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giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and _it shall be given him_" (James i. 5). To the man of prayer, the call of Providence comes in the events of his life, which, as interpreted by the Spirit's guidance, are finger-boards at every turn, saying, "This is the way, w...
presiding in the assemblies of the body. He should be familiar with the established rules of order in deliberative bodies; but in applying them he should not make a parade of pa...
4. iv. 11--"He gave some, Apostles, some, prophets, some, evangelists, andsome, pastors and teachers"--the word has like breadth of meaning, designating men not pastors who publicly taught the Word. There are many endowed with teaching power whose gif...
1. xxxvii. 23); "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, thatgiveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and _it shall be given him_" (James i. 5). To the man of prayer, the call of Providence comes in the events of his life, which, a...
2. vi. 63); and the pastor who makes this Divine book his chief study hasa mind filled, not with the feeble, evanescent thoughts of man, but with the quickening, eternal thoughts of God. The difference is world-wide between a sermon filled with God's...
7. ii. 4), and at the close of which it was said, "I have fought a goodfight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that...
5. xxxii. 32), he "could wish," were it right and would it secure theirsalvation, to be himself "accursed from Christ" for them (Rom. ix. 3). With like self-devotion to souls, Rutherford, the eminent Scotch minister, while assuring his flock that t...
6. xiii. 43); and all this intensified shall be the reward of the trueLet the pastor, then, seek most of all to be faithful to Christ and His work. Let it be to him "a very small thing" that he "be judged" "of man's judgment" (1 Cor. iv. 4) and le...