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diff --git a/30449-0.txt b/30449-0.txt index 0661210..f8aba68 100644 --- a/30449-0.txt +++ b/30449-0.txt @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ Do you want to know how to go to Christ? Go just as that little girl went to Abraham Lincoln. It may be possible that you have a dark story to tell. Tell it all out; keep nothing back. If Abraham Lincoln had compassion on that little girl, heard her petition and answered -it, do you think the Lord Jesus will not hear your prayer? Do, you +it, do you think the Lord Jesus will not hear your prayer? Do you think that Abraham Lincoln, or any man that ever lived on earth, had as much compassion as Christ? No! He will be touched when no one else will; He will have mercy when no one else will; He will have pity @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ governments behind those flags. That was the secret of it. "He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love. . . . His left hand is under my head, and His right hand doth embrace me" (Song Sol. ii. 4, 6). Thank God we can come under the -banner to-day if we will. Any, poor sinner can come under that banner +banner to-day if we will. Any poor sinner can come under that banner to-day. His banner of love is over us. Blessed Gospel; blessed, precious, news. Believe it to-day; receive it into your heart; and enter into a new life. Let the love of God be shed abroad in your @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ does not appeal to my reason. I cannot believe that I can get well in a moment." And the young man dies in consequence of his own unbelief. God provided a remedy for this bitten Israelite--"Look and live!" And -there is eternal life for every poor sinner, Look, and you can be +there is eternal life for every poor sinner. Look, and you can be saved, my reader, this very hour. God has provided a remedy; and it is offered to all. The trouble is, a great many people are looking at the pole. Do not look at the pole; that is the church. You need not @@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ Men of this stamp used to hang around Christ to entangle Him in His talk. They come into our meetings to hold a discussion. To all such I would commend Paul's advice to Timothy: "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid; knowing that they do gender strifes." (2 Tim. ii. -23.) Unlearned questions: Many young converts make a woful mistake. +23.) Unlearned questions! Many young converts make a woful mistake. They think they are to defend the whole Bible. I knew very little of the Bible when I was first converted; and I thought that I had to defend it from beginning to end against all comers; but a Boston @@ -1757,11 +1757,11 @@ has said that some people, if they want to eat fish, commence by picking the bones. I leave such things till I have light on them. I am not bound to explain what I do not comprehend. "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed -belong unto us, and to our children, for ever" (Deut. xxii. 29); and +belong unto us, and to our children, for ever" (Deut. xxix. 29); and these I take, and eat, and feed upon, in order to get spiritual strength. -Than there is a little sound advice in Titus iii. 9. "But avoid +Then there is a little sound advice in Titus iii. 9. "But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." @@ -1987,7 +1987,7 @@ heaven and in earth!" Then again in Matthew xxviii. 20. "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." If He were mere man, how could He be -with us? Yet He says, "I am with you away, even unto the end of the +with us? Yet He says, "I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world!" Then again in Mark ii. 7. "Why doth this Man thus speak blasphemies? @@ -2001,7 +2001,7 @@ Some men will meet you and say, "Did not Elisha also raise the dead?" Notice that in the rare instances in which men have raised the dead, they did it by the power of God. They called on God to do it. But when Christ was on earth He did not call upon the Father to bring the -dead to life, When He went to the house of Jairus He said, "Damsel, I +dead to life. When He went to the house of Jairus He said, "Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise." (Mark v. 41.) He had power to impart life. When they were carrying the young man @@ -2335,7 +2335,7 @@ trust in the only Saviour of sinners. Saving repentance and saving faith always go together; and you need not be worried about repentance if you will believe." -"Some people are no sure that they have 'repented enough.' If you +"Some people are not sure that they have 'repented enough.' If you mean by this that you must repent in order to incline God to be merciful to you, the sooner you give over such repentance the better. God is already merciful, as He has fully shown at the Cross of @@ -2492,7 +2492,7 @@ _ASSURANCE OF SALVATION_. "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the -Son of God; that ye may knew that ye have eternal life, and that ye +Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." (1 John v. 13. ) @@ -2563,9 +2563,9 @@ and he springs upon it. "Yet, though these dumb creatures know the provision of their God, the sinner does not recognize the provision of his Saviour. He -quibbles and questions, 'May I?' and am 'I am afraid it is not for -me;' and 'I think it cannot be meant for me;' and 'I am afraid it is -too good to be true.' +quibbles and questions, 'May I?' and 'I am afraid it is not for me;' +and 'I think it cannot be meant for me;' and 'I am afraid it is too +good to be true.' "And yet nobody ever said to the stork, 'Whosoever buildeth on this fir tree shall never have his nest pulled down.' No inspired word has @@ -2744,7 +2744,7 @@ Epistle, "Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you and abound they make -you that ye shall neither be barron nor unfruitful in the knowledge +you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." So that we are to add grace to grace. A tree may be perfect in its first year of growth; but it does not attain its maturity. So with the Christian: he may be a true child of @@ -2988,7 +2988,7 @@ saying, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth;' 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him'" (Job xix. 25; xiii. 15). "Faith is Peter's drowning cry, as he began to sink, 'Lord, save me!' -(Matt. xxiv. 30). Assurance is that same Peter declaring before the +(Matt. xiv. 30). Assurance is that same Peter declaring before the Council, in after-times, 'This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner: neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under @@ -3081,7 +3081,7 @@ save His people from their sins." Have we been delivered from sin? He did not come to save us _in_ our sins, but _from_ our sins. Now, there are three ways of knowing a man. Some men you know only by hearsay; others you merely know by having been once introduced to -them, you know them very slightly; other again you know by having +them, you know them very slightly; others again you know by having been acquainted with them for years, you know them intimately. So I believe there are three classes of people to-day in the Christian Church and out of it: those who know Christ only by reading or by @@ -3264,7 +3264,7 @@ home to our reward. I remember hearing of a blind man who sat by the wayside with a lantern near him. When he was asked what he had a lantern for, as he could not see the light, he said it was that people should not -stumble ever him. I believe more people stumble over the +stumble over him. I believe more people stumble over the inconsistencies of professed Christians than from any other cause. What is doing more harm to the cause of Christ than all the scepticism in the world is this cold, dead formalism, this conformity @@ -3548,7 +3548,7 @@ The most tender and loving words to be found in the whole of the Bible are from Jehovah to those who have left Him without a cause. Jer. ii. 19. -Hear how He argues with such: (Jer. xi. 19.) "Thine own wickedness +Hear how He argues with such: (Jer. ii. 19.) "Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know, therefore, and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that My fear is not in thee, @@ -3611,7 +3611,7 @@ off God. They forgot the God who brought them out of Egypt, and who led them through the desert into the promised land. In their prosperity they forget Him and turned away. The Lord had told them what would happen. (Deut. xxviii.) And see what did happen. The -king who make light of the word of God was taken captive by +king who made light of the word of God was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, and his children brought up in front of him and every one slain: his eyes were put out of his head; and he was bound in fetters of brass and cast into a dungeon in Babylon. (2 Kings xxv. @@ -3669,7 +3669,7 @@ thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord (He puts words into your mouth): say unto Him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips . . . I will heal their backsliding, I will love them -freely, for Mine auger is turned away from him." Just observe that, +freely, for Mine anger is turned away from him." Just observe that, Turn! _Turn!!_ Turn!!! rings all through these passages. Now, if you have wandered, remember that you left Him, and not He @@ -3711,7 +3711,7 @@ works: or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." I want to guard you against a mistake which some people make with regard to "doing the first works." Many think that they are to have the same -experience over again, That has kept thousands for months without +experience over again. That has kept thousands for months without peace; because they have been waiting for a renewal of their first experience. You will never have the same experience as when you first came to the Lord. God never repeats himself. No two people of all @@ -3764,7 +3764,7 @@ heart a man is the more manifest to the outer world will be his daily life and conversation. Some people talk of how humble they are; but if they have true humility there will be no necessity for them to publish it. It is not needful. A lighthouse does not have a drum -beaten or a trumpet-blown in order to proclaim the proximity of a +beaten or a trumpet blown in order to proclaim the proximity of a lighthouse: it is its own witness. And so if we have the true light in us it will show itself. It is not those who make the most noise who have the most piety. There is a brook, or a little "burn" as the @@ -3785,7 +3785,7 @@ all shall be offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended." (Matt. xxvi. 23.) "James and John, and the others, may leave You; but You can count on me!" But the Lord warned him: "I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny -that thou knowest Me." (Luke xxii. 24.) +that thou knowest Me." (Luke xxii. 34.) Though the Lord rebuked him, Peter said he was ready to follow Him to death. That boasting is too often a forerunner of downfall. Let us |