Nature Well Known No Mystery Remains – Charles H Spurgeon
Nature Well Known No Mystery Remains – Charles H Spurgeon so was it here. Walking in the garden 1 saw a phial placed on a tree bearing within it a tiny apple, which was growing within the crystal ; now I saw it all ; the apple was put into the bottle while it was […]
NOVELTY Influence of. – Charles Spurgeon
NOVELTY Influence of. – Charles Spurgeon YES, the people gathered in crowds around the statue, and looked at it again and again. It was not the finest work of art in the city, nor the most intrinsically attractive. Why, then, did the citizens of Verona stand in such clusters around the effigy of Dante on […]
Need of awakene – Charles Spurgeon
Need of awakene – Charles Spurgeon A VICIOUS horse is none the better tempered because the kicking straps prevent his dashing the carriage to atoms ; and so a man is none the better really because the restraints of custom and providence may prevent his following that course of life which he would prefer. Poor […]
No Care For Sin – Charles H Spurgeon
No Care For Sin – Charles H Spurgeon According to sop, an old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, ” […]
Natural State of. – Charles Spurgeon
Natural State of. – Charles Spurgeon A MUSICAL amateur of eminence, who had often observed Mr. Cadogan’s inattention to his performances, said to him one day, ” Come, I am determined to make you feel the power of music, pay particular attention to this piece.” It was played. ” Well, what do you say now […]
No One Else Pled for His Salvation
No One Else Pled for His Salvation A pastor was passing a big department store and followed a sudden impulse to go in and talk to the proprietor on the subject of his salvation. Finding him, he said: “I’ve talked beds and carpets and bookcases with you, but I’ve never talked my business with you. […]
No Laughing Matter
No Laughing Matter Edwin Cooper was famous across America, yet almost no one knew his real name. Coming from a family of circus clowns, Cooper began performing before audiences when he was just nine years old. After a stint with the Barnum and Bailey Circus, he became a fixture on television in the 1950s as […]
Napoleon Cannot Save
Napoleon Cannot Save A marshal in Napoleon’s army who was devotedly and enthusiastically attached to him was mortally wounded in battle. As the last struggle drew near and he lay dying in his tent he sent for his chief. Napoleon came. The poor man thought his emperor could do anything. He earnestly pleaded with his […]
Napoleon – p82 boasted he could remember the names of every person-George Mueller
Napoleon – p82 boasted he could remember the names of every person-George Mueller Napoleon – p82 boasted he could remember the names of every person he ever met. His technique was simple. If he didn’t hear the name clearly, he said, “So sorry I didn’t get the name clearly,” If it was an unusual name […]
Non-essentials – Charles Spurgeon
Non-essentials – Charles Spurgeon IT behooves Christians to have done with that cant about non-essentials. My brethren, every command of Christ is essential to us as servants. Not essential to our salvation—we are saved; that is not the question for us to raise; but being saved, and being servants of Christ, every command which comes […]
Nobility, The True Heavenly – Charles Spurgeon
Nobility, The True Heavenly – Charles Spurgeon BRING hither the poorest peasant; let her, if you will, be an aged woman, wrinkled and haggard with years; let her be ignorant of all learning: but let me know that in her there is faith in Christ, and that consequently the Holy Spirit dwells within her, I […]
New Birth, Necessity of – Charles Spurgeon
New Birth, Necessity of – Charles Spurgeon I WAS staying one day at an inn in one of the valleys of Northern Italy, where the floor was dreadfully dirty. I had it in my mind to advise the landlady to scrub it, but when I perceived that it was made of mud I reflected that […]
Neutrality, None in Religion – Charles Spurgeon
Neutrality, None in Religion – Charles Spurgeon YOU either belong to God or else you belong to his enemy. You are either bought with precious blood or else you are still a bond-slave of Satan. Which are you? If it were possible to dwell in an intermediate state this might be a puzzling inquiry; but […]
Neglect of Souls – Charles Spurgeon
Neglect of Souls – Charles Spurgeon SEE yonder poor wretches whose ship has gone down at sea; they have constructed a poor tottering raft, and have been swimming on it for days. Their supply of bread and water is exhausted, and they are famishing; they have bound a handkerchief to a pole and hoisted it, […]
Neediness of Men – Charles Spurgeon
Neediness of Men – Charles Spurgeon WE never wake up in the morning but we want strength for the day, and we never go to bed at night without needing grace to cover the sins of the past. We are needy at all periods of life: when we begin with Christ in our young days […]
Needful, the One Thing – Charles Spurgeon
Needful, the One Thing – Charles Spurgeon SITTING at Jesus’ feet, that is the first and only necessity. Now, I see all around me a crowd of things alluring and fascinating. Pleasure calls to me; I hear her syren song—but I reply, “I cannot regard you, for necessity presses upon me to hearken to another […]
Nearness to God – Charles Spurgeon
Nearness to God – Charles Spurgeon YOU have seen a little child when it is greatly pleased with a gift from its mother’s hand; it says but little by way of gratitude, but it falls to kissing its mother at a vehement rate, as though it never could be done. Such drawing near in love […]
Nature of the Sinner, Evil Bias of – Charles Spurgeon
Nature of the Sinner, Evil Bias of – Charles Spurgeon EVEN as the bowl from the player’s hand, however straightly it runs for awhile, before long begins to curve according to the bias, even so under all circumstances we tend towards evil. To our nature to do evil is easy, to do good is difficult. […]
Nature, Wonders of – Charles Spurgeon
Nature, Wonders of – Charles Spurgeon WHEN we have watched those who practice sleight-of-hand perform their feats, we have marveled greatly, but what are a few poor conjuring tricks when compared with the ordinary, but yet matchless, processes of nature? Our fields and hedge-rows team with marvels never equaled by all the wisdom and skill […]
Nature, No Inclination in—To Seek God – Charles Spurgeon
Nature, No Inclination in—To Seek God – Charles Spurgeon THE first step towards ending the separation between the prodigal son and his father is taken by the father, not by the son. Midnight never seeks the sun; long would it be before darkness found within itself the germs of light; long ages might revolve before […]
Natural Depravity – Charles Spurgeon
Natural Depravity – Charles Spurgeon YOU never need educate any man into sin. As soon as ever the young crocodile has left its shell it begins to act just like its parent, and to bite at the stick which broke the shell. The serpent is scarcely born before it rears itself and begins to hiss. […]
Nations and Churches, Cause of their Fall – Charles Spurgeon
Nations and Churches, Cause of their Fall – Charles Spurgeon ANY church of God from which the Spirit has departed becomes very like that great empire with whose military glory the world was dazzled, and whose strength made the nations tremble. France, mistress of arms, queen of beauty, arbiter of politics, how soon has she […]
National Church, Exposure of its Weakness – Charles Spurgeon
National Church, Exposure of its Weakness – Charles Spurgeon IT is miserably amusing to mark the way in which our so-called National Church tries to win men to God. It has recently been stated that in seven of the leading Ritualistic churches in London the subscriptions to foreign missions only reached the sum of £7 […]
Nation, English—God’s Care of the – Charles Spurgeon
Nation, English—God’s Care of the – Charles Spurgeon THE events of English history are not less stirring than the annals of Judah and Israel. What a theme for a master singer would be the defeat of the proud Spanish Armada, or the frustration of Rome’s knavish tricks on November the fifth, or the gallant fights […]
Name of Jesus, Preciousness of – Charles Spurgeon
Name of Jesus, Preciousness of – Charles Spurgeon I WILL defy any man to hold together a large congregation, year after year, with any other subject but Jesus Christ. He might do it for a time; he might charm the ear with the discoveries of science, or with the beauties of poetry, and his oratory […]
Neglect of Prayer
Neglect of Prayer A fisherman was at sea with his godless companions when a storm came up and threatened to sink their ship. His friends begged him to pray; but he said, “It’s been a long time since I’ve done that or even entered a church.” At their insistence, however, he finally cried out, “O […]
New Year’s Blues
New Year’s Blues In a Peanuts strip Lucy once grumbled to poor Charlie Brown about the awful New Year she was having. She complained that problems abounded, and she felt that difficulties were around every corner. Then she said, “I don’t think this is a New Year at all—I think we’ve been stuck with a USED year!!!” […]
No Entrance Fee to Heaven
No Entrance Fee to Heaven Warren Buffet is one of the greatest investors in our day. In June 2005, someone bought a lunch with him for $351,100. If there was an entrance fee to Heaven no one would get there. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Not Many Mighty Are Called
Not Many Mighty Are Called A converted Hindu gave the following address to a number of his fellow countrymen: “I am, by birth, of an insignificant and contemptible caste—so low, that if a Brahmin should chance to touch me, he must go and bathe in the Ganges for the purpose of purification; and yet God […]
New Sunday School Building
New Sunday School Building A lady once said to her pastor, “I’m glad you said you don’t know who is going to help pay for the new Sunday school buildings; for a minute there, I thought you were going to ask us!” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Not Used to Gifts
Not Used to Gifts Mike listened to a lecture on the importance of showing appreciation to the important people in his life. Mike decided to start with his wife, so after work that night, he went to the shopping mall where he bought a dozen long-stemmed roses, a box of chocolates, and a pair of […]
Neglecting the Midweek Service
Neglecting the Midweek Service The story is told of various church members and their attitude toward the midweek service: Brother A. thought it looked like rain, and concluded that his family, including himself of course, had better remain at home. On Thursday evening it was raining very hard, and the same brother hired a carriage, and took his whole family to the […]
Not Trusting the Airplane
Not Trusting the Airplane Uncle Oscar was apprehensive about his first airplane ride. His friends, eager to hear how it went, asked if he enjoyed the flight. “Well,” commented Uncle Oscar, “it wasn’t as bad as I thought it might be, but I’ll tell you this. I never did put all my weight down!” Facebook […]
No Need to Read Them
No Need to Read Them A great many people say, you must hear both sides; but if a man should write me a most slanderous letter about my wife, I don’t think I would have to read it; I should tear it up and throw it to the winds. Have I to read all the […]
News from a Cemetery
News from a Cemetery The best news the world has ever had came from a cemetery near Jerusalem—the tomb was empty! Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane tells of a wife-George Mueller
Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane tells of a wife-George Mueller Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him […]
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife-George Mueller
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife-George Mueller Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt […]
Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane-George Mueller
Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane-George Mueller Newspaper columnist and counselor George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he […]
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells-George Mueller
Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells-George Mueller Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. “I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much […]
Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life-=George Mueller
Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life-=George Mueller Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life a clergyman in Ireland where he was pestered by bishops and other authorities to fill in recurring questionnaires. He took particular umbrage against the annual demand from the education office to report […]
Napoleon and the Conscript. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Napoleon and the Conscript. – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a well-known story told of Napoleon the First’s time. In one of the conscriptions, during one of his many wars, a man was balloted as a conscript who did not want to go, but he had a friend who offered to go in his place. […]
No Turning Back
No Turning Back I’m part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I’m a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still. My past is redeemed, my future is secure. I’m finished and done with low […]
Not Ready for Marriage
Not Ready for Marriage First-grader Melanie had announced that she was engaged to marry the young gentleman next door, but the engagement was broken abruptly. When she was asked about it she said, “Well, he just isn’t ready for marriage yet. And besides that, he scribbled in my coloring book.” Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Never to See its Mother. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Never to See its Mother. – Dwight Lyman Moody I was in an infirmary not long since, and a mother brought a littje child in. She said, “Doctor, my little child’s eyes have not been opened for several days, and I would just like you to do something for them.” The doctor got some ointment […]
No Means No
No Means No Barbara Reed tried to get her 4-year-old granddaughter to eat lunch but she didn’t like any of the foods offered. Every time she encouraged her to try a different kind of food, Sabrina would reply, “No, thank you.” Barbara persisted until the little girl said, “Nana, my mama says, ‘No means no!’” […]
Names of a Father
Names of a Father Children go through four stages. First they call you DaDa. Then they call you Daddy. As they mature they call you Dad. Finally they call you collect. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Pinterest Email
Note what Jesus Says. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Note what Jesus Says. – Dwight Lyman Moody Some people say to me, “Moody, you don’t believe in the flood. All the scientific men tell us it is absurd.” Let them tell us. Jesus tells us of it, and I would rather take the word of Jesus than that of any other one. I haven’t […]
Napoleon and the Private. – Dwight Lyman Moody
Napoleon and the Private. – Dwight Lyman Moody It is said of Napoleon that while he was reviewing his army one day, his horse became frightened at something, and the Emperor lost his rein, and the horse went away at full speed, and the Emperor’s life was in danger. He could not get hold of […]
Note What Jesus Says – Dwight Lyman Moody
Note What Jesus Says – Dwight Lyman Moody Some people say to me, “Moody, you don’t believe in the flood. All the scientific men tell us it is absurd.” Let them tell us. Jesus tells us of it, and I would rather take the word of Jesus than that of any other one. I haven’t […]
Never to See its Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody
Never to See its Mother – Dwight Lyman Moody I was in an infirmary not long since, and a mother brought a little child in. She said, “Doctor, my little child’s eyes have not been opened for several days, and I would just like you to do something for them.” The doctor got some ointment […]
Napoleon and the Conscript – Dwight Lyman Moody
Napoleon and the Conscript – Dwight Lyman Moody There is a well-known story told of Napoleon the First’s time. In one of the conscriptions, during one of his many wars, a man was balloted as a conscript who did not want to go, but he had a friend who offered to go in his place. […]
Necessity of The. New Birth – Dwight Lyman Moody
Necessity of The. New Birth – Dwight Lyman Moody James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. A man has bought a farm, and he finds on that farm an old pump. He goes to the pump and […]
No Home Beyond the Grave – Dwight Lyman Moody
No Home Beyond the Grave – Dwight Lyman Moody Hebrews 10:32-34But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;… I have been told of a wealthy man who died recently. Death came unexpectedly to him, as it almost always does; and he sent out […]
New Power – Dwight Lyman Moody
New Power – Dwight Lyman Moody Luke 24:36-49And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the middle of them, and said to them, Peace be to you.… When I was preaching in Farwell Hall, in Chicago, I never worked harder to prepare my sermons than I did then. I preached and preached; but it […]
Not Ashamed of Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody
Not Ashamed of Christ – Dwight Lyman Moody Luke 9:26For whoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory… I remember hearing of a young convert who got up to say something for Christ in the open […]
Never complain
Never complain Written by THEUNIS, JOHANNES CLOETE tjcloete@absamail.co.za Amazing Story of Peng Shuilin In life we keep complaining about what is or why we don’t have.Half the time we seem dissatisfied, though full-bodied and free to choose. Fat people say,”I want to be slim.” Skinny people say,”I want to be fatter.”Poor people want to be rich and […]