PSALM 1 A prayer-meeting address by Mr. G. Rose, of Croydon. The Word of God gives us a description of how things are in the sight of God, and none but God’s Word can do that. That is the true perspective of our condition; not what man thinks of us, if he does not get …
Issue: Volume 17
BROWNLOW NORTH’S LAST DAYS Mrs.Campbell continues: ‘On Sunday night he had preached a very arousing discourse upon the awfulness of sin and of God’s wrath, addressed to the unconverted. His two discourses on Wednesday and Friday were addressed more to the Lord’s people. He was quiet, and spoke much of the blessedness of the Christian …
AHAB GOVERNED BY JEZEBEL from Elijah the Tishbite by Dr E W. Krummacher 1796-1868 A great many persons, in every age, are thus led blindfold by human influence. The chains with which the prince of darkness binds mankind to his yoke and banner, are not always the grosser vices and lusts: he secures thousands of …
THE STARTLED PREACHER from Elijah the Tishbite by Dr E W Krummacher 1796-1868 There was, some years ago, not far from this place, a very gifted preacher, who for several years preached with great earnestness and success the doctrine of the cross; and who, on that very account, was violently opposed. One of his opponents, …
A WORD TO SINNERS AND SAINTS From a sermon by William Romaine 1714-1795 `Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.’ Matthew 25.13. Men and brethren, let me speak freely unto you concerning this scripture. It is of great and of eternal importance, and you ought …
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. Samuel Rutherford
It was by the ear, by our first parents listening to the serpent, that we lost paradise; and it is by the ear, by hearing of the Word, that we get to heaven. “Hear, and your souls shall live.” (Isaiah 55:3). Thomas Watson
Good prayers never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive, either what I ask or what I should ask. Joseph Hall
LIBERTY “Where the Spirit of the Lord is. there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3. 17. The gospel is “the perfect law of liberty,” therefore the very perfection of liberty, and thus thoroughly and entirely free from the least taint of bondage, the slightest tincture of servitude. It is this perfect freedom which distinguishes it from …
ARE YOU WHEAT OR CHAFF? J. C. Ryle. There are only two classes of people in the world in the sight of God, those who are called the wheat, and there are those who are called the chaff. Viewed with the eye of man, the earth contains many different sorts of inhabitants. Viewed with the …