_THE DISCIPLINE OF LENT_ (For Ash Wednesday) ‘Turn ye unto Me [saith the Lord] with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.’ Joel 2:12 (R.V.) For _ whom_ is Lent ordained? Not merely for the warning of open sinners. Lenten Services have little attraction for _ them... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LOCUST-EATEN YEARS RESTORED_ ‘And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten.’ Joel 2:25 I. THE COMING OF THE LOCUSTS WAS A DAY OF THE LORD; A DAY OF DARKNESS AND GLOOMINESS; A DAY OF CLOUDS AND OF THICK DARKNESS; A DAY OF BUSTLE AND HEARTRENDING CALAMITY, OF WHICH FATHERS WO... [ Continue Reading ]
_GOD’S PEOPLE UNASHAMED_ ‘And My people shall never he ashamed.’ Joel 2:26 There are three respects in which the promise of our text may be regarded as applying to those who answer to the description of the people of God. The believer has no cause to be ashamed: (1) When he searches into himself;... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE OUTPOURED SPIRIT_ ‘I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh.’ Joel 2:28 Joel sees in the national calamity a sign and harbinger of the Day of the Lord, to which all things are tending. To prepare for that great and terrible Day he foretells the pouring forth of God’s Spirit upon the whole pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_YOUTHFUL SEERS_ ‘Your young men shall see visions.’ Joel 2:28 I long and pray for the _ young men who see visions_. Never were they more needed than just now. I. THERE IS THE VISION FOR THE PERSONAL LIFE.—It is the dream of a character in which manliness and brotherliness and godliness join ha... [ Continue Reading ]