“Let us pass over unto the other side.” (Mark 4:35.) EVEN when we go forth at Christ’s command, we need not expect to escape storms; for these disciples were going forth at Christ’s command, yet they encountered the fiercest storm and were in great danger of being overwhelmed, so thatRead More …

“For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith. His faith never quailed.” (Rom. 4:18, 19.) WE shall never forget a remark that George Mueller once made to a gentleman who had asked him the best way to have strong faith. “The only way,” replied the patriarch of faith,Read More …

“This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing.” (Isa. 28:12.) WHY dost thou worry thyself? What use can thy fretting serve? Thou art on board a vessel which thou couldst not steer even if the great Captain put thee at theRead More …

“Like a shock of corn fully ripe.” (Job 5:26.) A GENTLEMAN, writing about the breaking up of old ships, recently said that it is not the age alone which improves the quality of the fiber in the wood of an old vessel, but the straining and wrenching of the vesselRead More …

“And no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.” (Rev. 14:3.) THERE are songs which can only be learned in the valley. No art can teach them; no rules of voice can make them perfectly sung. Their musicRead More …

“I have called you friends.” (John 15:15.) YEARS ago there was an old German professor whose beautiful life was a marvel to his students. Some of them resolved to know the secret of it; so one of their number hid in the study where the old professor spent his evenings.Read More …

“I will not let thee go, except thou bless me… and he blessed him there.” (Gen. 32:26, 29.) JACOB got the victory and the blessing not by wrestling, but by clinging. His limb was out of joint and he could struggle no longer, but he would not let go. UnableRead More …

“Bring them hither to me.” (Matt. 14:18.) ARE you encompassed with needs at this very moment, and almost overwhelmed with difficulties, trials, and emergencies? These are all divinely provided vessels for the Holy Spirit to fill, and if you but rightly understood their meaning, they would become opportunities for receivingRead More …

“Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it.” (Num. 21:17.) THIS was a strange song and a strange well. They had been traveling over the desert’s barren sands, no water was in sight and they were famishing with thirst. Then God spake to Moses and said: “Gather the people together,Read More …

“I endure all things for the sake of God’s own people; so that they also may obtain salvation… and with it eternal glory.” (2 Tim. 2:10.) (Weymouth.) IF Job could have known as he sat there in the ashes, bruising his heart on this problem of Providence—that in the troubleRead More …