October 23, 1887

How Good to Those Who Seek!   “The LORD is good to the soul that seeketh him.” — Lamentations iii. 25.   I DO not know whether it has ever struck you what a grand man Jeremiah was. If you were to read the book of his prophecy through from beginning to end, and make yourself familiar with the …

Lamentations:3:25

October 16, 1887

Behold the Lamb of God   “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”— John i. 29.   JOHN the Baptist’s one business was to bear witness to Christ. He was the morning star which heralds the rising sun. When the sun appeared …

John:1:29

October 6, 1887

The Everlasting Arms   “Underneath are the everlasting arms.” — Deuteronomy xxxiii. 27.   THIS short passage is found in the midst of a mass of gold, sentences containing the richest treasures of truth. All this spiritual wealth is the heritage of the people of God, — not only of his typical people to whom those words were spoken, …

Deuteronomy:33:27

October 2, 1887

The Child of Light Walking in Light   “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us …

1 John:1:6-7

October 2, 1887

A Man Under Authority   “The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, …

Matthew:8:8, 9

September 25, 1887

The Child of Light Walking in Darkness   “Who is among yon that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.”— Isaiah 1. 10.   SEE how the Lord inquires for his people. In every …

Isaiah:50:10

September 25, 1887

Heman’s Sorrowful Psalm   “But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.” — Psalm lxxxviii. 13.   WHAT misery of soul some persons endure before they find peace with God! There is no need that it should be so with them; their anguish often arises from a mistake. The gospel …

Psalms:88:13

September 22, 1887

Man, Whose Breath Is in His Nostrils   “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”— Isaiah ii. 22.   MAN, especially since the fall, is a very unspiritual creature. His animus is animal. He is made up, as the old writers used to say, of soul and soil. …

Isaiah:2:22

September 22, 1887

Kept from Iniquity   “I kept myself from mine iniquity.” — Psalm xviii. 23.   IN our roading we had a very wonderful description of God’s delivering mercy towards his servant David. He was very peculiarly tried in the court of Saul; he deserved so well of the king that it was doubly hard for him to be treated …

Psalms:18:23

September 18, 1887

How Hearts Are Softened   “And 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 he in bitterness for him, …

Zechariah:12:10-11