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
We would fain grow notable by doing, it suits our legal spirit; but we can only grow valiant and succesful by believing. When salvation-work is taken on ourselves, it rests on an arm of flesh, and a withered arm, which must fail; but when we wrestle by believing, the arm of Jesus is engaged to …
KING CHARLES II, HIS CHAPLAIN, AND HIS SCOTTISH COOK. The witty Earl of Rochester being in company with King Charles II, his Queen, the Chaplain, and some ministers of state, after they had been discoursing on business, the King suddenly exclaimed: “Let our thoughts be unbended from the cares of state, and give us a …
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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 …