Issue 2 Autumn 2021

Called to be Set Apart

Is it a small thing to you
that the God of Israel has separated you
from the congregation of Israel,
to bring you near to Himself,
to do the work of
the tabernacle of the Lord,
and to stand before the congregation
to serve them?

(Numbers 16: 9)

IN THIS ISSUE

ARTICLES

The Exchanged Life
Hudson Taylor

How can we get our faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One. As I read this verse, I saw it all! “If we believe not, He abideth faithful.” I looked to Jesus and saw, and when I saw, oh, how joy flowed…Read more

Separation Unto God
Frances Ridley Havergal

The thought of separation, so inseparable from true and growing Christian life, is sometimes viewed as unnecessarily stern, because it is only viewed in one aspect. Young Christians are tempted to think “separation from….” a hard thing…Read more

All Things New
Horatius Bonar

It is to a new life that God is calling us, not to some new steps in life, some new habits or ways or motives or prospects, but to A NEW LIFE. To produce this new life the eternal Son of God became flesh, died, was buried, and rose again…Read more

In The Highways
Mark Nolan

Many say that we are products of our environments, and I can certainly say that of myself. As part of a large and busy family we went through many stressful times together, and what did Mother teach us to do at such times…Read more

Elijah’s Journey
A. B. Saint

Who has not heard of Elijah, the fiery prophet of  the LORD? The Bible only allows us into a fraction of his life, but in so doing we are met with some colourful episodes associated with him. He was a man who accomplished great…Read more

Set Apart
F. B. Meyer

Faith made Elijah all he became; and faith will do as much for us, if only we can exercise it as he did, to appropriate the might of the eternal God. All power is in God; and it has pleased Him to store it all in the risen Saviour….Read more

The Power of Prayer
R. A. Torrey

(1) Prayer promotes our spiritual growth and true prayer and true Bible study go hand in hand. It is through prayer that my sin is brought to light, my most hidden sin. As I kneel before God and pray, “Search me, O God…”Read more

The Power of Stillness
A. B. Simpson

A score of years ago a friend placed in my hands a little book, which became one of the turning points of my life; it was called “True Peace.” It had but one thought, and it was this – that God was waiting in the depths of my being…Read more

Sitting Still
Hannah Whitall Smith

In order to really know God, inward stillness is absolutely necessary. I remember when I first learned this. A time of great emergency had risen in my life, when every part of my being seemed to throb with anxiety….Read more

Might in the Inner Man
Christmas Evans

Christmas Evans tells us in his diary that one Sunday afternoon he was traveling a very lonely road to attend an appointment, and he was convicted of a cold heart. He says, “I tethered my horse and went to a sequestered spot…Read more

Stand Still and See
Charles. H. Spurgeon

These words contain God’s command to the believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into extraordinary difficulties. He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward; he is shut up on the right hand and on the left…Read more

POETRY

BIOGRAPHY

The Danish woman who became a mother in Israel

“I’m not free to commit myself just now. There’s something I have to settle first. I know this must sound foolish, but I keep asking myself, is there something more to life than just a career and an apartment, and nice furniture and a pension at the end of it all?”

This was Lydia’s spontaneous reply to the moment she had been waiting years for; her “ideal match” had just romantically proposed,  and marriage would complete the picture of her successful life so far. Her reply surprised them both.

At 36, Lydia was the director of domestic science in one of Denmark’s modern schools, had a generous salary, lived in a beautiful apartment in Korsor with her own maid, and enjoyed the luxury of fine dining and fashion, along with the pleasures of the dance halls and theaters….Read more

Is The Altar Empty?
Corrie Ten Boom

It is years ago that I heard Oswald Smith, that great man from Toronto, the evangelist, and he spoke about total surrender, and he used an illustration. He took four books, and he said, “Lord, I will surrender all….Read more

BIBLE STUDY

The Power to Walk in God’s Will (Parts 3 & 4)