_Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob._ A REVELATION OF THREE GREAT SUBJECTS I. True worship (verses1-5) 1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consists in-- (1) Right activity. Worthy of our nature. In harmony with all our faculties. (2) The high... [ Continue Reading ]
_Where I heard a language that I understood not._ IGNORANCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF A COMMUNITY It is by no means uncommon for men to be thrown into a community of whose language they are entirely ignorant. Now, ignorance of the language of others is of two kinds, intellectual and moral. I. Intellectu... [ Continue Reading ]
_I answered thee in the secret place of thunder._ ANSWERS TO PRAYER OFTEN COME MYSTERIOUSLY God has a thousand “secret” ways of granting our requests. I. He may do it by a wave of air. A man is the subject of a painful disease, that seems progressing to the utter extinction of his life; for the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blow up the trumpet in the new moon._ NEW-YEAR RESOLUTIONS The savage and the child of civilization are alike in this, that they both draw their notions of time, and measure its lapse, by the movements of the heavenly bodies, thus fulfilling the primaeval prophecy that the sun, moon and stars shou... [ Continue Reading ]
_Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it._ THE MORE MORALLY HUNGRY, THE BETTER FED I. Good men are the subjects of moral hunger--a craving for the chief good, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. This implies-- 1. Health. The body without appetite for food is diseased; the intellect witho... [ Continue Reading ]
_My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up._ DANGER OF PRESUMING ON GOD’S MERCY It is matter of painful observation, that very often when people enter on wrong courses, they think they shall be able to stop when they please. They don’t pretend to be ver... [ Continue Reading ]
_Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways! _ JEHOVAH’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE CONDITION AND CONDUCT OF HIS PEOPLE I. The humiliating position in which the Church is supposed to be standing towards its enemies. Think of the damnable heresies and apostasies from truth... [ Continue Reading ]
_With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee._ A LITTLE BUT WISE TEACHER You know it was said of the Holy Land, long before God led His people into it, that it was “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Such it was and still is. That bees swarmed abundantly in the East many years ago, we... [ Continue Reading ]