_THE FEMALE HEAD-DRESS_ ‘Power on her head because of the angels.’ 1 Corinthians 11:10 The little section of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in which St. Paul deals with the question of the retention or disuse of the female head-dress in the public assemblies of Christian worship, is eminent... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE DIGNITY OF WOMANHOOD_ ‘Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.’ 1 Corinthians 11:11 Such is a part of St. Paul’s answer to the inquiry which probably ever since men have reasoned at all has been a subject of speculative, if not practical, import.... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘TILL HE COME’_ ‘For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till He come.’ 1 Corinthians 11:26 So St. Paul sums up his teaching about Holy Communion. He has shown that this sacred ordinance is in no way left to man’s ideas or fancies, either in its origin... [ Continue Reading ]
_SELF-EXAMINATION_ ‘But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.’ 1 Corinthians 11:28 The porch to the sanctuary is _ self-examination_. Let us, therefore, carefully consider this important and difficult subject of self-examination—a duty at all times, b... [ Continue Reading ]
_SELF-JUDGMENT_ ‘If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.’ 1 Corinthians 11:31 God is the unerring Judge, but He would rather that men took the work of judgment into their own hands. I. MAN’S HEART AND LIFE MUST BE JUDGED.—That is taken for certain. The judge may be one or other, b... [ Continue Reading ]