The institution of the ceremony which is known by a variety of titles such as the Lord’s Supper—the Breaking of Bread—Communion, is remarkable for its lack of detail. The two elements are bread and wine, but what kind or what …
“I conquered the world by force, but this man, Jesus Christ, conquered it with love.” These are the words of Napoleon, having read the life of Jesus Christ from the Bible.
In our discourse on the subject “The Year of Public …
He weighs the mountains in His scales And in the balance, too. He comprehends the dust of earth His measures are all true. The infinitely great and small With counsel He assumes. No wavering thought or change of plan ; …
A short time after this, we are taken via the Scriptures to the Temple, which at that time, far from being “a house of prayer,” was constantly astir with the hubbub of commerce. What had been a noble idea had …
The purpose of the genealogy appearing in the first chapter of Matthew is summarized in the first verse : “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” The purpose of this genealogy …
Sunlight is essential to life. In the sequence of events at the creation, the creation of light was second only to the creation of the heaven and the earth. According to God’s laws of nature, it was necessary for light …
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications : and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as …