LIFE ON THE ALTAR

I Am With You
Octavius Winslow

Such was the spirit and prayer of the weeping prophet Jeremiah, in view of the great mission to which God now called him. Learn, my soul, that before the Lord exalts, He first empties him of all vain and foolish conceit of his own wisdom, power, and holiness….Read more

God Is Able
F. B. Meyer

So long as men live in the world, they will turn to this story with unwaning interest. There is only one scene in history by which it is surpassed; that where the Great Father gave His Isaac to a death from which there was no deliverance…Read more

Wrestling’s Within
A. B. Simpson

Many of our battles are fought in view of heaven alone. That is a strange picture that the apostle gives of his trials, “We are made a gazing-stock to angels and principalities.”  Have you not felt, beloved, in some quiet hour, in the secret of your closet, that you were going through a decisive battle which no mortal saw?…Read more

And There Came a Lion
C. H. P

It is a source of inspiration and strength to come in touch with the youthful David, trusting God. Through faith in God he conquered a lion and a bear, and afterwards overthrew the mighty Goliath. When that lion came to despoil that flock, it came as a wondrous opportunity to David….Read more

Divine Grace
John Bunyan

The following is an account of John’s experience as he faced and lived through a long prison sentence, taken from his biography. “By his reproaches and slanders, satan laboured to have my countrymen think of me as depraved, so if possible, my preaching might be made of no effect”….Read more

The Secret of The Lord
George Mattheson

There is a secret word which admits men into the Christian society, but it is a word that is spoken only to the heart; it is the word peace. This is the secret of The Lord that is with them that fear Him. The peace of Christ in the soul to the eye of an outward beholder is indeed a secret….Read more

The Oil of Illumination
A. B. Saint

I think that most people have heard of  Russell Conwell. His name has been passed down through the generations. He was an American who hailed from Massachusetts. His life was many faceted and from very early on it seems he was a born leader….Read more

Trusting Jesus
Edgar Stites

Edgar Page Stites was a direct descendant of John Howland, one of the Mayflower passengers. Stites served in the Civil War before becoming a riverboat pilot and later a missionary to churches in South Dakota. The poem first appeared in the newspaper and later came into the possession of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody….Read more

More Than Conquerors
A. B. Simpson

It is a great thing to be a conqueror in Christian life and conflict. It is a much greater thing to be a conqueror “in all these things” which the apostle names, a perfect host of trials, troubles and foes. But what does it mean to be “more than conqueror”? It means to have a decisive victory….Read more

At Thy Word
Various

The devil has two master tricks. One is to get us discouraged; then for a time at least we can be of no service to others, and so we are defeated. The other is to make us doubt, thus breaking the faith link by which we are bound to our Father. Do not be tricked by either!….Read more

There We Saw Giants
Streams in the Desert

Some saw giants, but Joshua and Caleb saw God! Those who doubt say “We be not able to go up!” But those believe say “Let us go up at once, for we are well able.” Giants stand for great difficulties and they are everywhere. Let us have the spirit of faith that these men of faith had, and see God. He will take care of the difficulties….Read more

Looking Unto Jesus
Andrew Murray

Yes, let us run, looking to Jesus.  Looking, not to ourselves or our sins, but to Him who hath put away sin forever.  Not to ourselves or our faith, whether in its weakness or its strength, but to Him whose presence is the life of our faith.…Read more

He Shall Not Be Afraid
Charles H. Spurgeon

Christian, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved his faithfulness as you have done…Read more

MISSIONARY TO CHINA

Gladys was born into a working-class family in London, and on leaving school entered into working life as a parlour maid and lived very much for her own pleasure. In her early twenties, her self-indulgent life changed when she was saved one night in a church meeting she’d found herself in, and her interest was shifted from herself to the souls of others.

After hearing of the great need in China, the burden became hers to find someone to go there with the glorious Gospel that brings people out of darkness into light, but she found no one. After being challenged, she saw that she was the one to go, and applied to the China Inland Mission where she was taken in to be trained….Read more