Temporary professors are like hedge-hogs, which have two holes -, one to the north, and another to the south : when the south wind fans them, they turn to the north j and when the north wind chills them, they turn to the south. Thus they lose their activity, to preserve their security. — That was a beggarly saying, which fell from a prince's lips, — ' I will sail no farther in the cause of Christ, than while I can preserve my retreat with safety to land.' Man is a short-sighted creature ; he is afraid to follow too far upon the heels of truth, lest it should lead him into danger. Weak grace may do for God, but it must be strong grace that will die for God. A true Christian will lay down his lusts at the command of Christ j and his life, for the cause of Christ. The more a tree of righteousness is sha- ken by the wind, the more it is rooted in the groun(l. What, art thou a member of Christ, and afraid to be a martyr for Christ? If those be blessed who die in Christ, what must they be who die for Christ !
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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