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The revision throws much light on this question, showing that the traditional answer is erroneous. That answer is, that the purpose of the veil was to subdue the excessive brightness, or to conceal it entirely, so that the Israelites could look at Moses and come nigh without fear. Let us first study... Read More

It's a fact: The cross of Jesus Christ and the topics directly related to it dominate the epistles of the New Testament. George Smeaton, observing this fact in the writings of the apostles and church leaders to the early Christians, notes how often they refer to Christ's atoning death: The numerous ... Read More

DOES GOD HAVE AN ERASER? Vic Reasoner Each of the seven letters in Revelation 2-3 closes with a promise to the overcomer. A popular teaching defines an overcomer as anyone who had truly trusted in Christ for salvation. Since all who have truly believed in Christ are overcomers, all who have truly be... Read More

Containing testimony to the Divine Design and Inspiration of Scripture and to the Authority, Work, and Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. Prefatory Note Some time ago one of the beautiful acrostics of the Bible (Prov. 31:10-31) was much spoken of. It is a scripture of great grace and comeliness, and ha... Read More

Section 1. The Rendering of the Services. The importance of a good and effective rendering of the Prayer Book Services by the officiating clergyman needs no discussion. We often read and speak of “our incomparable Liturgy,” and this is true. But it must be properly rendered. As far back as 1709 the ... Read More

The Importance of the Doctrine of the Second Advent as a Motive and Help to Holiness. NOTES OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE EDINBURGH CONFERENCE, 1888. It would be very pleasant and instructive to hear brethren relate incidents connected with this blessed hope, and its effect upon the souls of God's ... Read More

A Sermon (No. 1892) Suggested by the death of CHARLES STANFORD, D.D., Minister of Denmark Place Chapel, Camberwell, Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, March 21st, 1886, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me wher... Read More

The one great subject which runs through the whole Word of God is Christ: the promised seed of the woman in Gen. 3:15. This verse marks the depth of the ruin into which man had descended in the Fall; and it becomes the foundation of the rest of the Bible. All hope of restoration for man and for crea... Read More

Revelation 4 - 19: 10. Last week we were occupied with the vision given to John in Patmos. Being in the Spirit, he saw Jesus Christ in the midst of seven golden candlesticks, but with all the glorious insignia of the Ancient of days (yet Son of man) examining the churches. The whole scene was brough... Read More

Heb. 13: 4. One of the marks of the last days is "forbidding to marry" (1 Tim. 4: 3), a mark of that state of things which leads to final judgment. "Marriage is honourable in all." I don't know anything that marks the low state of things in Christendom more than the levity with which marriage is tho... Read More