Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5. 6.
Issue: Issue 6
J. C. Ryle And when much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed some fell by the wayside; and it was trodden down and the fowls of the air devoured it. And …
THE PAINS INVOLVED What may a church which implements corrective discipline expect? It would not be difficult to give specific examples of what follows, but we shall confine ourselves to general statements. It may expect misunderstanding. Because most Christians are ignorant of the nature and intentions of church discipline, very many will assume that the …
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 …
EXHORTATION, EXERCISE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPECTATION Sermon Mr. H.Dawson “Union”Chapel, Bethersden May 31st, 1959 Hebrews 13: 13, 14. “Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp, bearing His reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.” This is a word which was penned by the Apostle Paul long …
Descant not on other men’s deeds, but consider thine own: forget other men’s faults, and remember thine own. Robert Leighton.
POVERTY “Give me neither poverty nor riches,” is the prayer of a very wise man. But, although our nature is so averse from poverty, yet when it pleases God to call any of us to that state, He assigns us a post of honour, and He takes it very well when we glorify Him in …
When a believer marries an unbeliever, what is it but reviving the old cruel punishment of tying the living and the dead together?
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.—Galations 6. 7
A YOUNG DISCIPLE Caleb Vernon, was the son of Mr. John Vernon, a Baptist minister, who, during the civil wars, preached the Gospel in Ireland. He was a member of the Church in Dublin, and probably an elder at the time when John Thomas was pastor; and in the year 1653, was the bearer of …