Faithful Words for Old and Young Volume 8

1 Introduction 2 A Scene of Real Life 3 The Wishing Chair 4 What Are Your Hopes for Eternity? 5 Justified Freely by His Grace 6 He Has Done All 7 The Bright and Morning Star 8 Winter and Spring 9 Split Your Peas 10 Then I Love Him! 11 A Child’s Trust 12 Little Annie’s Prayer 13 The Coptic Priest and the Bible 14 A New Year’s Motto 15 William Farel 16 I Should Have Gone Down, Too 17 Two Pictures 18 Faith in God 19 Into Christ and Out of Sins 20 Going Straight to Jesus 21 Like Sheep 22 Hosanna 23 Watering the Soil 24 Members of Christ’s Body 25 Branches of the Vine 26 Influence 27 The Passover 28 Charley and His Mother 29 I Love Jesus 30 Can You Tell Us the Story of Jesus? 31 Perseverance 32 A Father’s Love-Token 33 How Can I Find Out That Christ Is Mine? 34 Are Your Sins Forgiven? 35 They Seeing, See Not 36 Home 37 Are You for Heaven? 38 When He Beheld the City He Wept Over It 39 Power and Sympathy 40 What Harry’s Mother Taught Him 41 Mother’s Last Verse 42 The Contrary Wind 43 The Goat 44 Bible Questions 45 I Am Not Demonstrative 46 I Will Come 47 A Mistake in Your Book, Sir 48 A Sailor’s Story 49 Strength 50 The “Whosoever” of “Death,” and the “Whosoever” of “Life.” 51 Preach the Word 52 Habit and Dress 53 Earth’s Curse 54 The Exodus 55 The Escape 56 Faith for a Sixpence 57 Knowing the Shepherd 58 Resist the Devil, and He Will Flee From You 59 The Mighty Change 60 No Rest 61 God’s Grace to Me 62 The Entrance of Thy Word Giveth Light 63 The Rescue 64 Forgiveness 65 The Sixth of Hebrews 66 The Sea Divided 67 I Learned to Read When I Had a Beard 68 Extracts From the Paper of W. C., Who Wins First Prize, “the Insect World”:— The Ass 69 Salvation 70 The Three Pictures 71 Are You Saved? 72 The Poor African 73 I Want to Be a Christian 74 Beware! 75 (3) Made partakers of the Holy Ghost 76 (4) Tasted the good word of God 77 (5) The powers of the world to come 78 So-Called Parallel Passages 79 Pilgrimage 80 Jamie; or, God’s Face 81 A Little Child’s Faith 82 The Sack of Bibles 83 A Good Confession 84 Two Warnings 85 My Photograph 86 Built Into the Rock 87 The Lord’s Thoughts 88 The Path of Faith 89 Spring Lessons 90 Now Let Us All Adore 91 And Be Ye Thankful 92 Head and Heart Knowledge 93 Twice Captive, Twice Delivered 94 Because He Died for Me 95 The Gentleness of Jesus 96 Come Early 97 Extracts From the Paper of a. J. S., Who Wins First Prize, “Giant Cities of Bashan”—the Dog 98 I Break It on My Knees 99 Because God Said It 100 Perfectly Whole 101 The Happy Choice 102 “Am I One of the Elect?” 103 The World and The Christian 104 Rest 105 How to Live Peaceably 106 A Solemn Consideration 107 He Hath Left Us an Example 108 Grinding at the Mill 109 The Will-O’-the-Wisp 110 A Child’s Answer 111 Wondered at the Gracious Words 112 The First Song 113 The Right Road 114 Loved Unto the End 115 Peace Made 116 Hid With Christ 117 Complete in Christ 118 Another Military Funeral 119 Thou Hast Known My Soul in Adversities 120 Half Belief and Whole Belief 121 Decision 122 Reality 123 The “Heavy-Land” Laborer 124 The Heathen Girl 125 Lily; or, Jesus Loves Me 126 Following the Lord 127 The Folded Lambs 128 The Swine 129 I Never Saw It Like That Before 130 The Story of Sylvia 131 Can He Save Me? 132 Christ Saves Us, Not the Cross 133 ‘Tis the Bible Now 134 The Rock and the Rods 135 A Cure for Backbiting 136 Past Work 137 Getting on 138 The Sand Garden 139 A Letter to Children 140 Mother, I Mean to Be a Missionary 141 The Traveler’s Guide 142 Jesus Our Friend 143 Oh, That I Could Grasp the Blessed Person of the Son of God! 144 A Vision of the Night 145 A Child’s Prayer 146 Self-Occupation 147 Christ an Example 148 A Song in the Wilderness 149 Children and Lambs 150 Harry; or, a Boy of God 151 Pilgrims 152 The Last Card Party 153 Belief, Not Feeling 154 A Simple Christian Life 155 Working Out Our Salvation 156 Four Solemn Considerations 157 Blind 158 The Writing on the Snow 159 The Scape-Goat