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Evening, September 12 Scripture: “I will sing of mercy and judgment.”(Psalm 101:1) Faith triumphs in trial. When reason is thrust into the inner prison, with her feet made fast in the stocks, faith makes the dungeon walls ring with her merry notes as she cries, “I will sing of mercy and of judgment. Unto thee, […] Evening, September 11 Scripture: “Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies.”(Psalms 5:8) Very bitter is the enmity of the world against the people of Christ. Men will forgive a thousand faults in others, but they will magnify the most trivial offence in the followers of Jesus. Instead of vainly regretting this, […] Evening, September 10 Scripture: “Evening wolves.”(Habakkuk 1:8) While preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to give a page to it. The evening wolf, infuriated by a day of hunger, was fiercer and more ravenous than he would […] Evening, September 9 Scripture: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.”(Revelation 4:4) These representatives of the saints in heaven are said to be around the throne. In the passage in Canticles, where Solomon sings of the King […] Evening, September 8 Scripture: “The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.”(Ephesians 1:19, 20) In the resurrection of Christ, as in our salvation, there was put forth nothing short of a divine power. […] |
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