and unkindness among Christians? Yet, we are plainly commanded in Scripture to forgive our brethren: “Forgiving one another” (Ephesians 4.32; Colossians ..13). …
ATHANASIAN CREED This is a Declaration of the Christian Faith, formulated during the Fourth Century, A.D., in Defence of the Foundation Truths of Christianity. Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic* Faith. Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish …
A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS When we are about to pull down a house, intending to rebuild it, we remove the inhabitants out of it, lest they should be injured by the fall, and we provide for them some temporary residence; but when we have rebuilt the house, then we bring them back to …
THE BIBLE It is a book of laws to show the right and the wrong. It is a book of wisdom, that makes the foolish wise. It is a book of truth, which reflects all human errors. It is a book of life, that shows how to avoid everlasting death. It is the most entertaining …