All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.For I came down from heaven not to do mine own will but the will of Him that sent Me.And this is the Fathers will which hath sent Me
Issue: Volume 02
Which were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God.—John i. 13.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil. Psalm 90; 14 16.
THE SCEPTRE AND THE SWORD I had been wishing for some time to tell you of the “special” time I felt to have when you last preached from the last verse of the book of Daniel. Several months ago, (and I think it was during a sermon preached from Psalm 37. 23), I was listening …
“There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign: Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.”
This pen-portrait of a native Christian from the islands of the New Hebrides is largely extracted from the book John G. Paton republished by the Banner of Truth in 1965 a book first published in 1889.
SUMMER AND WINTER As it was in the lives of God’s people in other days, so it is now. Let me give but one example. It is that of a young man who was one of my dear companions on earth. This young man could be seen walking on a summer day on a Hebridean …
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED A young man was once employed as a clerk in a telegraph office, in a town in England. In some way or other God had led him to see that he was a sinner, and this caused him great distress of mind. Like a poor lamb in the …
THE INIQUITY OF THE DAY Let them that name the name of Christ depart from the iniquity of the times. There are sins that may be called the iniquity of the day. It was thus in Noah’s day, it was thus in Lot’s day, and it was thus in Christ’s day; I mean in the …