“Rend your heart, and not your garments.” Joel 2:13 GARMENT-RENDING and other outward signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested and are frequently hypocritical; but to feel true repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Men will …
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9 Jesus, the great I AM, is the entrance into the true church, and the …
“I remember thee.” Jeremiah 2:2 Let us note that Christ delights to think upon his Church, and to look upon her beauty. As the bird returneth often to its nest, and as the wayfarer hastens to his home, so doth …
“Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened.” Isaiah 48:8 It is painful to remember that, in a certain degree, this accusation may be laid at the door of believers, …
“Come unto me.” Matthew 11:28 The cry of the Christian religion is the gentle word, “Come.” The Jewish law harshly said, “Go, take heed unto thy steps as to the path in which thou shalt walk. Break the commandments, and …