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.
Issue: Issue 6
An extract from the republished autobiography of John Kershaw issued by Gospel Tidings Publications.
ASSOCIATIONS With the passage of years there is an accumulation of Associations; objects that come under observation, sounds that we hear, words that are spoken, will recall to our minds events which may have taken place many years ago. A face we see, a house, a town;—even the tones of a voice, the pealing of …
JERUSALEM, MY HAPPY HOME A few verses of this hymn, modernized, are familiar to most, but the complete poem, is little known, it was composed by a prisoner in the Tower of London, during the time of religious persecution the original manuscript signed, “F.B.P.”, is now in the British Museum.) Hierusalem, my happie home, When …
The subject laid upon my mind after a great deal of exercise is the spiritual problem of unanswered prayer the silence of God delays from Heaven.
But do Thou for me O God the Lord for Thy Names sake: because Thy mercy is good deliver Thou me. For I am poor and needy and my heart is wounded within me. Psalm 109 vs. 21 and 22.
God hath called you to Christ’s side, and the wind is now in Christ’s face in this land; and seeing ye are with Him, ye cannot expect the lee-side or the sunny side of the brae. He delighteth to take up fallen bairns and to mend broken brows: binding up of wounds is His office. …