THE WRITING ON THE WALL YOU FROM YOUR GOD. Who wrote them? I never found out. One thing was clear, namely, they had not been recently written there; they had been there for a long time and I had frequently seen them indistinctly and without reading them. I knew that the house had changed hands …
Issue: Issue 3
“The angels of God met him.” Jacob has seen them before, going up and down the heavenly staircase at Bethel, and he knows his old friends again. God gives His angels charge over us, and they do their work so quietly that we never know they have been with us. Would that we could learn …
COMING TO CHRIST A. W. Pink By way of introduction let us bring before the reader the following Scriptures. (1) “Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life;” John 5.40. (2) “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” Matt. 11.28. (3) “No …
A LETTER BY JOHN BERRIDGE “Dear Sir, – Your letter of 2nd of July came duly to hand, but has waited a wearisome while for an answer. Indeed, I have been much, yet not too much afflicted, for some months, with my old disorder, a nervous fever. We have been housekeepers every summer these forty …
Remember Abraham’s sudden failure of faith, think of Job cursing the day of his birth, Elijah under the juniper-tree, Jonah under his gourd, all of these after such experiences of God’s faithfulness and love. How could they forget? God’s people can forget anything if left to themselves.
It is the Lord who adds to the Church, but He is wont to do so by means, and while the preaching of the Word is one means by which He works, the daily walk of the saints is another. There are times when the Holy Spirit seems to put forth little power in public …
What a comfort it is to us that He will never forsake His work! Our eyes once opened to see full salvation in Christ He will never suffer to become blind again, though they may be dimmed, and we may need the Physicians touch. A. Bonar
He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of Mine and shall shew it unto you. John 16.14.
A SENTRY SAVED BY A HYMN A party of tourists gathered on the deck of an excursion steamer that was moving slowly down the historic Potomac one beautiful evening during the summer. A gentleman had been delighting the party with his happy rendering of many familiar hymns, the last being the sweet petition, so dear …
Cast thy burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain thee; He will never suffer the righteous to be moved. Ps. 55.22