A. T. Pierson
Heavenly Unity (Part 2)
…The spheres of family life, social life, church life, and national life are all visible, and they impress us with a vivid sense of our unity, as brothers, neighbors, fellow church members, fellow citizens. But, to a true child of God, the invisible bond that unites all believers to Christ is far more tender, and…
Read MoreHeavenly Unity (Part 1)
(A witness that true believers are to express to a skeptical world is our bond of spiritual unity. Although we have many differences and denominations, all who have saving faith in the true Jesus are spiritually one in Him.) . Let us first of all glance at the teachings (of Ephesians) here contained as to…
Read MoreSteps to and in Victorious Living
An Outline of Biblical Teachings after the Keswick Plan THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AS EXHIBITED IN THE SCRIPTURES ARE: 1. A maintained communion with the Lord (John 14:23), and 2. A complete and constant victory over all known [intentional] sin (Rom. 6:6). The Keswick plan is definite, complete, and progressive. It has a…
Read MoreThe Sphere of New Life
We seek to show, by a few examples, the boundless range and scope of one brief phrase of two or three short words: in Christ, or, in Christ Jesus. A very small key may open a very complex lock and a very large door, and that door may itself lead into a vast building with…
Read MoreA Gallery of Christ’s Glory
“There is in a Russian palace, a famous ‘Saloon of Beauty,’ wherein are hung over eight hundred and fifty portraits of young maidens.[1] These pictures were painted by Count Rotari, for Catharine the Second, the Russian empress; and the artist made a journey, through the fifty provinces of that vast empire of the north, to…
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