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Evening, January 20 Scripture: “Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.”(Psalm 119:37) There are divers kinds of vanity. The cap and bells of the fool, the mirth of the world, the dance, the lyre, and the cup of the dissolute, all these men know to be vanities; […] Evening, January 19 Scripture: “Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.”(Luke 24:45) He whom we viewed last evening as opening Scripture, we here perceive opening the understanding. In the first work he has many fellow-labourers, but in the second he stands alone; many can bring the Scriptures to the […] Evening, January 18 Scripture: “He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.”(Luke 24:27) The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a most profitable journey. Their companion and teacher was the best of tutors; the interpreter one of a thousand, in whom are hid all the treasures of […] Evening, January 17 Scripture: “And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house.”(2 Samuel 11:2) At that hour David saw Bathsheba. We are never out of the reach of temptation. Both at home and abroad we are liable […] Evening, January 16 Scripture: “The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.”(Daniel 9:26) Blessed be his name, there was no cause of death in him. Neither original nor actual sin had defiled him, and therefore death had no claim upon him. No man could have taken his life from him justly, […] |
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