Let it please the Lord to take me out of this life this hour, or whensoever He pleaseth, I leave this behind me, that I do and will acknowledge Jesus Christ for my Lord and my God. I have not this out of the Scripture only, but also by great and manifold experience; for the …
Issue: Issue 4
SPIRITUAL BEAUTY A minister had been delivering a lecture in a village in Hampshire at a distance from his usual field of labour. His homeward walk led him past a little cluster of cottages hidden amongst some green banks and shady slopes. One of the cottages was a hut, desolate in the extreme, and shewing …
A FAITHFUL GOD A venerable clergyman in the West of England, by the name Thompson, had annually for many years made it his custom to distribute the overplus of his farm among the poor of his parish, after having supplied the wants of his own household. One year, however, he was compelled to depart from …
A BAD MEMORY There was in Lochcarron a gracious woman, one of the excellent of the earth, who was afflicted with a bad memory. Her inability to carry away with her the precious things she heard as she sat under Mr. Lachlan’s ministry caused her great distress. Deeply dejected in mind, she went to make …
Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 1 Peter 3 7.
All our fresh springs are in Christ; all the strength, support, and comfort we have come from Him. He is in all providences, be they never so bitter, so afflicting, never so smarting, so destructive to our earthly comforts, Christ is in them all; His love, His wisdom. His mercy. His pity and compassion, is …
It is better to pine away in our afflictions than to be freed from them by sinning. John Bunyan.
He that lives in sin and expects happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley. (Luke 6.44; Gal. 6.7,8). John Bunyan.
Go not about to palliate, nor to think to extenuate your sin, by arguments fetched from God’s decree. That sin of the Jews, in crucifying the Lord of glory, was in no wise lessened because the counsel of God had determined the thing to be done; for they perpetrated it with wicked hands. Nor is …
ON COMPANY People very often go into company in order to avoid communing with their own heart. They are afraid, or at least not fond, of being alone. And whereas the good man is satisfied from himself, they seek their happiness from external objects. If people found happiness within themselves, they would not so restlessly …