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Human Life a Vapor! Edward Griffin, 1807 "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes!" James 4:14 This moral reflection was introduced by the apostle to reprove those calculations and forms of speech which... Read More

Aim High! Edward Griffin, 1807 "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind an... Read More

JEWELS from JAMES (Choice devotional selections from the works of John Angell James) You will die this year! This is what the Lord says: "I am going to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year! " Jerem. 28:16 This may be the case with any one of the readers of the present addres... Read More

JEWELS from JAMES (Choice devotional selections from the works of John Angell James) We must learn it by painful experience! The death of Christian friends should impress us with, even as it shows us—the vanity of the world . All that poetry ever wrote, even the most mournful, beautiful, and pensive... Read More

A NEW YEARS SOLEMN WARNING by John Angell James This is what the Lord says: "I am going to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year! " Jeremiah 28:16 Standing as you now do upon the threshold of another year, and looking with something of curiosity and suspense, if not with anxi... Read More

ONE THING I DO! A sermon preached on occasion of the Centenary of the Tabernacle, at Bristol, November 25, 1853, by John Angell James "The memory of the just is blessed." "The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance." All nations have held in honor the names and deeds of the illustrious de... Read More

DIFFERENT DEGREES OF GLORY by John Angell James My dear friends, I now propose to discuss the question of different degrees of glory. The FELICITY OF HEAVEN, set forth in general terms, will consist of the absence of all evil , both natural and moral, such as sin, and all its bitter fruits—death, di... Read More

THE CHIEF END OF LIFE A new year's address to the Young Men's Christian Association, by John Angell James, 1850 " This one thing I do . Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God i... Read More

SMALL BEGINNINGS NOT TO BE DESPISED A sermon, preached for the benefit of the Port of London Society, for promoting Religion among Seamen, on May 9, 1820, by John Angell James . "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all s... Read More

A Name in Heaven, the Truest Ground of Joy By Matthew Mead "However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you—but rejoice that your names are written in heaven!" Luke 10:20 Our Lord Christ, here in the text, calls off his disciples from rejoicing much, in that which yet was as lawful and likely... Read More