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 …
Issue: Issue 2
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 …
THE LORD GOD A SUN AND SHIELD As a sun He shows me more and more of my sinfulness; but then as a shield, He gives me power to oppose it and assurance that I shall conquer. As a sun, He discloses so much of the enormity of guilt, that I am forced to exclaim, …
A SOLEMN WARNING A poor old man named T—— had been regularly attending my cottage readings, when they were commenced (about two years ago): it always made my heart leap to see him take his seat in his own corner near the fire, and when the meeting was over I always stayed to have a …
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.
THE TEST I am sure you will admit, with me, that as the Lord’s saving visit to Zacchaeus prompted him at once to assail his besetting sin of covetousness, exclaiming, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I …