MATTHEW 6:22.—“The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” THE human eye is the most striking and expressive feature in the human constitution. Of all the physical organs, it is the …
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THE REALITY OF HEAVEN
JOHN 14:2.—“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.” ALL Scripture is profitable, and conduces to the growth of the Christian. But some portions of it seem to be more particularly adapted than others to certain …
FAITH WITH AND WITHOUT SIGHT
JOHN 20:29.—“Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” THIS is one of the most comforting and encouraging passages in the whole Scripture, to a doubting and anxious Christian. …
THE CREATURE HAS NO ABSOLUTE MERIT
LUKE 17:10.—“When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which it was our duty to do.” IN this direction which our Lord gave his apostles, he announced a truth that is exceedingly …
THE DUTY OF REFERENCE TO THE DIVINE WILL
JAMES 4:13–15.—“Go to now, ye that say, To-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain: Whereas, ye know not what shall be on the morrow: For what is your life? It …
THE GLORIFICATION OF GOD
ISAIAH 42:8.—“I am the LORD; that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” THE name of a thing, provided it is a true and adequate one, denotes the essential nature of that thing. When …
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The Parable of the Sower “And when much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: a sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it …
THE CHARACTER OF THIS MAN
‘The man that endureth temptation.’ Temptation, when it comes from Satan, is not to try us, but is with a view of destroying us. View the word ‘temptation’ in whatever sense you please, the blessing is contained in the word ‘endureth.’ It is not, ‘Blessed …
MOSES HIS CHOICE: 3
CHAP. III Gods people, though dear to God, yet usually have been in an afflicted estate FOr the first: Gods people, although dear and precious in his eyes, yet they have usually been an afflicted people in all generations unto this day. When God was …
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Plowing the Rock “Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen?”—Amos 6:12. THESE expressions are proverbs, taken from the familiar sayings of the east country. A proverb is generally a sword with two edges, or, if I may so say, it …