The Fifth Sparrow
"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?" Luke 12:6 It was a beautiful winter day. I was sitting on the veranda of a southern hotel enjoying the sunshine and sky. Suddenly...
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Prayer Power
While Alexander Marshall was preaching in a country district, near Orillia, using a tent, the prejudice among the people was terrible. Within two thousand yards from the Gospel tent lived an Irishman, who was a very devout Episcopalian. It was...
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The Supremacy of Christ
What an elixir for the soul is provided in the contemplation of the greatness and glories of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has declared that He "gave Him to be head over all things." He has also decreed that "He...
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The Ongoing Need
In response to an article on the life of F. S. Arnot in our March 1991 issue, we were sent a copy of a news item published in Britain at the time of one of Arnot's visits to his homeland....
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Things that Matter
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18). "The heavens...
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To Be Remembered
Deep in the Black Hills of western South Dakota looms Mount Rushmore from which gaze the mighty stone faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln. They join the long parade of statues, obelisks, monuments, hieroglyphs and records that...
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The Modernist’s Portrait
Modernists have not written very charitably of the prophet Jeremiah and the reason is not far to seek. Jeremiah has given us their portrait in divinely faithful terms: "An assembly of treacherous men! And they bend their tongues like their...
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Jesus and Nicodemus
The very first thing we read about Nicodemus in the Gospel according to John is that he was "a man of the Pharisees" (3:1). This is the second time the Pharisees are mentioned in this Gospel, and it calls to...
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