"God manifest in creation! If we only realized just what this means, what a suited setting it would make for the brighter manifestation of God in Christ, and how, day by day, we should walk amid the ministries of all the creatures of His hand! Day to day would indeed utter speech, and night to night tell knowledge. The universe would then be a glorious house of God, and in what corner of it could we be without Him? Here, then, as the basis of a life of faith, we are taught to realize in nature the supernatural, the seen having its root and origin in the unseen, and which has not given up its work, in that primary effort that produced it." -F.W. G., on Heb. 11:1-3.
"What was Christ's character in the world? He was 'full of grace and truth.' So full, so overflowing as a fountain, that every empty vessel brought to it He would fill-the waters flowing over to all, in all circumstances. A man might have looked up to heaven and said, ' Why, there, up there, is the Man I spit upon, and He is saying, 'If you call upon Me, you shall be saved.' A poor puny worm having treated God like that, and He saying, 'You are in an awful position, yet look up to Me here, I can give the Holy Ghost to any who call upon Me.' So with Saul of Tarsus; the eternal light and life was stronger than man's darkness. Saul left his darkness and death to go in the power of that life, and be a servant of the Lord Christ who had looked down upon him."-G. V. W.
The Gospel from an old"father,"Chrysostom.
"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Not this or that person, but all that are in anxiety, in sorrows, in sins. Come, not that I may call you to account, but that I may do away your sins; come, not that I want your honor, but that I want your salvation. "I," saith He, "will give you rest." He said not, "I will save you" only; but what was much more, "I will place you in all security." "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." "Be not afraid," saith He, "bearing of a yoke, for it is easy:fear not because I said a burden, for it is light."