THE GREAT GATHERING* by J. C. Ryle `Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him.’ 2 Thess. 2.1 The text which heads this page contains an expression which deserves no common attention. That expression is – `Our gathering together.’ `Our gathering together!’ Those …
Issue: Issue 3
In spiritual graces let us study to be great, and not to know it. Thomas Adams
How glad would you be of enjoying time to hear the voice of peace when you are entering upon eternity, who are not at leisure now to hear divine precepts while in the possession of time. Bartholomew Ashwood (1622-78)
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Cor. 2:17.
REVIVAL AT BOVEVA Rev. Adam Magill* In the summer of 1856, four young men in my congregation resolved to establish a social meeting for prayer, to be called the Sabbath-school Teachers’ Prayer-meeting. Little interest was felt in this meeting for several months; yet these young men, having felt the power of religion on their own …
We would fain grow notable by doing, it suits our legal spirit; but we can only grow valiant and succesful by believing. When salvation-work is taken on ourselves, it rests on an arm of flesh, and a withered arm, which must fail; but when we wrestle by believing, the arm of Jesus is engaged to …
BAPTISM (8) By John Norcott Answers to common objections. Such is the corruption of man’s heart that he will make objections against the clearest truth in the blessed Word of God, and therefore do men raise objections against Believer’s Baptism. Yet we do not marvel; for which of the truths of God has not been …