Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord while he holds open the gate of life and calls on the perishing to come in. Beware lest the sound that first awakens you be the crash of the gate when it shuts ! 5. Earth — the dust of the dead in Christ — shall hear the word of the Lord, and shall come forth. At the mouth of a grave where a dead brother lay, Jesus said to the sorrowing survivors, " I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth on me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." Oh for the blessed hope of immor- tality, burning bright within a disciple's heart, and shining through his countenance ! The resurrection of the dead is a precious, present truth. " Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief" This body for which Christ died, and for which he now lives and reigns, — this body, when it is dust, shall hear his voice, and come forth glorious like his own. Not hewn stone, and carved cedar, and beaten gold, but earth is the temple in which God gets true worship, and loves to dwell. Partially now, perfectly soon, the body of a believer is a consecrated temple of the living God. To believe, to know, to feel this, would do two things for me : With such faith I would not admit the unclean into this temple, for Jesus has bought and claims it as his own ; with such faith I would not, when the time comes, and the messenger approaches, be frightened to let this temple be taken down, for God will raise it up again. It is his, and none shall be able to take it, or keep it, out of his hands. William Arnot
Muckle Kate Not a very ordinary name! But then, Muckle Kate, or Big Kate, or Kate-Mhor, or Kate of Lochcarron was not a very ordinary woman! The actual day of her salvation is difficult to trace to its sunrising, but being such a glorious day as it was, we simply wish to relate something of what shone forth in the redeemed life of that "ill-looking woman without any beauty in the sight of God or man." Muckle Kate was born and lived in Lochcarron in the county of Ross-shire. By the time she had lived her life to its eighty-fifth year she had well-earned the reputation of having committed every known sin against the Law of God with the exception murder. Speaking after the manner of men, if it took "Grace Abounding" to save a hardened sinner like John Bunyan, it was going to take "Grace Much More Abounding" to save Muckle Kate. However, Grace is Sovereign and cannot be thwarted when God sends it on the errand of salvation, and even the method used in bri
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