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YOU who are familiar with your Bibles will recognize the foregoing solemn passage as one of the portions of the Old Testament Scripture from which the Apostle Paul quotes when arguing in his crushing indictment of the entire human family in Romans 3. Verses 15 to 17 of that chapter are taken from...

Now the head of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope, has recently issued an encyclical which he put forth on Christmas day which has attracted considerable attention. It occupied a large place in the daily press and I am dependent upon that for the account of it. I realize, of course, that the press...

There are two lines of truth very clearly distinguished in Scripture which are often confounded by those who do not read discriminatingly and who are not given to “rightly dividing the Word of Truth.” I refer to the subjects, “Salvation by Grace” and “Reward for Service.” To the casual...

Isaiah 59:1–15 BEHOLD, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2    But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3    For your...

To many believers the theme of the burnt-offering is very familiar, but there are large numbers of God’s beloved people who have never carefully studied the marvelous types of the Person and work of Christ given us in the early chapters of Leviticus, where we have five distinct offerings, all setting...

THE epistle to the Galatians links very intimately with that to the Romans. There seem to be good reasons for believing that both of these letters were written at about the same time, probably from Corinth while Paul was ministering in that great city. In Romans we have the fullest, the most complete...

THERE is nothing redundant in God’s Word. Men write books and very frequently pad them in order to give quantity as well as quality, but there is nothing like that in the Bible. God’s words are tried—“as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times”—and therefore we may well...

KNOWING of nothing that aims to present in one volume, the various mysteries of the New Testament, it has been a happy service to pen these papers, hoping thereby to minister to the profit of some who, while of the household of faith, may have given little or no attention to truths of such vast importance. The...

The work of the Holy Spirit, then, is primarily to show men the enormity of their sin in rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ. A man may be guilty of breaking every commandment in the decalogue, but if he comes to God in repentance and puts his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, he will find that all his...

RECENTLY, I saw it stated in a Roman Catholic periodical that it would hasten peace and make for a more settled order of society if Protestantism were liquidated. Practically all of our present international troubles were traced back to Martin Luther and the Reformation. I want to ask you to look...

ERE seeking to answer this question, which seems to be a perplexity to some, it might be well to state, as briefly as possible, what is meant by the period of judgment; as this paper will probably fall into the hands of some who as yet have given but little attention to prophetic teaching. In doing...

The writings of the Apostle John have always had a peculiar charm for the people of the Lord, and I suppose, if for no other reason, for this, that they are particularly addressed to the family of God as such. If you want truth concerning the kingdom of God in its present aspect, during the mystery...

This passage of Scripture [Matthew 16:13–20] has been the source of a great deal of contention, and of difference of opinion among theologians for many years. In fact, ever since the third century of the Christian era there has been continual debate as to the exact meaning of a number of expressions...

IT is in Jude’s brief letter—a fitting preface as it were to the book of Revelation—that we find the expression, “Praying in the Holy Spirit” (ver. 20). We have a pentagonal Christian portrayed in vers. 20 to 23. There are five sides to his character. He must be studious—devoutly meditating...