July 5, 1877

Conceit Rebuked     “Should it be according to thy mind?” — Job xxxiv. 33.   July 5th, 1877   ELIHU thought that Job had spoken too boastfully, and that there was too much of self about him, and, therefore, he reproved him by asking this question, “Should it be according to thy mind?” It is a question which, in the original, …

Job:34:33

July 1, 1877

Mourning for Christ   “I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one …

Zechariah:12:10

July 1, 1877

The Redeemer Described by Himself     “Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the livers a wilderness: then fish stinketh, …

Isaiah:1:2-6

June 28, 1877

Until he Find It   “Until he find it.” — Luke xv. 4.   IT was not just anybody who went after the sheep that was lost; it was the person to whom the lost sheep belonged. Our Saviour said, “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety …

Luke:15:4

June 24, 1877

The Final Perseverance of the Saints   “The righteous also shall hold on his way.” — Job xvii. 9.   THE man who is righteous before God has a way of his own. It is not the way of the flesh, nor the way of the world; it is a way marked out for him by the divine command, …

Job:17:9

June 24, 1877

Jesus and his Forerunner   “Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, and went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man …

John:10:39-42

June 21, 1877

Jacob’s Fear and Faith   “Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children. And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, …

Genesis:32:11-12

June 17, 1877

    The Good Samaritan   “And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, …

Luke:10:25-37

June 17, 1877

Invitation to a Conference   “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins he as scarlet, they shall he as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall he as wool.” — Isaiah i. 18.   THE persons to whom this gracious invitation was addressed were in a terrible condition; they …

Isaiah:1:18

June 14, 1877

Abraham’s Great Reward   “Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” — Genesis xv. 1.   You have probably heard a great many sermons on the first part of the text: “I am thy shield;” so, on this occasion, I am going to leave that portion, in order more fully to consider the second …

Genesis:15:1