United States or Norfolk Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Memory Verse: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Scripture for Meditation: Mark ii, 1-12. The testimony of Charles H. Spurgeon should have weight here. He said: "If a man is to be a soul-winner, there must be in him intensity of emotion as well as sincerity of heart.
Two snowflakes on the top of a mountain gather an avalanche by the time they reach the valley. 'He first findeth his brother, Simon. II. And now I turn to the second part of this text, the self-revelation of the Master. The bond which knit these men to Christ at first was by no means the perfect Christian faith which they afterwards attained.
"Sir," saith the Vavasour, "the knight is come, and thinketh that within here is no defence." "By my head," saith Lancelot, "but there is, please God!" The knight bloweth another blast of his horn. "Hearken, Sir," saith the Vavasour, "It is nigh noon, and he thinketh him that none will issue hence to meet him." Lancelot cometh down below and findeth his horse saddled and is mounted as soon.
He entereth within and findeth the city all void of folk, and seeth the great palaces fallen down and waste, and the great grave-yards full of sepulchres, and the tall churches all lying waste, and the markets and exchanges all empty. He rideth amidst the streets, and findeth a great palace that seemeth him to be better and more ancient than all the others.
'Jesus findeth Philip, and saith unto him, "Follow Me!" No doubt a great deal more passed, but no doubt what more passed was less significant and less important for the development of faith in this man than what is recorded.
One would think that he that is flying from wrath to come has little need of such clogs as these. And yet so it is, and woeful experience proves it. This man feeleth the infirmity of his flesh, he findeth a proneness in himself to be desperate. Now, he chides with God, flings and tumbles like a wild bull in a net, and still the guilt of all returns upon himself, to the crushing of him to pieces.
He who died to save the poor as well as the rich, the heathen as well as the evangelized, is now speaking from heaven; "whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." These are some of the intellectual views and obligations which should be systematized in the mind, forming both inducements to, and a constituent part of, systematic beneficence.
Four-cornered it is, and therein is fish of four kinds, and each fish in his end where he findeth his kind, may there none go to other, except all as belongeth to his kind.
Whosoever shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."
Imprimis, That no servant bee absent from praier, at morning or euening, without a lawfull excuse, to be alleged within one day after, vppon paine to forfeit for eury tyme 2d. II. Item, That none swear any othe, vppon paine for every othe 1d. III. Item, That no man leaue any doore open that he findeth shut, without theare bee cause, vppon paine for euery time 1d.
Word Of The Day