Category Archives: Gems & Jewels

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.  … Continue reading →

What is the CHARACTER of our life? Looking at its natural character–it is a gift which, if rightly used, will prove invaluable; but which, is abused, will be an occasion of eternal regret.  God gave us life; he placed us … Continue reading →

What is your life in retrospect?  Look back over the past ten or twenty years; how swiftly they have passed away, and every year appears to pass more quickly than the last! What is your life in comparison?  What are … Continue reading →

“What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while–and then vanishes!”  James 4:14 If God asks a question–we should listen to it, think of it, and prepare an answer.  Here the Lord puts a question … Continue reading →

MORNING DEVOTIONS BY SUSANNAH SPURGEON, along with THE LIFE OF SUSANNAH SPURGEON by Charles Ray in one volume is the material from which we have drawn these postings.  It was originally published as A CARILLON OF BELLS and is currently … Continue reading →

ON MY RETURN FROM MENTONE, that beautiful village on the sea-coast, (when with one hand the Lord had smitten me well-near to death, while on the other hand He had poured into my wounded heart the oil of wine of … Continue reading →

“And it was given unto them a short time before they went forward.” It was a tender token of the Lord’s lovingkindness that Charles and Susannah were, for once, permitted to travel together to Mentone to spend there three months … Continue reading →