February 9, 1890

Pleading, not Contradiction   “She said, Truth, Lord: yet.”— Matthew xv. 27.   DID you notice, in the reading of this narrative of the Syro-Phoenician woman, the two facts mentioned in the twenty-first and twenty-second verses? “Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the …

Matthew:15:27

February 9, 1890

Belief, Baptism, Blessing   “And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”— Acts xvi. 33, 34.   THE gospel, attended by the …

Acts:16:33, 34

February 6, 1890

God forgiving Sin   “He will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”— Isaiah lv. 7— 9.   AT first, men have very low ideas …

Isaiah:55:7-9

February 2, 1890

Love's Competition   “Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.”— Luke vii. 42, 43.   I REMEMBER seeing, somewhere or other, as a sign upon an inn, the words “The First and Last.” I …

Luke:7:42, 43

February 2, 1890

Heaven Above, and Heaven Below   “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters.”— Revelation vii. 16, 17. “They shall not hunger nor …

Revelation:7:16,17

January 26, 1890

Something Done For Jesus   “She hath wrought a good work upon me.”— Matthew xxvi. 10.   STUDY carefully the story of the enthusiastic Christian woman who poured the alabaster box of very precious ointment upon the head of our ever-blessed Lord and Saviour. Honoured as that action is by the universal church of God, it did not escape …

Matthew:26:10

1890

Help for your Sickness “When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.”— Matthew …

Matthew:8:16,17

January 19, 1890

Witnesses Against You   “I set a great assembly against them.”— Nehemiah v. 7.   THE facts are these. At the time when certain of the Jews returned with Nehemiah to Jerusalem, many of them were in very straitened circumstances; and, contrary to the Jewish law, the richer Jews lent them money upon usurious interest, amounting to the hundredth …

Nehemiah:5:7

December 1, 1889

The Unchanging God Cheering Jacob in His Change of Dwelling-place   “And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And …

Genesis:46:1-4

November 17, 1889

The Father’s Love to His Dying Son   “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.”— John x. 17.   OUR Lord Jesus here speaks of himself in his complex personality as God and Man, the Mediator between God and men. As such, he comes to us first at …

John:10:17