“We are made partaker of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.” (Heb. 3:14.) IT is the last step that wins; and there is no place in the pilgrim’s progress where so many dangers lurk as the region that lies hard by the portalsRead More …

“Followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Heb. 6:12.) THEY (heroes of faith) are calling to us from the heights that they have won, and telling us that what man once did man can do again. Not only do they remind us of the necessity ofRead More …

“And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him.” (Mark 9:26.) EVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It isRead More …

“Be ready in the morning, and come up… present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee.” (Exod. 34:2, 3.) THE morning watch is essential. You must not face the day until you have faced God, nor look into theRead More …

“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked. (Eccles. 7:13.) OFTEN God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would haveRead More …

“Let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually.” (Heb. 13:15.) A CITY missionary, stumbling through the dirt of a dark entry, heard a voice say, “Who’s there, Honey?” Striking a match, he caught a vision of earthly want and suffering, of saintly trust and peace, “cut in ebony”—calm,Read More …

“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.” (Gen. 32:24.) LEFT alone! What different sensations those words conjure up to each of us. To some they spell loneliness and desolation, to others rest and quiet. To be left alone withoutRead More …

“My grace is sufficient for thee.” (2 Cor. 12:9.) THE other evening I was riding home after a heavy day’s work. I felt very wearied, and sore depressed, when swiftly, and suddenly as a lightning flash, that text came to me, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” I reached homeRead More …

“Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.” (Joshua 1:3.) BESIDE the literal ground, unoccupied for Christ, there is the unclaimed, untrodden territory of Divine promises. What did God say to Joshua? “Every place that the sole of your foot shallRead More …

“John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.” (John 10:41.) YOU may be very discontented with yourself. You are no genius, have no brilliant gifts, and are inconspicuous for any special faculty. Mediocrity is the law of your existence. Your days are remarkableRead More …