Well, her Majesty's telegram may speak of "Eurydice's terrible misfortune." He who has sailed the sea never trusts her; he who has been at the mercy of the wind never depends on her.
CALLING OUT THE RESERVES
As the reticent members of the church would pray, work, teach, give, the enemy would soon learn that there is a God in Israel. Remember the Lord's own language in the book of Job: “Have you entered into the treasures of the snow.
LADIES' DRESS
It is difficult to imagine a disciple of the Lord wasting her possessions on personal adornment. Church conventions were built up by exhibitions of ecclesiastical finery, which featured vestments and vestments of the most expensive materials and the most ostentatious colors.
THE DECEIVER AND THE VICTIM
These are the people whom the apostle calls "mourning wolves." Woe to any unsuspecting sheep if they get in the way; for nothing but almighty grace can save them from their jaws. 34; they cannot stop sinning; seducing unstable souls; a heart they have exercised with lustful actions; cursed children.”
FLOODS IN THE STREETS
It will be a blessed day when all the streets of our land will be flooded with grace. In other matters too, such as social reform and moral progress, the influence of true religion will be felt, and it will be much more powerful.
THE RACE AND ITS SPECTATORS
Dear ones, who have already been, also mark our behavior in the race: the mother in heaven enjoys the zeal of her son; the brethren who have "passed over to the majority" are serenely glad to see their brethren press on. It is a good thought that those honorable men in God's church, who have behaved decently themselves, are most interested in the young.
DOUBLE-MINDED
We would say to any man who has the slightest claim to honesty, 'Be one thing or another; if Jehovah is God, serve him; if Baal is God, serve him.” Do not try to deceive the devil by pretending to serve God.
A FOX IN THE PULPIT
THE EVIL WROUGHT BY ONE MAN
SYMPATHY CREATED BY KINDRED EXPERIENCE
He must know how to be full and empty, how to abound and how to suffer loss. This is doubtless the reason why some Christians have to go through such a miserable career—they have to learn how to see from other men's eyes, and judge matters from other men's points of view.
THE MORNING DRUMMER AND THE PREACHER
May the Holy Spirit rest upon them, and they will be a power on earth to whom even the most worldly will pay silent homage. Until Christ has blessed like all peoples who see the light or feel the sun."
HAVE TO HAVE MORE
When the soil is made good, the good seed yields a harvest; but often the barren ground eats up all that the husbandman can put into it, and is not much better. A company that starts business without cash will soon lose even its nominal capital, will indeed lose what it never had; thus thoroughly illustrating the words of our Lord, and, as in a parable, presenting to us the result of pretending to be Christians, if we have no grace.
CONSCIENTOUS SEPARATION
We should strive hard to be so clear in our whole religious position that no obvious contradictions will be discovered in our lives under the light of judgment day; The thing won't work, and if it did, it's wrong and shouldn't be attempted.
ON EXPOSING OTHERS TO PERIL
However, we may not all have been more or less guilty of such behavior in a moral and spiritual sense. They can be very clever and display amazing abilities; but that is nothing to us if they are doing what tends to the destruction of their souls.
WANT OF LIGHT
TALE-BEARING
To save ourselves from falling into this evil will be the safest way to be extreme. No sane being would stand for a lying stepfather, or be a cat's paw to the devil when he chooses to roast good men in the fire of slander.
TEMPTING TEMPTATION
Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it and go away.” We pity a man who contracts a contagious disease, but we should stop if we hear that he has purposely gone to a fever hospital, or purposely ridden into it. a chariot with little goats. 34;The woman you gave me tempted me and I ate." Alas, the vile attempt to father sin over the Lord Himself is often made, but it is no less terrifying.
REVIEW AT ALDERSHOT
Faith has won all her victories under the standard of revelation, and she expects to win all her future glory under the same unchanged and unchanging banner. From victory to victory he shall lead his army, until every enemy is vanquished, and Christ is truly Lord."
34;QUIS SEPARABIT?"
We will not abandon our brothers because they live in poverty or disgrace, but we will regard them as suffering members of the one body. It will be the task of our whole lives to promote the visible unity of the people of God, and never will we lend a hand to rend the seamless garment of our Lord.
LIFE VERSUS MACHINERY
In the service of the Lord, everything should be heartfelt and voluntary, and nothing should be mechanical and superfluous. We should rejoice to see intense zeal in continuous exercise, in good order for immediate service, but daily in the regular service of God's church.
HOME-SICKNESS
The more we love, the more we long to be with the object of our affection. While there are souls to be won for Jesus here below by our means, we are not wanted in heaven, nor should we be welcome there if we could go.
RELIGIOUS SLUGGARDS
THE WITHERING OF UNBELIEF
SYMPATHY
He remembered our souls in distress, and therefore is very glorious in our eyes; we praise him without ceasing because he is abundant in goodness towards us and his mercy endures forever.
BENEFIT OF TRIAL
There are great miracles in the material world, and there are equal miracles in the spiritual world. Weapons intended for fierce battles must be fired; the guns must go to the proving ground before they can be trusted to action, and on ships to ride the Atlantic the billows must withstand many a thousand blows from the hammer before being fired.
WATCHING
34. Let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober.' The love of peace unsettles many. It is no commendation to a warrior when the king's enemies are enraptured with him, and in our own case here there is a double reason to mind our ways when the world speaks well of us.
MOORE'S REMONSTRANCE
C. WANTS MONEY
34;Be careful for nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make known your wishes to God." Our requests will be understood by our Father, who sees in secret, because he has appointed prayer as a means of communication with himself. 34;minding the main opportunity." Many men will continue to want money until the end of the chapter; but whoever wants grace can get it by asking.
SINKING OF THE IRONCLAD
These philosophers are all very strong and cannot be touched by the heaviest weapons of those poor simple souls who believe in the Bible and the entire Bible. The fishing boats near the huge monitors have done an admirable service in rescuing many of the drowning sailors, and thus honest men can hover around the enormous disloyalty of the period, and here and there rob a sinking doubter of ruin.
TESTS FOR DIAMONDS
Jubilant songs of triumph stand out in solemn contrast to the trembling and alarm of the perceived formalist. Such questions as these will be like the use of the file, and will soon discover the stuff we are made of.
A PATH STREWN WITH BLESSINGS
He cursed him in his sleep, that every night he should dream of the devil and wake with fright;. He cursed him to eat, he cursed him to drink, He cursed him to cough, to sneeze, to wink;.
THE FICKLENESS OF MANKIND
He who lives to win the approval of the public, even if he wins it, must cost it very little, for he is as fickle as the wind and fickle. Let those who pride themselves on the applause of the crowd see without the value of the mere vapor for which they expend themselves.
PEARLS
He brought it home as a gift to his children on the banks of the Neva, where a merchant brother saw it and bought it for a pittance. The pearl avenged the poor Indian of the East, the Arab, and the poor traveller, and served silent justice to the buyer who did not pay its price.
SAFE — NOT SAVED
Pride of a growth superior to the rest, the subtlest serpent with the loftiest crest, swells at the thought and kindles in anger, the cherub Grace would hiss from the platform.
DIPLOMACY AND DUPLICITY
We have known persons who have spoken so hideously of divine things in religious meetings, that they have gained a high reputation for godliness outside, while at home, under the little provocations of common life, they are wont to storm and rave, and lead their children and servants in a sad life. 34;These things ought not to be so." If by speaking the truth we shame the devil, we must be consistent in it as long as we live, or the devil will surely shame us.
LABOR IN VAIN
What a shame it is that they are so in love that they go far in search of that which is so close. Let no one be so bent on mischief, so desperately determined to destroy his own soul, that he rejects the heavenly bread which almighty grace puts into his mouth.
CHAOTIC THEOLOGY
One would think from the conversation of some that the promises of the gospel were made for doubt and not for faith. Their charity pours its oil on all but those terrible beings who adhere to the faith of religion.
WANT OF STAMINA
Continuation in sacred service is the test of spiritual energy; many run well for a while, and it is not the pace that kills them, but the length of the course drains their little energy, and gradually they fall away from the front and are found far behind. completely defeated. It will be most economical in the long run if we sit for a while with Mary at the Master's feet, even though Martha would have to urge us to help her at the table.
BLASTING PROHIBITED
Yet acts are but an inch's flame in Davy the Miner, and the depravity of the heart is a flame a thousand times more dangerous. What is the dirt on the outside of the cup and plate compared to what is inside.
DESERTERS
There was no call for a soldier's life, otherwise the famous warrior of the cross would not have left so shamefully. Can you bear the mockery of the worldly wise, As you pass the hole of pleasure,.
BLAME THE SCALE-MAKER
We cannot leave our heavenly affairs in the hands of a preacher any more than we leave our secular concerns in the hands of a lawyer. We must believe in Jesus Christ on our own account, or judgment will turn against us. We must ask for the grace to take care of our own scales, and stop leaving matters to the scale maker who is entirely our own care.
SPURIOUS IMITATIONS
Grow in grace, strive for holiness, pay attention to prayer, humble yourself before the Lord, and seek to be perfect as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, but beware of false imitations. We know that arrogance is mistaken for faithfulness and the mere capacity for holy anointing.
THE WATCH-TOWER
If there is any honor, they are at the front, but if you have to put in the work and give money, where are they. Some of our friends, without being able to say that they are old or lame, may, without the least lie, profess to be cowards, and thus excuse themselves from fire or strife.
BATTERED SCRIPTURE
The Word was written by God and not by men, and therefore it deserves to be protected even at the cost of life if necessary;. When we visited Nero's Golden House in Rome, the keeper showed us the frescoes on the ceiling.
THE TRUE WRESTLER
34; We ask for muscles, and they give us attitude." Power from on high is lacking, but the magicians do their feats with their sorceries as in the days of Moses. 34; did not wrestle with flesh and blood, but against principalities , against the powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heights.”
THE BEST PREPARATION FOR THE SECOND ADVENT
The most suitable condition for death and judgment is to be diligent in the Lord's business, fervent in spirit and serving the Lord. In the process of preparing the Library, AGES Software took the liberty of making some corrections to the text.