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1. As God is the author of nature in all her perfection, and has set the heavenly bodies in their perfect system of order, can we suppose that He has left His people in the earth without any instruction regarding system and order in the church? “God is not the author of confusion,” I Corinthians [...]
Daniel was forbidden by unjust laws which were contrary to what God had said, to ask a petition from anyone for thirty days except from king Darius. Knowing well his books, and being versed in the word of God, he heeded not the voice even of the king who spoke averse to his Heavenly Father, [...]
The Clean and the Unclean Food 1. Were there some beasts on earth before the flood that were not clean for food? “Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female,” Genesis 7:2. 2. [...]
The elect, or true Christians, have existed under different names at different times, viz.: the Novatians, Donatists, and Paulicians in the Middle Ages. The Albigenses, Cathari, and Waldenses were the most prominent societies who separated from the Catholic Church. They resembled each other very much in their doctrine and life. They were all agreed about [...]
1. Upon one occasion in what do we find Jacob engaged? “And Jacob was left alone; And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day,” Genesis 32:24. 2. In what way did Jacob prevail upon this man (or angel)? “And he [the angel] said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. [...]
John Wycliffe Among the forerunners of the Reformation, John Wycliffe deserves especially to be mentioned. He was born in the year 1324. He became a member of the University of Oxford, where he afterward was employed as teacher. In the last years of his life he became pastor of the church in Lutterworth. He was [...]
1. What are we admonished to overcome? “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good,” Romans 12:21. 2. What makes it possible for one to overcome the world? “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world,” [...]
1. Is the destruction of the two Japanese cities, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, the first record we have of big cities being destroyed by fire and brimstone? “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all [...]
1. What did Jesus say of the conditions that would prevail on the earth after His ascension? “And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet,” Matthew 24:6. 2. What did He say further [...]
