January 15, 2018

Prosperity Under Persecution   "Come on let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with …

Exodus:1:10-12

August 16, 1874

A Word for the Persecuted “What if thy father answer thee roughly?”— 1 Samuel xx. 10. IT was not an unlikely thing that his father would answer Jonathan roughly. Saul had taken great umbrage against David, while Jonathan, his eldest son, on the contrary, loved David as his own soul. Jonathan could hardly think that his father …

1 Samuel:20:10

September 29, 1872

A HONEYCOMB.   “For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” — Hebrews xii. 3.   WHEN the Hebrew Christians were suffering dire persecution the apostle could suggest no better support for their faith than this, “Consider him.” He bade them look to Jesus, and compare their case …

Hebrews:12:3