And he said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him verily I say unto thee today shall thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23.42/43.
Issue: Issue 1
Jesus employs very strange hands sometimes to do His work and carry His message. Berridge.
Richard Cook, a good man, who lived in the next house to Mr. Baxter at Kidderminster, was seized with melancholy, which ended in madness. The most skilful help was obtained, but all in vain. While he was in this state, some good persons wished to meet to fast and pray in behalf of the sufferer; …
SALVATION INDEED There is not one in a thousand that seems to have any true conception of salvation—either what it is, or how it is accomplished. It is the practice of many to describe it as a thing that depends upon a man’s own exertions, or partly upon a man’s own exertions and partly upon …
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 …
David Dickson, professor of divinity in Edinburgh, being asked, when on his deathbed, how he found himself, answered, “I have taken my good deeds and bad deeds ,and thrown them together in a heap, and flee from them both to Christ, and in Him I have peace.” W. Nicholson.
CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE It is a lamentable fact that the Christian experience of our age is very superficial. It is a rare occurrence to hear today of inward struggles that bear any resemblance in depth or power to those recorded by Paul in Romans 7. The knowledge of sin is limited; the feeling of guilt is …
There are three things which, if a Christian could constantly keep in view, they would keep him humble; viz., what he once was, what he now is, and what he will be hereafter.