Gleanings among the Sheaves

And it is thought that these samples, gleaned from the Sermons, will be welcome to many, but chiefly to those who are most familiar with the ample fields from which they are gat...

The way that God keeps His people in security is not by shutting out their enemies from attacking them, but by sustaining them while engaged in the conflict. It is not much to p...

What an honorable position was that of Simon the Cyrenian, to be cross-bearer to Jesus Christ! We could almost weep that we were not there, that we might have had the honor of c...

O Lord! of what small account are the best of men apart from Thee! How high they rise when Thou liftest them up! How low they fall if Thou withdraw Thy hand! It is our joy, amid...

We are saved by faith, and not by feeling; yet there is a relation between holy faith and hallowed feeling like that between the root and the flower. Faith is permanent as the r...

God's chosen ones are spoken of as "vessels of mercy." Now we know that a vessel is _nothing but a receiver_. A "vessel" is not a fountain, but only a container and holder of th...

God's people are often chastened, and the Lord's hand lieth heavy upon them; yet there is paternal goodness in their chastenings, and infinite lovingkindness in their tribulatio...

Eminent as David was for his piety, he was equally eminent for the joyfulness and gladness of his heart. It is often thought by worldly people, that the contemplation of divine...

One inconvenience of "little-faith" is, that _while it is always sure of heaven, it very seldom thinks so_. Little-faith is quite as secure for heaven as Great-faith. When Jesus...