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‘On the way to the match’

Crete Gospel Hall in Anfield, Liverpool stands just a stone’s throw from Liverpool Football Club’s stadium, the sixth largest football stadium in England, with a seating capacity of 54,000. It has bee…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 4

Report

‘The Word to The World’ – Emmaus Bible School UK

In November of this year, God willing, Emmaus Bible School UK will celebrate sixty years of the work in Britain. Over that time thousands of Christian folk have studied the word of God using Emmaus di…

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

Report

‘We are leaving’

Editor’s Note: The subject matter of this article is not an easy one; however, in the reflections of those who have personal experience of reaching out with a spiritual care to help in this area, ther…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

“How It Started” – Galston

ERROR LED THEM TO THE TRUTH From time to time we publish the story of how an assembly started, because we believe that the infinite variety of God’s methods, stimulates faith and enterprise. In the…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 6

History

1 and 2 Chronicles

Introduction to 1 Chronicles By JOHN BENNETT Kirkby-in-Ashfield, England Although some of the history of this book is shared with 2 Samuel, it must be remembered that 1 Chronicles was written much lat…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

Exposition

1953

As we enter upon another New Year in this troubled world we cannot but be profoundly thankful that, amid all the shifting sands, the Christian has a solid rock upon which he can rest with confidence. …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 4

Editorial

A Dull or a Fast Sailer?

Suppose a man should sail, all the boiling and blazing day, round and round an old Dutch ship in the harbour, and the next day you should see him, like a magnified fly, creeping up and down the masts …

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1993 Volume 44 Issue 4

Devotional

A Full Three Days

After having visited hundreds of Conferences in various parts of Great Britain during the past 20 years, the writer imagined that he had seen all types. That was, until he had visited the 63rd Annual …

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1953 Volume 6 Issue 1

Report

A history of the assembly in St. Monans, Fife, Scotland

St. Monans on the East Fife coast was a very busy fishing village when the assembly began in 1924. For several years before this, God had been at work in what is now called the ‘Jock Troup revival’ af…

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

History

Aberdeen New Year Conferences

On 1st and 2nd January 2010 around 220 believers met in New Year Conference in Aberdeen. Over the two days there were four sessions of ministry including one home worker’s report. The ministry was pro…

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2010 Volume 65 Issue 3

History

Angola

Angola’s recent history is marred by the quest for absolute power, which cost the lives of so many and set the country on a downward spiral which is proving to be massively difficult to arrest, despit…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 1

Report

Angolan Literature Fund

UK Charity Registration No. 1077591 The Angolan Literature Fund was established in September 1998 with the aim of furthering the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, providing literature for the edifying …

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

Organisations

Angolan Literature Fund: 20 years of service

The Angolan Literature Fund was set up in 1998 with a clear vision ‘to further the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst the people of Angola and such other charitable objectives as the Trustee…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 3

Report

Ards Evangelical Bookshop, Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to run a Christian bookshop? The economy; the internet; dying town centres; poor reading habits. Like Jacob, some may feel like saying ‘All these things are again…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

Organisations

Art Thou He that should come? – Matthew 11

We might have expected that the Lord would have been guarded in His endorsement of John in light of this seeming lapse, but rather, the Lord Jesus takes occasion to give John the highest of accolades.…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

Devotional

Assembly Testimony in Cuba

By ASHLEY MILNE Surrey, British Columbia, Canada The following is a brief history of the start of the work of the Lord in Cuba together with the current status of the assembly testimony in this countr…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

Report

Assembly Work and Testimony in Romania

‘As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country’, Prov. 25. 25. Country profile Romania is the largest country in South East Europe and is slightly smaller in area than Great Bri…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 2

Report

Assembly work in the Northern State of Pará, Brazil

The place For many years, servants of the Lord in this region of Pará, Brazil, have proved the precious promise of Isaiah chapter 43 verse 2 in a very literal way, as they often have to ‘pass through …

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

Report

Aughrim Gospel Hall – County Londonderry, NI

Situated in South Derry, at the heart of the Mid-Ulster countryside mid way between Castledawson and Magherafelt, Aughrim Gospel Hall has stood as a beacon of Christianity for a hundred years. In 1903…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

History

Autonomy of the local The Church

This is an expression that is used a lot by Christians, especially when they are justifying the rights of a local church to make and be responsible for their own actions and decision-making processes.…

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

Exposition

Being Ignorant of God’s Righteousness, Rom. 10. 3

The same mistake which proved so fatal to the Jews, proves equally fatal to many who pretend to call themselves Christians. Ignorant alike of the divine character and their own, they build their hope …

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1990 Volume 41 Issue 1

Practical

Bits & Bobs – IBM inspired by the human brain!

IBM researchers are working on a new computing device that could process massive data sets while using very little energy. It would also be able to quickly learn and remember patterns, which might mak…

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

Views from the News

Bits & Bobs – Why Don’t Animals Need a Barber?

While many of us make periodic trips to the barber, most nonhuman mammals always appear in perfect trim without a barber. The reason for this is that hair grows in a cyclic manner. A relatively long p…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

Bits & Bobs – You’re having a laugh!

Scientists recently studied laughter in different animals, such as rats and primates, by tickling them. One study compared the sounds made by humans and great apes. The researchers found many acoustic…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

Contemporary Issues

Bits and Bobs

Brain Bath: A Clever Design Solution What makes sleep so mentally refreshing? University of Rochester neuroscientist Jeff Iliff addressed the crowd gathered at a September 2014 TEDMED event and explai…

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 1

Views from the News

Bits and Bobs – Is Richard Dawkins an ape?

In an interview with a black African bishop, the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins identified himself as an African ape. ‘I am an ape. I am an African ape. I am very proud to be an Africa…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 3

Report

By All Means Save Some

Under this heading we hope to give from time to time short accounts of how individual Christians have found unusual ways of reaching their fellow-men with the Gospel. May it lead readers to enquire of…

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1946 Volume 1 Issue 2

Report

Christ As A Teacher

He not only allowed His disciples to ask questions, but provoked them to do so. He deliberately wound His statements in obscurity and paradox, to excite the questioning propensity. He Himself gave thi…

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1952 Volume 4 Issue 7

Devotional

Clasped Hands

‘For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee’, Isa. 41. 13. There is always something touching about seeing humans holding hands. Whether it is a wife…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

Devotional

Complete Deliverance From Sin

We live under the glorious reign of grace. ‘Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord’, Rom. 5. 21. This glorious emancipating truth is little understood by the Lo…

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1999 Volume 54 Issue 1

Devotional

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‘So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee’, John 4. 46 The Arab village of Kafr Cana (or Kefr Kenna) in the Lower Galilee is identified in Christian tradition as Cana of the Galilee. It was officially…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

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‘And came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus’, John 6. 24. The ruined site of the village of Capernaum, modern site name ‘Tell-Hum’, is located close to the River Jordan on the north-west side of the Sea…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 2

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‘Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour?’ Matt. 5. 13 One of the strangest sights in the Middle East is the salt lake that is located between Jordan and Israel. This lake w…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 1

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‘The same is Hebron in the land of Canaan’, Gen. 23. 19  The modern city of Hebron sits in the West Bank territories and is divided into two sectors, one controlled by the Palestinian Authority and on…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 2

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Cover Image – ‘And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write’, Rev. 3. 14.

Lycus River, a tributary of the River Meander, in an area of Asia Minor known as Phrygia – now part of present day Turkey. Nearby were the smaller and less important cities of Hierapolis and Colossae.…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 4

Editorial

Cover Image – Beersheba

‘And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord’, Gen. 21. 33. Beersheba is one of the largest cities in Israel outside of the metropolitan areas of Tel…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 3

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Cregagh Street Assembly, Belfast, N. Ireland

The origins of the Cregagh Street assembly are to be found in the burden of a number of believers, mostly associated with the Victoria Hall assembly, Belfast, to see the gospel brought to the Woodstoc…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

History

Cross Canada Cruisers

The geographically sprawling country of Canada provides unique opportunities for spirited individuals to draw attention to a cause. In recent years, wheelchairs, bicycles and running shoes have crosse…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

Organisations

Depression – A Biblical Case Study Jonah

‘About two in three adults have depression at some time in their life. Sometimes it is mild or lasts just a few weeks. However, an episode of depression serious enough to require treatment occurs in a…

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2016 Volume 71 Issue 2

Contemporary Issues

Depression – A Case Study – Job

I have to admit that one of Job’s early comments has always puzzled me. Shortly after the arrival of his friends, he says, ‘The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afrai…

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 1

Study

Depression – A Personal Experience

What does it mean when someone says they are depressed or have depression? The answer can be varied. Some people have had a problem or a hard day at work, home, or college and say they are depressed. …

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2016 Volume 71 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

Depression a Biblical Case Study – Elijah

Few, if any, of us have ever faced a woman like Jezebel. She was the very influential and utterly ruthless wife of the king of Israel, the power behind Ahab’s throne. When she issued a threat, as she …

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Divorce – Victims

Editor’s Note: It is not the intention of the writer of the article to review the doctrinal stand-points on the matter of divorce, but to shed a light on the needs of saints and shepherds, who are oft…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 2

Exposition

Ebenezer Gospel Hall, Killamarsh

Background and History Killamarsh formed part of the North East Derbyshire coalfield and during the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries was a small but significant mining community. During …

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

History

Editorial

The delay in issuing our second number has been due to unforeseen difficulties in connection with the Control of Paper Order, but we are thankful that recent relaxation of that Order has not only enab…

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1946 Volume 1 Issue 2

Editorial

Editorial – ‘That your faith and hope might be in God’, 1 Pet. 1. 21.

As Peter lifts his pen to write the first of two letters from him that appear in the New Testament, he is writing at a time when Christians are suffering tremendous opposition. A variety of trials, at…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 4

Editorial

Editorial ‘We … sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre … and finding disciples, we tarried there’, Acts 21. 3, 4

As we read through the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, it is often perplexing to know why the inspired writer should record in places the minute detail of Paul’s journey. The opening verses of …

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

Editorial

Everyday Publications – Making the Message Plain for Fifty Years!

In Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 2, the Lord instructs the prophet, ‘Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who reads it may run’. In 1964, the Lord burdened the heart of Dr. R. E. Harlow,…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 4

Organisations

Front Cover Illustration

The figure of Elijah virtually dominates the whole of the First Book of Kings. Such is his abiding influence that in the thirteenth century the Carmelites built a monastery on Mount Carmel and erected…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

History

Front Cover Illustration

WADI ARBEL. Photo: John Chesney The ancient village of Khirbet Hamam was located on a steep slope of the Nitai Mountain above the Wadi Arbel, which is captured in our stunning cover picture. It is abo…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

Editorial

Good News for Bakewell Show

The market town of Bakewell lies in the heart of the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. Being the first part of the country to be classified as a National Park it has attracted touris…

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2016 Volume 71 Issue 2

Organisations

Gospel Literature Ireland

Gospel Literature Ireland (GLI) is a recently established trust whose objectives as outlined in the Trust Deed, are ‘the advancement and promotion of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the truth of the Bi…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

Organisations

Gospel Work and Other Activities

The blitz of 1942 completely destroyed the hall at Heavitree, Exeter, where for nearly 50 years a testimony had been maintained. After a period spent in part of a nearby house, the assembly moved into…

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1952 Volume 4 Issue 7

Report

Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities – September-October, 1952

Disaster at Lynmouth Everybody in Great Britain has heard of the amazing catastrophe which overwhelmed the beautiful Devon village of Lynmouth on the night of Friday, August 15th, when phenomenal rain…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 2

Report

Holburn Gospel Hall, Aberdeen

The assembly at Holburn Gospel Hall has been meeting in its current premises since 1928 and today numbers around fifty in fellowship. The assembly, however, traces its roots back to the latter part of…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

History

How Gospel Work Should Be Carried On

In what way should gospel work be carried on? This is one of the “vexed” questions in not a few of the assemblies of the saints. It is certainly a very important question; for the proclamation of the …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 5

Exhortation

How it all begane in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire

One day in March 1871 a young man called John Ritchie walked into a shop in Inverurie and noticed a small bill in the window advertising gospel meetings in the town. Two evangelists, Donald Munro and …

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 3

History

How It Began

To show what can be done by prayerful enterprise we give from time to time (under the heading “How it Began”) stories of how work in various places started. This time we trace a flourishing work back …

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1952 Volume 4 Issue 7

Report

How it Began – Aldershot

On June 7th, 1931, fifteen brethren and sisters gathered to ‘remember the Lord’ in a private house in Aldershot. They had been meeting for mid-week Bible study in the house where Mr. and Mrs. G. Hall …

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How it Started

1952 Volume 4 Issue 8

History

How It Began – Cockenzie, Port Seton

We occasionally recount the story of an assembly’s beginnings, because the varied methods of God are always a lesson to faith. Read how seed sown in the Shetlands took root hundreds of miles south on …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 7

History

How It Began – Ebenezer Hall, Weymouth

From time to time we publish the story of how an assembly began, because we believe that the infinite variety of God’s methods stimulates faith and enterprise. This account of the beginning of the wor…

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How it Began

1956 Volume 7 Issue 6

How it Started

I’m Justified

I'm Justified God’s sovereign grace selected me To have in heaven a place; ‘Twas the good pleasure of His will I’m justified by grace. In due time Christ on Calvary died; Flowed that crimson flood Whi…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

Poetry

Image Cover – Volume 73 Issue 1

‘And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount’, Exod. 19. 20. Even today, the exact location of Mount Sinai is highly disputed by scholars, but the traditional view, going back a…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 1

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‘And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane’, Mark 14. 32 The traditional site of the garden of Gethsemane is located towards the east of Jerusalem across the Kidron Valley close to the Mount…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 2

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‘Now when they passed through Amphipolis and Appollonia, they came to Thessalonica’, Acts 17. 1. In the days of the Apostle Paul, the city of Thessalonica (present day Salonica) was a famous commercia…

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2018 Volume 73 Issue 3

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‘Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters’, 2 Kgs. 2. 21. The city of Jericho was known in the ancient world as the ‘City of Palm Trees’, Deut. 34. 3, and features prominently in Old Testament…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

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‘And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved’, Matt. 21. 10. In ancient times gates were not simply thoroughfares but were often meeting places, as well as places where business and l…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 4

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‘Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?’ Mark 12. 14 The Bible refers to both tax collectors and taxation issues. One of the disciples called by the Lord was Matthew, a tax collector, Matt. 9…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 2

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‘Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men’, Mark 1. 17 NKJV At the time of the creation we read that God gave man the authority to rule over the fish of the sea, Gen. 1. 26. Since then, ma…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

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‘He shall feed his flock like a shepherd’, Isa. 40. 11 Isaiah chapter 40 begins a new section of the prophecy of Isaiah. It looks on into the future to see Israel’s return and restoration as the peopl…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 4

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Introducing Gospelwales.com

In recent decades there has been a seismic shift in the way people obtain and share information. The home computer and the innovations of the smartphone and tablet have all been integral to this stead…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 4

A Word for Today

Joining the “Oversight”

When a man hankers after a position on the oversight of an assembly, and feels aggrieved because he is not invited to it, certain of his friends will sometimes champion his cause with more zeal than d…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 3

Study

Letters of Commendation

We have been asked to publish the following letter received from a fairly large assembly In a popular seaside resort. Is their experience common? If so, what Is the best line of action to take? We sha…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 7

Practical

Letters of Commendation – Follow Up

The letter published in the previous issue appears to have been timely, for the response which it has evoked indicates that the gracious and Scriptural practice of taking a letter of commendation when…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 8

Practical

Lymmouth Disaster

The sympathy of friends all over the country has been a tremendous cheer to the believers at Lynmouth. The immediate and generous response to the need enabled them to give substantial and much-appreci…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 3

Report

Malaysian assembly celebrates 100 years of God’s faithfulness (1911-2011)

The Klang Gospel Hall is situated in the town of Klang, five miles east of Port Klang, in the state of Selangor in Malaysia. Port Klang was formerly known as Port Swettenham named after Sir Frank Swet…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

History

Mission on a Bombed Site

MISSION ON BOMBED SITE Extensive damage to their halls by bombing has not prevented Exeter Assemblies from engaging in aggressive Gospel work. They united to conduct a Tent Mission on the site of the …

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1945 Volume 1 Issue 1

Report

Moriah Ministries Tenth Anniversary

‘For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone’, Ps. 86. 10. The Psalmist’s words ring true, as Moriah Ministries gratefully recognizes ten years of God’s faithfulness. Moriah Mini…

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2016 Volume 71 Issue 2

Organisations

Mr A. J. Townsend’s Home-Call

The sadden illness and Home-call of our esteemed brother A. J. Townsend of Exeter came as a great shock to us and to his many friends in the West Country. On Monday, September 22nd, he was taken to ho…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 3

Report

Neston Gospel Hall, Wiltshire, England

Exactly when a local group of Christians started meeting together in Neston, is not known. But what is known is that a certain Mr. John Edridge, the owner of Pockeridge House, held meetings in his dra…

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2000 Volume 55 Issue 4

History

On the Death of King George VI

“the Lord Saith.… Them That Honour Me I Will Honour” Though we must leave posterity to assess the impact on history made by the reign of His Majesty King George VI, the shock of his sudden summons int…

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1952 Volume 4 Issue 7

Editorial

Postal Sunday School – Lesson 3

Let us now apply what we learned about reading the Bible to the Old Testament book of Haggai. We shall read it through at a sitting first. It did not take very long did it? There were only two chapter…

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Postal Sunday School Course on Bible Study

1967 Volume 18 Issue 5

Young Believer’s Section

Postal Sunday School – Lesson 4

In this lesson we shall say something about setting out and keeping notes. Perhaps we ought first to ask ourselves if there is anything to be gained by keeping notes. Now as few have photographic or e…

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Postal Sunday School Course on Bible Study

1967 Volume 18 Issue 6

Study

Postal Sunday School – Lesson 5

LESSON 5 We have been dealing with reading the Bible to more profit and setting out and keeping notes. We must spend a little time discussing how to look for the keynotes and ideas of a book of Script…

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Postal Sunday School Course on Bible Study

1968 Volume 19 Issue 1

Study

Postal Sunday School – Lessons 1 & 2

In the May/June issue of Precious Seed an article dealt with the history and development of the Postal Sunday Schools. To meet the need of those scholars who are brought to know the Lord Jesus as thei…

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Postal Sunday School Course on Bible Study

1967 Volume 18 Issue 4

Young Believer’s Section

Pray for the Queen

The Coronation is in everybody’s thought, but how many of us give sufficient and sympathetic consideration to the impact which this solemn ceremony will make upon the young Queen? The one who has dedi…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 6

Exhortation

Precious Seed Editors – 1945 to the Present

Whilst the work of Precious Seed is not the work of any one man, it is appropriate that in this 70th anniversary magazine we should say a little about the service of those who have been editors of the…

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

History

Property Trusts and Trusteeship

Introduction Whilst there is no example in the New Testament of an assembly having sole access to a building for its meetings, there are definite advantages in that facility being available. However, …

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Psalm 14

This Psalm gives us the solitary musing of a godly soul over the atheism of the world. He recites God’s verdict (w. 3-4) upon man after making a solemn inquisition (such as He made of old at Babel and…

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1967 Volume 18 Issue 2

Devotional

Public Preaching and Personal Evangelism, Acts 8

Stephen’s martyrdom triggered mass persecution against the early church in Jerusalem, vv. 1-4. Chaos descended, few avoiding the havoc wrought by Saul and others. A church that had been richly blessed…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 1

Devotional

Question Time – What are the big issues facing assemblies today? 

Question What are the big issues facing assemblies today? Answer This question is not easy to answer, for many issues will be geographically specific. For example, many believers face persecution, som…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 2

A Word for Today

Radio Outreach

1912 was the year of the launch and demise of the mighty liner ‘Titanic’; it was also the year that The Cumberland and Westmorland Gospel Tent was launched. The tent work was the vision of two busines…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 2

Organisations

Red Row, Northumberland, England

The assembly situated in the village of Red Row, Northumberland, has the distinction of being the most northerly assembly in England. There are currently four assemblies in the County, and Red Row is …

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

History

Reports of Gospel Work

We give below reports from a few of the many scores of men who labour in the Gospel in these Islands, in fellowship with the Assemblies. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that they have gone forth look…

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1946 Volume 1 Issue 3

Report

Reports of Gospel Work

We feel it is necessary to make it clear that the men whose reports appear on this page serve the Lord independently of any human control. We are glad to commend their work to the prayerful interest o…

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1946 Volume 1 Issue 2

Report

Reports of Gospel Work

We shall be verily guilty if we shut our eyes to the stubborn and uncomfortable fact that the percentage of real believers in this country is appallingly small. Britain urgently needs to be evangelise…

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1945 Volume 1 Issue 1

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities

As summer approaches, many Christians will be preparing for outdoor gospel work and we hope we shall have encouraging reports to publish. Perhaps fruit will be gathered as a result of patient sowing d…

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1952 Volume 4 Issue 8

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and other Assembly Activities

LLANFAIRFECHAN David Ward sends us the following report—“By kind invitation, about 30 brethren attended the Home Workers’ Conference at “Plas Menai” from April 18th to 25th. May I on their behalf tend…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 1

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – Jan-Feb 1953

During recent months we have increased the number of our Correspondents in order to keep in touch with work in the widest possible field. We greatly appreciate their help, for without it we should hav…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 4

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – July-August 1953

BLACKDOWN HILLS, DEVON Six miles east of Cullompton, nestling at the south-westerly end of the Blackdown Hills, is Panchydown Farm. Since 1941, meetings have been held in the farmhouse from Autumn to …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 7

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – March-April 1953

LONDON We had no space in our last number to refer to a report we received of the Autumn Meeting of the London Village Workers. These workers are drawn from 38 London assemblies, and they are divided …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 5

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – May-June 1953

FILTON, BRISTOL A well-constructed wooden building has been erected at Filton, just outside Bristol, and the work there is the responsibility of believers at Ebenezer, Filton Avenue, over a mile and a…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 6

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – Nov-Dec 1952

NORTH OF SCOTLAND Our brethren Hill and Martin from Ulster had an encouraging time at Stornoway. Later, at the invitation of a sister in fellowship who lives at Fochabers, they visited that village, w…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 3

Report

Reports of Gospel Work and Other Assembly Activities – September-October 1953

LONDON One Saturday in June an open-air gospel witness was given in Trafalgar Square from 6.0 p.m. to 9.0 p.m. by workers of the Mobile Evangelistic Units usually operating in and around the London ar…

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 8

Report

Riverside Gospel Hall, Bandon, Co.Cork, N.Ireland

The assembly at Riverside Gospel Hall has a long history in the town of Bandon in Southern Ireland. In the years 1830 to 1840 there was an Episcopal curate in the parish of Bandon named George Bellett…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

History

Seed Sowing in the Marketplace and the Shows

‘Serve the Lord with gladness’, Ps. 100. 2. I count it an honour to share with you something of the Lord’s work of sowing the good seed of the word of God in the marketplaces and shows of Australia. …

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 1

Organisations

Shared Hope

Introduction Shared Hope is a Charitable Trust established by two brethren – Howard Peebles and Ian Burness – around five years ago. Both brethren felt that their long experience and ministry with Ech…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

Organisations

South Africa

By RODNEY BROWN Bellville, South Africa Evangelical missionary work in South Africa goes back to 1737 when George Schmidt, a Moravian missionary, came to the country. He settled in a town now known as…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

Report

Spreading The Word ‘Scotland Needs the Gospel’

This article is written with a view to encouraging God’s people to take up the opportunities for spreading the written word of God. If it encourages even one brother or sister to do this it will have …

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Spreading the Word in Portuguese

‘To God be the glory, great things He hath done’ This first line of the old hymn from the Sankey hymnbook would be one that Alf Poland would have used, had he been here today to see the results of a w…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 2

Organisations

Suffer the Little Children – The Challenges of Parenthood

The responsibility of raising a family for the Lord is, perhaps, one of the most challenging tasks which any believing couple can undertake. It is a task which demands total commitment coupled with pr…

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2021 Volume 76 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

Suicide

Editor’s Note: The subject matter of this article is not an easy one; however, in the reflections of those who have personal experience of reaching out with a spiritual care to help in this area, ther…

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 4

Study

Summerhill Home Aberdeen – Fifty Years of Care For God’s Elderly People

In the early 1960s Mr. Alex Ross had the desire to see a residential home established in Aberdeen, for elderly saints who were in assembly fellowship. After discussing his hope with brethren from loca…

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2015 Volume 70 Issue 2

Organisations

Systematic Tract Work

Plodding around the streets of any town or city can be a dispiriting affair. Whether you choose to knock on each door and try and speak to the occupants before offering them a gospel leaflet, or merel…

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2017 Volume 72 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

Tanzania – A land of many opportunites to serve the Lord

Compiled by Stephen Davies Tanzania, from contributions from missionary colleagues. The start of Christian missionary endeavour in Tanzania can be traced back to the 1860s, but it was not until the 19…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 2

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Tanzania – A land of many opportunities to serve the Lord – Part 2

Compiled by Stephen Davies Tanzania, from contributions from missionary colleagues The Emmaus Bible School correspondence course was started right from the beginning of missionary work in Tanzania in …

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

Report

Telephone Ministry

The idea for a telephone ministry was first conceived following the onset of Covid-19 and the national lockdowns which were imposed by government to try to restrict the spread of the virus. The inabil…

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2024 Volume 79 Issue 1

Report

The Chairman retires

For those of us who have known and worked with Roy Hill over the years of his involvement with Precious Seed, it is difficult to envisage the ministry without his advice, guidance, and leadership. Yet…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

The Coffee Morning

As the United Kingdom has lost its tradition of church attendance, for many the only time they enter a church is to attend a wedding or a funeral, this makes the task of getting people to come to a go…

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2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

The Logos School – Cyprus

By Colin P. Clarke, Chairman of The Logos Trust It would not be incorrect to say that the beginnings of the Logos School began at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany at the end of the Second World War. It…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

Report

The Mystery of Christ – EPH 3. 4

It is in beautiful accord with what we have already seen, that the chosen vessel to reveal this mystery should be the apostle Paul. The very manner of his conversion gave a suggestion of the entire ch…

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1964 Volume 15 Issue 5

Devotional

The Servant Songs of Isaiah- Part 4

This song begins as it ends, setting forth the ultimate exaltation of the Servant of Jehovah, the Seed of David. The second section of the song, beginning at Isaiah chapter 53 verse 1, starts with a q…

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The Servant Songs of Isaiah

2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

Devotional

The Street Life Foodbank

On 22nd September 2017, the Street Life Food Bank opened in the assembly building at Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland. We look back after six months and can truly say that this gospel outreach…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 1

Organisations

The Teenage Years and the Challenge of Secondary Education

When the eleven-year-old walks through the gates of their secondary school for the very first time, it is the beginning of the first day of a most challenging period in their lives. It is not only cha…

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2022 Volume 77 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

The Work of the Lord in Central Brazil

By William Watterson Pirassununga, Brazil ‘In Brazil, a land of religious liberty, all religions are represented and active. Most profess to be Roman Catholic but Spiritism in two distinct forms influ…

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2020 Volume 75 Issue 4

Report

These Forty Years (1969 – 2009)

On the 30th of September 2009, approximately 220 believers from the six assemblies around Botswana, came to Serowe to commemorate forty years of assembly testimony in the country. The six assemblies a…

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2011 Volume 66 Issue 1

History

Thumb-nail Sketches

John’s Third Epistle provides us with a fascinating group of character-studies. The writer unconsciously reveals himself, as none of us can help doing. In his case it is a revelation of affection, pra…

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1952 Volume 5 Issue 1

Study

Two Papers On Haggai

PAPER 2 Let us gather together the chief points we have learned from the five papers on Bible Study in the Postal Sunday School Course and the previous paper in this series. If we are to enjoy our Bib…

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Two Papers On Haggai

1968 Volume 19 Issue 3

Study

Two Papers On Haggai

PAPER 1 Most of us are not attracted to history as a subject. But amazingly enough Bible history is fascinating, illuminating and invaluable. Let us illustrate this from Haggai. To understand this boo…

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Two Papers On Haggai

1968 Volume 19 Issue 2

Study

Views from the News

Top English judge to step down over lack of ‘support’ on marriage A senior High Court judge is set to retire early, partly because of the lack of support from some of his colleagues for his pro-marria…

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2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

Views from the News

Views from the News

Cameron’s Big Society needs Christian values behind it David Cameron’s “Big Society" dream will fail unless the country rediscovers traditionally Christian values, according to the academic credited w…

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

Views from the News

We Preach Christ

Throughout the New Testament there are four major themes to the preaching of the apostles: The problem of sin, Acts 13. 38; 1 Cor. 15. 1-3; The Person of Christ, Acts 5. 42; 17. 18; The provision of …

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2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

Website Reviews

adailydevotion.com The website adailydevotion.com reflects a larger shift in the way Christians and society now read their material. Although books and magazines will always have their place, there ar…

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2019 Volume 74 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

Why Did Christ Die?

In dying, the Lord Jesus had many ends in view. The texts quoted below mention several of these “For to this end Christ died, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living”. …

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1982 Volume 33 Issue 4

Study

Wilson J. Manfield

Mr. W. J. Manfield of Exeter passed into the Lord’s presence on August 24th aged 88. In his younger days, he joined Mallett’s mill at Exwick as an office junior, and eventually rose to become its secr…

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1983 Volume 34 Issue 6

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Working with Senior Citizens – Part 1

The psalmist wrote, ‘The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we f…

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Working with Senior Citizens

2013 Volume 68 Issue 1

Contemporary Issues

Youth Asks Questions – How Would You Answer?

In a certain English city, sixth-formers from a large number of schools combine to organize Brains Trusts, at which leading citizens are invited to answer a large number of questions. As It is useful …

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1953 Volume 5 Issue 6

Practical