‘Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.’ As the trial and exercise of our day is, so shall our strength be. Saints shall have suffering grace for suffering times. Hours of great outward calamities often prove seasons of the greatest aboundings of inward consolation. It is said, ‘Stephen fell asleep.’ What! fall asleep under a shower of stones? Yes:…

Observation is the life of understanding, experience is the joy of faith, learning good from others harms is true wisdom. Can we look around us, among the circle of our professing acquaintance, and not see the awful effects of slothfulness in the ways of God. What supine indolence in the cause of Jesus, and careless indifference as to the health…

‘God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.’ Rom. 11:2. Zealous professors may become shameful apostates. God’s own children may awfully backslide from him, and sadly decline in their love to him and service of him. Such conduct is most base to the best of Beings, most ungrateful to the most loving Lord and Saviour, most wounding to…

The form of godliness without the power, is sufficient to make men saints, good churchmen, honest souls in the eyes of the carnal world. But when, by the power of the Spirit, our hearts possess the faith of Jesus, it cannot be hid, but the life of Jesus also will be manifested in our walk and conversation. Then persecution awaits…

The gospel brings us from a hopeless into a hopeful state, but not into an independent one. We are never to expect freedom from trials and tribulations in this vale of tears; they lie in our way to the end of our hope, the enjoyment of God in glory. Faith takes hold of something that is material, and makes the…