When I was a small boy, Lem Hackett was drowned – on a Sunday. He fell out of an empty flatboat, where he was playing. Being loaded with sin, he went to the bottom like an anvil. He was the only boy in the village who slept that night. We others all lay awake, repenting. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
A Boy Repents – Sort Of
Posted in Mark Twain on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fun With Numbers
Posted in Mark Twain on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One Monday, near the time of our visit to St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat came out with a couple of pages of Sunday statistics, whereby it appeared that 119,448 St. Louis people attended the morning and evening church services the day before, and 23,550 persons, out of the city’s total of 400,000 population, respected the day [...]
The Early Ministry of Arthur W. Pink
Posted in Arthur W. Pink, Iain H. Murray on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But, difficulties of a more serious nature now confronted the Pinks. It is clear that, after 1910, there was a great deal more than the Scofield Reference Bible which occupied the twelve hours he would, often, give daily to study. Books of a different kind had crossed his path, with teaching which could, in no [...]
John Milton’s Psalms Versions
Posted in John Milton on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While all this was going on just outside his door, Milton composed some versions of Psalms 1-8. This may seem strange to those of us who would not go home, of an evening, and translate a psalm. But, Milton was different: he had frequently turned to the psalms as a source of poetic, and even [...]
Jonathan Edwards on Reading
Posted in Jonathan Edwards on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To Joseph Bellamy
Northampton, January 15, 1747
Dear Sir,
…As to the books you speak of: Mastricht is sometimes in one volume, a very large thick quarto, sometimes in two quarto volumes. I believe it could not be had new under 8 or 10 pounds. Turretin is in three volumes in quarto, and would probably be about the [...]
For the Lord’s Day (80)
Posted in Book of 2 Corinthians, For the Lord's Day on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. I am acting with great boldness [...]
Vain Regrets
Posted in D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But, we must go even further. I suggest that this particular manifestation of spiritual depression is due to the fact that this person is still morbidly and sinfully preoccupied with self. I said, just now, that we have to be brutal with this condition. And, it has to be said that the real trouble with [...]
The Lunatic
Posted in G. K. Chesterton on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
And, if great reasoners are often maniacal, it is equally true that maniacs are commonly great reasoners. When I was engaged in a controversy with the Clarion on the matter of free will, that able writer, Mr. R. B. Suthers, said that free will was lunacy because it meant causeless actions, and the actions of [...]
The Loneliness of God
Posted in Book of Job, G. K. Chesterton on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. God is not only the chief character of the Old Testament; God is, properly, the only character of the Old Testament. Compared with His clearness of purpose, all the other wills are heavy and [...]
