| › Chapter 1 - Finding the Way - Finding the Way
by
J. R. Miller,
1904
Finding the Way
Does God condescend to show people the way through this world? He guides suns and pla ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - Learning God's Will - We talk much about being led. If we are not led by one who knows the way--we can never get home, for we can never find the way ourselves. How are we l ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - Letting God In - The teaching of Christianity, is that God lives in us. On the day of Pentecost we are told that the Disciples of Christ were filled with the Holy Spir ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - The Sympathy of Christ - "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses." Hebrews 4:15
The gospel story of Christ, closes with the accoun ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - The Only Bond - Every life has its secret, that which accounts for its trend, its choices, its toils, its achievements. When we see a mother with her sick child, forg ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - The Master at Prayer - When General Gordon was with his army in Khartoum, it is said that there was an hour every day when a white handkerchief lay over his tent door. While ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Master on the Beach - One of the most interesting of our Lord's appearances after His resurrection, was the one which took place beside the sea. The scene shows a fire burn ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - In the Love of God - A scriptural counsel bids us to "keep ourselves in the love of God." This does not mean that we should keep ourselves loving God. Of course, we should ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The Abundant Life - The Divine ideal for life is health, not sickness; enthusiasm, not languor; branches bending with fruit, not covered only with leaves. Christ wants us ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - We Are Able - When Jesus asked His two ambitious disciples if they were able to drink the cup He was about to drink, and to be baptized with the baptism with which ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - To Each One His Work - Some people do not like to work. Perhaps it is true that the disinclination is natural and universal, and that we all have to learn to like to work. T ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - One Thing I Do - There is a great deal of waste in all lines of life--because men scatter their energies over too wide a field. Instead of doing one thing well, they d ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - At Your Word, I Will - The Divine Will settles everything of duty. When we know surely what our Master would have us to do, there is no longer the slightest question as to w ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The Duty of Pleasing Others - "Each one of us must please his neighbor for his good, in order to build him up." Romans 15:2
Some people are not accustomed to think of pleasing o ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - The Privilege of Suffering Wrongfully - One of the most difficult duties of Christian life, is to endure wrong patiently and sweetly. Yet many people have to learn the lesson. There are none ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - The Duty Waiting Without - It was a glorious privilege for the disciples to be with their Master on the Holy Mount. They carried the impression of the Transfiguration in their h ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - The Thanksgiving Habit - The annual Thanksgiving Day in America, has grown to be a national festival. It is a day of rejoicing. It summons all the people to gratitude. It is f ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Because You Are Strong - It used to be a custom for travelers in Switzerland, to bring home clusters of the edelweiss. The flower is not sought because of its beauty or for it ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - The Glasses You Wear - It is very important if we are to see well, if our eyes are to do honest work for us--that we wear the right kind of glasses. Some people do not and t ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - As If We Did Not - "There's so much bad in the best of us,
And so much good in the worst of us;
That is scarcely behooves any of us,
To complain about the rest of us."
- ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - Making a Good Name - The name includes the character. All that a man is, his name stands for and represents. A baby has no character, and at first its name means nothing. ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - Letting Things Run Down - It is easy to let things run down. We begin carefully--but presently lapse into carelessness. A child's copy book is apt to show reasonably fair follo ...read |
