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 …
Ye would not go to heaven but with company, and ye may perceive that the way of those who went before you was through blood, suffering, and many afflictions; nay, Christ, the Captain, went in over the door-threshold of paradise, bleeding to death … Christ hath borne the whole complete cross, and His saints bear …
How sad it is to see the contentions which are going on in the churches: what an evidence is this of the low state of divine life! for many of these divisions turn upon points of absolutely little or no importance. How obstinate and unyielding men are on such points as a pew or time …
Be content, ye are His wheat growing in our Lord’s field. And if wheat ye must go under our Lord’s threshing instrument, in His barn-floor, and through His sieve, and through His mill to be bruised, as the Prince of your salvation, Jesus, was (Isa. 53, 9), that ye may be found good bread in …
OLD JANE Jane D. had nearly completed the 103rd year of her age when she fell asleep in Jesus. She had been twice married, was the mother of many children, and had worked hard to bring them up respectably, “without troubling anybody.” Her amount of education was but scanty. In her personal appearance she was …