October 27, 1889

Peace: How Gained, How Broken   “I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.”— Psalm lxxxv. 8.   “I WILL hear what God the Lord will speak.” There were voices and voices. There were voices of the past …

Psalms:85:8

October 24, 1889

Magdalene at the Sepulchre: an Instructive Scene   “Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where …

John:20:10-16

October 20, 1889

The Mustard Seed: a Sermon for the Sabbath-school Teacher   “Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the …

Luke:13:18-19

October 17, 1889

Faint; but not Faint-Hearted   “Faint, yet pursuing.”— Judges viii. 4.   THESE three hundred men, though faint, were not faint-hearted. If they had been cowards, they would have left Gideon when he made the proclamation, “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.” Twenty and two thousand accepted that permission, and left …

Judges:8:4

October 13, 1889

The Eye and the Light   “No man, when he hath lighted a caudle, putteth it in a. secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full …

Luke:11:33-36

October 13, 1889

Baptism Essential to Obedience   “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” — Mark xvi. 16.   IF our congregations were what they ought to be, it would be a very simple matter to preach, for a sermon would then only need to be like the orders given by a commanding officer to his troops, short, sharp, …

Mark:16:16

October 6, 1889

Perseverance in Holiness   And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.”— Jeremiah xxxii. 40.   LAST Sabbath morning we were called to deep searching of heart. It was a …

Jeremiah:32:40

October 6, 1889

The Crisis of this World   “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.” — John xii. 31— 33.   OUR Lord passed through his …

John:12:31-33

October 3, 1889

The Physician Pardons His Palsied Patient   “And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. …

Matthew:9:2-7

September 29, 1889

The Withered Fig Tree   “And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there. Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto …

Matthew:21:17-20