“He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth and his hands make whole.” (Job 5:18.) The ministry of a great sorrow. AS we pass beneath the hills which have been shaken by the earthquake and torn by convulsion, we find that periods of perfect repose succeed those of destruction. TheRead More …

“And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered.” (Joel 2:32.) WHY do not I call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? WhyRead More …

“The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.” (Psa. 103:19.) SOME time since, in the early spring, I was going out at my door when round the corner came a blast of east wind—defiant and pitiless, fierce and withering—sending a cloud of dustRead More …

“God that cannot lie promised.” (Titus 1:2.) FAITH is not working up by will power a sort of certainty that something is coming to pass, but it is seeing as an actual fact that God has said that this thing shall come to pass, and that it is true, andRead More …

“And the ill favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well favored and fat kine… and the thin, ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears.” (Gen. 41:4, 7.) THERE is a warning for us in that dream, just as it stands: It is possible for theRead More …

“Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are.” (James 5:17.) THANK God for that! He got under a juniper tree, as you and I have often done; he complained and murmured, as we have often done; was unbelieving, as we have often been. But that was notRead More …

“And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer… who delivered them, even Othniel… Caleb’s younger brother. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.” (Judges 3:9, 10.) GOD is preparing His heroes; and when opportunity comes, He can fit them intoRead More …

“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore.” (Rev. 1:18.) FLOWERS! Easter lilies! speak to me this morning the same dear old lesson of immortality which you have been speaking to so many sorrowing souls. Wise old Book! let me read again inRead More …

“I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.” (Phil. 3:8.) (Weymouth.) SHINING is always costly. Light comes only at the cost of that which produces it. An unlit candle does no shining. Burning must come before shining. We cannotRead More …

“And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.” (Matt. 27:61.) HOW strangely stupid is grief. It neither learns nor knows nor wishes to learn or know. When the sorrowing sisters sat over against the door of God’s sepulchre, did they see the two thousandRead More …