GIVE me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope’s true gage; And thus I’ll take my pilgrimage. Blood must be my body’s balmer; No other balm will there be given; Whilst my soul, like quiet palmer,…
Category: Christianity
I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY
I WOULD not live alway: I ask not to stay, Where storm after storm rises dark o’er the way; The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here Are enough for life’s woes, full enough for its cheer. I would not live alway, thus fettered by sin, Temptation without and corruption within: E’en the…
THE GLORY TO BE REVEALED Exoriar aliis.
SINKS the swift sun; yet sinks but to arise In other regions far beyond our sight: We follow him with dim and dazzled eyes, Till every ray is quenched in silent night. We miss him, but he comes not; he has gone To show his glory in more cloudless air: Nothing is lost to him,…
Abstinence From Sin
TO abstain from sin for any reason is, so far, good; but yet you may abstain from sin from a motive which will lend no virtue to your abstinence. Some abstain from sin from fear of men, or from hope of gain: as the thief is honest when he sees the policeman, and the beggar…
The Great Separation
“I AM come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”—Matthew 10:35. The subject which is suggested by these words is, THE GREAT SEPARATION WHICH RELIGION MAKES IN FAMILIES. The Saviour, in the text, simply states a fact. He does not say…
Knowledge of God
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful of every good work, and INCREASING IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. Col 1:10 The knowledge of God lies at the foundation of all true religion. It is the want or indistinctness of this knowledge that occasions all the stupidity of sinners and…