_O sing unto the Lord a new song._ GENUINE PRAISE I. Genuine praise is founded on the strongest reason (Psalms 98:1). Why should man be so urgently called on to praise God? 1. Because of the extraordinary deliverance which was vouchsafed to him--from the bondage of ignorance, carnality, prejudice... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Lord hath made known His salvation._ THE PRAISE OF THE VASTNESS OF GOD’S SALVATION Mr. Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, told me that on his first journey to England, before he started, he said to his wife, “I have dreamed a dream. I have dreamt that I shall be wrecked and be the only person th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein._ MAN AND NATURE When piety and poetry are married to each other, such a song as this is the offspring of their marriage. Alas! that the two should be so often divorced--that the pious man should so often look abroad... [ Continue Reading ]