Samuel Dickey Gordon: 5 books

About a quarter of four one afternoon, three young men were standing together on a road leading down to a swift-running river. It was an old road, beaten down hard by thousands of feet through hundreds of years. It led down to the river, and then along its bank through a village scatteringly nestled by the fords of the river. The young men were intently absorbed in conversation.

A few years ago I was making a brief tour among the colleges of Missouri. I remember one morning in a certain college village going over from the hotel to take breakfast with some of the boys, and coming back with one of the fellows whom I had just met. As we walked along, chatting away, I asked him...

Crowning the Christ is an intensely practical thing, whether taken in the personal sense or the world sense. He has been crowned in the upper world. With wondrous patience and graciousness He pleads for the personal crowning in our lives. Some day – no one knows just when – He will begin to act as the crowned Christ in all the affairs of our earth.

Show me, I pray thee, Thy glory. – Moses. When I could not see for the glory of that light. – Paul. But we all with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are transformed into the same image from glory to glory. – Paul. The light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face...

Everything depends on getting Jesus placed. That lies at the root of all – living, serving, preaching, teaching. John had Jesus placed. He had Him up in His own place. This settles everything else. Then one gets himself placed, too, up on a level where the air is clear and bracing, the sun warm, and...