UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS I am going to tell you about the Covenanter, John Paterson, of Penyvenie, a godly man, who counted not his life dear to him for the cause of his God—who was willing to suffer bonds and imprisonments, or even death itself, rather than do that which his Father in …
Issue: Issue 7
I dare not say but my Lord Jesus hath fully recompensed my sadness with His joys, my losses with His own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ’s joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with Himself. Anon.
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure: for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow.—2 Sam. 23 5.
God hears the heart, though without words; but He never hears words without the heart.
Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you . . . When His people cannot have a providence of silk and roses, they must be content with such …
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 …