_THE HUMBLING RETROSPECT_ (for the close of the year) ‘O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto Thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day.’ Daniel 9:7 It is evidently only true and right that in religious things, as in worldly things, we should—at the end of the year—look matters fairly i... [ Continue Reading ]
_MERCIES AND FORGIVENESSES_ ‘Do the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him.’ Daniel 9:9 And what is God? A Being Whose essence is love. Pity makes His bosom a home. Gentleness dwells with Him. ‘Judgment is His strange work.’ ‘He waits to be gracious.’ H... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH OF PRAYER_ ‘At the beginning of the supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee.’ Daniel 9:23 What would that ancient, who first caught a faint glimpse of electrical power when he rubbed the amber (ελεκτρον, electrum) on the seashore, and saw the l... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE MESSIAH CUT OFF_ ‘Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Hol... [ Continue Reading ]