PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Great Texts of the Bible — Volume 3
James Hastings · 189,259 words · 196 reading sections
Section 181
2. David sees himself in his tent on the plains of Bethlehem. There it rises covered with black skins, a rough-made dwelling- place, a shelter from the scorching heat of noon or the drenchino- dews of night; a place where he turns aside to eat his meals, and where he keeps his supply of food. Some day he sits in the do…
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(1) Here then is an enemy — the sin of yesterday. We cannot get away from it. When we have half forgotten it, and leave it slumbering in the rear, it is suddenly awake again, and, like a hound, it is baying at our heels. Some days are days of peculiar intensity, and the far-off experience draws near and assumes the viv…
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1 J. Culross, God's She;pherd Care, 121. ^ A. L. Waring. 478 ENTERTAINMENT, ENRICHMENT " Deliver us from evil," you must mean to struggle against that evil in your hearts, which you are conscious of, and which you pray to be forgiven.^ ^ There are temptations, commonly so called, which can be a trouble, even when th…
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It is an exquisite picture of Christ's tender grace as He stands to anoint and refresh the souls of believers when, weary and worn, they look up to Him in the gloaming of life's little day. No office which our Saviour performs is more precious and beautiful than this in which He touches His weary ones with balm, that t…
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PSALM XXIII. 5 483 in every place ; in the " golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints." ^ 3. In Scripture anointing with oil is employed as an emblem of the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit. "Ye have an unction from the Holy One." "The anointing which ye have received from him abideth in you…
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First, perhaps, to strike the eye amongst the clusters of our Canaan is Home — the father's reason made silken by affection; the mother's voice sweeter than any music ; the kindly strength of the brother ; the fondness of the sister ; the comeliness and sparkle of little children. Friendship is a kindred cluster englob…
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The woman hesitated a moment, then arose, uttered a shriek, and, crossing her arms over her breast, fell sobbing and laughing across the lap of the woman next her. Again she arose, staggered a short distance, and again fell at the feet of the matron of the prison, burying her head in the matron's lap. The excitement wa…
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4. How is our cup to be kept overflowing ? (1) By keeping it always under the spring. — The cup stands under the spring, and the spring keeps running into it, and so the cup runs over, but it will not run over long if you take it from where the springs pours into it. It is our unwisdom that we forsake the fountain of …
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496 PURSUIT AND PERMANENCE for he not only passed through vast changes of fortune, but he had a life of the heart and of the spirit correspondingly vast and various ; and so his experience of life may be said to be universal, which cannot be said of Csesar or Napoleon — men whose lives outwardly correspond to his. Hen…
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^ Perfect the day shall be, when it is of all men understood that the beauty of Holiness must be in labour as well as in rest. Nay ! more, if it may be, in labour ; in our strength, rather than in our weakness; and in the choice of what we shall work for through the six days, and may know to be good at their evening ti…
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We connect her ministry with the brightest times in our history, when all is manifestly going well with us. We see it most clearly in what may be called the summer of the soul, when the sky is bright and the air balmy, and the flowers open their petals to the sun, and the grass grows upon the mountains, and the pasture…
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^ I have a very great confidence indeed in the kindness of God towards us. I do believe if we shall find ourselves mistaken on either side in Eternity, it will be in finding God more merciful than we expected.^ ^ W. Landels. ^ Life of Charles Loriity Brace, 83. I PSALM XXIII. 6 503 ^ Miss E. having told Dr. Duncan …
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^ J. E. McFadyen, The Divine Pursuit, 201. 8 Tlie Life of DwigU L. Moody, 127. « Bishop H. C. G. Moule, All in Christ, 204. PSALM XXIII. 6 505 mercies " of God, this word " prevent " formerly meaning not to hinder, as it does now, but simply to go before — God's mercies outrunning our necessities, going before them…
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PSALM XXIII. 6 507 He bade me linger not till light Had touched with gold the morning height, But to begin my course by night, And day would follow me. He told me when my hours were dark To wait not the revealing spark, But breast the flood in duty's ark, And peace should follow me. Therefore, 0 Lord, at Thy command…
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But great as were the privileges which he enjoyed in the city of refuge, they were only temporary. He was only to dwell there till his case should be investigated by the proper authorities, or at the utmost till the death of the man who happened to be high priest at the time. He must then, if pronounced guilty, be give…
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None other Lamb, none other Name, None other Hope in heaven or earth or sea, None other Hiding-place from guilt and shame. None beside Thee. My faith burns low, my hope burns low. Only my heart's desire cries out in me By the deep thunder of its want and woe. Cries out to Thee. Lord, Thou art Life tho' I be dead. L…
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Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.