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Evening, June 24 Scripture: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said … Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods.”(Daniel 3:16, 18) The narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the minds of […] Evening, June 23 Scripture: “Waiting for the adoption.”(Romans 8:23) Even in this world saints are God’s children, but men cannot discover them to be so, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not manifested, the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and keep it […] Evening, June 22 Scripture: “That those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”(Hebrews 12:27) We have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written […] Evening, June 21 Scripture: “The foundation of God standeth sure.”(2 Timothy 2:19) The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt […] Evening, June 20 Scripture: “Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.”(Mark 1:18) When they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without demur. If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance at […] |
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