Blessed from the World
"... from faith to faith: as it is written. The just shall live by faith" (Rom. 1:17).
Those Christians are blessed who need to leave their simple views of childhood's faith no more than the field-lark does her nest-rising right over it to look at God's morning sun, and his wide, beautiful world, singing a clear, happy song, and then sinking ...read
Devotional
Deliverance
"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness..." (Ps. 112:4).
How shall we seek deliverance [from doubt]? By calm, reverential inquiry in the depths of the nature God has given us, and of that Word which professes to be the revelation of it and of Him--by humble, hopeful prayer to the Father of lights, whose will cannot be that any s ...read
Devotional
Sinless Doubt
"And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted" (Matt. 28:17).
Is doubt a sin? Not always. We should not, to begin with, say that doubt is the proper state for any mind; for if things were right, belief in the great spiritual realities would be as natural as seeing the light: therefore doubt is unnatural, something that should ...read
Devotional
The Value of the Temple
"My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves" (Matt. 21:13).
One is struck in reading the account of the purifying of the temple by Christ (Matt. 21:12), that He should have bestowed so much thought on what was so soon to become obsolete by His own word, "It is finished!" We do not read elsewhere of the ...read
