A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

'_Let him that heareth say, Come!_' And Chalmers, having heard, said 'Come!' and said it with effect. Dr. Lawes speaks of one hundred and thirty mission stations which he establ...

And the _second_ stage--the stage that leveled the balances? 'One morning,' he says, 'as I was at prayer, and trembling with fear, lest there should be no word of God to help me...

Such a rebuke smites a minister like the sudden coming of the Day of Judgment. After his conversion John Wesley wrote a terrible letter to his old counselor, William Law. 'How w...

'I must go,' she said. 'I feel I must be doing something for someone; I must not be a mere useless log any longer. I've been reading about that wonderful Henry Martyn wearing hi...

But yet once more They whispered those thrice blessed words, in hope To point the parting soul to Christ and heaven-- '_Brother! the precious blood of Jesus Christ Can cleanse f...

'You have often given us good advice, Mr. Erskine,' he says, 'as to what we should do with our souls in life and in death; may I ask what you are now doing with your own?'

Is there in all Scottish literature a more robust, more satisfying, or more lovable character than _Donal Grant_? Readers of George Macdonald will cherish the thought of Donal a...

It is an old-fashioned Scottish kirk--and the Communion Sabbath. Everybody knows of the hush that brooded over a Scottish community a century ago whenever the Communion season c...

It is at this point that Michael Trevanion falls into line with the great masters. Since the apostolic days we have had two conspicuously successful evangelists--John Wesley and...

My _second_ question is this. Even from the standpoint of 'a stern lady who is provokingly evangelical,' is it not well for the minister to preach on that objectionable text? Th...

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When the text came to him the _third_ time, he called for deliverance from _savages_; and the savages, so far from hurting a hair of his head, furnished him with his man Friday,...

When those three tremendous words next confronted Rodney Steele, they were worked, not in silk, but in stone! In a lower flat, in the same building in Harley Street, there dwelt...

From that hour Francis knew nothing among men save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Laying aside the gay clothing of which he was so fond, he donned a peasant's cloak and tied it...