
How Blessed Are They Who Truly See
How blessed are they who truly seeTheir emptiness and poverty;Whose souls are humbled in the dust,And who in Jesus only trust!They’re vile and poor in their own eyes,But Jesus’ love they highly pr ...

The Man Born Blind (9)
The healed blind man has given an answer to the question of the neighbors who before had known him as blind. It was the answer that revealed his ignorance; he honestly had to say that he did not know where the Lord Jesus was. Yet, it was a question by which the Lord will bring out the ...

Questions from Our Readers
Dear children, what is meant by your heart? All of us have a heart. It is one of the most, if not the most, important organs of one’s body. It is the first organ which lives and beats in a human being and the last organ which dies. A surgeon can amputate a leg and an arm, remove a kidn ...

Little Scotch Granite
Burt and Johnnie Lee were delighted when their Scotch cousin came to live with them. He was little but very bright and full of fun. He could tell curious things about his home in Scotland and his voyage across the ocean. He was as far advanced in his studies as they were, and the first ...

The Life and Dying of Mientje Vrijdag (5)
As far as it concerns the Church, the Lord has also showed Mientje Vrijdag much out of Jeremiah 12:7. She has also met the Church in Jonah 1:11-13—Jonah overboard, the Church attempted rowing to bring the ship to shore, but the storm became more tempestuous, and, finally, Jonah was pre ...

Jacob: The Experience of a Dying Man (3)
The deathbed of the man we write about is far away from the Promised Land, the land where his forefathers lived and are buried. His deathbed stands in the land of Egypt. We visit the deathbed of a patriarch; his name is Jacob. He is now one hundred forty-seven years old. He came to Egy ...

Rejoicing at the Coming of the Promised Messiah
Confession full of joyThis chapter is a rich chapter as Isaiah may see what will happen in the future. The Lord will do great miracles in destroying the enemies and delivering Israel from Babel. Isaiah may testify of this future: “And in this mountain shall ...

At the Close of 1949
Beloved Friends:At the end of this year, we together may well declare: “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not” (Lamentations 3:22). May deep humility fill our hearts. In the course of this year, several members from amo ...

The Life of Moses (13)
The Lord had been so faithful to His people. He fed them with manna, and they did eat it for forty years until they came to a land inhabited. After God started to send manna, they journeyed “according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for t ...

Christmas
Christmas is properly called “The Feast of the Father,” for from eternity the Father ordained His Son to be Surety, Mediator, and Head of the Covenant of Grace. In Isaiah 42 the Son is called “The Servant of the Father.” From eternity He was in the bosom of the Father and coessential w ...