I have come hither today to undertake a righteous mission among you, a mission profitable and suitable for you. By no others than the poor who dwell in this city of yours have I been appointed the spokesman. I have been sent not by word …
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THE BRAZEN SERPENT
JOHN 3:14, 15 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. Jesus and his salvation were the substance of all the ancient …
JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSING BY
MAT. 20:29–34 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. And behold two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord thou Son of David. And …
Literature of the Dust
John 8:6: “Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground.” A Mohammedan mosque stands now where once stood Herod’s temple, the scene of my text. Solomon’s temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar thundered it down. Zerubbabel’s temple had stood there, but that …
ON CHRISTIAN LOVE
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.—John 15:12. SEEING the time is so far spent, we will take no more in hand at this time than this one sentence; for it will be enough for us to consider …
THE SHADOW OF THE ROCK
THE Shadow of the Rock! Stay, Pilgrim, stay! Night treads upon the heels of day; There is no other resting-place this way. The Rock is near, The well is clear— Rest in the Shadow of the Rock. The Shadow of the Rock! The desert wide …
Get Thee Behind Me Satan
Jesus Rebukes Satan Jesus Foretells His Death and Resurrection From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be …
We Can Believe God’s Promises
Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. Luke 2:33. What are the marvelous things spoken of him? They are the things of which Simeon had spoken immediately before, when in the temple he took the child Jesus upon his …
No Man Shall Pluck My Sheep Out of My Hand
Let us banish from our hearts, therefore, the unbelieving opinions which imagine that evils befall us by mere chance, or from physical causes. But when thou considerest the wounds in thy own circle of relations, or dost cast a glance at the public disorders in …
THE CHRISTIAN’S REASONABLE SERVICE – X
Anthropology: The Doctrine of Man Concerning Man, Particularly the Soul Having discussed the most eminent creatures of heaven, the angels, we will now proceed to consider the most eminent creature upon earth, man. In the original language, the Hebrew tongue, man is called אדם …