THE COLOR OF VIRTUE I am ashamed and blush. Ezra 9:6. Neither could they blush. Jeremiah 6:15. Did you ever hear the story of how the Virginian creeper got its blush? The story is only a legend, but it is very beautiful and worth repeating. It tells that when the plants and flowers were first cr... [ Continue Reading ]
A PAIR OF BELLOWS The bellows. Jeremiah 6:29. Our text today is a word used only once in the Bible, yet we all know it well, and many of us have in our homes the thing it stands for. Turn up the Book of Jeremiah, and in the sixth chapter at the very beginning of the twenty-ninth verse you will fi... [ Continue Reading ]
REFUSE SILVER Refuse silver. Jeremiah 6:30. “Refuse silver!” What did the prophet Jeremiah mean by “refuse silver”? And why did he tell the people of Judah that they were like refuse silver. As many of you know, silver is rarely found as pure silver. It is often found mixed with other metals such... [ Continue Reading ]