Transcriber’s Note
Minor punctuation errors and inconsistencies have been silently corrected.
The following minor typographic corrections have also been made:
p8: “al” changed to “all”
p13: “sorrrow” changed to “sorrow”
p81: “trom” changed to “from”
p112: “Mat.” changed to “Matt.” for consistency
p122: “striken” changed to “stricken”
THE
WORDS OF JESUS.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“THE MORNING AND NIGHT WATCHES,”
“THE FAITHFUL PROMISER,” ETC.
Taken from the last London Edition.
New York:
STANFORD & DELISSER,
No. 508, BROADWAY.
1858.
“A word spoken in season,” says the wise man, “how good it is!” If thisbe true regarding the utterances of uninspired lips, with what devoutand paramount interest must we invest the sayings of IncarnateTruth—“the WORDS OF JESUS!”
We have, in the motto-verses which head the succeeding pages a fewcomforting responses from the Oracle of heavenly Wisdom—a few grapesplucked from the true Vine—living streams welling fresh from the LivingFountain. Every portion of Scripture is designed for nutriment to thesoul—“the bread of life;” but surely we may well regard the recorded“Words of Jesus” as “the finest of the wheat.” These are the “Honey”out of the true “Rock,” with which He will “satisfy” us. “The WORDS thatI speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.”
The following are selected more especially as “Words for theWeary”—healing leaves for the wounded spirit falling from the Tree ofLife. Jesus was divinely qualified for this special office of speaking“many and comfortable words.” “The Lord God hath given me the tongueof the learned, that I might know how to speak a Word in Season to himthat is weary.”
Let us, like the disciple of Patmos, turn to hear the voice that speaksto us, saying, “I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in HisWord do I hope.” Eighteen hundred years have elapsed since these“words” were uttered. With tones of unaltered and unchanged affection,they are still echoed from the inner sanctuary—they come this day freshas they were spoken, from the lips of Him whose memorial to all time isthis: “that same Jesus.”
Reader, seek to realise, in meditating on them, the simple but solemntruth—“Christ speaks to me!” Surely nothing can be more soothing withwhich to close your eyes on your nightly pillow, or to carry with you inthe morning out to the duties (or, it may be, the trials and sorrows) ofthe day, than—“A WORD OF JESUS.”
1st Day of Month.
“Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said”—
“Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I willgive you rest.”—Matt. xi. 28.
The Gracious Invitation.
Gracious “word” of a gracious Saviour, on which the soul may confidinglyrepose, and be at peace for ever? It is a present rest—the rest ofgrace as well as the rest of ...