"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"And have been all made to drink into one Spirit." -I Corinthians 12:13 [KJV] What a most lovely and endearing representation is here given of the several members of Christ's mystical body, as all united to their one glorious and common Head, and, like so many branches of the vine, deriving every thing of life, and grace, and fruitfulness, from Him! "They have been all made to drink into one Spirit." Yes; the Lord the Spirit, the Holy Ghost the Comforter, whose gracious influence first unites them to Jesus, unites them also, in Him, to one another. Hence, though distant and remote from each other; divided and separated by distant climes, and countries, and languages; though unknown by face to each other, yea, in language, and manners, and customs wholly dissimilar; and of different degrees of knowledge, and apprehension, and attainment in the divine life; yet, from being one with Christ, they are also one with each other, and "are members of His body, of H...

"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished." - Proverbs 22:3 [KJV] Noah, warned of God, prepared an ark to the saving of his house. Lot, admonished by the angels, fled out of Sodom. So there is a fleeing from the wrath to come. How careless, how secure, and unconcerned are we till quickened with spiritual life! Solomon speaks of those who sleep on the top of a mast, where one jerk of the wave, or one turn of the sleeper may precipitate him into the boiling ocean. God's anger is gathering against a wicked world !   Who will escape this fearful storm of eternal, unmitigated wrath? Those who flee to Jesus. Who flee to Jesus? Those only who feel their need of Him. How are they made to feel their need of Him? By the flashes of God's anger. Whence issue these flashes? Out of the thundercloud of God's holy law—the revelation which He has made of His anger against transgressors. How necessary then to feel the applicati...