But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit into holiness and the end everlasting life.— Rom. 6. 22.
Issue: Issue 7
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A MINISTER IN A DAY OF REJECTION Servant of Christ, stand fast amid the scorn Of men who neither know nor love thy Lord; Turn not aside from toil; cease not to warn, Comfort and teach, trust Him for thy reward; A few more moments’ suffering, and then Cometh sweet rest from all …
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the Just for the unjust that He might bring us to God.—1 Peter iii. 18.
DIVINE PROVIDENCE Mr. John Newton relates, that many proofs had passed under his immediate notice of the faithfulness of God in answering the prayers of parents who had left behind them young and helpless children. He especially mentions a friend of his, a laborious Christian minister, in the West of England, in whose family the …
THE BEATITUDES H. P. Wotton “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy”. Matthew 5.7. I. The nature of mercy To find the true nature of a thing it is best to look at it in its purest form; and so our view of mercy should not be in fallen man, where it is …
PREACHING IN PRISON Grigory Kostiuchenko, 49, was released April 1983 from his fourth term of imprisonment. Had you been at his welcome home party, you may have heard him relate this story of how God touched the hearts of criminals in his prison cell. Christ once said to His disciples, “If ye had known Me, …