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"Make me to know my transgression and my sin." Job 13:23 "Our sins testify against us." Isaiah 59:12 "Cleanse me from my sin." Psalm 51:2. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." 1 John 1:7. The two words which head this page ought to stir up within us great searchings of heart... Read More

"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish--but have everlasting life." John 3:16 Look at the well-known text which heads this page. Its words are probably familiar to your ears. You have very likely heard them, or read them, or quoted... Read More

"Good hope through grace." 2 Thess. 2:10 "The hope of the ungodly shall perish." Job 8:13 "For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?" Job 27:8 "I hope," is a very common expression. Everybody can say, "I hope." About no subject is the expression used so c... Read More

"God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish--but have everlasting life." John 3:16 There are few texts better known than that which heads this page. Its words are probably familiar to our ears. We have very likely heard them, or read th... Read More

The Lord bless you, my dear sister; and if called on to take the journey somewhat more solitarily than your heart had been wont to count upon, and to know sorrows which had not come within the range of your forebodings, may His hand be with you, and its well-known staff. "God is His own interpreter.... Read More

Hosea prophesied in the prospect of the breaking up of the kingdom of the ten tribes, and near the end of the house of Jehu. He is full of the thought of the ruin that was at hand; but he anticipates scenes of restoration and glory beyond it. As I may express it, the death and resurrection of Israel... Read More

There is a deeper purpose and nobler work in God than creation. Creation occupied His hand, and displayed His power and Godhead, and was then, in some sense, left at man's disposal, so that its condition was to be determined by the allegiance or rebellion of man. But there was another work ordered i... Read More

Gal. 2: 20. There is a character of truth in the Epistle to the Galatians, very seasonable at this present time, and very strengthening to the soul at all times. It teaches us to know that the religion of faith is the religion of immediate personal confidence in Christ. A truth which is, again I say... Read More

In the dispensation of His grace, God provides the sinner with an answer to His own demands upon him. He gives him security in the day of the judgment of righteousness. For He judges sin. Surely He cannot pass it by. Righteousness calls for the judgment of it. But He, in grace, provides the sinner w... Read More

We may contrast the communion to which John in the first chapter of his first Epistle, introduces the soul, with that which Paul gives it at the close of Rom. 8, and also with that which the same Apostle gives it at the close of Rom. 11. In Romans 1 - 8, the Apostle is instructing us in the secret o... Read More