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And seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life...

"He went up into a mountain apart" Matt. 14:23 One of the blessings of the old-time Sabbath was its calm, its restfulness, its holy...

"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice" (Phil. 4:4). "Sing a little song of trust, O my heart! Sing it just because you...

"Ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord. The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion" (Ps....

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with...

"Come up in the morning . . . and present thyself unto me in the top of the mount" (Exod. 34:2). The morning is the time fixed for my...

"Nevertheless afterward" (Heb. 12:11). There is a legend that tells of a German baron who, at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires...

"Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well" (2 Kings 4:26). "Be strong, my soul! Thy loved...

"Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs; . . . they shall afflict them four hundred years; . . ....

"For with God nothing shall be impossible" Luke 1:37 Far up in the Alpine hollows, year by year God works one of His marvels. The...

"Fret not" (Ps. 37:1). This to me is a Divine command; the same as "Thou shalt not steal." Now let us get to the definition of fretting....

"Pressed out of measure" 2 Cor. 1:8 "That the power of Christ may rest upon me" 2 Cor. 12:9 God allowed the crisis to close around Jacob...

"But prayer" (Acts 12:5). But prayer is the link that connects us with God. This is the bridge that spans every gulf and bears us over...

"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the...

"His soul entered into iron" (Ps. 105:18). Turn that about and render it in our language, and it reads thus, "Iron entered his soul." Is...

"Perfect through suffering" (Heb. 2:10). Steel is iron plus fire. Soil is rock, plus heat, or glacier crushing. Linen is flax plus the...

"For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a weight of glory" 2 Cor. 4:17. "Is achieving for us," mark....

"To him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon because he hath wholly followed the Lord" (Deut. 1:36). Every hard duty that lies...

"It is good for me that I have been afflicted" (Ps. 119:71). It is a remarkable circumstance that the most brilliant colors of plants are...

"And when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down...