“WAYMARKS” The helps I have received, however, have not always been of a material nature. So heavily burdened was I by reason of the pressure of business cares one day that I felt I could not attend to it any longer. I therefore left the works, shut my office, and set out for home, with …
Issue: Issue 3
THE CRUCIFIXION Lord of unexampled grace, Redeemer of Thy sheep, Subject of eternal praise, Which makes our hearts to leap; Still our choicest strains we bring, Still the joyful theme pursue; Thee the Friend of sinners sing, Whose love is ever new. Endless scenes of wonder rise With that mysterious tree, Crucified before our eyes …
Tis an advantage, not a discouragement, to be weak in ourselves. When a bucket is empty, it can be the better filled out of the ocean.
LIGHT AFFLICTIONS During this year I lost one of my best parishioners. His death was very striking. J. H. was one of the poorest of the poor. He had been disabled from all work by illness for years. Sorely afflicted as he was, he bore his heavy burden with a patience I never saw equalled. …
LORD TO WHOM SHALL WE GO BUT UNTO THEE? FOR I WILL POUR WATER UPON HIM THAT IS THIRSTY (Isaiah 44.3.)
Many eminent saints have lived of whose former existence no trace now remains; many deeply taught and highly favoured ministers have preached whose very names are now utterly lost. But the same God of all grace, who wrought in their hearts to believe, prompted others of His saints and servants to leave on record either …
It is not for us to decide how much or how little grace and faith are necessary for salvation, nor how clear and full a hope of confidence it may be blessed with. But we know that the Lord must communicate some sense of His goodness and mercy to take away the guilt of sin, …
Time with us all here must be short, and we should do what we can to serve our day and generation; to live as far as we can to the glory of God and the good of His people, and not lead useless, selfish, unprofitable lives, as if money were our God. All Christians have …
Address given at Funeral of Mr. John Kemp at Ebenezer Luton on Friday 23rd January 1970 by Mr. V. Farley.
PRAYER. Let my prayer come before Thee; incline thine ear unto my cry, for my soul is full of troubles. (Psm. 88. 2-3). PROMISE. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. (Psm. 34. 17).