THE BARREN FIG TREE OR THE DOOM AND DOWNFALL OF THE FRUITLESS PROFESSOR SHOWING, THAT THE DAY OF GRACE MAY BE PAST WITH HIM LONG BEFORE HIS LIFE IS ENDED THE SIGNS ALSO BY WHICH SUCH MISERABLE MORTALS MAY BE KNOWN ‘Who being dead, …
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CHRISTIAN AND THE ARROWS OF BEELZEBUB “When Christian was stepping in at the Wicket Gate, Goodwill gave him a pull. Then said Christian, ‘What means that?’ Good-will said to him, ‘A little distance from this gate there is erected a strong castle, of which Beelzebub …
Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory “HELPS” HAVING spoken about the best way of helping souls out of despondency and distress, I shall now proceed to describe those who may truly be called HELPS—for it is not …
ISAIAH 55:10, 11.—“For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; so shall my word …
ROMANS 1:14.—“I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and the unwise.” THIS is the reason which the apostle Paul assigns for his readiness to go to Rome, or to the ends of the earth, to preach the …
JEREMIAH 45:5.—“Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.” MAN is a creature of aspirations. His constant question is: Who will show me any good? It matters not whether we try him in the highest or the lowest ranges of society, we find him …
“BUT now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have need of you.”—1 Cor. 12:20, 21. My remarks on this occasion …
Gathered to His People “These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived; an hundred, threescore, and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was …
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The Soul’s Answer to the Divine Summons “I WILL GO!”—GEN. 24:58. CARRY back your mind for thirty-seven centuries. The soft light of an Oriental sunset falls gently on the fertile grazing grounds watered by the broad Euphrates; and as its gloom lights up all the …
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Machpelah, and its First Tenant “Give me a possession of a burying-place with you; that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”—GEN. 23:4. “And Abraham buried Sarah, his wife, in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre.”—GEN. 23:19. WHEN Abraham came …
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