Death & Dying

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… That being in captivity amongst the Philistines they were not suffered to lament the death of their husbands; or, 3. That dying with grief they lived not to …

Struggles of Conscience

Job 13:23

… We want the like of John the Baptist back again, and Boanerges; we want men like Baxter to preach, “As though they might not preach again, As dying …

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

… Never did a sore heart look in vain to the good Physician; never a dying soul turned its darkening eye to the brazen serpent to find its virtue …

Forgiveness and Fear

Psalm 130:4

… Out of the depths have I cried unto You, O LORD. "Sinking, sinking, sinking—drowning, dying— hope all but gone, almost everything gone—yet I have cried unto …

Psalm 74

Psalm 74

… Truths which have upheld the afflicted and cheered the dying are smitten by pretentious Goths, who would be accounted learned, but know not the first principals of the …

The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements*

… We have no pleasure in their death. Do our enemies dare to think that we have? We grieve to think of their dying in their sins. It is …

The Sin-Bearer

… The change is a dying and a reviving, a burial and a resurrection: we are brought from life to death, and from death to life. We are henceforth …

The Call to the Ministry

… I remember well her being received into the church, and her dying, and her going home to heaven. She was the first seal to my ministry, and, I …

The Principal Wheat

… For Christ’s name’s sake we should be willing to endure poverty, reproach, slander, exile, death. Nothing should be dear to a Christian in comparison with Christ …

Psalm 96

Psalm 96

… All glory be unto his name; who can refuse to tell out the story of redeeming grace and dying love? All the nations need to hear of God …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… However, unto the Lord be the arrangement of our health or disease, our life or our death ; but while we live, we will leave no stone unturned for …

The Guilt and the Cleansing

Psalm 51:7

… Christ Himself, in His death, could not have taken away one sin if it had not been for the peculiar form of death which He endured. He had …

Powerful Persuasives

Matthew 11:27-28

… Away there in Bengal, if there are any dying of famine, and I have rice, I may distribute it of my own will at my own charge. But …

Alas! I Can Do Nothing!

… They stung him everywhere and threatened to be the death of him. I do not wonder you feel that you are without strength to stop these hideous and …

Meeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle

… To my dying day, I shall remember those servants of Jesus Christ who greeted me in my Master's name, and loved me for my Master's sake …

Elijah's Plea

1Kings 18:36

… and obey Him right gladly! You can then go to Him in your dying hour and say, "Lord, I have done all these things at Your Word. I …

Expected Proof of Professed Love

2 Corinthians 8:24

… is a love to the brotherhood—"We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren." In every Christian's breast there is …

A Mingled Strain

Psalm 51:7

… It is a festival of life and yet it is a memorial of death. Here is a cup—it is filled with wine. This surely betokens gladness. Listen …

Letters on Private and Public Affairs, 1856-1890 (Continued)

… Higgs, "L and G have now told me all about our dear one's death. The Lord has dealt well with him. I wonder how he lived so …

"Where Are The Nine?"—or, Praise Neglected

Luke 17:15

… Multitudes of our fellow citizens pray when they are sick and near to dying, but when they grow better, their praises grow sick unto death! The angel of …

Spiritual Gleaning

… Are my fellow-laborers afraid that Jeshurun will wax fat and kick, if he has too much food? I fear there is more likelihood of his dying of …

The Spirit and the Wind

John 3:8

… And if they hear him say, "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" They reply, "This is a wretched …

Real Contact With Jesus

… Rely on His bloody sacrifice, His dying love, His rising power, His ascended plea; and as you rest in Him, your vital touch, however feeble, will certainly give …

The Special Call And The Unfailing Result

1 Corinthians 1:9

… Was there not a day, the mementoes of which you fondly cherish, when you were called from death unto life? Fly back, now, to the day and hour …

Sermons — Their Matter

… Our great master theme is the good news from heaven; the tidings of mercy through the atoning death of Jesus, mercy to the chief of sinners upon their …

The History of Sundry Fools

Psalm 107:17-20

… sorrow and in sin, At death's dark door do lie. He brings "salvation" to such; and he says to the dying sinner, "This day has salvation come …

Prospect—"He Will Keep"

John 17:11

… In this chapter you have "the ruling passion strong in death." He has kept them in life and now He says, "I am no more in the world …

Exhortation—"Set Your Heart"

1 Chronicles 22:19

… think he meant, first, when the people had an efficient leader. "I am dying," he said, "but there is Solomon, my son. He is a man of peace …

Salt For Sacrifice

Leviticus 2:13

… The covenanting saints of old stopped not at death, itself, for Him to whom they were bound! My time will not allow me to enlarge, but I pray …

Seeking the Souls of Men

… He told me that the cholera had visited his home, and that he had lost no less than thirteen of his relatives, one after another, by death. My …

Two Good Things

Psalm 119:71

… It means to feel, next, that we are perfectly reconciled to Him by the death of His Son and that we are permitted to speak with Him as …

Kept From Iniquity

Psalm 18:23

… something very much allied to a skeleton, that is, the body of this death with which we all have to deal—and it takes a special shape in …

Manoah's Wife and Her Excellent Argument

Judges 13:22

… death, too? How can it be? The sacrifice of Jesus must effectually prevent the destruction of those for whom He offered up Himself as a Sacrifice! Jesus, dying …

Psalm 43

Psalm 43

… The Psalm has a blessed ending, such as we would fain imitate when death puts an end to our mortal existence. EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS Whole Psalm …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… he had engaged to preach or speak ; or there was a sick or dying member of the church to whom he had sent word that he would call …

Two Advents Of Christ

Hebrews 9:27

… After death comes the reward with us—after death the reward with Him. After our death comes our resurrection. That has passed already upon Christ. As a resurrection …

Cheer For The Faint-Hearted

Judges 13:23

… Till we lay down this veil of flesh, till the angel of death shall rend the curtain and we shall see him face to face, let us not …

The Evil and Its Remedy

Ezekiel 9:9

… iniquity; life seemed to you a curse, and death, if it had not been for that dreary something after death, would have been to you the highest blessing …

Timely Reflections

Romans 13:11

… It is all death! It is not worth reckoning! No matter how studied the ceremony or how garnished with profession, up to the moment a man believes he …

The Question of Fear and the Answer of Faith

Job 23:6

… Oh! to have heard Luther pray! Luther, you know, when Melancthon was dying, went to his death-bed, and said, “Melancthon, you shall not die!” “Oh,” said Melancthon …