“MEADOWS may be occasionally flooded, but the marshes are drowned by the tide at every return thereof.”

He loved thee so as to die for thee. He loved thee so as to shed his blood for thee. He loved thee so as to wash thee from thy sins in his blood. He loveth thee now, so as to appear in the presence of God for thee.

The thought of being made instrumental in the hand of the Lord in calling sinners to Jesus, made holy Paul willing to wait in a sinful world, and put off his own happiness.

LET me be mindful of Thy Name, O Lord, in the night, And keep Thy law.

PARADOXICAL though it be, only that man is at rest who attains it through conflict.

It was a stirring greeting which the Lord of Life spake to His first disciples on the morning of the resurrection.

Every true life is death-born, and the deeper the dying the truer the living.

Death is but for a moment. Life is forevermore.

Man, in the central chamber of his thoughts and feelings, has sorrows which are fully known to God and himself only.

“The horse is prepared against the day of battle; but safety” (victory, vide margin) “is of the Lord.”—Proverbs 21:31....

“It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.”—10:23 (14:9). Interpretation.—The “mischief” here...

“He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.”—28:13. Interpretation.—The...

How hard it often is to restrain anger, and how many excuses rise up to justify its indulgence!

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”—Proverbs 12:15 (13:10; 15:22)....

His heart is broken within him and his soul is melted.

Fire is strangely intense and intrinsic. It goes into the very substance of things.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

When God does anything marked and special for our souls, or bodies, He intends it as a sacred trust for us to communicate to others.

The word “chastening” here is derived from a Hebrew verb, which means “to take one into school.”

As the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this...