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

" We know that ALL THINGS work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." — Romans 8:28 [KJV] A poor sensible sinner would naturally be ready to make one exception here, and say, "How can sin, which I know and feel to be the very worst of all evils, work for any good?" But the Holy Ghost hath not excepted even this. Will any one say, Then let us do evil that good may come? St. Paul makes a terrible application to such, "Whose damnation is just," — Romans 3:8 . Therefore such cannot be the language of a believer's heart, for his salvation is sure, "he that believes shall be saved." Such, and only such, most assuredly know that all things work together for good. They love God, and this love inspires them with hatred to sin. But yet they are sinners, both by original sin and actual transgression; nevertheless, through the all-wise overruling power of a gracious covenant God, e

" I will not leave you comfortless." — John 14:18 [KJV] We are born into this world crying; we live in it complaining; and we go out of it sorrowing, for any comfort it can yield us. When cardinal Woolsey was cast off by his king, he said, 'Had I served my God as faithfully as I have my prince, he would not have treated me thus.' The more we know of this world the more we see of its folly and vanity. The more we enjoy of its smiles and friendship, so much the more sorrow and reluctance we have in leaving it. But with our heavenly Friend it is quite otherwise. "He never leaves nor forsakes: whom He loves, He loves unto the end." —Nor will He ever leave His dear disciples in a comfortless state of sorrow and dejection: like poor orphans, cast upon a wide world of sorrow and woe, without any kind heart to pity them, or kind hand to relieve them: for when all other comforts forsake us, still Jesus abides by us: His Spirit comforts us, by shewing w

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