Heaven

The Long Illness

… In the furnace, beauty is marred, fashion is destroyed, strength is melted, glory is consumed ; yet here eternal love reveals its secrets, and declares its choice. So has …

Love, Courtship, and Marriage (Continued)

… The Lord God Almighty bless you now and for ever!” “I have been thinking over my strange history, and musing on eternal love’s great river-head from …

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 …

Father’s Furlough, and how I Shared it

… And when the blessed ministry at the Tabernacle was resumed, there rose to Heaven a doxology, loud as the voice of many waters, from a church and congregation …

Deacons and Elders; Pastors and Teachers

… hear the whistle now; I had hoped I should have been carried to Heaven long ago; but, still, it is all right.’ He also said to me, ‘I …

“In Labours More Abundant”

… but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven : a land which the …

Men Bewitched

Galatians 3:1

… He said that though he or an angel from Heaven should preach any other Gospel than that which he had preached, it would be a cursed deed! Whether …

The Bird Escaped from the Snare

Psalm 124:7

… joy—"And we are escaped." The words melt away into the music of Heaven as the spirit perfectly escapes from the snares of earth. The metaphor used in …

Early Pastoral Epistles

… your perpetual remembrances. " Finally, brethren, wait for the appearance of the Lord from Heaven, and be ye found with well-trimmed lamps and well-girt loins, that, when …

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

… The loss will be ours, and Heaven and you will gain. " Dear loving brother, you have nothing now to do but to go home ; and what a home …

To Workers with Slender Apparatus

… Go, thou who hast thine eyes opened, and find lessons of wisdom everywhere, in heaven above, in the earth beneath, and in the waters under the earth. Books …

The Dual Nature and the Duel Within

Romans 7:23

… It never stoops from its high position; it is always aspiring towards Heaven. It is at deadly enmity with the old nature which it will, in the end …

Farm Laborers

… Watered with the drops of the Saviour’s bloody sweat, shall we not bring forth a hundredfold to his praise? Kept by the eternal Spirit of God, shall …

The Broken Fence

… Happy are they who have a religion that is grounded upon a clear knowledge of eternal verities. A religion which is all excitement, and has little instruction in …

The Long Pastorate Commenced, 1854

… but were even opposed to it, and yet, by the interposing arm of eternal mercy, were struck down and transformed into earnest and devoted followers of the Lamb …

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… The very brightest gems of heaven come to us, and we know them not. They sparkle not until faith's eye has seen them. Nature has not perceived …

A Typical Week’s Work (Continued)

… meeting again on earth, and with the brighter hope of the reunion in Heaven, where there would be no parting for ever. On several occasions, after the Earl …

Psalm 141

Psalm 141

… In its commencement the psalm is lighted up with the evening glow as the incense rises to heaven; then comes a night of language whose meaning we cannot …

In the Sunny South

… Bennet's garden, when Harrald read me the following lines, I adopted them as my own : — " O days of heaven, and nights of equal praise. Serene and peaceful …

Lecture I: Illustrations In Preaching.

… If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice. While we thus commend illustrations …

Psalm 82

Psalm 82

… A higher authority will criticise the decision of petty sessions, and even the judgments of our most impartial judges will be revised by the High Court of heaven …

The Old, Old Story

Romans 5:6

… on high, took his seat on the right hand of the Majesty in heaven, from henceforth expecting till he enemies be made his footstool, and interceding for those …

A Typical Week’s Work

… sermon he ever corrected, and that, while writing in it about the glories of Heaven, he was describing what he was himself to witness on the very day …

Hatred Without Cause

John 15:25

… him? If they had asked him, for what reason have you come from heaven? would there have been anything in his answer likely to excite their indignation and …

The Growth of the Institutions, 1878-1892

… That time will be here in a few days, but time is not an object with the Possessor of Heaven and earth. We have never been in debt …

The Bed and Its Covering

Isaiah 28:20

… that man never can be satisfied with anything less than the approbation of heaven; and until conscience gets that, all the applause of senates and of listening princes …

Good Talk

1 Chronicles 16:9

… have to do with our election and will help us onward to our eternal portion! We would not be so groveling, as we are, if we talked more …

The Faithful Olive Tree

Judges 9:8

… vine-branch." Do you not think that even with a faint hope of Heaven to sustain you, your dying pillow would be stuffed with thorns? I am sure …

A Holiday Drive to the New Forest

… Selborne is a little heaven of delights. It is Switzerland in miniature, where every turn changes the scene. If it were in a foreign land, all the world …

Lovest Thou Me?

John 21:15-17

… and fills it full of doubts whether it is really a heir of heaven and accepted of Christ. Oh! look at thy cold prayers, Christian, and say is …

The Dejected Lover

Solomon 3:1-4

… wherewith none other in the universe can compare, the highest privilege which the Eternal King ever bestowed on His own courtiers—do you think that this, the most …

Fifteen Years After!

Job 1:21

… If it were a good thing for them to go to Heaven at once, they would go there at once. If you are walking uprightly, you may know …

Good Cheer From Christ's Call and From Himself

Mark 10:46-52

… And, behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted Him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in …

Wanted!—Volunteers

2 Chronicles 17:16

… are called to serve Him with whom you hope to dwell forever in Heaven. It ought to be an instinct of every reasonable soul to set about such …

Declension from First Love

Revelation 2:4

… I would rather do trade with heaven than trade with earth.” Again: do you not think also that perhaps you may have lost your first love by getting …

Memories of my Father (Continued)

… on earth; I do not know whether they will be unveiled even in Heaven. When the Good Shepherd was pleased to take a little lamb from my household …

The Snare of the Fowler

Psalm 91:3

… Then could she lift up her hands to heaven, exclaiming, ‘I thank thee, O Father!—the Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the …

Must He?

Luke 19:5

… invite the devil to come, too! Christ would not remain in the same Heaven with the devil—as soon as Satan sinned, He hurled him out of the …

Preaching for the Poor

… order to pervert my meaning, and has done more; he has, to his eternal disgrace, manufactured a quotation from his own head, which never did occur in my …

To the Rescue

Isaiah 49:24

… They will try to find a way to Heaven by their merits! Why need they cry, "God be merciful to me, a sinner"? What need for them of …