_I am old and stricken in age: and ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done._ OLD AGE As in the snowy realms of the Alps lovely flowers open their cheerful petals to the sky, so, notwithstanding the weight of years and cares, many a sweet flower of hope, and trust, and love, and disintere... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have divided unto you by lot these nations._ JOSHUA THE COLONIST Great colonists as we are, and greater as, with the growth of our wealth and therefore of our population, we are likely to be, it may prove instructive and also interesting to look at Joshua in the character of a colonist--the lead... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be ye therefore very courageous._ ON CHRISTIAN COURAGE In the first place, in your relation with your fellow-creatures, in your intercourse with the world, it requires much courage and resolution to be sturdily upright and just. When your interest, your feelings, your wants, nay, even your future... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cleave unto the Lord your God, as ye have done unto this day._ THE NECESSITY OF EVERY ONE’S CLEAVING TO GOD WHO WISHES WELL TO THE SUPPORT OF HIS COUNTRY I. Sin has naturally in itself a tendency to the ruin of any nation. We may easily see that when a people grow regardless of the laws of God th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Take good heed therefore unto yourselves._ THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE The Christian life is a warfare, and there are several common mistakes made thereupon. For example-- I. When it is supposed that the enemies to be fought against are all external foes. This is a very prevalent error. Where conversi... [ Continue Reading ]
_And behold this day I am going the way of all the earth._ DEATH COMMON TO ALL Death is so dim-sighted and so blundering-footed that he staggers across Axminster tapestry as though it were a bare floor, and sees no difference between the fluttering rags of a tatterdemalion and a conqueror’s gonfalo... [ Continue Reading ]