The Reward of a Faithful Minister “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?”—1 Thess. 2:19. I

Let us consider, in the first place, the things wherein pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is said to consist. In visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and in keeping

Let us view the heavenly state under the ideas of a rest from labour and a reward for it. The term labour does not convey the idea of simple exercise; for we shall never cease

Conformity to the Death of Christ “Being made conformable unto his death.”—Phil. 3:10. The death of Christ is a subject of so much importance in Christianity as to be essential to it. Without this, the

A Prayer of David on the Decline of Life To the Aged   “Cast me not off in the time of old age, forsake me not when my strength faileth.”—Psal. 71:9. This Psalm is supposed

Godliness, we are told, has the promise of the life which now is, as well as of that which is to come. Does this mean that godly persons are distinguished by their wealth, by their

I have sometimes wondered why it should be thought more criminal to disobey what God commands than to disbelieve what he declares. Certainly, if any master of a family came into his own house and

It is not meant, by these brief descriptions of the gospel, that there is no other truth necessary to be believed; but that the doctrine of the cross, properly embraced, includes all others, or draws

Had this question been addressed to the first genius upon earth, unacquainted with the gospel, it could not have been answered. Had it been put to all the great philosophers of antiquity one by one,

The first part of this essay appeared on last week's Andrew Fuller Friday. Reader! “Can thine heart endure, and thine hands be strong, in the day that he shall deal with thee?” Think of the