May 1, 1881

A Song and a Solace   “Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.” — Job x. 12, 13.   BEFORE I speak upon these two verses, I will read the four which precede them, that you …

Job:10:12, 13

April 28, 1881

Sarah and Her Daughters    “Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you.”— Isaiah li. 2. “Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.”— 1 Peter iii. 6.   I DESIRE to thank God for having had the privilege …

1 Peter:3:6

April 27, 1881

Hearken and Look; or, Encouragement for Believers   "Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden …

Isaiah:51:2-3

April 24, 1881

Matthew:5:15-16

April 21, 1881

Ruth Deciding for God   “And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.” — Ruth i. 16.   THIS was a very brave, outspoken confession of …

Ruth:1:16

April 17, 1881

Rejecters of the Gospel Admonished   “To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.” — Isaiah xxviii. 12.   ASSUREDLY Isaiah was one of the most eloquent of preachers, and yet he could not win the ears and hearts of those …

Isaiah:28:12

April 10, 1881

The Common Salvation   “The common salvation.” — Jude 3.   JUDE says, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you.” The apostle did not write for writing’s sake, and in this he sets us an example: we are not to speak for speaking’s …

Jude:3

April 10, 1881

Christ’s Indwelling Word   “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” — Colossians iii. 16.   THAT is a very beautiful name for Holy Scripture, I hardly remember to have met with it …

Colossians:3:16

April 7, 1881

The Lesson of the Almond Tree “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.” — Jeremiah i. 11, 12. OBSERVE, first, …

Jeremiah:1:11, 12

April 3, 1881

Honey from a Lion   “But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.”— Romans v. 15.   THIS text affords many openings for controversy. …

Romans:5:15