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.
Issue: Issue 8
HUMILITY A PRIVILEGE HUMILITY is a principal grace, and is so necessary in forming the Christian character, that without it religion cannot exist. Those who are destitute of the grace of humility, whatever profession they have made of Christianity, have in truth the rudiments of it yet to learn. If they have been soaring upward …
WISE COUNSEL Mistress,—Grace, mercy, and peace be to you. I long to hear how your soul prospereth. I exhort you to go on in your journey; your day is short, and your afternoon’s sun will soon go down; make an end of your accounts with your Lord; for death and judgment are tides that bide …
“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.
Text: And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call. (Joel 2 32)
There is as much in our Lord’s pantry as will satisfy all His bairns, and as much wine in His cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on; for there is meat in hunger for Christ: go never from Him, but fash* Him (who yet is pleased with the importunity of hungry souls) with …
In the selfsame day entered Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth the sons of Noah and Noahs wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark.—Genesis 7. 13.