January 1, 1970

Till We Meet Again   “The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.”— Revelation xxii. 21.   THE first saints could never be long without speaking of their Lord and Saviour. He filled their hearts, and therefore they must needs speak of him. How ingeniously they bring him in! When they commence an epistle the …

Revelation:22:21

June 29, 1890

HOLY LONGINGS.   “I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.”-Psalm cxix.131, 132, 133.   LAST Lord’s-day we spoke about being in the …

Psalms:119:131-133

December 25, 1881

Chastened Happiness    “They shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.” — Jeremiah xxxiii. 9.   GOD’S ancient people sadly provoked him with their idolatries from age to age. He was longsuffering to them to the last degree, but at length he grew weary of them, and according …

Jeremiah:33:9

November 6, 1881

The Main Matter   “Many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that, believing, ye might have life through his name.”— John xx. 30,31.   THE public life of our …

John:20:30

October 30, 1881

Baptism- A Burial   "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness …

Romans:6:3-4

October 23, 1881

Without Christ-Nothing    “Without me ye can do nothing.” — John xv. 5.   THIS is not the language of a man of ordinary mould. No saint, no prophet, no apostle would ever have addressed a company of faithful men, and have said to them, “Without me ye can do nothing.” Had Jesus Christ been, as some say, a …

John:15:5

October 16, 1881

Welcome! Welcome!   “And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.”— Luke ix. 11.   MY subject has been suggested to me by the rendering of this passage given in the Revised Version, where we read: “But …

Luke:9:11

October 9, 1881

Whole-Hearted Religion   “And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them.” — Jeremiah xxxii. 39.   THOSE of you who were present last Lord’s-day morning will remember my sermon upon “Mongrel Religion,” in which I dealt with those who …

Jeremiah:32:39

October 2, 1881

Mongrel Religion   "So these nations feared the Lord and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day."—2 Kings 17:41.   "SO DO THEY unto this day," said the writer of the Book of Kings, who has long since passed away unto his fathers. Were he …

2 Kings:17:41

September 25, 1881

The Ark of the Covenant    “And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the laud, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither …

Jeremiah:3:16