“Evening wolves.”         —Habakkuk 1:8While preparing the present volume, this particular expression recurred to me so frequently, that in order to be rid of its constant importunity I determined to ...  Read More

“And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.”         —Mark 3:13Here was sovereignty. Impatient spirits may fret and fume, because they are not called ...  Read More

“And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment.”         —Revelation 4:4These representatives of the saints i...  Read More

“I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.”         —Jeremiah 33:3There are different translations of these words. One version renders it, “I will shew thee gre...  Read More

“The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.”         —Ephesians 1:19, 20In ...  Read More

“I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”         —Luke 19:40But could the stones cry out? Assuredly they could if he who opens the mouth of the dumb s...  Read More

“His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”         —Luke 22:44The mental pressure arising from our Lord’s struggle with temptation, so forced his frame to an unnatural...  Read More

“Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am.”         —John 17:24O death! why dost thou touch the tree beneath whose spreading branches weariness hath rest? Why dost...  Read More

“And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed.”         —Matthew 26:39There are several instructive features in our Saviour’s prayer in his hour of trial. It was lonely prayer. He wi...  Read More

“Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?”         —Job 38:31If inclined to boast of our abilities, the grandeur of nature may soon show us how puny we are. We ca...  Read More

“Ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone.”         —John 16:32Few had fellowship with the sorrows of Gethsemane. The majority of the disciples were not sufficiently advan...  Read More

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.”         —Ephesians 5:25What a golden example Christ gives to his disciples! Few masters could venture to say, “If you would practise ...  Read More