by admin | Mar 31, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
[S]omeone is disturbed, suppose it to be a child or a man or a woman. If you come and bring some great thing to please them, perhaps it will quiet them and they will be contented. It is the thing you bring that quiets them, not the disposition of their own spirits,...
by admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
[L]et me ask of my reader, wherever, alike with myself, he is certain, there to go on with me; wherever, alike with myself, he hesitates, there to join with me in inquiring; wherever he recognizes himself to be in error, there to return to me; wherever he recognizes...
by admin | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
When the brazen serpent was erected in the wilderness, to cure those who must otherwise have died, the benefit was not restrained to those who had been bitten by the fiery serpent but once or a few times. The worst case amongst the people was relieved as soon and as...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow thee: Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence, my all shalt be. Perish, every fond ambition, All I’ve sought, and hoped, and known; Yet how rich is my condition— God and heaven are still my own! Let the...
by admin | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
Many men are violent against one sin; but the true saint abhors all sin. You are a teetotaler; I am very glad to hear it: you will not allow the sin of drunkenness to have dominion over you. But are you selfish and ungenerous? Have you learned habits of strict economy...
by admin | Feb 25, 2016 | Blog, Yet Speaking
We all… have to face this ultimate and final question: Do we accept the Bible as the Word of God, as the sole authority in all matters of faith and practice, or do we not? Is the whole of my thinking governed by Scripture, or do I come with my reason and pick...
