CCXC. The Conqueror.
REV. vi. 2. “And I saw, and behold a white horse: and He that
sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto Him:
and He went forth conquering, and to conquer.”
BEHOLD the combat beyond all others important, the
combat …
CCLXXXIX. True Church Life.
REV. iii. 1.
“I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest,
and art dead.”
THE Church to whom this statement was made was that
of Sardis, and the remarkable thing is that this strong
condemnation is pronounced while yet no flagrant …
CCLXXXVIII. The Cross and the Crown.
REV. ii. 10. “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a
crown of life.”
I. THIS is the law of all true eminence, of all real attain-
ment and dignity. There is no true crown which has not
its cross. Do …
CCLXXXVII. With Golden Girdle Girt.
REV. I. 13. “He was girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”
I. WHAT did this golden girdle signify?
1. The Lord’s excellence in all His offices.
2. His power and authority.
3. His …
CCLXXXVI. The Seven Spirits.
REV. i. 4. “The Seven Spirits which are before His throne.”
No one who has studied the mystic use of the number
“seven” will wonder to find the infinitude of the power
and the glories of the Holy Ghost expressed in the language
“the …
CCLXXXV. God’s People Preserved and Presented.
JUDE 24, 25. “Now unto Him that is able to
keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God
our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both
now …
CCLXXXIV. The Way of Cain.
JUDE II. “The way of Cain.”
IN the first joy of her motherhood, Eve seems to have
imagined that the promised deliverer had already come,
and gave her son a name which expressed gratitude for
his birth, and hope for his life. But she …
CCLXXXIII. Love in Truth.
2 JOHN i. 1, 2. “The elder unto the elect lady and her children,
whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that
have known the truth.”
HOW much is implied very often by …
CCLXXXII. The Threefold Witness.
1 JOHN v. 6-8. “This is He that came by waier and blood, even Jesus
Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it
is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
For there are three that …
CCLXXXI. The Victory of Faith.
1 JOHN v. 4.
“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
MEN acknowledge that the world is a place of conflict, but
they often mistake the nature of the conflict and the nature
of the weapon that should be employed.
…