A small tribute to the memory of the late Editor Frank Leslie Rowell
Issue: Issue 7
I am mostly gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself. S. Rutherford.
Prayer is the barometer of the Church. When the spirit of supplication is low, there is but little of the Spirit of God, and as soon as the prayer meeting begins to fill up with earnest suppliants, the Christian may hope for a blessing. T. V. Moore.
Look up to Him and love Him! O, love and live. S. Rutherford.
THE GERMAN EMIGRANT It was once my privilege to have connected with my charge a gracious old man, who loved to converse on the subject of experimental religion. He had a happy method also of illustrating topics of this nature by incidents belonging to the days of his boyhood, and the early settlement of the …
IS NOT THIS A BRAND PLUCKED OUT OF A FIRE? Some years ago a certain lady was in the habit of reading several chapters of the Word and praying aloud upon retiring to her bedroom. One night, going to her room as usual, she discovered a man under her bed. She made no alarm; but …
ENCOURAGEMENT IN TEMPTATION February 1953 Dear Peter, This will be the first note to you at your new address so I will wish you well and assure you of continued prayer, as I am enabled of the Lord (you know the painful meaning of that phrase now and you shall also know its joyous meaning …
O, what need have I to have the ashes blown away from my dying-out fire! I may be a book-man, and be an idiot and stark fool in Christ’s way; learning will not beguile Christ: the Bible beguiled the Pharisees, and so may I be misted. Therefore, as night-watchers hold one another waking by speaking …
Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth. S. Rutherford.