Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. IN SEVERAL chapters of Proverbs the Lord Jesus Christ is beautifully described under the figure of wisdom. For he is “the Wisdom of God,” and he is “made unto us Wisdom.” In this verse he gives a double invitation–to eat of his bread, and drink…
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WORK AND VISITATION (II)
June 1876. During a visit to her brother Frank, at Upton Bishop Vicarage, she was much interested in his schools and cottages. Every day she went about from house to house, reading the Bible and telling in simple words of God’s love in sending Jesus Christ to save sinners. In one instance, at a garden party, my sister’s happy…
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THE CREATION OF GRASS AND ITS LESSONS, part 5
IV. Grass, in its withered state, is an emblem of two things: 1. Of the sorrow and faintness of an afflicted heart. This is most pathetically and touchingly set forth in Psalm 102. That psalm is called “A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord.” After a lengthened description…
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THE CREATION OF GRASS AND ITS LESSONS, part 4
III. Grass, in its over luxuriant and rank state, is an emblem of wicked men in prosperity. This is revealed to us in Psalm 92:7: “When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish, then shall they be destroyed for ever.” How fearful are these words, and yet how easy…
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THE CREATION OF GRASS AND ITS LESSONS, part 3
II. Grass, in the beauty of its freshness, and the luxuriance of its tender springing, is an emblem of the Lord Jesus, and of the rich and pleasant provision which God makes, in the gospel, for his people. It is remarkable that the margin for our text, as the literal Hebrew, is “tender grass.” 1. When David was…
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