_And the prophet Jeremiah went his way._ SELF IN SERVICE (with Jeremiah 26:14):--We couple these passages together, because they lead our minds to the same important thought, namely, the laying aside of “self” by the servants of the Lord. Hananiah takes the yoke from off Jeremiah s neck, and breaks... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron._ YOKES OF WOOD AND OF IRON To throw off legitimate authority is to bind on a worse tyranny. Some kind of yoke every one of us must bend our necks to, and if we slip them out we do not thereby become independent, but s... [ Continue Reading ]
_This year thou shalt die._ THOUGHTS ON DEATH 1. Let men live ever so many years, some one year will be the year of their death. 2. Every year is a year of death to many; there never was a year since the abbreviation of human life, since the extensive propagation and dispersion of mankind over al... [ Continue Reading ]