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Evening, May 25 Scripture: “And they rose up the same hour, and returned Jerusalem … and they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them.”(Luke 24:33,35) When the two disciples had reached Emmaus, and were refreshing themselves at the evening meal, the mysterious stranger who had so […] Evening, May 24 Scripture: “Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.”(Philippians 1:27) The word “conversation” does not merely mean our talk and converse with one another, but the whole course of our life and behaviour in the world. The Greek word signifies the actions and the privileges of citizenship: […] Evening, May 23 Scripture: “Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money.”(Isaiah 43:24) Worshippers at the temple were wont to bring presents of sweet perfumes to be burned upon the altar of God: but Israel, in the time of her backsliding, became ungenerous, and made but few votive offerings to her Lord: this […] Evening, May 22 Scripture: “Behold, thou art fair, my Beloved.”(Song of Solomon 1:16) From every point our Well-beloved is most fair. Our various experiences are meant by our heavenly Father to furnish fresh standpoints from which we may view the loveliness of Jesus; how amiable are our trials when they carry us aloft where […] Evening, May 21 Scripture: “There is corn in Egypt.”(Genesis 42:2) Famine pinched all the nations, and it seemed inevitable that Jacob and his family should suffer great want; but the God of providence, who never forgets the objects of electing love, had stored a granary for his people by giving the Egyptians warning of […] |
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