THE REV. THOMAS CONNELLAN, - The Gospel Magazine

More documents

Recommendations

Info

I The Gospel M agaZ'tne. 521 l I, I I I I-- I " Oh! what wonders love has done! But how little understood! God well knows, and God alone, What produced that sweat of blood! Who can thy deep wonders see? Wonderful Gethsemane ! " There my God bore all my guilt: This through grace can be believed: But the horrors which He felt Are too vast to be conceived; None can penetrate through thee, Doleful, dark Gethsemane ! "Gloomy garden, on thy beds, Washed by Kedron's waters foul, Grow most rank and bitter weeds: Think on these, my sinful soul ! Wouldst thou sin's dominion flee? Call to mind Gethsemane ! "Eden, from each flowery bed, Did for man short sweetness breathe; Soon by Satan's counsel led, Man wrought sin, and sin wrought death: But of life the healing tree Grows in rich Gethsemane. " Sins against a holy God; Sins against His righteous laws; Sins against His love, His blood; Sins against His name and cause: Sins immense as is the sea Hide me, 0 Gethsemane! "Saviour, all the stone remove From my flinty, frozen heart; Thaw it with the beams of love, Pierce it with the blood-dipped dart. Wound the heart that wounded Thee; Melt it in Gethsemane!" The Mount of Olives, at foot of which lay Gethsemane-the Oil-press-is full of sacred memories associated with the inner life of Jesus. Indeed, that Mount occupies in both the Old and New Testaments the most eminent place among the many mountains mentioned in the inspired writings in connection with Israel, both national and spiritual. The reader is invited to note the New Testament references to Olivet in their relation to the personal
522 The Gospel Magazine. history of Jesus on earth. They bring home to the hearts of His followers a sweet and powerful sense of His adorable Person, of His most real identification with His people and their present condition, and of His Divine resources to meet all their needf!. To guide the mind in this holy study the following references may be cited :-Matt. xxiv. 1-4; John viii. 1, 2; Luke xix. 37; and Acts i. 9-12. Others will suggest themselves. This topical association of Jesus and His great work of redemption on earth, together with the remembrance of His being" the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever," is well calculated to assist our apprehension of Him in Whom we have a High Priest who can be-and is "touched with the feeling of our infirmities," and Who" was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Clifton. J. O. THE DIVINE· PREACHER. READER, let it be your wisdom, in all your meditations on the sufferings and exercises of Christ, to connect with them the cause, "He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and by His stripes we are healed." And while we think of those things, let us in all our lesser exercises bless God, when at anv time called to the fellowship in suffering of His Son Jesus Christ. "My brethren (saith James), count it all joy, when ye fall into divers temptations." And, no doubt, when the strength of Christ is made perfect in our weakness, there is great cause of joy, to glory even in our infirmities, when the power of Christ doth rest upon us. Reader, think what a sermon Christ's first sermon was, which he preached after His ordination by the unction of the Holy Ghost, in the Jewish synagogue (Luke iv.). Oh, that all preachers of the Word of God were to follow Christ's example, and thereby prove that the Spirit of the Lord, according to the measure of the gift of Christ, was upon them. Might we not hope, that from the same blessed cause, as by the Master so by His servants, gracious effects would follow; and the Lord's cause would be glorified in the earth? But let all such not fail to do as Christ did. However offensive to carnal reason, and to the free-will of men, let the sovereignty of God be proclaimed. Many widows, and many lepers, there may be in Israel now, as of old; but until God send His Word, there will be no commission to heal. Oh, do Thou, blessed Jesus, Who in the days of Thy flesh didst heal all the diseases of Thy people, now in the day of Thy power manifest the sovereignty of Thy grace and salvation, and preach by Thy blessed Spirit, as then in the synagogues of Galilee. Amen.-Rev. Dr. Hawker.
Page 1 and 2: THE REV. THOMAS CONNELLAN, EDITOR O
Page 3 and 4: 514 The Gospel Magazine. and ensign
Page 5 and 6: 516 The Gospel Magazine. THE PERSON
Page 7 and 8: 518 The Gospel Magazine. ever exper
Page 9: 520 The Gospel Magazint. Therefore
Page 13 and 14: 524 The Gospel Magazine. bestow; Hi
Page 15 and 16: 526 The GosPel Magazine. "WHERE HAS
Page 17 and 18: 528 The Gospel Magazine. my morsel
Page 19 and 20: 530 The Gospel Magaz~ne. appeals to
Page 21 and 22: 532 The GosPel Magazine. His love l
Page 23 and 24: . 534 The Gospel Magazine. Quick re
Page 25 and 26: 536 The Gospc.t M agaz~ne. These me
Page 27 and 28: 538 The Gosp~l Magazine, him a perj
Page 29 and 30: 540 The Gospel Magazine. and ponder
Page 31 and 32: 542 The Gospel Magazine. ~trmon~ an
Page 33 and 34: 544 The Gospel Magazine. Look at th
Page 35 and 36: 546 The Gospel.Magazine. have prese
Page 37 and 38: 548 The Gospel Magazine. There is j
Page 39 and 40: 550 The Gospel Magazine. all who we
Page 41 and 42: - 552 The Gospel Magazine. THE PREC
Page 43 and 44: 554 The Gospel Magazine. artisans o
Page 45 and 46: :556 The Gospel Magazine. the Lord
Page 47 and 48: ------------ ----- 558 The Gospel M
Page 49 and 50: 560 The Gospel Magazine. times ten
Page 51 and 52: 562 The Gospel Magazine. ADDRESS BY
Page 53 and 54: 564 The Gospel M agazzne. " We went
Page 55 and 56: 566 The Gospel Magazine. before God
Page 57 and 58: 568 .The Gospet Magaz1,ne. seem, to
Page 59 and 60: ~.....:...._-- ~-~------- -~-~-----
Page 61 and 62:
572 The Gospel Magazine. of God the
Page 63 and 64:
574 The Gospel Magazine. A MONTHLY
Page 65:
576 The Gospel Magazine. a brief ac
show all

THE REV. THOMAS CONNELLAN, - The Gospel Magazine

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?