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Evening, February 4 Scripture: “Your refuge from the avenger of blood.”(Joshua 20:3) It is said that in the land of Canaan, cities of refuge were so arranged, that any man might reach one of them within half a day at the utmost. Even so the word of our salvation is near to us; […] Evening, February 3 Scripture: “Tell me … where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.”(Song of Solomon 1:7) These words express the desire of the believer after Christ, and his longing for present communion with him. Where doest thou feed thy flock? In thy house? I will go, if […] Evening, February 2 Scripture: “And these are ancient things.”(1 Chronicles 4:22) Yet not so ancient as those precious things which are the delight of our souls. Let us for a moment recount them, telling them over as misers count their gold. The sovereign choice of the Father, by which he elected us unto eternal […] Evening, February 1 Scripture: “Thy love to me was wonderful.”(2 Samuel 1:26) Come, dear readers, let each one of us speak for himself of the wonderful love, not of Jonathan, but of Jesus. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the love […] Evening, January 31 Scripture: “Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.”(2 Samuel 18:23) Running is not everything, there is much in the way which we select: a swift foot over hill and down dale will not keep pace with a slower traveller upon level ground. How is it […] |
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