
THANKSGIVING
The churches in Canada had their Thanksgiving day October 13 and at the end of this month we are again called, in the States, to come together to acknowledge the name of the Lord for all His benefits bestowed upon us as persons, as families, as communities, and especially as a nation.Of co ...

THANKSGIVING DAY
Toward the end of this month we are enjoined to remember in the house of the Lord God’s blessings bestowed upon us. The congregations in Canada did so already on the second Monday in October.It is more than fitting to call upon the Name of the Lord and to acknowledge Him as the source of a ...

NEHEMIAH’S DEEP DISTRESS
There are those who think that according to Neh. 1:11B, Nehemiah was a enuch. If that was so, then he as one of those enuchs of Isaiah 56:3 who should not say, “I am a dry tree.”According to some, Nehemiah was of the priestly family, perhaps even royal blood.It cannot be ascertained ...

CHRISTMAS
If it pleases the Lord to spare us that long, we soon hope to listen to the glad tidings that Christ came into the world to save sinners (I Tim. 1:15). Most of us have heard the story of Christ’s birth from our earliest youth, and also what the greatest significance is of this fact. May our ears ...

THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST
The ascension of Christ into a glorious heaven has been a cause of great joy upon earth and in heaven. All those, who know and love this King, shall rejoice in His exaltation. The great joy of the church already in olden times is expressed in these words: “Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing ...

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
At Christmas time the Church assembles everywhere on earth to commemorate the coming of the Son of God into the world. According to custom, the precious gospel will be read in many families, because Christmas Day is coming again. Strangely enough, the world celebrates Christmas too. Thousands of ...

THE BARREN FIG-TREE
Our liveliest feelings perhaps on entering a new year, are those of thankfulness for the goodness and mercy, the abounding goodness and never failing mercy, which have brought us hitherto. But there are other feelings which ought to have a place in our minds at this time. We have blessings to be ...

CHRIST EXALTED
The apostle in this chapter particularly opposes some among the Christian Corinthians, who denied the resurrection of the dead, and infected the church with their doctrine. There were two sorts of persons in that age who were especially great opposers of the doctrine of the resurrection: one amon ...

GOD’S CHURCH BENT TO BACKSLIDING
Backsliding is a God-dishonoring, Christrejecting, Spirit-grieving, law-trampling, and gospel-abusing sin. In one word, to backslide means to depart from the Word and the ways of the Lord. It is a sin as common as it is terrible.Backsliding is a sin warned against throughout the entire Bib ...

NEW YEAR’S EVE SERMON
Soon again we shall come to the close of the year. Soon the exchange of the old for the new will take place, and while we pass from the one into the other, we are summoned to a reverent and thoughtful pause upon life’s pathway. We are called on the one hand to look back to that which lies behind, ...