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Abraham “Let us make us a name,” is the language in Genesis 11, of a people who are going to make themselves secure without God; like one, who, over a thousand years before, heedless that he had been expelled from that presence where happiness alone can be, sought to make himself happy without God, and […]

Enoch 1. The Family of Seth There was once a man named Enoch, and two things describe his life: “He walked with God,” and “He was not, for God took him.” It was a sad world in which Enoch lived. The multitude walked in “the way of Cain” who slew his brother, and who, for […]

“A Splendid Impossibility” It was at the close of one of those “Limp Sydney days,” proverbial among the people of the Commonwealth, that a young Australian strolled leisurely into a Bible and Tract Depot in that city, as though the hot and humid atmosphere had robbed him of his usual energy. His ostensible object was […]

Our Great Hope The First and Last Words from the Lord in the Glory The enraptured silence of the disciples of the Lord, as the cloud of glory carried Him out of their sight, was broken by the voice of two men in white apparel, saying, “This same Jesus, which is taken from you into […]

“My brethren” “Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God” (John 20:17). In the whole range of revealed truth there is nothing higher or more blessed than that which is declared in these words of the Lord Jesus. Those men […]

“Live in Peace” A Word on the Carnality of Strife and Division amongst the Saints of God “Finally brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. Greet one another with an holy kiss. All the saints salute […]

Prayer According to the Word “I EXHORT therefore, that, FIRST OF ALL, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made FOR ALL MEN; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the […]

“My Father’s Business” The first recorded words of the Lord in each of the gospels furnish an index to its character. For example In Matthew 3:15, “Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness,” we see the King, Who will rule His kingdom with equity and truth, Himself marking out the way of righteousness for […]

You Have a Soul Yes, you have a soul that must live for ever—somewhere. “Well, tell us something we don’t know—we all know that.” But stay a moment. Your soul must live as long as God lives, either in heaven with its wondrous eternal joys, or in hell with its speechless everlasting woe. Can you […]

Works of Grace—Trying or Trusting—Which? In Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and the largest city in Scandinavia, there is a very beautiful park on the edge of an arm of the sea. In it is a very beautiful monument—the most striking of its kind in the world. It consists of a group splendidly modelled in […]