Christ our Example
Issue: Issue 4
Free will has carried many souls to hell; but never a soul to heaven yet. C. H. Spurgeon.
STRIVING TOGETHER A Sermon Outline by J. Bunyan McCure Sydney, Australia March 1, 1863 I preached my twenty-third anniversary sermons from Rom. 15. 30, morning and evening, and was very much favoured. The Lord blessed the sermons to many of His dear people. I have been requested to publish them, but that I cannot do. …
DEACON LEE’S OPINION Extracted from The Sower, 1909 Deacon Lee, who was a kindly, silent, faithful, gracious man, was one day waited upon by a restless, ambitious, worldly church member, who was labouring to create uneasiness in the church, and especially to drive away the pastor. The deacon came in to meet his visitor, who, …
Spurgeon on Bunyan: Read anything of his, and you will see that it is almost like reading the Bible itself. He had studied our Authorised Version, which will never be bettered, as I judge it, till Christ shall come; he had read it till his whole being was saturated with Scripture. …. Prick him anywhere; …
ARE YOU WHEAT OR CHAFF? J. C. Ryle. There are only two classes of people in the world in the sight of God, those who are called the wheat, and there are those who are called the chaff. Viewed with the eye of man, the earth contains many different sorts of inhabitants. Viewed with the …
POLYCARP A. R. Bonar The Last Days of Eminent Christians In the writings of Eusebius we have an account of Polycarp’s martyrdom, contained in an epistle written by the Church of Smyrna to that of Philadelphia, and it is a document of undoubted genuineness and deep interest. The most admirable Polycarp, when he first heard …
Incidents in the life of James Taylor (died 1795) great grandfather of James Hudson Taylor.
TO A GAY FRIEND A letter by John Newton Dear Sir, Though I truly love you, and have no reason to doubt of the reality of your friendship to me; yet I cannot but apprehend, that notwithstanding our mutual regard, and my frequent attempts to be witty (if I could) for your diversion, there is …
And we know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness.1 John 5 19.