Sound Words 1878

1 2 Timothy 3 2 A Year With the Lord: S. M. T. January 18, 1878 3 Answer to Correspondent 4 Can We Know the Truth With Certainty? 5 Christianity 6 Simple Papers on the Church of God 7 Simple Papers on the Church of God: Prayer and Prayer Meeting 8 Simple Papers on the Church of God: Prayer and Prayer Meetings 9 Simple Papers on the Church of God: the Ministry of the Word 10 Simple Papers on the Church of God: the Unity of the Spirit 11 The Circle of the Church's Affections 12 Colossians 3:1-2 13 The Comforter Has Come 14 The Coming Glory 15 Contentment 16 Corinth and Sects 17 Correspondence 18 Correspondence With the Late Arthur Belsham, on Taking His Place in Testimony, at the Lord's Table 19 Richmond, Ind., June 5, 1876 20 Brooklyn, N. Y., June 14, 1876 21 Richmond, Ind., Aug. 19, 1876 22 Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1876 23 Richmond, Ind., Oct. 22, 1876 24 Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1876 25 Richmond, Ind., Dec. 17, 1876 26 Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1877 27 Richmond, Ind., Feb. 18, 1877 28 Shortly After This a Card Was Received From Another, Telling of the Death of a Little Child of Bro. B., and a Word of Fellowship and Consolation Was Sent to Which Reference Is Made in the Following Letter: RICHMOND, Ind., May 31, 1877. MY BELOVED BROTHER-Your Kind Letter of Remembrance Came to Hand at a Time When Its Loving Words Were Doubly Acceptable, on the Day When Our Only and Precious Little Girl Would Have Been a Year Old Had She Been Left Us. I Had Been Wishing to Write to You to Tell You of Her Departure to Be With the Lord on April 24th, but Have Been Both Very Much Pressed With Work and in Poor Health. Our Babe Was Only Seriously Ill for About Ten Days, With Typhoid Pneumonia. She Was a Peculiarly Sweet and Precious Babe, and Had Endeared Herself to Our Hearts Exceedingly, and Also to All Our Friends, and We Were so Glad to Have Her As a Companion to Her Brother, Who Was but Sixteen or Seventeen Months Older. He Seemed to Be so Good to Her, and She to Be Delighted With Everything He Did. We Therefore Felt the Separation Deeply, and You Know Far More Than We How Much Grief to the Poor Human Heart These Trials Can Give, and, Bless the Name of Our God! You Also Know the Depths of Consolation There Are in Him, and, How We Are Enabled to Triumph and Rejoice in His Doings, Even When They Come so Close 29 Richmond, Ind., June 6, 1877 30 Indianapolis, July 31, 1877 31 Covenant 32 Devotedness 33 The Divine Man 34 Exaggerated Truth 35 On the Exercise of Gifts 36 Extract 37 Faith 38 Fellowship and the Right State for It 39 For Me to Live Is Christ 40 Fragment: John 10 41 Fragment: Matthew 21:28-32 42 Fragment: the Spirit and the Church 43 Gershom 44 The Glory of the Lord 45 God's Unity and Man's Union: the Difference 46 God's Unity and Man's Union: Their Difference 47 God's Unity and Man's Union: What Is the Difference? 48 Hallelujah, Lord, to Thee 49 He Is Coming! 50 Himself 51 Life and Righteousness 52 The Lord's Table 53 Love Manifested and Bestowed 54 Man's Trial of Jesus, and Its Results, Godward and Manward 55 Mark 4:21-25 56 My Exceeding Joy 57 Notes of a Lecture by J. N. D.: Luke 12 58 Notes of Readings: 1 Thessalonians 1 59 Notes of Readings by F. W. G 60 Notes of Readings by F. W. G.: Romans 5 61 Q. -Would Not the Realization of Both These Facts" Ungodly and Without Strength "-Come in at Once If the Gospel Were Presented Aright? 62 Q. Why Is the Change From " Offense" to " Sin " in 5:20? 63 Notes of Readings by F. W. G.: Romans 6 64 Q. What Is Meant by Fulfilling All Righteousness Ans. I Believe He Is Looking Unto the Cross Which Is the Full Expression of What He Does Here, Identifying Himself With Sinners in Their Need; and As He Says, "Therefore Cloth My Father Love Me Because I Lay Down My Life," the Father's Voice Here Proclaims Him His Beloved Son 65 Q. Does It Mean That the Old Man Was Crucified in Us Before We Were Born? 66 Notes of Readings by F. W. G.: Romans 7 67 Q. What Is Conversion in Scripture? 68 Q. Does Repentance Come Before Faith? 69 Q. in What Respect Is the Law a Schoolmaster? 70 Notes of Readings by F. W. G.: Romans 8 71 Q. You Spoke of Trusting Another-the Spirit; Would That Not Turn the Eye in? 72 Q. How Can We Know These Things Before We Realize Them? 73 Q. What Is the " No Condemnation" of the First Verse? 74 Q. If We Are Fit Already, What About Growth? 75 Q. Is It the Same Body Changed? 76 Q. Does Not Resurrection Prove the Immortality of the Soul? 77 Q. What Does One Star Differing From Another Star in Glory Imply? 78 Q. in Heb. 10:15, " Whereof the Holy Ghost Is a Witness to Us," Is This Witness the Word in the Two Verses Following? 79 Q. What Does "Fore-Ordained to This Condemnation" Mean in Jude 4? 80 Leviticus. 16 81 John 16 82 Mark 2:17 83 Notes of Readings by J. N. D.: Colossians 2 84 Notes of Readings: Galatians 3 85 Notes of Readings: John 17 86 Notes of Readings: Matthew 6:9-13 87 Notes of Readings: the House of God 88 Numbers 19 89 The One Body Vs. One of the Bodies 90 A Letter to One Hesitating As to His Path of Service 91 Out and Into 92 Peace 93 Poetry 94 Characteristics of Remnant Times 95 Romans 5 and 6 96 Service 97 Brief Remarks on the Spirit and the Assembly 98 Notes of Lectures on the Tabernacle: by C. H. B 99 The Burnt Offering.-It Was Called Such Because It Was All Burned up. This Is Not the Sin Offering, but an Offering of Sweet Savor Unto God, Though the Value of All Applies to Us. the Man " Shall Put His Hand on the Head of the Burnt Offering and It Shall Be Accepted for Him to Make Atonement for Him." It Is a Picture of Christ As a Burnt Offering, As One Entirely and Thoroughly Given up on the Cross. Heb. 10 Says, " Lo, I Come to Do Thy Will, O God; " Then We Have, " by the Which Will We Are Sanctified Through the Offering of the Body of Jesus Christ Once." It Is a Picture of Christ's Sacrifice so Often Overlooked. He Has Given Himself up As a Sweet Savor Unto God. in Gen. 6 We Read, " It Repented the Lord That He Had Made Man, and It Grieved Him at His Heart." a Chapter or Two Farther on We Read That Noah Offered a Burnt Sacrifice, and It Ascended to Heaven, and the Lord Smelt It, and Said in His Heart, That Same Heart That Was Grieved, " I Will No More Curse the Ground for Man's Sake." and He Gave the Rainbow As a Pledge. God Has Nothing in His Heart for the Believer but Grace and Peace, and All This by the Sacrifice of Christ 100 THE MEAT OFFERING, Lev. 2—We Have in This Offering a Type of Christ As a Perfect Man. If Was Made of Fine Flour. It Was a Food Offering-It Was God's Food. We Talk About Our Souls Being Fed. God Too, Must Have Something to Feed His Soul Upon, Speaking in Human Language. He Says in the 28th Chapter of Numbers, " My Offering, My Bread for My Sacrifices Made by Fire for a Sweet Savor Unto It Is Blessed to See That Christ Is God's Food. Not Only Does He Make Atonement for Our Sins, but He Satisfies All the Wants of God's Heart. When We See All That Christ Has Done for Us, Then We Enjoy This and Appreciate It. Now Observe What Were the Component Parts of This Offering. It Was Made of Fine Flour Mingled With Oil, and Also Anointed With Oil. We Obtain Fine Flour by Wheat Being Ground, so Was Christ Put Through Suffering, and the Wheat Pressed Out. Fine Flour Is That Which Had No Uneven Grains in It. If I Should Take Flour With Lumps or Grits in It, That Will Not Do. but I Take up a Handful Without Any Lumps or Grains and I See It Is Fine Flour, and That Is a Type of Christ's Humanity (John 12:24). You Cannot Say That of Any Other Character in the Bible. Take Paul-He Was a Blessed Man of God, but He Had Need of a Thorn in the Flesh. He Had to Call Back His Words at One Time Before Agrippa, and at Another Time Had to Change His Mind. Christ Never Changed His Mind. Paul Was Told Not to Go to Jerusalem, but He Did Go. Christ Never Did a Thing of His Own Will, but Always by His Father's Will. Take Peter and His Wonderful Zeal. His Very Zeal Made Him Uneven. One Moment He Said He Never Would Deny Christ, and Drew His Sword to Defend Him; but Afterward He Denied Him and Blasphemed 101 The Curtains 102 The Entrances 103 The Candlestick.—Exodus. 25:31-39 104 The Golden Altar and Priesthood.-Exodus 28-30 105 The Breast Plate 106 The Ark and the Mercy Seat.—It Was Made of Wood Overlaid With Gold. the Mercy Seat Was a Separate Thing and Made Entirely of Gold. the Cherubim We Know Not the Shape of, but Evidently They Were of Some Angelic Form. We Are Not Left to Guess What the Mercy Seat Means. in Rom. 3:25, We Are Told "Christ Is Set Forth a Propitiation (or Mercy Seat) Through Faith in His Blood." Every One Who Has Faith in the Blood of Christ Finds Mercy. Thus in the Fact of the Cherubim (Which Were Symbolic of God's Presence in Government) Being of the Same Substance As the Mercy Seat, We May Learn That God's Throne Is Now a. Throne of Grace. He Has Not a Throne of Judgment Now. Christ Came Down Here to Reign, but They ' Would Not Have Him. He Came As a King, and They Refused Him; He Went to the Cross, and God's Own Throne in Heaven Is Now Sprinkled With Blood, and It Invites the Sinner Near. We Know There Is No Throne of Judgment Now, a Blessed Thought for Every One of Us. If We Are Sons It Should Make Us Happy, If Sinners Ave Should Draw Near to God. at Present It Is Grace—" God Was in Christ' Reconciling the World Unto' Himself, Not Imputing Their Trespasses Unto Them " for the Present Time God Is Not Imputing the Sinner's Trespasses to Him, but by and by Every Idle Word Shall Be Imputed to the Sinner 107 The Boards of the Tabernacle-Exodus. 26:15-30 108 Notes of Lectures on the Tabernacle, Sacrifices and Priesthood 109 The Three Foundation Principles of Christianity 110 To Him Be Glory 111 To One Broken up in Business 112 Who but Christ? 113 Will Not My Influence Be Less? 114 Worship 115 Worship in Spirit and in Truth