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

The Great Question Answered “And he brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”—Acts 16:30, 31.

The Manner in which Divine Truth is Communicated in the Holy Scriptures It is a fact which must have struck every attentive reader, that God has not communicated his mind to us by giving us