THERE’S NAE STRIFE HERE A word spoken in due season how good is it! Oh how unspeakably good! and who can recount the goodness of the Great Giver in sending the word at the seasonable moment? Illness had laid me low, and I felt myself returning to an unkind, unfeeling, ungrateful world. Satan is sure …
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Christ taketh as poor men may give: where there is a mean portion. He is content with the less, if there be sincerity; broken sums and little feckless obedience will be pardoned, and hold the foot with Him . . . He breaketh not a bruised reed, nor quencheth the smoking flax: but if the …
THE THANKFUL PENITENT Once I find Christ invited by a publican, now by a Pharisee. Wherever He went. He made better cheer than He found, in a happy exchange of spiritual repast for bodily. Who knows not the Pharisees to have been the proud enemies of Christ; men over-conceited of themselves, contemptuous of others, severe …
RURAL DEANS & RAMBLING BISHOPS If every parish church were blessed with a gospel minister, there could be little need of itinerant preaching; but since these ministers are thinly scattered about the country, and neighbouring pulpits are usually locked up against them, it behoves them to take advantage of fields or barns to cast abroad …
PARSON MIDGLEY & HIS SURPLICE Strange it would be to imagine a time when no Nonconformist place of worship existed in Rochdale, and the only meeting-place for the worship of God was the Parish Church standing then, as it does now, upon the hill overlooking the valley of the Roach. The Good Old Days Such …
Take heed of judging thyself unconverted, because thou mayest not have felt so much horror, as some others, in thy first convictions. O believer, thou hast not heard so much, it may be, of the rattling of the chains of hell; nor, in thy conscience, so much of the out-cries of the damned, as to …
REVIVALS OF RELIGION For true revivals of religion no one can be more deeply thankful than I am. Wherever they may take place, and by whatever agents they may be effected, I desire to bless God for them, with all my heart. “If Christ is preached,” I rejoice, whoever may be the preacher. If souls …
In vain do men pretend to religion when ungodly company is their choice. Boston.
THE PRESERVATION OF THE SCRIPTURES Notes of Address Trinitarian Bible Society, Ebenezer Chapel, Luton. 14th May, 1971 Dr. P. M. Rowell The doctrine of the divine inspiration of Scripture is a fundamental truth well known to most if not all those present this evening, I hope we really do believe that the whole of Scripture …