AARON
AARON = «master» or «excellent». Aaron, older brother of Moses, first high priest of the old law and a figure of primary importance in the events of the Exodus. He was the son of Amram
Our Daily Devotional
Insidious Temptations
The young are seldom tempted to outright wickedness; evil comes to them as an enticement. The honest generosity and fresh heart of youth would refuse to embrace open meanness and undisguised vice. The adversary conforms
Negligence of the Church
The world comes to the child when it is in the April of life, and sows tares. The world comes along again when the child is in the May of life, and sows thistles. Again
Preparation For a Long Journey
What if a man going to San Francisco should make preparations for his journey from Brooklyn to Hoboken, and no further. Would you not call him a fool? But here is a man about starting
Experimental Preaching
There is no such preaching as the experience which a man gives who has just realized the sinfulness of his own soul. I often hear myself outpreached by some new convert who can hardly put
Mother’s Forgiveness
An Englishman told me a story once which may serve to illustrate how God forgives. There was a boy a good many years ago, stolen in London, the same as Charley Ross was stolen here.
A Word to Mr. Ingersoll
He (Mr. Ingersoll) is said to be a very brave man. I dare him to do one thing. I dare him to take his mother’s Bible, and some Sunday afternoon, go into his room, and
Have Infidels Something Better?
No matter how infidel philosophers may regard the Bible; they may say that Genesis is awry, and that the Psalms are more than half bitter imprecations, and the Prophecies only the phantasies of brain-bewildered men,
The Sweetest Music
The sweetest music is not the peal of marriage bells, nor tender descants in moonlight woods, nor trumpet notes of victory—it is the soul’s welcome to heaven. God grant that, when we die there may
Early Training
Grace, like flower-seed needs to be sown in spring. The first fifteen years of life, and often the first six, decide the eternal destiny.