Israel's weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wildernesses: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the lan ...

We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will not open the gates of the year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make ...

All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continueth by itself. Thou renewest the face of the year, was the Psalmist's utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labour, must drink o ...

Jesus Christ is himself the sum and substance of the covenant, and as one of its gifts. He is the property of every believer. Believer, canst thou estimate what thou hast gotten in Christ? In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. Con ...

The voice crying in the wilderness demanded a way for the Lord, a way prepared, and a way prepared in the wilderness. I would be attentive to the Master's proclamation, and give him a road into my heart, cast up by gracious operations, through the des ...

Grow in grace not in one grace only, but in all grace . Grow in that root-grace , faith. Believe the promises more firmly than you have done. Let faith increase in fulness, constancy, simplicity. Grow also in love. Ask that your love may become ext ...

Light might well be good since it sprang from that fiat of goodness, Let there be light. We who enjoy it should be more grateful for it than we are, and see more of God in it and by it. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel ligh ...

This morning we noticed the goodness of the light, and the Lord's dividing it from the darkness, we now note the special eye which the Lord had for the light. God saw the light he looked at it with complacency, gazed upon it with pleasure, saw that ...

It is a happy way of soothing sorrow when we can feel HE careth for me. Christian! do not dishonour religion by always wearing a brow of care; come, cast your burden upon your Lord. You are staggering beneath a weight which your Father would not feel ...

The believer did not always live to Christ. He began to do so when God the Holy Spirit convinced him of sin, and when by grace he was brought to see the dying Saviour making a propitiation for his guilt. From the moment of the new and celestial birth ...

What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wander ...

Nothing gives the believer so much joy as fellowship with Christ. He has enjoyment as others have in the common mercies of life , he can be glad both in God's gifts and God's works; but in all these separately, yea, and in all of them added together, h ...

Delight in divine service is a token of acceptance. Those who serve God with a sad countenance, because they do what is unpleasant to them, are not serving him at all; they bring the form of homage, but the life is absent. Our God requires no slaves t ...