The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. Psalm 69:32 It is your privilege to be glad in the Lord, and to rejoice in the knowledge of His sustaining grace. Let His love take possession of mind and heart. Guard against becoming overwearied, careworn, [...]
In the councils of heaven it was determined that there must be given to mankind a living exemplification of the law. Having decided to make this great sacrifice, God left nothing obscure, nothing indefinite, in regard to the salvation of the human race. He gave to mankind a standard by which to form [...]
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Matthew 7:19, 20 Several now living [1890] are skeptics, have no belief in the gifts of the church, no faith in the truth, no religion at all. Such, [...]
It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! Luke 17:1 God is bringing out a people and preparing them to stand as one, united, to speak the same things, and carry out the prayer of Christ for his disciples.... “That they all may be [...]
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20 The people of God are directed to the Scriptures as their safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of spirits of darkness. [...]
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15 In the work in which my husband and I were called by the providence of God to act a part, even from its very beginning in 1843 and 1844, we have had the [...]
The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Corinthians 14:32, 33 A spirit of fanaticism has ruled a certain class of Sabbathkeepers.... They have sipped but lightly at the fountain of [...]
Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints. Ephesians 5:3 There is an alarming commonness in conversation at the present day, which shows a low state of thoughts and morals. True dignity of character is very rare. True modesty and reserve are seldom [...]
Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. Revelation 9:14, 15 The history of nations that one after another [...]
We are dependent on the Bible for a knowledge of the early history of our world, of the creation of man, and of his fall. Remove the Word of God, and what can we expect but to be left to fables and conjectures and to that enfeebling of the intellect which is the [...]
