_Except the Lord build the house._ AUTHORSHIP OF THIS PSALM Various considerations taken together require the opinion that this middle Song of Degrees was composed by Solomon. It suits the time of peaceful house-building and civil settlement and progress during which he reigned. It uses a word answ... [ Continue Reading ]
_To eat the bread of sorrows._ THE BREAD OF TOIL AND THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Labour is the law of life, and to this law nothing in God’s Word is opposed. “Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening” is a description good for all time. “Active in business,” if we may belie... [ Continue Reading ]
_Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord._ CHILDREN--DIVINE GIFTS Children come not into the world by chance or fate. God sends them as His gifts. I. They are gifts of great value. 1. They are of great value in themselves. (1) The intellectual possibilities of a child. In the babe which the mo... [ Continue Reading ]
_As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of the youth._ CHILDREN LIKENED TO ARROWS 1. An arrow is small, but powerful. One slew Ahab. Latent capacities of a child. 2. An arrow must be sharpened. A child must-be educated, its faculties developed. Note its natural sharpness.... [ Continue Reading ]