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Issue: Volume 18
YEDDIE’S FIRST AND LAST COMMUNION A poor mentally retarded lad, who was supported by his parish in the Highlands of Scotland, passed his time in wandering from house to house. He was silent and peaceful, and won the pity of all kind hearts. He had little power to converse with his fellow men, but seemed …
MINDS CORRUPTED J. C. Rylewhole Roman Empire, excepting one little corner, was sunk in the darkest heathenism; when he died the mighty fabric of heathenism was shaken to its very centre, and ready to fall. And none of the agents whom God used to produce this marvellous change did more than Saul of Tarsus, after …
THIS MAN RECEIVETH SINNERS A Sermon preached at Rehoboth Chapel, Coventry, 2nd March 1980. `And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.’ Luke 15.2. These words were spoken by people whose attitude to the Lord Jesus Christ was one of the most bitter antagonism. They were men who …
TIME AND ETERNITY We’ve got to save time is the theme of today, We cut the hours short as we scurry away; Dash here, and dash there, is what all have to do, Then gaze at `the box’ nearly half the night through. `How can you save time – can you bank it like money, …
Notes on a lecture at Evington, December 2002 Background I need to give you a very brief outline of the period leading up to the times Augustine lived in. The NT church was led by our Lord’s chosen Apostles. Local churches were under the leadership of elders (also called bishops, overseers, presbyters) and deacons. It …
THE PILLAR Henry Law, one time Dean of Gloucester `The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.’ Exodus 13.21. The children of Israel are about to tread …
JOHN OWEN, A PRE-EMINENT PURITAN Notes of a Lecture, December 2004. Historical Background The history of Puritanism may be divided into three periods. 1. From the accession of Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603) to the crushing of the Presbyterian movement by her in 1593. 2. From 1593 to the calling of the Long Parliament in 1640. 3. …
News may come that Truth is sick, but never that it is dead. William Gurnall