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“How Are You?”

The Third Epistle of John was written to a man whose health apparently was not equal to his hospitality. For the writer prays that Gaius may prosper and be in health even as his so ...

Edwin Adams

1948 Volume 1 Issue 15

Study

“Inlet Only”

This rather unusual notice to motor car drivers appeared at the entrance of a hotel in a small Midland town. It was the equivalent of the much more common “Entrance Only” notic ...

Edwin Adams

1946 Volume 1 Issue 7

Devotional

Be still and know that I am God – Psalm 46. 10

Ours is a noisy age, the age of the machine. Buses and lorries roar their bulk along our streets. The trains crash their way over and under-ground. Road-drills split the air with their penetrating ...

Edwin Adams

1963 Volume 14 Issue 2

Exposition

Faint Not

The exhortation is needed, for we are all liable at times to lose heart. The Christian race is long and difficult, and we never get beyond the reach of temptation, in some form or ot ...

Edwin Adams

1956 Volume 8 Issue 2

Devotional

From Milk to Meat

The newborn converts to Christ from among the Jewish Dispersion to whom Peter wrote his First Epistle were to thirst for the pure milk of the Word, free from all admixture of plaus ...

Edwin Adams

1946 Volume 1 Issue 4

Devotional

Keep Alert, Keep Alive

A WARNING TO PEDESTRIANS by the roadside, of course, and everybody knows what it means. Has it not a voice for Christians also? You see, other things may come along and distract us, ...

Edwin Adams

1961 Volume 12 Issue 6

Exposition

Keep Moving

THIS CAUTION appeared on a notice board by the side of a road in the West of England. On the other side of the hedge there was a flying-field, and the warning words were meant for the users of the ...

Edwin Adams

1959 Volume 10 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

No Admittance Work in Progress

THIS NOTICE WAS TO BE SEEN on the west pier at Newhaven, Sussex. It reminds some of us of the white flag which it was said General Gordon, the hero of Khartoum, placed outside his tent at certain t ...

Edwin Adams

1962 Volume 13 Issue 1

Devotional

Spiritual Maturity

How solemn are the words of our Lord, ‘Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up’, Matt. 15.13. On the other hand every true child of God is a plant of God’s ...

Edwin Adams

1962 Volume 13 Issue 6

Exposition

Steadfast and Progressive

Our Lord associates His teaching with Himself. It is to challenge us in the light of this that He says, ‘Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words … of him als ...

Edwin Adams

1964 Volume 15 Issue 6

Devotional

The Gain of Godliness

‘But godliness with contentment is great gain’, 1 Tim. 6. 6. There were people in Paul’s day who took up a form of godliness because they thought it might ...

Edwin Adams

1958 Volume 9 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

The Gospel Meeting

During a Gospel Campaign the energies of the Christians are focussed upon the blessing of the unconverted. But every gospel meeting should be regarded as a special mission ...

Edwin Adams

1953 Volume 5 Issue 7

Practical

The Yoke, the Cross, and the Thorn

Matt. 11. 28-30; Mark 8. 34; 2 Cor. 12. 7.THE YOKEOUR LORD‘S ALLUSION to a yoke in Matthew u. 29 and 30 was easily appreciated by His hearers. They were quite familiar ...

Edwin Adams

1958 Volume 9 Issue 6

Devotional

What is there for us?

HE WAS A YOUNG CHRISTIAN, and he meant that he was debarred from the sports and worldly interests that people of the world enjoy. But although a Christian he was not a worker for the Master, and so ...

Edwin Adams

1960 Volume 11 Issue 6

Young Believer’s Section

Why am I not Happier?

WE SOMETIMES SING, ‘Always singing, never sighing’, but we know it is not true; and it cannot be true in a world like ours. The Christian life should be joyful, but we cannot expect it to be al ...

Edwin Adams

1960 Volume 11 Issue 4

Exposition

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