_A LESSON FROM THE STORK_ ‘The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times.’ Jeremiah 8:7 We could lay down on the map the great highways along which bird-life comes and goes. How do they know how to journey so unerringly for thousands of miles? It is one of the greatest mysteries in Nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HARVEST PAST: SUMMER ENDED_ ‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended.’ Jeremiah 8:20 These words were first spoken of the ruined hopes and blighted fortunes of God’s people, Israel. Truly for that perverse and sinful generation the summer was ended. In the days of Jeremiah, the cup of their sor... [ Continue Reading ]
_‘THE BALM OF GILEAD’_ ‘Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered?’ Jeremiah 8:22 It is wonderful what a parallel of the sacred, and the divine, and the eternal underlies the whole creation. Now both in the physical... [ Continue Reading ]