“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” – Luke 2:11 CHRISTMAS (or Christ’s festival) by general usage is celebrated on December 25th; and since its commemoration is not enjoined in the Scriptures, but is merely a voluntary commemoration …
Every man sees with his own eyes. He discovers in the world only what his capacity and range of vision fit him to see. So every man thinks and judges and estimates other men and himself according to standards and limitations peculiar to his own mind. The eye of the …
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.” –2 Tim. 2:15. THIS TEXT does not say, “Study the Scriptures,” but “Study to show thyself approved” –study to know what God would approve. And yet it means, first …
MANY are perplexed as to why false doctrines are permitted to annoy and confuse God’s people. On receiving the truth and rejoicing in it they seem to think they have at last come to the end of all controversy, and have entered the Beulah land of rest and peace, thenceforth …
“Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.”–1 Corinthians 16:13. ST. PETER and St. John, arrested for preaching Christ as the Healer of the lame man in the Temple, were called to answer before the Jewish High Court–the Sanhedrin, composed of seventy learned Jews. These …
“Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?”–1 Cor. 4:7. WHILE it is true that all men are born with inalienable rights and privileges, yet no man is born without sin. The Scriptures very properly declare that the race in Adam was …
We are living in an age of shams and counterfeits. Satan seems to have abandoned the hope of crushing out the Christian Church by a process of undisguised hostility, and now seeks to destroy her efficiency by stealthily draining off her vitality, and robbing her of every supernatural element. He …