“On all bare heights shall be their pasture.” (Isa. 49:9, R. V.) TOYS and trinkets are easily won, but the greatest things are greatly bought. The topmost place of power is always bought with blood. You may have the pinnacles if you have enough blood to pay. That is theRead More …

“But prayer…” (Acts 12:5.) BUT prayer is the link that connects us with God. This is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over every abyss of danger or of need. How significant the picture of the Apostolic Church: Peter in prison, the Jews triumphant, Herod supreme, theRead More …

“When the cloud tarried… then the children of Israel… journeyed not.” (Num. 9:19.) THIS was the supreme test of obedience. It was comparatively easy to strike tents, when the fleecy folds of the cloud were slowly gathering from off the Tabernacle, and it floated majestically before the host. Change isRead More …

“Likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercessionRead More …

“Let us run with patience.” (Heb. 12:1.) TO run with patience is a very difficult thing. Running is apt to suggest the absence of patience, the eagerness to reach the goal. We commonly associate patience with lying down. We think of it as the angel that guards the couch ofRead More …

“He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” (Mal. 3:3.) OUR Father, who seeks to perfect His saints in holiness, knows the value of the refiner’s fire. It is with the most precious metals that the assayer takes the most pains, and subjects them to the hot fire,Read More …

“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ… and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:4-6.) THIS is ourRead More …

“All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” (Psalm 42:7.)   They are HIS billows, whether they go o’er us, Hiding His face in smothering spray and foam; Or smooth and sparkling, spread a path before us, And to our haven bear us safely home.   They areRead More …

“He went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone.” (Matt. 14:23.) THE man Christ Jesus felt the need of perfect solitude—Himself alone, entirely by Himself? alone with Himself. We know how much intercourse with men draws us away from ourselves andRead More …

“Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:24.) DURING the Civil War, a man had an only son who enlisted in the armies of the Union. The father was a banker and, although he consented to hisRead More …