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Evening, October 22 Scripture: “He shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.”(John 16:15) There are times when all the promises and doctrines of the Bible are of no avail, unless a gracious hand shall apply them to us. We are thirsty, but too faint to crawl to the water- brook. When a […] Evening, October 21 Scripture: “Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”(Luke 24:38) “Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in […] Evening, October 20 Scripture: “Keep not back.”(Isaiah 43:6) Although this message was sent to the south, and referred to the seed of Israel, it may profitably be a summons to ourselves. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of […] Evening, October 19 Scripture: “God, my maker, who giveth songs in the night.”(Job 35:10) Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. […] Evening, October 18 Scripture: “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice.”(1 Samuel 15:22) Saul had been commanded to slay utterly all the Amalekites and their cattle. Instead of doing so, he preserved the king, and suffered his people to take the best of the oxen and of the sheep. When called to account for this, […] |
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