THE BLESSING OF THE GOSPEL IN STANLEY DELVES’ CONVERSION Extracted from Preaching Peace by Peter M. Rowell The Harmer’s new shop-boy however proved to be diligent and very interested in the business, and Stanley himself soon began to feel that his future lay in the grocery trade rather than the Police Force. One feature of …
Issue: Issue 2
COMFORT IN BEREAVEMENT When dearest ones are taken, and sorrow fills the breast, Come unto Me, says Jesus, and I will give you rest, ‘Twas for the joy before Me, I died upon the cross, And rose that I might show you, My comfort in your loss. For I will walk beside you, you will …
PAUL’S VISION You have not seen what I have seen, Nor heard what I have heard; You entered not where I have been, Where strangely I was stirred. Through intervening skies I rose To the third heaven of bliss; And saw what no man sees or knows, Nor earth can show, like this. I heard, …
There is life in Jesus Christ to quicken you, in your most dead and uncomfortable frame. Romaine.
THE INFIDEL’S SERMON TO THE PIRATES A native of Sweden, who had imbibed infidel views, had occasion to go from one port to another in the Baltic Sea. When he came to the place whence he expected to sail, the vessel was gone. On enquiring, he found a fishing boat going the same way, in …
God loves to lade the wings of prayer with the choicest and chiefest blessings. Many Christians have found, by experience, praying times to be sealing times. They have found prayer to be a shelter to their souls, a sacrifice to God, a sweet savour to Christ, a scourge to Satan, and an inlet to assurance. …
MINISTERS Gospel ministers should not be too hasty and eager to wipe off every aspersion that is cast on them falsely for Christ’s sake. Dirt on the character (if unjustly thrown), like dirt on the clothes, should be let alone for a while, until it dries; and then it will rub off easily enough.
Before you go to the university you ought to go to school. Do not meddle with election and predestination, until you have experienced something of divine grace in your effectual calling. John Bradford
JOHN BUTTERWORTH John Butterworth was pastor of the Baptist Church in Coventry 1753-1803. This account of his spiritual experiences is taken from a book on local Baptist history by Miss 1. Morris. It was in the Cow Lane Chapel, where this church met from 1793, that William Gadsby was baptized in the year the building …
RECEIVING THE WEAK “Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.” Rom. 14.1. Him that is weak in the faith, receive ye.—In this verse, and onwards to the 13th of the following chapter, the Apostle, as in the 8th and 10th chapters of 1st Corinthians, establishes the duty of …