Category Archives: Gems & Jewels

OH let me know The power of Thy resurrection ; Oh let me show Thy risen life in calm and clear reflection ; Oh let me soar Where thou, my Saviour Christ, art gone before ; In mind and heart … Continue reading →

“All God’s goodness to us is humbling.  The more He does for us, the more ready we are to say, ‘I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou has shewed … Continue reading →

SUCH a cold morning!  Such a white world outside!  Snow on the grass, and snow on the path, and snow on the ivy round the window, and more snow coming in great quiet flakes, and the sky all full of … Continue reading →

  A Message for the New Year (Note: New Years day of 1892, Charles Haddon Spurgeon delivered this, his last message, to a group of friends assembled at Mentone on the South coast of France. His church had sent him … Continue reading →

   “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 … Continue reading →

“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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

[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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →