_Thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself._ INHERITANCE IN THYSELF Man, as a moral being, cannot have happiness or misery independently of his inner life. Each man in some sense farms his own nature, and reaps the harvest planted by his own hands. Man is a wealthy proprietor. No lordly acres,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross._ SIN’S DETERIORATING POWER Stand in fancy in one of the fights of the old civil war. The Royalists are fighting desperately, and are winning apace; but I hear a cry from the other side that Cromwell’s Ironsides are coming. Now we shall see som... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation._ PRACTICAL USES OF THE STATE OF THE LAND OF JUDAH We propose to speak concerning the special instruction which the prophet received to intimate her state. It was not communicated to him as a secret, or whispered in... [ Continue Reading ]