The Cross of Christ Is
The Scourge to evils that would occupy Christ’s place in our hearts;
The Heavenly Sentinel, to keep enemies from entering;
The Sword, to pursue and vanquish the mightiest foe;
The Bread and Wine, to cheer and sustain in the fight;
The Lever to our Father’s house;
“The Balm of life;
The Cure of woe;
The Measure and the Pledge of LOVE!”
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TAUGHT OF GOD.—There is all the difference between hearing by the ear and seeing with the eye, as Job says; and the teaching of a school, even though it be the truth itself, and the teaching of God. “They shall be all taught of God” is a grand promise indeed; for Israel yet future, but made good now to us, in that He leads us to Jesus as the truth—the living truth, the embodied truth – “Every man, therefore, that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto Me.” Is it not generally true that a school of doctrine leads us to glory in men, the teaching of the Holy Ghost of the very same truth to glorify Christ?