OUR APPROACH TO THE SCRIPTURES Transcript of address by the Rev. D. Fountain, M.A., at the Annual Meeting of the Trinitarian Bible Society, 1967. Is it not an astonishing thing that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came down to this world, preached, wrought signs and wonders, and yet very few believed on …
Issue: Issue 2
LUCY’S LEAGACY J. Ashworth Strange Tales Those who are best acquainted with the young in our Sunday schools and churches, have often witnessed the deep concern of youthful converts for their unsaved friends and relatives, especially their parents. Pardoned themselves, they have the most intense desire that those they love should enjoy the same blessing; …
Grace will act like itself at last, and they that trust in the Lord shall never be ashamed. Though God veil His grace, and give us mercies on the point of His sword, yet, when we pass through the fire and the water. He will abide with us; but they are good eyes to see …
CALEB, THE COLLIER AN EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF DIVINE INTERPOSITION The following remarkable narrative was related by Dr. Samuel Stennett—obtained from Dr. Joseph Stennett, his father—so that its truth is beyond a doubt. Dr. Joseph Stennett married a lady in Wales; in consequence of which he there resided for several years, and preached with great acceptance …
Remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God; whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation. Hebrews 13.7.
WITNESS BEARING One of the ways in which Christians may give evidence in favour of their God is by testifying to the fact of His unmistakeable interposition in answer to believing prayer. The world ridicules the idea, imagining that Nature is wound up like a clock, which mechanically and automatically sets the machinery of the …
JOHN BUNYAN* As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in the place to sleep: and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream… The dream has become immortal. Besides the Bible no book has been so widely translated, nor …
BAPTISM (4) By John Norcott Baptism is Dipping under Water 1. The Greek word Baptize means to plunge or to overwhelm. Thus Christ was plunged in water, Matthew 3.16. He was also plunged or overwhelmed in His sufferings, Luke 12.50. “I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it …