"I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." — Psa 23:4 Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the...

"If they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" — Luke 23:31 Among other interpretations of this suggestive...

“Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” John 5:8 Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for a wonder to be...

“Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all.” Matthew 12:15 What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the...

“In the name of the Lord I will destroy them.” Psalm 118:12 Our Lord Jesus, by his death, did not purchase a right to a part of us only,...

“Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp.” Hebrews 13:13 Jesus, bearing his cross, went forth to suffer without the gate. The...

“Before honour is humility.” Proverbs 15:33 Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self...

“On him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.” Luke 23:26 We see in Simon’s carrying the cross a picture of the work of...

“Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord.” Isaiah 2:3 It is exceedingly beneficial to our souls to mount above this present...

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21...

“He shall see his seed; he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.” Isaiah 53:10 Plead for the...

“He answered him to never a word.” Matthew 27:14 He had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not...

“It is time to seek the Lord.” Hosea 10:12 This month of April is said to derive its name from the Latin verb aperio, which signifies to...

“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.” Song of Solomon 1:2 For several days we have been dwelling upon the Saviour’s passion,...

“With his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most...

“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.” Lamentations 3:40 The spouse who fondly loves her absent husband longs for...

“He was numbered with the transgressors.” Isaiah 53:12 Why did Jesus suffer himself to be enrolled amongst sinners? This wonderful...

“I called him, but he gave me no answer.” Song of Solomon 5:6 Prayer sometimes tarrieth, like a petitioner at the gate, until the King...

“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 We are told that the Captain of our...

“I will accept you with your sweet savour.” Ezekiel 20:41 The merits of our great Redeemer are as sweet savour to the Most High. Whether...