"A Christian complains he cannot pray.  'Oh, I am troubled with so many distracting thoughts,  and never more than now!'  But has he put into your heart a desire to pray?  Then he will hear the desires of his own Spirit in you.  'We know not what we should pray ... Continue

"And when the heavenly child was born, heaven and earth, the shepherds of Bethlehem in the name of Israel longing after salvation, and the wise men from the East as the representatives of heathenism in its dark groping after the 'unknown God,' unite in the worship of the infant King ... Continue

GOD OF LIFE, whose name is Love, In whom we live, in whom we move, And in whose light alone we see, We Thy children meet today In Thy courts to praise and pray; May each heart a temple be Of Thanksgiving song to Thee. All this day we would forget Corroding care and wearing fret; We would love ... Continue

[The Lord's garden differs from the gardens in this world.] The flowers of this world all die, and wither and lose their sweetness, and decay, and come to nothing at last.  The fairest flowers are not really everlastng.  The oldest and strongest of nature's children comes to an end.  It is not ... Continue

Some that grow in the Lord's garden are like the flowers which are brilliant and showy in colour, but not sweet.  You see them afar off, and they attract the world's eye, and their tints are beautiful, but you can say no more.  These are frequently the public Christians,--the popular preachers,--the ... Continue

The Lord's garden is not empty:  it is always full of flowers.  It has had many in time past, it has many at the time present.  Believers are the flowers that fill the Lord's garden.  In some things they are all exactly like one another.  In some things they are ... Continue

THE Lord's garden has a distinctive peculiarity about it.  It is a garden inclosed.      There is an inclosure round believers; or else they never would be saved.  There is the secret of their safety.  It is not their faithfulness, their strength, or their love--it is the wall around them that prevents them ... Continue

Song of Solomon 4:12 THE Lord Jesus Christ has a garden.  It is the company of all who are true believers in Him.  They are His garden.  Jesus calls His people a garden, because they are altogether different from the men of the world.  The world is a wilderness:  it brings forth little but ... Continue

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. MAN was originally formed to co-operate with God in accomplishing the purposes of the divine will.  He bore the moral resemblance of his Maker, and, according to the rank assigned him in the scale of being, was endowed with every requisite perfection of created excellence.  The Law of God ... Continue

Unsaved sinner--what is your life?  Is it sin?  Time spent in opposing God?  Time squandered upon folly?  Time dreamed away to no useful purpose?  Is it trifling?  Oh, how many trifle away their precious time!  They despise their own souls.  They live as if existence were bounded by time--and all ... Continue