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Evening, December 31 Scripture: “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”(Jeremiah 8:20) Not saved! Dear reader, is this your mournful plight? Warned of the judgment to come, bidden to escape for your life, and yet at this moment not saved! You know the way of salvation, you read it […] Evening, December 30 Scripture: “Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end?”(2 Samuel 2:26) If, O my reader! thou art merely a professor, and not a possessor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus, the following lines are a true ketch of thine end. You are a respectable attendant at […] Evening, December 29 Scripture: “What think ye of Christ?”(Matthew 22:42) The great test of your soul’s health is, What think you of Christ? Is he to you “fairer than the children of men”－“the chief among ten thousand”－the “altogether lovely”? Wherever Christ is thus esteemed, all the faculties of the spiritual man exercise themselves with energy. […] Evening, December 28 Scripture: “I came not to send peace on earth, but a sword.”(Matthew 10:34) The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if to do the right, and to believe the true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will […] Evening, December 27 Scripture: “And theLORDshall guide thee continually.” (Isaiah 58:11) “The Lord shall guide thee.” Not an angel, but JEHOVAH shall guide thee. He said he would not go through the wilderness before his people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If thy presence go […] |
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