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Evening, October 23 Scripture: “Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”(Luke 22:46) When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more […] October 23 Not A Bit Of It! “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 Our Lord never nurses our prejudices, He mortifies them, runs clean athwart them. We imagine that God has a special interest in our particular prejudices; we are quite […] Morning “Will ye also go away?” John 6:67 Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with him; but what reason have you to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning–“Have I been a wilderness unto […] Harvest of Light, Gladness Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. (Psalm 97:11) Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses and return an infinite profit. A holy life is like sowing seed: […] October 23 Rejoice in the Flood “He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him” (Ps. 66:6). It is a striking assertion, “through the floods” (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay) “there,” says the Psalmist, […] |
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