Choice Men

“See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10. This has long been the motto fixed before our eye upon the wall of our bedroom, and in many ways it has also been written on our heart. It is no mean thing to be…

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He of Tender Conscience

“I will judge between cattle and cattle.” Ezekiel 34:22. Some are fat and flourishing, and therefore they are unkind to the feeble. This is a grievous sin and causes much sorrow. Those thrustings with side and with shoulder, those pushings of the diseased with the horn, are a sad means of offense in the assemblies…

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Food and Rest

I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord. Ezekiel 34:15. Under the divine shepherdry saints are fed to the full. Theirs is not a windy, unsatisfying mess of mere human “thought,” but the Lord feeds them upon the solid, substantial truth of divine revelation. There is real nutriment…

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