Our Daily Devotional AARON = «master» or «excellent». Aaron, older brother of Moses, first high priest of the old law and a figure of primary importance in the events of the Exodus. He was the son of Amram and Jochebed of the Levitical lineage of Kohath (Ex. 6:20). He was born in Egypt three years before his brother … Read more
The young are seldom tempted to outright wickedness; evil comes to them as an enticement. The honest generosity and fresh heart of youth would refuse to embrace open meanness and undisguised vice. The adversary conforms his wiles to their nature. He tempts them to the basest deeds by beginning with innocent ones, gliding to more … Read more
The world comes to the child when it is in the April of life, and sows tares. The world comes along again when the child is in the May of life, and sows thistles. Again in the fair June it comes and sows nox vomica. The church meanwhile folds its hands and waits until the … Read more
What if a man going to San Francisco should make preparations for his journey from Brooklyn to Hoboken, and no further. Would you not call him a fool? But here is a man about starting on an everlasting journey, and yet he postpones his preparation until the very last moment of time. The distance from … Read more
There is no such preaching as the experience which a man gives who has just realized the sinfulness of his own soul. I often hear myself outpreached by some new convert who can hardly put words together. Some say experimental preaching is shallow. Shallow! It is as deep as the soul of God. Young man, … Read more
An Englishman told me a story once which may serve to illustrate how God forgives. There was a boy a good many years ago, stolen in London, the same as Charley Ross was stolen here. Long months and years passed away, and the mother prayed and prayed as that mother of Charley Boss has prayed, … Read more
He (Mr. Ingersoll) is said to be a very brave man. I dare him to do one thing. I dare him to take his mother’s Bible, and some Sunday afternoon, go into his room, and locking the door, kneel down, and while kneeling read the fourteenth chapter of John. Nothing there about Jonah and the … Read more
No matter how infidel philosophers may regard the Bible; they may say that Genesis is awry, and that the Psalms are more than half bitter imprecations, and the Prophecies only the phantasies of brain-bewildered men, and the Gospels weak laudations of an impostor, and the Epistles but the letters of a mad Jew, and that … Read more
The sweetest music is not the peal of marriage bells, nor tender descants in moonlight woods, nor trumpet notes of victory—it is the soul’s welcome to heaven. God grant that, when we die there may not come booming to our ear the dreadful sound, “Depart!” But may we hear stealing upon the air the mellow … Read more
Grace, like flower-seed needs to be sown in spring. The first fifteen years of life, and often the first six, decide the eternal destiny.