Amidst all our discouragements in ministering to others, and amidst all our doubts respecting ourselves, there is yet a foundation, both sure and stedfast, even the rock of God’s eternal election. Were it not for this, how would my hands hang down! and what hope could I have for others? But this sets all to …
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DIVINE GUIDANCE It is well for those who are duly sensible of their own weakness and fallibility, and of the difficulties with which they are surrounded in life, that the Lord has promised to guide His people with His eye, and to cause them to hear a word behind them, saying, “This is the way, …
GRACE ALL-SUFFICIENT “And God is able to make all grace abound toward YOU. — 2 Cor. 9. 8. “My grace is sufficient for thee”; The promise I know and believe; But I long from my fears to be free, And life-giving grace to receive. I am pained with the burden of sin; My failings and …
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THE GOSPEL CALL The largeness of the gospel (more properly termed, the ministerial) call does by no means imply the universality of grace. A fisher throws his net into the sea at large; not from an expectation of catching all the fishes that are in the sea, but with a view of catching as many …
THIRZA From the German, by Elizabeth Marie Lloyd* Concluded from Vol 6 p.202 II Joy cometh in the morning Let us now turn to her unhappy father, who in the meantime passed many an hour of untold misery. He shut himself up, and refused to attend to any but indispensable business. For him there was …
“What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? … Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty” 2 Cor. …
God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us makes us worthy. Thomas Watson
LIFE’S JOURNEY A Letter to an elderly person What is our life? It is a journey that is soon ended, a tale that is soon told, a day whose hours roll by quickly. It is vapour, which rises for a while, and then vanishes; a flame that bums for a moment or two, and then …
FAITH IN GOD The life of the Revd. Duncan Dunbar furnishes several examples of this grace, and of its abundant reward. One of these concerns a Mrs. Maitland, a member of his congregation, who was unable to secure a house unless someone was responsible for the rent. She went to Mr. Dunbar, as her best …