These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full. John 15 11.
Issue: Issue 2
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. Ezekiel 128.
All mankind is condemned as soon as born, life is a reprieve, a suspension of execution, and if during that time a pardon be not effectually sued out, the sentence will be executed according to the severity of justice. J. Owen.
BLIND ADELAIDE Many years since, it was my privilege to be employed as a missionary in the Island of St. Vincent, in the West Indies. My station was in a remote part of the island, and nearly all my congregation were black people, whose ancestors had been brought from Africa as slaves. Among these there …
“Queen Esther would go into the king’s presence, even though there might be no golden sceptre held forth; so believer, venture into God’s presence when you have no smile and no light from the countenance of your God. Trust in a withdrawing God. A good child will believe in his father’s love even when his …
THE AXMINSTER ECCLESIASTICA K. W. H. Howard It is both sad and surprising that Church History is not a subject of general interest among Christians for it is of far greater importance than is commonly realized. What makes it so is the nature of the Church which, both visible and invisible, local and universal, is …
And the woman fled into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. Rev. 12.6.
ONE SIN There is as much felony in coining pence, as shillings and pounds. The principle is the same, whatever the value of the coin may be: the prerogative of the Crown is trenched upon by the counterfeiter, even if he only imitates and utters the smallest coin of the realm. He has set the …