LEADER

By Bible Names of God


Isai 55:4 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

The Leadership of Christ is unexelled. He is the "Captian of our Salvation" and He has given to us the high and holy privilege of following Him and fighting under His bannner (Peace)! David was a loyal leader and faithful to his followers, but Jesus Christ is "great David's greater Son" and He leads on to certain victory, through green pastures, beside the still waters, to the summit of the mountain, through the valleys, to the Rock that is higher than we could ever ascend in our own strength. He loves to hold us by the hand and lead us on to joy and peace. Shall we not say "Where He leads, we will follow?"

Blessed Lord, our Leader, have Thine own way with us and lead us today. Amen.

The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod

Thomas Brooks

The Mute Christian under the Smarting Rod

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

The Beauty of Self-control

The Beauty of Self-control J. R. Miller     Part 1 1. The Beauty of Self-control 2. The Work of the Plough 3. Finding Our Duties 4. Into the Right Hands 5. Living Unto God 6. The Indispensable Christ 7. The One Who Stands By 8. Love's Best at Home 9. What About Bad Temper 10. The Engagement Ring     Part 2 11. What Christ's Friendship Means 12. People as Means of Grace 13. What Christ is to Me 14. Our Unanswered Prayers 15. The Outflow of Song 16. Seeing the Sunny Side 17. The Story of the Folded Hands 18. Comfort for Tired Feet 19. The Power of the Risen Lord 20. Coming to the End

John Alexander Mackenzie

John Alexander Mackenzie

1829 - 1867

Loving Counsels

Encouragements to Patient Waiting
Words of Comfort to the Christian Pilgrim
The Throne of Grace

"PALMS OF ELIM" or "Rest and Refreshment in the Valleys"

"PALMS OF ELIM" or "Rest and Refreshment in the Valleys" by John MacDuff, 1879 "After leaving Marah, they came to Elim ('Valleys'), where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees. They camped there beside the springs." Exodus 15:27 (Elim was an oasis in the desert.) This volume is intended for the comfort and refreshment for God's own children of sorrow—for those in the varied 'valleys' of earthly tribulation. The "palm trees of Elim" afford their grateful shade not in Canaan, but in the wilderness. Pilgrims of eternity! weary and travel-worn, fainting under the burden and fear of the day—may you find here in these pages, with their figurative 'palm trees', restful, consolatory thoughts. "This is the resting place, let the weary rest; and this is the place of repose" Isaiah 28:12 "I delight to sit in His shade, and His fruit is sweet to my taste." Song 2:3 "The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know what to say to all these weary ones." Isaiah 50:4 1. Divine Immutability 2. All for Good 3. The Sympathy of Jesus 4. The Wind Tempered 5. The Fatherhood of God 6. Transcendently Able 7. Right Guidance 8. Higher Uses 9. The Gracious Word 10. A Reigning Savior 11. Divine Leading 12. The Farewell Gift 13. The Compassion of Jesus 14. The Lord Upright 15. Full Satisfaction 16. The Secret of Submission 17. A Risen Christ 18. The Creator and Redeemer 19. Proof and Triumph of Love 20. Future Unfoldings 21. A Great Salvation 22. Fears Quieted 23. The Way Known 24. Prayer 25. Tender Dealings 26. Sleeping and Waking 27. The Return to Zion 28. The Great High Priest 29. Fatherly Chastisement 30. God Unchanging 31. Healing for All 32. Divine Power 33. Providence and Grace 34. Transformation at Death 35. The Incarnate Savior 36. The Rebukes of Love 37. The Unspeakable Gift 38. Jehovah Jireh 39. Glorious Attributes and Ways 40. The Second Coming 41. Imputed Righteousness 42. Christ Ever the Same 43. The Soul's Portion 44. Hope 45. The Supreme Rule of Jesus 46. The Perpetual Presence 47. Christ's Deity 48. The Imperishable Gift 49. The Recompense of Trust 50. The Riches of God's Mercy 51. Acceptance of the Little 52. None Cast out 53. The Blessed Hope 54. The Divine Way Perfect 55. Perseverance 56. Delight in God's Law 57. Christ the Propitiation 58. Fullness of Joy 59. Inviolable Security 60. The Safe Deposit 61. All Power of Jesus 62. Help in Extremity 63. Prevailing Intercession 64. A Pardoning God 65. A Gracious Message 66. Perfect Trust 67. God All Satisfying 68. Salvation to the Uttermost 69. Asleep in Jesus 70. The Last Musing

THE NIGHT WATCHES by John MacDuff

THE NIGHT WATCHES by John MacDuff "I lie awake thinking of you, meditating on you through the night watches." –Psalm 63:6 "I long for the Lord more than watchmen long for the dawn, yes, more than watchmen long for the dawn." Psalm 130:6 "Through each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life." Psalm 42:8 1. The Glory of God 2. The Immutability of God 3. The Omnipotence of God 4. The Omnipresence of God 5. The Wisdom of God 6. The Holiness of God 7. The Justice of God 8. The Love of God 9. The Grace of God 10. The Tenderness of God 11. The Patience of God 12. The Faithfulness of God 13. The Sovereignty of God 14. The Providence of God 15. The Word of God 16. The Ordinances of God 17. The Spirit of God 18. The Promises of God 19. The Warnings of God 20. The Chastisements of God 21. The Invitations of God 22. The Consolations of God 23. The Paths of God 24. The Secret of God 25. The Name of God 26. The Favor of God 27. The Jewels of God 28. The Judgment of God 29. God's Banqueting House 30. The Presence of God 31. God's Closing Call

THE THOUGHTS OF GOD

THE THOUGHTS OF GOD
by John MacDuff, 1864

"How precious also are Your thoughts unto me,
 O God! how great is the sum of them! Were I
to count them, they would outnumber the grains
 of sand. When I awake, I am still with You."
Psalm 139: 17-18


Introduction
1. Infinite Condescension
2. Everlasting Love
3. A Divine Challenge
4. The Thought of Thoughts
5. Tender Remonstrance
6. Paternal Pity
7. Comfort for the Bereaved
8. A Gracious Pardon
9. Almighty Guidance
10. Help for the Feeble
11. Sovereignty
12. Divine Joy
13. Sufficient Grace
14. Covenant Faithfulness
15. Chastening Love
16. Unbounded Patience
17. A Gracious Alternative
18. Tender Dealing
19. A Gracious Remembrance
20. Correction in Measure
21. Promised Deliverance
22. Thought upon Thought
23. Everlasting Espousals
24. Wondrous Comfort
25. Complete Forgiveness
26. More than Parental Love
27. Death Vanquished
28. Contrasted Dealings
29. Guidance in the Dark
30. Divine Treasures

31. Mourning Ended

THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK

THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK by John MacDuff, 1870 "I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie  down, declares the Sovereign Lord." Ezekiel 34:15 1. The Flock Astray 2. The Flock Sought and Found  3. The Flock Found, and Its Return to the Fold 4. The Shepherd of the Flock Smitten 5. The Shepherd Giving His Life for the Sheep  6. The Door into the Sheep-Fold 7. The Shepherd Going Before the Flock 8. The Flock Following the Shepherd 9. The Song of the Flock 10. The Green Pastures and Still Waters Where the Flocks Are Fed 11. The Paths of Righteousness in which the Flocks Are Led 12. The Shepherd Seeking the Flock in the Cloudy and Dark Day 13. The Shepherd's Gentle Dealings with the Burdened of the Flock 14. The Flock in the World 15. The Shepherd's Gift to the Flock 16. The Security of the Flock 17. The Cry of a Wanderer 18. The Trembling Flock Comforted 19. The Flock Passing through the Valley of the Shadow of Death 20. The Final Gathering of the Flock 21. The Eternal Folding of the Flock

NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS

NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST JESUS  by Octavius Winslow, 1852 Preface No Condemnation Freedom from the Law of Sin and Death The Impotence of the Law, and God's Method of Meeting It The Unregenerate and the Regenerate Contrasted Spiritual-mindedness The Enmity of the Carnal Mind Pleasing God The Indwelling of the Spirit in the Regenerate The Body Dead, but the Spirit Life The Resurrection of Christ The Resurrection of the Christian The Believer's Obligation to Mortify Sin The Guidance of the Spirit The Spirit of Adoption The Spirit Testifying to the Believer's Adoption The Christian's Joint Heirship Present Suffering Weighed with Future Glory The Earnest Expectation of the Renewed Creature A Suffering World in Sympathy with Suffering Man The First-fruits of the Spirit Saved by Hope The Sympathy of the Spirit with the Infirmity of Prayer The Intercession of the Spirit in the Saints All Things Working for Good Divine Predestination Effectual Calling Free Justification Eternal Glorification God Is for Us The Gift of God's Son, the Guarantee of All Other Blessing The Believer's Challenge The Believers Triumph More than Conquerors No Separation from Christ Jesus

The Possibilities of Prayer by E.M.Bounds

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.The Ministry of Prayer

2. Prayer and the Promises

3.Prayer and the Promises (continued)

4. Prayer--Its Possibilities

5. Prayer--Its Possibilities (Continued)

6. Prayer--Its Possibilities (continued)

7. Prayer--Its Wide Range

8.Prayer--Facts and History

9.Prayer--Facts and History (Continued)

10.Answered Prayer

11. Answered Prayer (Continued)

12. Answered Prayer (Continued)

13. Prayer Miracles

14. Wonders of God Through Prayer

15.Prayer and Divine Providence

16.Prayer and Divine Providence (continued)

The Mountain After the Quake

The Mountain After the Quake

By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman


"He maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth and his hands make whole" (Job 5:18).

The ministry of a great sorrow.

As we pass beneath the hills which have been shaken by the earthquake and torn by convulsion, we find that periods of perfect repose succeed those of destruction. The pools of calm water lie clear beneath their fallen rocks, the water lilies gleam, and the reeds whisper among the shadows; the village rises again over the forgotten graves, and its church tower, white through the storm twilight, proclaims a renewed appeal to His protection "in whose hand are all the corners of the earth, and the strength of the hills is his also." --Ruskin


God ploughed one day with an earthquake,
And drove His furrows deep!
The huddling plains upstarted,
The hills were all aleap!


But that is the mountains' secret,
Age-hidden in their breast;
"God's peace is everlasting,"
Are the dream-words of their rest.


He made them the haunts of beauty,
The home elect of His grace;
He spreadeth His mornings upon them,
His sunsets light their face.


His winds bring messages to them
Wild storm-news from the main;
They sing it down the valleys
In the love-song of the rain.


They are nurseries for young rivers,
Nests for His flying cloud,
Homesteads for new-born races,
Masterful, free, and proud.


The people of tired cities
Come up to their shrines and pray;
God freshens again within them,
As He passes by all day.


And lo, I have caught their secret!
The beauty deeper than all!
This faith--that life's hard moments,
When the jarring sorrows befall,


Are but God ploughing His mountains;
And those mountains yet shall be
The source of His grace and freshness,
And His peace everlasting to me.
--William C. Gannett

Strength and Beauty

Strength and Beauty

By J.R. Miller

Table of Contents

› Preface - Strength and Beauty by J. R. Miller, 1899 "Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." Psalm 96:6 PREF ...read

› Chapter 1 - Strength and Beauty - We should never be content with any mark but the highest. To strive for that which is less than the best--is unworthy of a child of God. It is a great ...read

› Chapter 2 - Shallow Lives - In on of our Lord's parables, he depicts different lives as different kinds of ground, or rather ground in different conditions. One kind he describes ...read

› Chapter 3 - Crowding Out the Best - Some lives come to nothing--because they take in too many interests. They are too crowded. One thing chokes out another, and, of course, it is always ...read

› Chapter 4 - Things to Leave Undone - Some things must be left out; just what they shall be--is the question. Many hands beckon continually. We can follow the beck of only one; which shall ...read

› Chapter 5 - Its Fruit in Its Season - Every life is sent into this world--to be a blessing. God's thought for every creature he makes, is beauty and usefulness. The marring and the curse, ...read

› Chapter 6 - True Religion - There were two artists, close friends, one of who excelled in landscape painting, and the other depicting the human body. The former had painted a pic ...read

› Chapter 7 - The Beauty of the Imperfect - Most of us fret over our faults and failures. Our imperfections discourage us. Our defeats ofttimes break our spirit and cause us to give up. But this ...read

› Chapter 8 - How to Meet Temptation - Temptation has a mission. Our Lord was led by the Spirit into the wilderness--to be tempted. If he had missed being tempted--he would have missed some ...read

› Chapter 9 - At the Full Price - We must pay the full price for all we get in the market of life. There are no auctions and bargain tables where things of real value--are sold for a t ...read

› Chapter 10 - The Blessing of Hardness - It is related of a New England farmer, that he put all his heart into a rough farm in Massachusetts and made it one of the best. Once a friend said to ...read

› Chapter 11 - The Ministry of Hindrances - Some people are vexed and disheartened--by obstacles and difficulties. They look upon them as hindrances in the way of their progress. To them, the id ...read

› Chapter 12 - In Time of Defeat - The decision of the judges in any contest, tells where the honor goes. Then another testing begins--a testing of character. The contestants themselves ...read

› Chapter 13 - The Duty of Fault-Finding - There is a duty of fault-finding. Perhaps, indeed, most people are diligent enough in this department of duty--and yet there may be need of a word of ...read

› Chapter 14 - The Duty of Laughter - They tell us that laughter is dying out among men. If so, it is a pity. The Wise Man says that "there is a time to laugh." That is, there is a time wh ...read

› Chapter 15 - Minding the Rests - "Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet place--and get some rest." Mark 6:31 Some people think that rests in life--are wasted time. They suppose tha ...read

› Chapter 16 - The Cure of Weariness - Weariness may be wholesome. It is wholesome when it is the natural consequence of earnest, healthful activity. Such weariness finds its renewal in res ...read

› Chapter 17 - Judged as We Judge - There are many of our Lord's teachings which we do not take half seriously enough. For example, there is what Jesus says about judging others: "Do not ...read

› Chapter 18 - Every Day an Easter - Easter comes in the calendar only once in a year--but for the Christian, every day is an Easter. Each morning we should rise to newness of life. In mi ...read

› Chapter 19 - The Sacredness of Opportunity - Jesus said, "Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you!" Sometimes darkness is very welcome. It is welcome to the weary man who can ...read

› Chapter 20 - The Christian and His Rights - Some people go to a great deal of trouble--in protecting 'their rights'. They are continually on the alert, guarding 'their rights' against unwarrante ...read

› Chapter 21 - The Voice of Strangers - It is said of sheep, that they follow their own shepherd because they know his voice. It is also said that they will not follow a stranger, because th ...read

› Chapter 22 - Finding One's Soul - It is a great hour for us, when we become conscious of the splendor of our immortality. A very beautiful story is told of the way the young Princess V ...read

› Chapter 23 - Not for Self--But Christ - One of the best tests of Christian work--is in the way Christ is honored in it. When people think and say little about themselves, and much about the ...read

› Chapter 24 - Being a Branch - It is a great privilege to be a branch. It is to share the best there is in the vine. A branch is really part of the vine, not something separate and ...read

Practical Religion

Practical Religion

By J.R. Miller

Table of Contents

› Introduction - Practical Religion A Help for the Common Days By J. R. Miller, 1888 Opening Words This is not a volume of essays, but a collection of chapt ...read

› Chapter 1 - The Sweet Fragrance of Prayer - True prayer is fragrant to God. This was taught in the Old Testament, in one of those emblem-lessons which, when read in the light of the gospel, mean ...read

› Chapter 2 - The Blessing of Quietness - Quietness, like mercy, is twice blessed: it blesses him who is quiet, and it blesses the man's friends and neighbors. Talk is good in its way. "There ...read

› Chapter 3 - You Have Done it unto Me - Those certainly seem to be strange words, which our Lord says he will speak on the judgment-day to the multitudes before him. We are taught elsewhere, ...read

› Chapter 4 - Transformed by Beholding - "For those He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son!" Romans 8:29 "We know that when He appears, we will be like Him ...read

› Chapter 5 - Being Christians on Weekdays - How to carry our religion into all parts of our life, is the question which perplexes many of us. It is not hard to be good on the quiet Sundays, when ...read

› Chapter 6 - Compensation in Life - Every shadow--has its light; every night--has its morning; every pang of pain--has its thrill of pleasure; every salt tear--has its crystal beauty; ev ...read

› Chapter 7 - The Cost of Being a Blessing - Preachers sometimes tell us, in urging us to live a useful life, that it costs but little to do good. In a sense this is true. Without large outlay of ...read

› Chapter 8 - Life as a Ladder - "Beauty and truth, and all that these contain, Drop not like ripened fruit about our feet: We climb to them through years of sweat and pain." "When ...read

› Chapter 9 - Seeds of Light - "Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." Psalm 97:11 The figure of the seed is very common in the Scriptures. All ...read

› Chapter 10 - Looking at the Right Side - Very much heart-pain is caused, by looking at the wrong side of God's providences. If we could only see the strange things of our lives in their true ...read

› Chapter 11 - For Better or Worse - One of the saddest things about life--is the waste of its blessings. Hearts go hungry--while close by, within easy reach, lies the bread which would s ...read

› Chapter 12 - "Do the Next Thing" - DUTY never is a haphazard thing; it does not come to us in 'bundles' from which we may choose what we like best. There are never a half dozen things, ...read

› Chapter 13 - People as Means of Grace - "As iron sharpens iron--so one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17 There are pairs of pictures which show some Indian children: first--as they a ...read

› Chapter 14 - Shall We Worry? - "The little worries which we meet each day May lie as stumbling-blocks across our way, Or we may make them stepping-stones to be Of grace, O Lord, ...read

› Chapter 15 - A Word about TEMPER - "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Ephesians 4:32 More than half of us are bad-temp ...read

› Chapter 16 - Forward, and Not Back - It is a good thing always to face forward. Even nature shows that men's eyes were designed to always look forward--for no man has eyes in the back of ...read

› Chapter 17 - The Duty of Forgetting Sorrow - Sorrow makes deep scars; indeed, it writes its record ineffaceably on the heart which suffers. We really never get over our deep griefs; we are really ...read

› Chapter 18 - People Who Fail - There are many people who fail. Yet there are two standards by which success and failure may be measured: there is the world's standard, and there is ...read

› Chapter 19 - Living Victoriously - Life is conflict. Every good thing lies beyond a battlefield, and we must fight our way to it. There must be struggle to get it. This is true in physi ...read

› Chapter 20 - Shut In - "A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there, Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my ...read

› Chapter 21 - Helpful People - Usefulness is the true measure of living. Our Lord made fruit--the test of discipleship. What is fruit? Is it not something which the tree bears to fe ...read

› Chapter 22 - Tired Feet - The close of every day, finds a great many people with tired and sore feet. There are some people whose duties require them to walk all day. There are ...read

› Chapter 23 - Hands: a Study - "Take my hands, and let them move At the impulse of Your love." Frances Havergal Man is the only being that has such wondrous hands; the hand, th ...read

› Chapter 24 - Learning Our Lessons - We are all scholars at school. In our present life, we never get out of our classes; our real living lies on beyond the grave, and here in this world- ...read

› Chapter 25 - Broken Lives - There are few entirely unbroken lives in this world; there are few men who fulfill their own hopes and plans, without thwarting or interruption at som ...read

› Chapter 26 - Coming to the End - We are always coming to the end of something; nothing earthly is long-lived. Many things last but for a day; many, for only a moment. You look at the ...read

Personal Friendships of Jesus

Personal Friendships of Jesus

By J.R. Miller

Table of Contents

› Preface - Personal Friendships of Jesus BY J. R. MILLER, D. D. AUTHOR OF "SILENT TIMES," "MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE," "THINGS TO LIVE FOR," "BLESSING ...read

› Chapter 1 - The Humanheartedness of Jesus - O God, O kinsman loved, but not enough, O man with eyes majestic after death, Whose feet have toiled along our pathways rough, Whose lips ...read

› Chapter 2 - Jesus and His Mother - Sleep, sleep, mine Holy One! My flesh, my Lord!--what name? I do not know A name that seemeth not too high or low, Too far from me or heav ...read

› Chapter 3 - Jesus and His Forerunner - Where is the lore the Baptist taught, The soul unswerving and the fearless tongue? The much-enduring wisdom, sought By lonely prayer the h ...read

› Chapter 4 - Jesus' Conditions of Friendship - But if himself he come to thee, and stand And reach to thee himself the Holy Cup, Pallid and royal, saying, "Drink with me," Wilt thou refus ...read

› Chapter 5 - Jesus Choosing His Friends - He seeks not thine, but thee, such as thou art, For lo, his banner over thee is love. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. If yo ...read

› Chapter 6 - Jesus and the Beloved Disciple - My Lord, my Love! in pleasant pain How often have I said, "Blessed that John who on thy breast Laid down his head." It was that contact ...read

› Chapter 7 - Jesus and Peter - "As the mighty poets take Grief and pain to build their song, Even so for every soul, Whatsoe'er its lot may be,-- Building, as the heav ...read

› Chapter 8 - Jesus and Thomas - I have a life in Christ to live, I have a death in Christ to die; And must I wait till science give All doubts a full reply? Nay, rathe ...read

› Chapter 9 - Jesus' Unrequited Friendships - "Friend, my feet bleed. Open thy door to me and comfort me." I will not open; trouble me no more. Go on thy way footsore; I will not rise an ...read

› Chapter 10 - Jesus and the Bethany Sisters - Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, Nor other thought her mind admits But, he was dead, and there he sits, And he that brought him back i ...read

› Chapter 11 - Jesus Comforting His Friends - Not all regret, the face will shine Upon me while I muse alone; And that dear voice, I once have known, Still speak to me of me and mine: ...read

› Chapter 12 - Jesus and His Secret Friends - How many souls--his loved ones-- Dwell lonely and apart, Hiding from all but One above The fragrance of their heart. ...read

› Chapter 13 - Jesus' Farewell to His Friends - "What meaneth it that we should weep More for our joys than for our fears,-- That we should sometimes smile at grief, And look at pleasure ...read

› Chapter 14 - Jesus as a Friend - "Long, long centuries Agone, One walked the earth, his life A seeming failure; Dying, he gave the world a gift That will outlast ...read

Making the Most of Life

Making the Most of Life

By J.R. Miller

Table of Contents

› Introduction - Making the Most of Life BY J. R. MILLER, D.D. AUTHOR OF "SILENT TIMES," "THINGS TO LIVE FOR," "BUILDING OF CHARACTER," "THE GOLDEN GATE OF PRAY ...read

› Chapter 1 - Making the Most of Life - "Measure thy life by loss instead of gain; Not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth; For love's strength standeth in love's sacrifice, ...read

› Chapter 2 - Laid on God's Altar - "My life is not my own, but Christ's, who gave it, And he bestows it upon all the race; I lose it for his sake, and thus I save it; I hold i ...read

› Chapter 3 - Christ's Interest in our Common Life - "So still, dear Lord, in every place Thou standest by the toiling folk With love and pity in thy face, And givest of thy help and grace ...read

› Chapter 4 - The Possibilities of Prayer - "Ask and receive--'tis sweetly said; Yet what to plead for know I not, For wish is worsted, hope o'ersped, And aye to thanks returns my th ...read

› Chapter 5 - Getting Christ's Touch - "This is life--to pour out love unstinted; Good and evil, sunlike, blesseth he; Through your finite is his infinite hinted-- Children of y ...read

› Chapter 6 - The Blessing of a Burden - "Then welcome each rebuff, That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand nor go. Be our joys three parts pain! ...read

› Chapter 7 - Heart-Peace Before Ministry - "Like the star That shines afar, Without haste And without rest, Let each man wheel, with steady sway, Round the t ...read

› Chapter 8 - Moral Curvatures - "I think we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope Of yon gray blank ...read

› Chapter 9 - Transfigured Lives - "The lives which seem so poor, so low, The hearts which are so cramped and dull, The baffled hopes, the impulse slow, Thou takest, touchest ...read

› Chapter 10 - The Interpretation of Sorrow - "So much we miss If love is weak; so much we gain If love is strong; God thinks no pain Too sharp or lasting to ordain To teach us this. ...read

› Chapter 11 - Other People - "We need--each and all--to be needed, To feel we have something to give Towards soothing the moan of earth's hunger; And we know that then ...read

› Chapter 12 - The Blessing of Faithfulness - "It must be done by both; God never without me, I never without God." --JOHANNES SCHEFFLER. "Faithful servant" will be the commendation o ...read

› Chapter 13 - Without Axe or Hammer - "Souls are built as temples are,-- Based on truth's eternal law, Sure and steadfast, without flaw, Through the sunshine, through the snows, ...read

› Chapter 14 - Doing Things for Christ - "We can best minister to him by helping them Who dare not touch his hallowed garment's hem; Their lives are even as ours--one piece, one plan. ...read

› Chapter 15 - Helping and Over-Helping - "As we meet and touch each day The many travellers on our way, Let every such brief contact be A glorious, helpful ministry; The contact of ...read

› Chapter 16 - The Only One - "Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down-- One man against a stone walled city of sin. When the red dust has cleared, the lonely soldier ...read

› Chapter 17 - Swiftness in Duty - "Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two--and then comes night." --LOWELL. Many good people a ...read

› Chapter 18 - The Shadows We Cast - "The smallest bark on life's tumultuous ocean Will leave a track behind for evermore; The slightest wave of influence set in motion Extend ...read

› Chapter 19 - The Meaning of Opportunities - "'To-day' unsullied comes to thee--newborn, To-morrow is not thine; The sun may cease to shine For thee, ere earth shall greet its morn. ...read

› Chapter 20 - The Sin of Ingratitude - "The sun may shine upon the clod till it is warm, Warm for its own poor darkling self to live. He smites the diamond, and oh, how glows the ge ...read

› Chapter 21 - Some Secrets of Happy Home Life - "The primal duties shine aloft like stars; The charities that sooth and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of men like flowers. ...read

› Chapter 22 - God's Winter Plants - "The wind that blows can never kill The tree God plants; It bloweth east; it bloweth west; The tender leaves have little rest, But any win ...read

› Chapter 23 - Unfinished Life-Building - "Let me not die before I've done for thee My earthly work, whatever it may be. Call me not hence, with mission unfulfilled; Let me not leave m ...read

› Chapter 24 - Iron Shoes for Rough Roads - "Our feeble frame he knoweth, Remembereth we are dust; And evermore his face is kind, His ways are ever just. In evil and in blindness, ...read

› Chapter 25 - The Shutting of Doors - "Never delay To do the duty which the hour brings, Whatever it be in great or smaller things; For who doth know What he shall do the ...read

Living Without Worry

Living Without Worry

By J.R. Miller

Table of Contents

› Chapter 1 - Living Without Worry - One meets few unworried people. Most faces bear lines of care. Men go anxious to their day's duties, rush through the hours with feverish speed, and b ...read

› Chapter 2 - Starting Right - "The beginning is half of the whole," says an old proverb. A good start is a move in the direction of success. No time need then be wasted in revising ...read

› Chapter 3 - Thinking and Turning - It was one of the old Psalm writers who said, "I thought on my ways." It is not likely that he found it a very easy thing to do. It is usually very mu ...read

› Chapter 4 - Sins of Omission - There are sins of not doing. We are not accustomed to look at our sins of omission as we do at our sins of commission. We call it a sin when one does ...read

› Chapter 5 - The Lesson of Joy - Joy is God's ideal for his children. The Christian is exhorted to rejoice always. This does not mean that his life is exempt from trouble. The gospel ...read

› Chapter 6 - Can We Learn to Be Contented? - Someone has said that if men were to be saved by contentment, instead of by faith in Christ, most people would be lost. Yet contentment is possible. T ...read

› Chapter 7 - Building Our Life on God's Plan - God has a plan for every life. This plan is in God's mind before the person is born. The divine Creator never brings a human soul into being and start ...read

› Chapter 8 - Enlarge the Place of Your Tent - "Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes." Isaiah 54:2 It is ...read

› Chapter 9 - Help for the Common Days - Every true Christian should desire to be Christlike in character. It is not enough to be honest, and upright, and true, and just. In Christ, these str ...read

› Chapter 10 - The Beautifying of Imperfect Living - Men have written 'lives of Jesus', setting forth the beauty, the grace, the wisdom, the gentleness, and the power of him who was the chief among ten t ...read

› Chapter 11 - Are the Beautiful Things True? - In a private letter from a professing Christian, is this eager longing: "For the last month or more I have been drifting away from God, and have not b ...read

› Chapter 12 - The New Kind of Love - Why should Jesus have called his commandment of love a new commandment? There was an old commandment that ran, "You shall love your neighbor as yourse ...read

› Chapter 13 - As I Have Loved You - The art of living together is not easily learned. Indeed, it is the one lesson of life--and it takes all life to learn it. We cannot evade the lesson, ...read

› Chapter 14 - Divine Use of Human Cooperation - The human part in grace is always important. A study of our Lord's miracles illustrates this. The divine power was imparted, usually, through human co ...read

› Chapter 15 - Converted Tongues - The power to communicate good which God has lodged in the human tongue, is simply incalculable. It can impart knowledge; utter words which will shine ...read

› Chapter 16 - Speak It Out - No doubt there is a duty of silence. There are times when silence is golden. But there is also a duty of speech. There are times when silence is sin. ...read

› Chapter 17 - The Summer Vacation - When the vacation season comes, some seekers of rest will settle down in one place for a quiet summer; others flit here and there, from shore to mount ...read

› Chapter 18 - Launch Out Into the Deep - The deep sea hides great treasures. It is full of wonderful things. It contains a world of beauty. Yet he who only walks along the shore and looks at ...read

› Chapter 19 - The Basis of Helpfulness - There are many people who want to be helpful to others--but who find insuperable obstacles in the way. There are some to whom they find it easy to min ...read

› Chapter 20 - Helping by Not Hindering - There are people who only hinder others. Instead of lightening their burdens, they add to them. Instead of being a comfort, they are a constant trial ...read

› Chapter 21 - Bearing One Another's Burden - We hear many an exhortation about the duty of bearing other people's burdens. This is a lesson we should learn. Living only for one's self, is always ...read

› Chapter 22 - The Ministry of Suffering - Sooner or later, affliction and sorrow come to every Christian. Where is the life, unless it be among the very young, which has experienced no trial? ...read

› Chapter 23 - Your Will Be Done - The whole liturgy of absolute consecration is written out in full in this one brief petition. It is a prayer that we may be made perfect and complete ...read

› Chapter 24 - The Cost of Carelessness - How often do we hear as an excuse for some harm done or committed, "I did not mean to do it. I had no thought of causing any such trouble." Certainly ...read

› Chapter 25 - Jesus Consecrating All Life - In his passage through life, in all its phases of growth and development, Jesus sanctified all pure relationships and experiences. He sanctified child ...read

› Chapter 26 - How to Get Help From Church Services - How to get from public church services the help they have to give to us--is one of the most important practical questions to which attention can be tu ...read

› Chapter 27 - The Value of Devotional Reading - All reading ought to be a means of grace. We should never read any book which will not leave in mind and heart some helpful, strengthening, or uplifti ...read

› Chapter 28 - The Value of Communion With God - Some of the saddest cries that wail out in the Psalms, are sighings for the joy of the divine presence, temporarily lost. And when we come to think of ...read

› Chapter 29 - The Birthday of the New World - The world is growing old. We date time from the birth of Jesus Christ, as if there had been no years before he was born. The truth is, there were many ...read

› Chapter 30 - Christmas After Christmas Day - What becomes of Christmas, when the day is gone? It is the gladdest day of the year. It is celebrated in all Christian lands. The churches observe it, ...read

› Chapter 31 - The Problem of Christian Old Age - "Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day!" 2 Corinthians 4:16. Paul ha ...read