August 14, 1881

Shut In or Shut Out    “The Lord shut him in.” — Genesis vii. 16.   NOAH w a s a very different man from the rest of those who lived in his time, for the grace of God had set a division between him and them. They forgot God, and he feared him; they lived for things seen …

Genesis:7:16

June 28, 1868

The Pleiads and Orion   “Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?” — Job 38:31.   MOST of you know that singularly beautiful cluster of stars called the Pleiades — very small, but intensely bright. These are most conspicuous about the time of spring, and hence, in poetry, the vernal influences which …

Job:38:31

May 13, 1866

A Lesson from the Great Panic   “The removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”— Hebrews 12:27.   IT is a most popular error that the world stands still, and is fixed and immovable. This has been scouted as an astronomical theory, but as …

Hebrews:12:27

October 11, 1863

The Mighty Power Which Creates and Sustains Faith   “The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, …

Ephesians:1:19-23