The Lord’s nets, the preachers of the word, need mending too. Our mind grows jaded, and our spirit depressed, our heart beats with diminished vigor, and our eyes lose their brightness, if we continue, month after month, and year after year, without a rest. Mental work will as surely wear out the brain as friction will destroy the iron wheel. It is a bad policy to forego the regular vacation.

It is your constant patience in faith which will decide the struggle against sin, not occasional victories or defeats.

Oh, the blessed shadow of Christ’s cross! All the flocks of the Lord lie down under it, and rest in peace; millions of souls are delivered by it from the heat of vengeance, and myriads more shall find a covert within it from the wrath to come.

Unity is that gift from God that comes as an answered prayer of the Son so that the world (“Satanic System,” Lewis Sperry Chafer) may know the Father sent the Son. 

Pity indeed is it that the bulk of hearers are hearers only, and are no more likely to go to heaven than the seats they sit on in the assembly of the saints.

Of all laborers, he who labors in the spiritual field stands in the greatest need of joy in his work, because of all labor it is that which brings the greatest amount of care, disappointment, trial and suffering.

The hatred of the ungodly when poured upon Christians in the form of persecution, is seldom harmful to their spiritual nature,...

Sometimes GREAT TROUBLES cause the heir of heaven to be much cast down.

Self control means just what it says, having control over one’s self. Someone has said, “A man’s conquest of himself dwarfs the ascent of...

When we try to describe this movement of practical reason between its two poles, a misleading analogy suggests itself.

We, too, are hurled headlong into a sea of sorrows, and find it hard to keep our head above water.

Christ, our sacrifice, was made sin and a curse for us and the sacrifice was consumed by the fire of God’s wrath against sin...

In the context of his teaching, this refers fundamentally to the “Sabbath rest” which is found in Christ...

Most modern Christians live sub-Christian lives!

All of the heroes who have served before us have already defined, with the last full measure, what courage means.

I find to this day seven abominations in my heart:

Do we sufficiently cultivate this unselfish desire to be all for Jesus, and to do all for His pleasure? Or are we conscious that we...

keener than the lightning, the words in that book of remembrance which the angel shall hold open when all mankind shall meet before God.

MANY persons are greatly disquieted in mind because their experience of conviction or comfort has not been like that of others.

THIS huge round earth is sustained in its orbit without prop or pillar, by the unseen power of the Almighty God. Turning round upon its...