Misread Passages of Scriptures

And this is no more than the simple truth. The kingdom is worthy to receive the tribute of all the monarchs, the nobles, the wise ones, the rich ones of the world: the more it h...

The sentence on sin then is a dread reality. “_The soul that sinneth it shall die_” remains as God’s judgment record, which no art or effort of man can cancel. But in this first...

What he won was power with God and with man as a spiritual prince; power to pray, and to conquer by prayer; power to trust and to hope in God’s mercy through stern struggles and...

Through this long sad night, lit only by these rare faint gleams, men had been looking, longing, and moaning for a deliverer; and steadily settling the while, and they knew it,...

We cannot believe that this is purely a seed-time. Like children, we are for reaping where we have not sown, and gathering where we have not strawed. Or, if by chance we drop a...

At the same time the patriarch of Israel presents to us a wonderfully complete image of the race which sprang from him. We speak of Jacob rather than Abraham, as the founder of...

Esau’s history is but the repetition of the history of the fall. And it is a history which we all constantly repeat in the critical moments of our lives. Esau fell as Adam fell,...

There is a touch of scorn in the Saviour’s words, “_Shew me the tribute money_.” Scorn of the vain worldly mind that was perplexing itself about tribute, while the love of God a...

“_What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?” “These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white i...

1. The awful force and inevitable certainty of the processes of Nature, the unfailing “order of Nature” which furnishes forth the field of our toils. That order God guarantees....

The accompanying Sermons on “Misread Passages of Scripture” form part of a series which the author projected, but which through ill health he has been unable to complete. He sen...

There was but one thing which could deliver them; a thoroughly Christian conviction that the idol is not anything at all: that “_every creature of God is good and is to be recei...