When a man’s ways please the Lord : he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. — Prov. xvi, 7. … Such legislation as Jim Crow car laws cannot live long among a free people and at this stage of civilization that is everywhere putting a premium upon worth, not color; upon… Read More Noose
“Put on, therefore, as the elect of God — kindness.” Coll. iii. 12. … I may add, on this point, that where relief cannot be afforded, it should be declined with a gentle and benevolent heart. It often happens, from the necessity of the case, that we must decline aid to the poor, to the needy,… Read More Misfortune
“AND WHEN I LOOKED, BEHOLD, A HAND WAS SENT UNTO ME; AND LO, A ROLL OF A BOOK WAS THEREIN; AND HE SPREAD IT BEFORE ME”, AND IT WAS WRITTEN WITHIN AND WITHOUT; AND THERE WAS WRITTEN THEREIN LAMENTATIONS, AND MOURNING, AND WOE.” Ezekiel ii. 9, 10. Both parents are thus robbed of this darling… Read More Maiden
“Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God” (Matthew 9:17). He was a beneficent man. Multitudes of men are benevolent, but not beneficent. Benevolence is well wishing. Beneficence is well doing. He was always well doing, giving sight to the blind, healing the sick, cleansing the leper, feeding the… Read More Lame
Christ is Lord over all ; and every Christian is heir annexed with Christ, and therefore Lord of all ; and every one Lord of whatsoever another hath. If thy brother or neighbour therefore need, and thou have to help him, and yet shewest not mercy, but withdrawest thy hands from him, then rob best… Read More Infidels
” And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness ; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations,” Luke xvi, 9. Apart from faithful, beneficent acts, neither God, angels, nor happy spirits will receive us into everlasting habitations. The reasons are obvious. ” God is love;”… Read More [Khoikhoi]
Joy shall be in heaven, over the sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke xv. 7 It is this that recommends, as well as distinguishes, the religion of our Lord; which had been no gospel, to the lost and to the fallen, but for the unmingled… Read More Halt
THE awful conditions of Russian, and particularly Siberian, prison life have been sufficiently described in detail by other writers, particularly Russian and American. It is not my object to harrow the soul and to bemire the imagination of my readers by quoting their words. The coarse animalism from which the common decencies of civilisation are… Read More Furrowed
Thes. V. 14, ‘Support the weak, be patient towards all men.” Look, what the crutch is to the lame, and the beam of the house is to the ruinated house, that ought strong saints to be to the weak. Strong saints are to be crutches to the weak, they are to be, as it were,… Read More Feebleness
“For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.”— Matthew, xvi. 11. This Sermon was preacheth according to annual custom, in commemoration of five several Hospitals in London. Their several Annual Reports were read in the course of the Sermon, as indicated by a line drawn across the page towards… Read More Emaciated
Quicksand, Rocks, and Shallows 