The Gospel

There is everything in the gospel that you want. Do you want something

to bear you up in trouble? It is in the gospel: “As thy days, so shall

thy strength be.” Do you need something to nerve you for duty? There is

grace all-sufficient for everything which God calls you to undergo or to

accomplish. Do you need something to light up the eye of your hope? O!

there are joy-flashes in the gospel which make your eye flash back again

the immortal fires of bliss. Do you want something to make you stand

steadfast in the midst of temptation? In the gospel there is that which

can make you immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. There is no passion, no affection, no thought, no wish, no power which the

gospel has not filled to the very brim. The gospel was evidently meant

for manhood: it is adapted to it in its every part. There is knowledge

for the head; there is love for the heart; there is guidance for the

foot.