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Evening, September 27 Scripture: “My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.”(Song of Solomon 5:4) Knocking was not enough, for my heart was too full of sleep, too cold and ungrateful to arise and open the door, but the touch of his effectual grace […] Evening, September 26 Scripture: “Howl, fir tree, for the cedar is fallen.”(Zechariah 11:2) When in the forest there is heard the crash of a falling oak, it is a sign that the woodman is abroad, and every tree in the whole company may tremble lest to-morrow the sharp edge of the axe should find it […] Evening, September 25 Scripture: “Who of God is made unto us wisdom.”(1 Corinthians 1:30) Man’s intellect seeks after rest, and by nature seeks it apart from the Lord Jesus Christ. Men of education are apt, even when converted, to look upon the simplicities of the cross of Christ with an eye too little reverent and […] Evening, September 24 Scripture: “I sleep, but my heart waketh.”(Song of Solomon 5:2) Paradoxes abound in Christian experience, and here is one－the spouse was asleep, and yet she was awake. He only can read the believer’s riddle who has ploughed with the heifer of his experience. The two points in this evening’s text are－a mournful […] Evening, September 23 Scripture: “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe.”(Mark 9:23) A certain man had a demoniac son, who was afflicted with a dumb spirit. The father, having seen the futility of the endeavours of the disciples to heal his child, had little or no faith in Christ, and therefore, when he was […] |
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