THE FIRST SERMON Mr. Dallas was inducted to the living of Yardley on the 22nd of September, 1827. The following little incident afforded him much comfort and encouragement:— One Sunday morning, on his way to Church, he heard a man running after him, and as he seemed to stop to take breath, Mr. Dallas slackened …
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And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and smote the waters and said. Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over. 2 Kings 2. 14.
This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me Psalm 119 50.
He that lives in sin and expects happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and expects to fill his barn with barley or wheat. Luke 6.13. John Bunyan
It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian, than to be a Captain. William Gurnall.
OLD AB’ On the ridge of hills which divide Lancashire from Yorkshire there is a cluster of huge sandstone rocks, called, by local tradition, Robin Hood’s Bed. Standing on these rocks, with the face towards the setting sun, an irregular dale stretches out on the north-west side, about ten miles in length, bounded by broken …
BE THOU CONTENT Be thou content! be still before His face, at whose right hand doth reign Fulness of joy for evermore, Without Whom all thy toil is vain. He is thy loving spring, thy sun, whose rays Make glad with life and light thy dreary days, Be thou content. In Him is comfort, light …
MINISTERIAL EXERCISES A day of agony, but hope in the end. I went into my study, I prayed – I wept. I never recollect to have gone to the Scripture reading with a more dejected heart; I expected to be short and dry, and difficult in my delivery. I chose the 14th of John for …