Meadows may be occasionally flooded, but the marshes are drowned by the tide at every return thereof.” There is all this difference between the sins of the righteous and those of the ungodly. Surprised by temptation, true saints are flooded with a passing outburst of sin; but the wicked delightRead More …

Concerning the consciousness of evil in the past of our lives and the tendency to wrongdoing in our nature, the Bible is very clear, and it is most admirably explicit as to God’s way of removing this barrier to our future progress. In Holy Scripture we see a most wiseRead More …

A clear proof of the divine origin of scripture is afforded by its portrait of the Perfect Man. Jesus is sinless in thought, and word, and deed; His enemies are unable to find a fault in Him either of excess or defect. Nowhere else in the world have we suchRead More …

A Christian ought to be a comforter, with kind words on his lips and sympathy in his heart; he should carry sunshine wherever he goes and diffuse happiness around him. If you see Jesus and abide in the light of his countenance habitually, your faces, your characters, your lives, willRead More …

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. It is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength and honor of a Christian. Spiritual mercies are good things, and not only good things, butRead More …

Choice discoveries of the wondrous love and grace of Jesus are most tenderly vouchsafed unto believers in the times of grief. Then it is that He lifts them up from His feet, where, like Mary, it is their delight to sit, and exalts them to the position of the favoredRead More …

Consider the history of the Redeemer’s love and a thousand enchanting acts of affection will suggest themselves, all of which have had for their design the weaving of the heart into Christ and the intertwisting of the thoughts and emotions of the renewed soul with the mind of Jesus. NearnessRead More …

Just so far as the Lord shall give us grace to suffer for Christ, to suffer with Christ, just so far does He honor us. Afflictions cannot sanctify us, except as they are used by Christ, as His mallet and His chisel. Our joys and our efforts cannot make usRead More …

We never live so well as when we live on the Lord Jesus simply as he is, and not upon our enjoyments and raptures. Faith is never more likely to increase in strength than in times which seem adverse to her. When she is lightened of trust in joys, experiences,Read More …

Sunlight is never more grateful than after a long watch in the midnight blackness; Christ’s presence is never more acceptable than after a time of weeping, on account of his departure. It is a sad thing that we should need to lose our mercies to teach us to be gratefulRead More …