Death & Dying

A Holiday Pastime.—Essay on Popery

… The reading of the Bible was understood invariably to produce heresy; and there were many who suffered death for no other crime. In the decisions of the Council …

The Hunger-Bite

Job 18:12

… darts fire into the soul—then will all human strength be starved! When death is left alone with the man, then he perceives that his money bags contain …

Psalm 87

Psalm 87

… May it be our happy lot to be numbered with the Lord's chosen both in life and death, in the church roll below, and in the church …

Psalm 100

Psalm 100

… God is not mere justice, stern and cold; he has bowels of compassion, and wills not the sinner's death. Towards his own people mercy is still more …

Early Criticisms and Slanders

… studied courtesy (Matthew 11:8), and fascinating smile with, ‘Surely the bitterness of death is past’ (1 Samuel 15:32). But Samuel had too much honesty about him …

Threshing

… Possibly they have a feeble mind also, and that which others would laugh at would be death to them; they shall be kept as the apple of the …

The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation

… turn round upon them, and if they do not stone them nearly to death, they will go as far as they dare in unkindness and contempt. While I …

In the Hay-field

… Some of the grass is not left to come to ripeness at all, but the mower’s scythe removes it, even as swift-footed death overtakes the careless …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… for! I have no joy in life and I have no hope in death if they are not the Truth of God! May God bring you, dear Friends …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… Let us rejoice, O my people, with trembling! Two years ago, the Music Hall was the scene of such discomfiture, such dire calamity and death, as we hardly …

Happy Childhood at Stambourne

… When near death, on my taking up the Bible to read and pray with him, he said, ‘I have counted the leaves, sir.’ I said, ‘Why! what did …

Perfection in Faith

Hebrews 10:14

… s mercy-seat that is within the vail; but it were to our death to go there unless we were perfect. But we are perfect, for the blood …

Two Sorts Of Hearers

James 1:22-25

… The brains of some people are only useful as a sort of salt to keep them from rotting by death. Little thinking is done by the great mass …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… It was, first, my great joy to be the means of saving the poor creature from death by suicide, and, then, to be the instrument of saving her …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… This mysterious transaction having taken place in the incarnation and death of the Lord Jesus Christ, we behold all the perfections of God united and harmonizing in a …

The Great Supreme

Deuteronomy 32:3

… ministers who weep for souls as if they were full of life or death? Where are the Baxters, now, whose knees shake when they climb their pulpit stairs …

A New School of the Prophets

… John Eastty, who had been up to the time of his death, in 1896, the senior deacon at Maze Pond Chapel, sent to Mrs. Spurgeon, in 1893, his …

Distinguishing Grace

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Ah! while you stand then and think on that region of death, despair, and damnation, recollect that you would have been there if it had not been for …

A Woman of a Sorrowful Spirit

1 Samuel 1:15

… There is a sorrow of the world that works death—a sorrow which springs from self-will and is nurtured in rebellion and is, therefore, an evil thing …

“In Labours More Abundant” (Continued)

… I am always at it, and the people are teasing me almost to death to get me to let them hear my voice. It is strange that such …

A Home for the Fatherless

… and the consequent sorrow when one of the twain should be removed by death, the writer showed how, often, poverty made the bereavement even more painful, and then …

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… yes, and even afraid to live; but, when reconciled to Him by the death of His Son, we said farewell to fear. With God against us, we are …

The Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

… winds of heaven in less time than the clock takes to beat the death of a second. The blind man saw immediately. And now what would you imagine …

Psalm 67

Psalm 67

… It is addressed to the God of mercy, by those who feel their need of mercy, and it implies the death of all legal hopes or claims of …

The Tabernacle of the Most High

Ephesians 2:22

… There is no might so tremendous that it could paralyze our arm; until we were frozen in death we would fight for our home; there would be no …

What Are the Clouds?

Nahum 1:3

… Wherefore, was infancy snatched away? Oh, ruthless death, couldst thou not reap ripe corn; why snatch the rosebud? Would not a chaplet of withered leaves become thee better …

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers

James 1:5

… Father, give me wisdom, that I may be reconciled to thee through the death of thy Son”? Why, the grass, as Herbert says, never asked for the dew …

Heavenly Worship

Revelation 14:1-3

… They are all gone, death is vanquished, Satan is cast into the lake of fire, and here stands the King himself, crowned with many crowns, the victor of …

The Family Likeness

Romans 8:14

… in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death." Then further on, in the sixth verse, it virtually ascribes all our true life …

A New Year's Benediction

Hebrews 13:5

… and lift you up upon the cross of shame and put you to death—but you shall never ask, "Why have You forsaken me?" Your Lord said it …

A Divided Heart

Hosea 10:2

… With a tremendous swoop, like an eagle descending from its lofty height, the death angel bears upon him, snatches him away, and claims him as his own. “Thou …

The Relationship of Marriage

Jeremiah 3:14

… And on the Cross will even dare The bitter pains of death to bear." He never shrunk from the doing of any of those loving works which belong …

God's Thoughts and Ours

Psalm 139:17

… constantly thinking of you? If you were completely reconciled to Him by the death of His Son. If no consciousness of guilt remained upon your conscience. If you …

Penitence, Pardon and Peace

Luke 7:37-38

… She was one of those against whom Solomon warns young men, saying, "Her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead." Yet as Rahab was saved …

God's Knowledge of Sin

Psalm 69:5

… Jezebel, "Throw her down!" A sense of satisfaction with yourself will be the death of your progress and it will prevent your sanctification. Many a man might have …

Private and Confidential

Psalm 25:14

… He suffered to the death His Father's will—and we come, without an, "if," or a, "but," to inherit the blessing which Christ has merited for us …

The Multitude Before the Throne

Revelation 7:9

… mouth that lisps this faltering strain." But if it were so, then sudden death would be sudden glory! Are you sure, each one of you, that it would …

'Grace and Glory'

Psalm 84:11

… are shivering tonight at the thought of the greatest enemy of all, namely, death! And as you are getting old, perhaps you fear his approach. Well, but Friend …

The Divine Discipline

Deuteronomy 32:11

… But suddenly the child sickened or the wife was smitten with death, or trade separated from you, or you, yourselves, were ill, or there was a famine in …

Accomplices in Sin

1 Timothy 5:22

… For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. Many of them have so stifled conscience that it does not trouble them even in …