JOHN BUNYAN’S PRAYER “God be merciful to me a sinner and make me to know and believe in Jesus Christ: for I see that if His righteousness had not been, or I have not faith in that righteousness, I am utterly cast away. Lord, I have heard that Thou art a merciful God, and hast …
Issue: Issue 2
BEHOLD how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
2. It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3. As the dew of
The sea-sick passenger shall come to land; Christ will be the first that will meet you on the shore. S. RUTHERFORD.
PENITENCE An enlightened sinner cannot but feel sorrow for all his past and present deviations from the law of God. Being led by grace to the fountain of living waters, he deeply laments his having so long endeavoured to hew out unto himself broken cisterns which can hold no water, and wonders how he could …
We see God’s decrees when they bring forth their fruits, all actions, good and ill, sweet and sour, in their time; but we see not presently the after birth of God’s decree, to wit. His blessed end, and the good that He bringeth out of His holy and spotless counsel. We see His working and …
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings saying. Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. —Revelation 19. 6.
MY PORTRAIT August 13th, 1773 My dear Sir; We are always glad to hear from you, because your paper is perfumed with the name of Jesus. You speak well of Him, and you have reason, for He has been a good friend to you. I likewise am enabled to say something of Him; and I …
I thought it had been an easy thing to be a Christian, and that to seek God had been at the next door, but oh, the windings, the turnings, the ups and the downs that He hath led me through! and I see yet much way to the ford. S. RUTHERFORD.
THE DARK HOUR On returning from a morning appointment at Lower-place, on Sunday, the 15th of November, 1859, two strong, big-boned, but very poorly clad men were coming in the opposite direction. When we met, I took hold of an arm of each, and, in as kindly speech as possible, asked them where they were …
PRAYERS ANSWERED Captain Mitchell K. was from early life accustomed to the sea. He commanded a merchant’s ship that sailed from Philadelphia, After his marriage he again went to sea, and one day committed to writing while in a highly devotional frame of mind, a prayer for the temporal and eternal happiness of his beloved …