In every other act of grace the design of the King is to honor the Lord Jesus. That a general meeting of the Church should be held also for thanksgiving for the blessings we have enjoyed in the past.
THE SWORD AND THE TROWEL
Leaving these suggestions in your hands, and praying that the blessing we desire may come down first and chiefly on yourself, so that you may be still more greatly honored in the conversion of sinners, and that the largest and best desires of your heart for a revival of pure and undefiled religion amongst us, and in the Christian Church generally, may be more than realized,. In the other portions of the Magazine the reader will light upon them; for the present, let us close by repeating the question, "What will you render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards you.".
FEBRUARY, 1865
H. S PURGEON ,
FALL OF JERICHO
It must not be; her sons are dead, They with their mother burned or bled;.
METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE STATISTICS
There are ten Deacons who are chosen for life, and whose duty is to attend to the temporal interests of the Church. It has resulted spontaneously from the influence of the same truths, and the gratification of the same desires.
BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED
Wickliffe's prayer was, "Lord save me gratis." No works can purchase or procure salvation, but the heavenly Father giveth freely, and upbraideth not. Luther's prayer was, "From nice questions the Lord deliver us." Questioning with honesty and candor is not to be condemned, when the object is to "prove all things:, and hold fast that which is good ;" but to treat revelation as if it were a football to be kicked from man to man is irreverence, if not worse.
OUR UNITED MEETINGS DURING THE WEEK OF PRAYER
Many details of the failures and sins of ministers were spread before the face of God !in the most solemn manner. The power of the Almighty Spirit carried home those questions to the inner life of that great.
MARCH, 1865
IN A FOG
We see a lion in the way, although it is written that no ravenous beast shall go up thereon. Man in the mist we salute you, and are glad that you are where you are.
MR. SPURGEON AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN 1861
Among those who mourn over the solemn iniquities of the Establishment, there are a large number who would not see her despoiled. They consider that your alliance with the State is a spiritual fornication, wholly unworthy of the honorable virgins who wait in the Lord's palace.
SERMONS IN CANDLES
Even with descriptions of heaven itself this household comfort has a connection, for in the New Jerusalem "they need no candle, neither light of the sun." (Revelation 22:5.). A rushlight and the sun rising, to compare great things with small, and set forth our own nothingness in the presence of the great Sun of.
MR. PEPYS’ RELIGION
I staid at home the whole afternoon, looking over my accounts; then went with my wife to my father's.". That which I went chiefly to see was the young ladies of the schools, thereof there is great store.". So to bed." There were, however, exceptions to the rule, for one evening the Diary has it, "To bed with out prayers, it being cold, and to-morrow washing-day." During Sunday, Mr.
WORK OF THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE
Will you make your bed in hell far off from those who are now in the Savior's bosom. 34;Be experimental." After the example of the Apostles, preach what you have tasted, handled, and felt of the Word of life. What has conduced to your growth in grace, may do so in the experience of your fellow Christians.
TO OUR READERS
What you have fed upon and experienced in your own soul during the week, that give to your people on the Sabbath. Thus you will preach less from the head than from the heart, and be more likely to reach the heart, As the bread that has nourished you, will nourish others; so, spiritually, what has blessed and nourished your souls, will benefit your hearers.
FRAGRANT SPICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF MYRRH
She is black in her own sight, how much more so in the eyes of her Omniscient Lord. Believers have a positive righteousness given to them when they become "accepted in the beloved." (Ephesians 1:6.) :Nor is the Church barely lovely, she is superlatively so. It is his purpose to present them without "spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing." (Ephesians 5:27.) They shall be holy and unblameable and unreproveable in the sight of the Omniscient God.
FROM ENGLAND TO ITALY
The reply of the latter, which is in the same strain, must be deferred to our next number. On the Sabbath I am generally out at our stations to proclaim the Word of the Lord. I was awakened seventeen years ago in the Baptist meeting here, and soon became a member of the dear Church.
FRAGRANT SPICES FROM THE MOUNTAINS OF MYRHH
When he is absent he thinks of us, and in the black darkness he has a window through which he looks upon us. Zion is in the center of his heart, and he cannot forget, for every day his thoughts are set upon her. It is, however, a mournful truth, that whole ranks in the army of our Lord are composed of dwarfish Little faiths.
ANOTHER WEEK’S TRAVEL AND ANOTHER THEME
As the grandeur of the mountains and the plenty of the valleys are alike due to the Almighty Lord, so both alike proclaim his praise. The most shameless of all Popish idolatries, practiced everywhere, in the corners of the streets, by the canal side, on the night way, and in churches and chapels innumerable, is the worship of Mary. The genius of nature and of the New Testament is the same as to the universal consecration of all places and things.
TEN THOUSAND SKULLS
What a view of the evil and mischief of sin have we here in this charnel- house. And as for thee, O sea, thy waves are glutted with the bodies of the mariners, whom thou hast swallowed up. On the Sacro Monte, at Varallo, is a supposed imitation of the sepulcher of the Lord Jesus.
ACQUA! ACQUA
Very little of the coveted liquid was brought; up each time, but the people were patient, and their tin vessels went up and down as fast as there was a cupful to be had. O that men were half as diligent in securing the precious gifts of the Spirit, which are priceless beyond compare. In most of the Swiss villages there are streaming fountains by the dozen, and the pure liquid is to be had at every corner;.
A GENTLE REMINDER
We are now arrived at the eighth month of the year, and we are fearful that our project will scarcely be accomplished. Of the fourth I shall say nothing, for without the assistance of the many, and especially those at a distance, we must not venture upon it. During the months of May and June the treasury of the College was nearly drained dry.
REGENERATION SERMONS
As the chief bulwark of the Evangelical Clergy, I finally betook myself to the huge work of Dr. Goode quite sure that it does not bring more honor to God in the salvation of men than all the cathedrals of the realm. Evangelical Churchmen, lovers of the Lord Jesus, how long will you remain in alliance with the defilements of High Churchism.
BAND OF LOVE: OR, UNION TO CHRIST
They could not be dissociated in the mind and will of the all-planning Jehovah. Let the love of husband be never so pure and fervent, it is but a faint picture of the flame that burns in the heart of Jesus. Nevertheless, the spiritual man discerns it as a most essential thing in the salvation of the soul, and he clearly sees.
PRACTICAL LESSONS
In the midst Of the conflict he concluded one of his speeches with these telling. Shrewd common sense is called to the aid of enthusiasm by the leader of the Anti-Corn Law League. He card for principle, not to serve his own ends, but the ends of the people.
TWO EPISODES IN MY LIFE
On the day of his' death, in his eightieth year, Elliott, "the apostle of the Indians," was occupied in. Angus, the tutor of the College, visited Cambridge, and it was arranged that we should meet at the house of Mr. He and the young man accordingly hurried off together to obtain an interview with another relative of the fugitive.
PRAYER REQUESTED
Do not believe and man says because he is a clergyman, or eloquent, or learned, or even because he is kind and generous. Search thyself, and do not take a hope into thy soul till thou knowest what it is made of. Whatever may be the ground of trust which men may offer you, take care to KNOW WHAT'S IN IT before you accept it.
MARRIED LOVE
IN the month of May, 1864, a few friends at Red Hill secured the Town Hall, and requested Mr. The lowest tender, which the committee have accepted, amounts to £1237, and if no unforeseen delays occur, the friends hope to complete the erection soon after Christmas of the present year. The bazaar to be held in the lecture-hall and school-rooms of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in the Christmas week needs our friends most vigorous efforts to make it a thorough success.
THE SPICED WINE OF MY POMEGRANATE
The giver holds fellowship with the receiver when he bestows his benefaction for the Lord's sake, and because of the. May your peace be as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea. If so, your head can be seen in the picture peeping out from the cowl of the fox.
A RUNABOUT PAPER
What a longsuffering being is that God who bears with me.n, who profess to be his ambassadors, and traffic in the holy calling of the ministry. The question seems to imply a belief on the part of those who put it, that the reception of the Gospel involves a high. But in dealing with the different, classes of the human family, the teaching must be adapted to the individual circumstances.
A RECORD
SIMON THE PEDLAR
Things invisible have nerved his heart against all visible terrors, and the fear of the most holy God has banished from him all fear of man. He was sown like good seed.corn in fertile soil, and the harvest is not all reaped as yet; the year of the redeemed has not yet reached the full feast of ingatherings. All compliance with that which we know to be erroneous and un scriptural is a form of bowing the knee to Antichrist, and should be loathed by every follower of the Lord Jesus.
UNWELCOME VISITORS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR
Suspicions of the love, truth, wisdom, and faithfulness of God, march in troops, devastating the land wherever they obtain an entrance. Distrust of the God of providence and grace is cruel as death, and insatiable as the grave. Rouse us, O Lord, at the coming in of the year, and make 1866 to be blessed in the annals of our race.
DIVINE KNOWLEDGE
War must rage, then let us be the invaders, and carry the battle into the enemy's camp. And canst thou hope to comprehend, How thought and love of God extend, From right to left, and' end to end.
DR PUSEY ON THE WORSHIP OF MARY IN THE CHURCH OF ROME
The Church, adapting to the Mother of God in the Office of the Conception that text, 'Let Us make a help like unto Him,' assures us of it. One who would receive this must be ready to admit a compenetration of the Body of Christ and of that of the Virgin in the same portion of space, i.e. Ignatius the very part of the Host which had once belonged to the substance of Mary.
THE LONDON ASSOCIATION
34;' There is some portion of the Precious Blood which once was Mary's own blood, and which remains still in our Blessed Lord, incredibly exalted by its union with His Divine Person, yet still the-same. This portion of Himself, it is piously believed, has not been allowed to undergo the usual changes of human substance. But with the exception of this portion of it, the Precious Blood was a growing thing,' "etc.
