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The Lord God Is My Strength
‘The righteous are as bold as a lion.’ The words of wisdom are not like the pithy sayings of the heathen, which merely describe states and things to which men never arrive nor enjoy; but they assure us, such and such has been, and still is the knowledge and experience of God’s saints. So children of wisdom are taught their…
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Wrong Petitions
Strange! What, James and John, two disciples of a despised and rejected Master, who had not where to lay his head, yet dreaming of earthly pomp and worldly grandeur, and petitioning for the highest pitch of worldly glory? Yes, nothing less than the right hand of pre-eminence, and the left hand of power, would suit them. Human nature, how earthly,…
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Accepted In The Beloved
When Jacob was about to meet his offended brother Esau, he was greatly afraid and distressed. He sends a present to appease his wrath, before he durst venture into his presence. ‘Peradventure he will accept of me,’ says he. Gen. 32:20. Now his hope was not founded on the affection of his brother, but upon the favour which his present…
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And The Spirit Of God Moved Upon The Face Of The Waters
Dear friends, you have just sung that “God moves.” (Hymn 320). And when God moves, something is always done. It was so in this chapter. Every time the dear Spirit moved, and God spoke, something came to pass. It is very trying and troubling to God’s people when He does not seem to move and when He seems to be…
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The Life And Ministry Of E. W. Bullinger
The honoured secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society was well known to most of our readers, for it was through his efforts that doors were opened for the Society in the Particular Baptist communities throughout the country. Dr. Bullinger was, by common consent, one of the most learned men of his day in the ancient languages of the East—the tongues…
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The Life And Ministry Of Joseph Cannon
He was born at Offley, Herts., and, like all the rest of Adam's posterity, soon manifested that the heart is corrupt. At an early age he ran away from home, and got to London. He was standing under a bridge at 4 o'clock in the morning, when a dairyman, seeing him, asked him what he was doing there? He told…
