Why Condemn The Church?
Do you ask, “Why not do away with the church, if its members make so many mistakes?” Would you take away the light-house because careless mariners, through wrong observations, run their ships high and dry
Thoghts
Present Foes to Fight
The church ought to be the leader, the inspirer of the age. It is all folly for us to be discussing old issue—arraigning Nero, hanging Absalom, striking the Philistines with Shamgar’s ox-goad—when all about us
The Effects of Sin
Have you ever watched the deteriorating effects of sin even upon the personal appearance? Take a youth of extreme beauty, and let him, little by little, be led into wicked practices; in proportion as he
A Disease of The Heart
Like snow drift when it has leveled the church-yard mounds, and glistening in the winter sun, lies so pure and fair and beautiful above the dead, who fester and rot below, a very plausible profession,
Salvation From Sin
As certain as we are lost in sin, so certain can Christ gave us from our sins. He will save us if we will let Him. A story is told of Rowland Hill, the great
Sins Accumulate
Sins seldom come alone; where there is room for one devil, seven other spirits more wicked than himself will find a lodging. We may say of sins as Longfellow says of birds of prey, in
The Power of a Single Sin
There was but one crack in the lantern, and the wind has found it out and blown out the candle. How great a mischief one unguarded point of character may cause us. One spark blew
Sin is Cruel
Sin is not only strong to seduce, but heartless to sustain its victims. It will exhaust your means, teach you to despise the God of your fathers, and then when the inevitable disaster of wickedness
Little Sins
It is high time to get out of your sins. You say, “I have committed no great transgressions.” But are you not aware that your life has been sinful? The snow comes down on the
Self-Denying Lives
How grand it is, amid the selfishness of the world, to find such generous deeds! The Moravian missionaries were told that they could not enter the lazarettos where the lepers were dying unless they stayed