Category: Religion/Spirituality

A Lamp to the Path Or, The Word of God in the Heart, the Home, the Workshop and the Market-Place

An intelligent and skillful physician, vigorous, athletic, and courageous, used to pursue his professional duties by day or night without anxiety or apprehension. Often he was desired to use a lantern in his nightly journeyings, but he laughed at the idea of danger, and went h...

Chapters

14. CHAPTER VI.

There are many symptoms of the reviving power of religion in our day. Some of the great questions which enter into the very heart of society are connected with the claims of tru...

12. CHAPTER IV.

There are few opinions more prevalent among men, than that religion is to be attended to only at certain places or on set occasions. While some entirely neglect it, and live fro...

10. CHAPTER II.

It is a fatal and a paralysing mistake to suppose that the religion of Jesus is to be kept for certain days, or occasions, or places, and laid aside or neglected at other times....

11. CHAPTER III.

There is no error in religion more common or more deadly, than to put the means for the end. So rarely does man regard aright the great object of the soul's pursuit, that he is...

16. CHAPTER VIII.

There can be no doubt that one reason why so many keep religion far away from the heart, is the supposition that it offers no present pleasure. It holds out promises, but their...

9. CHAPTER I.

As years roll over us, and as our delusive expectations from earth and time slowly melt away, the complaint is very often heard that the world is growing worse. The truth is, th...

13. CHAPTER V.

Enough has been said to show that there is no incongruity between the religion of Jesus and the most comprehensive enterprise, if that enterprise be characterised by wisdom, as...

15. CHAPTER VII.

When the Word of God has obtained its true place in any man's heart, it disposes at once of a hundred questions which were difficult or perplexing before. On the one hand, when...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

An intelligent and skillful physician, vigorous, athletic, and courageous, used to pursue his professional duties by day or night without anxiety or apprehension. Often he was d...

6. CHAPTER VI.

4. CHAPTER IV.

2. CHAPTER II.

5. CHAPTER V.

3. CHAPTER III.

1. CHAPTER I.

7. CHAPTER VII.