1948 Volume 2 Issue 2 - Precious Seed | A UK registered charity working to encourage the study of the scriptures

Children’s Page

‘BRIDGE UNDER REPAIRS’ Those words appeared on a board near a bridge in Suffolk. What useful things bridges are! In fact in this country we c ...

Children's Pages

Laodicea – “The Amen”

In the last of the seven letters the living glories of the divine author have a special splendour as they stand out against the dark background of Laodicean departure – just as we ...

Cecil Ingleby

Christ as Presented in the Letters to the Churches

Exposition

Leadership

The need for effective leadership lies at the heart of the economic and political problems that beset our present day politicians and, in the absence of it, as in the days of the jud ...

O. S. Nye

Exposition

Missionary Brevity, China – Advancing in New Areas

At present the old fields of labour in Manchuria and Shantung are closed to residency by foreign missionaries. Users of “Echoes Prayer List” (I hope their number will increase) w ...

A. Pulleng

Report

Philadelphia – “He that is Holy”

If considering the presentation of the Lord in the letter to the Philadelphian Church we are brought to consider a contrast which is certainly significant. Previously it has been His ...

Cecil Ingleby

Christ as Presented in the Letters to the Churches

Exposition

Redemption

We are overwhelmed when we consider the vast numbers of the human race under the sinister influence of Mohammedanism, the teeming millions of China plunged in spiritual darkness, t ...

Thomas Fitzgerald

Redemption (part 4)

Exposition

Reports of Gospel Work

On an island in the Solomons, a few native christians were gathered to bid farewell to one of their number who was going to a neighbouring island with the gospel. Borrowing the famil ...

C. H. Darch

Report

Rulers in the Church of God

Let us first turn to Romans chapter 12 verse 8 and be it remembered that according to 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 28 there are amongst God’s people every-where those whom ‘He ...

Henry Cummins

Exposition

Spanish Bible School

We are thankful to the Lord for His help in the campaign of bible study which we were able to carry through in Madrid and Barcelona from September 1947 to the end of March 1948. Syst ...

Ernest H. Trenchard

Report

The Flood – Fact or Fiction?

Air-Commodore P. J. Wiseman, G.B.E., who spent many years with the R.A.F, in the Middle East and took part in archaeological work then with many of the leading modern scholars, gives ...

E. L. Lovering

Problems

Seniors’ Pages

The Future Care of Assemblies Part 3

It is important to have regard to the way in which the Lord provides for the spiritual care of an assembly, as made known in the New Testament. Since the scripture constitutes ‘the ...

W. E. Vine

The Future Care of Assemblies

Exposition

The High-Priestly Work of Christ

HIGH PRIESTLY FUNCTIONS The key verse for the understanding of the functions of a high priest, whether in type or fulfilment, is Hebrews chapter 5 verse1, ‘For every high ...

Ernest H. Trenchard

Exposition

The People of the Bible

THEIR WORK During one of the apostle Paul’s missionary journeys he called at Miletus and spoke to a number of elders from there and Ephesus. It was a dramatic speech, beca ...

H.E.P.

The People of the Bible (part 9)

Exposition

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