THE URGENT NECESSITY Where, then, are we to get the will-power to ensure that this important work is done? Concern for the glory of God should give it. God has designed the church on the pattern of His own character. It is to reflect His glory. It cannot do this if it is indifferent to …
Magazine: Issue 8
AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM Egypt, Babylon and Tyre Rise and flourish and expire; Greece and Rome return to dust, Rise they may, but fall they must. Britain’s proud imperial might Sinks forever out of sight. Marxist power disintegrates, Time, all powers annihilates. As it has been, so it is, Man imagines power is his, Tyrants threaten, …
The following autobiographical notes are taken almost verbatim from the writings of my grandfather the late Ebenezer George Rowell father of the late Editor of this magazine.
THE STORM On a large, clumsy, and ill-equipped ferry-boat, crossing the Firth of Forth from Newhaven to Bumtisland, were nearly two hundred human beings, proceeding to the great annual fair held at the last-named place. Most of those on board comprised what may be termed the odds and ends of the floating portion of society, …
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS Sermon Crowborough Mr. S. Delves “Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith. Today if ye will hear his voice. Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness.” Hebrews 3.7-8 This is a very remarkable scripture. It is much more remarkable than would appear from …
THE ONE MAN MINISTRY A comment from a sermon by C. H. Spurgeon Every now and then there creeps up in the Church a sort of striving against God’s ordained instrumentality. I marked it with sorrow during the Irish Revival. We constantly saw in some excellent papers remarks which I thought exceedingly injurious, wherein it …
BAPTISM (5) By John Norcott Baptism in water is to continue. So that it may be clear that Baptism in water is to continue, and to be practised by believers until the second-coming of Jesus Christ, notice these considerations. 1. Consider that baptism in water was once commanded, and that command has never yet been …
“BUY AND EAT . . . WITHOUT MONEY” Gold or spices have I none, For a present to my King, All my livelihood is gone, Only rags and wounds I bring. But I’ll traffic. Lord, with Thee. For Thy market suits me well; All my blessings must be free, And I know Thou wilt not …