September 18, 1884

Strength and Recovery   “And I will strengthen them in the Lord: and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.”— Zechariah x. 12.   THIS text is pitched in the royal key. It has nothing of the caution and doubting of man about it. Where the word of a king is there is power, …

Zechariah:10:12

September 14, 1884

Though He Were Dead   “Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. …

John:11:24-26

August 17, 1884

Pleading and Encouragement   “Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” — Ezekiel xviii. 23. “For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” — Ezekiel …

Ezekiel:18:23-32

August 17, 1884

A Message to the Glad and the Sad   “When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.” — Job xxii. 29.   THIS is Eliphaz, the Temanite, who is speaking, and he is telling Job what he thinks would be the condition of a man who had …

Job:22:29

August 14, 1884

Sight for Those Who See Not   “And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.”— John ix. 39.   THE great day of judgment is not as yet. God in infinite long-suffering waiteth to be gracious, giving men space wherein …

John:9:39

August 10, 1884

Return, Return, O Shulamite; Return, Return!   “Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.”— Solomon’s Song vi. 13.   THE translation into the word “Shulamite” is unhappy: it is unmusical, and misses the meaning. The Hebrew word is a …

Song of Solomon:6:13

August 10, 1884

The Greatest Folly in the World   “There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.” — Romans iii. 11.   WE are told that God looked out of heaven to see if there were any that had understanding, that did seek after God. If there had been any, God would have seen them, for he …

Romans:3:11

August 10, 1884

Return! Return!   “Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.” — Solomon’s Song vi. 13.   THE translation into the word “Shulamite” is unhappy: it is unmusical, and misses the meaning. The Hebrew word is a feminine of “Solomon.” …

Song of Solomon:6:13

August 3, 1884

The Glory in the Rear   “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud …

Exodus:14:19

August 3, 1884

The One and the Many   “The judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.” — Romans v. 16.   I AM not going to speak at length about the doctrine of the federal headship of the first Adam and of the second Adam, which is to my mind indisputably taught …

Romans:5:16