_THE COMBAT WITH EVIL_ ‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ James 4:7 Temptation is the root of sin: if you want to fight against sin you must look to the root of it, and you must resist temptation. Christ came to show us how to resist temptation in order that we might not fall into sin... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE_ ‘For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.’ James 4:14 To this question we must expect many different answers. But however different may be the various answers, in one sense the same answer must come from all. Fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_SINFUL NEGLECT_ ‘Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.’ James 4:17 It is with the Divine, as it is with the human, statute book—no man convicted at the bar may plead before his judge that he did not know the law of which his crime is the transgression. As... [ Continue Reading ]