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'And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:' John 16:8 NOTES OF AN ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE PERTH CONVENTION, 1883. Shall we not honour and bless and adore the Holy Spirit? Surely it might well be expected that our love, our adoring and grateful love, s... Read More

PREFACE If it is true, as a famous writer has said, that "life becomes a futile thing when it lacks a faith in the high meaning of its origin and the high meaning of its goal," then it is time for Nazarenes everywhere to rediscover the glory and grandeur of their heritage and to rededicate themselve... Read More

"And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." -- Acts 5:42 There is across this land a deepening and unmistakable conviction that evangelism, as we have known it, is at the crossroads. We do know that evangelism in the Church of the Nazarene is in c... Read More

A Sermon (No. 369) Delivered on Monday Afternoon, March 25th, 1861 by the Rev. C. H. SPURGEON, "And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."--Acts 5:42. I DO not know whether there are any persons here present who can contrive to put themselves into... Read More

Preface. This second volume, while differing widely from its predecessor, will scarcely be less acceptable. The first part contains some most valuable expositions of the doctrine and the discipline of the Church of God. The importance of these papers at the present moment, when so many souls are pas... Read More

Reader, I would ask of you a question. -- What place has the word of God in our spiritual blessing? Firstly, as to the individual soul. The Lord spake (in John 5) thus, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not c... Read More

THE SECOND DECADE. THE EIGHTH SERMON. OF JUDGMENT, AND THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE; THAT CHRISTIANS ARE NOT FORBIDDEN TO JUDGE: OF REVENGEMENT AND PUNISHMENT: WHETHER IT BE LAWFUL FOR A MAGISTRATE TO KILL THE GUILTY: WHEREFORE, WHEN, HOW, AND WHAT THE MAGISTRATE MUST PUNISH: WHETHER HE MAY PUNISH OFFEND... Read More

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of t... Read More

Acts 1 - 9. The second of St. Luke's letters to his friend Theophilus, does not stiffly and formally take up the inspired narrative, where the first of them had left it; there is rather an easy and graceful intertwining or intervolving of the two: the second going back a little into the scenes and t... Read More

2 Kings 1, 2. We might read these two chapters in connection with this event, though it is only in the second of them we have it recorded. Ahaziah, of the house of Omri, and the successor of his father Ahab on the throne of Israel, appears before us here, as in deep apostacy from the God of Israel. ... Read More