Show Your Colors!
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Proverbs 4:25. In Pilgrim’s Progress there is a character called Pliable. Youth, shun this character. Those represented by it are very accommodating, but they are as a reed shaken by the wind. They possess no will power. Every youth needs to […]
Charmed With Christ’s Love
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Colossians 3:1, 2. When we are tempted to place our affections on any earthly object that has a tendency to absorb […]
Seeing Him Who Is Invisible
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter…. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11:24-27. Moses … lived as seeing Him who is invisible, and was therefore able to […]
“On Unto Perfection”
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Ephesians 4:13. It is a great, a solemn work to obtain a moral fitness for the society of the pure and […]
“Keep Thyself Pure”
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matthew 5:8. To know what constitutes purity of mind, soul, and body is the highest class of education. Paul the apostle sums up in his letter to Timothy the attainments possible for him, by saying “Keep thyself pure.” 46Letter 145, 1897. It is the […]
Examine Yourselves
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? 2 Corinthians 13:5. “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith.” Many … may immediately respond, “Why, yes; I am in the faith, I believe every […]
