ENCOURAGEMENT TO FOLLOW THE SAVIOUR June 1957 Dear— You have been much upon my heart and in my prayers of recent date, but really I should not make that qualification for it has been so for a long time. I have longed that you might be so blessed with the love of Christ and have …
Issue: Issue 7
Prize every outgoing of your soul after Christ.
O the shattered and imperfect devotion of the best saints on earth! O the feeble, fluttering efforts of praise! What poor hallelujahs we send up to heaven on notes of discord, and, as it were, on broken strings. Dr. Watts.
PHILIP DODDRIDGE’S DREAM Dr. Doddridge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dr. Samuel Clarke of St. Albans, and the two men often spent a happy hour together. One evening they conversed on the subject of death, and the departure of the soul from the body. Dr. Doddridge retired to rest with his mind full …
A king from heaven hath sent for you; by faith He showeth you the new Jerusalem, and taketh you along in the Spirit through all the ease-rooms and dwelling-houses in heaven, and saith, “All these are thine; this palace is for thee and Christ”; and if ye only had been the chosen of God, Christ …
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 …