The Lord My Portion Octavius Winslow
The Lord My Portion or, Daily Need Divinely Supplied by Octavius Winslow who was ordained as a pastor in 1833 in New York. He later moved to England where he became one of the most valued nonconformist ministers of the nineteenth century, largely due to the earnestness of his preaching and the excellence of his prolific writings. He held pastorates in Leamington Spa, Bath, and Brighton. He was also a popular speaker for special occasions, such as the opening of C. H. Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in 1861. After a short illness, he died on March 5, 1878, and was buried in Abbey Cemetery, Bath. Winslow wrote more than forty books, in which he promoted an experimental knowledge of the precious truths of God.
The Lord My Portion or, Daily Need Divinely Supplied by Octavius Winslow who was ordained as a pastor in 1833 in New York. He later moved to England where he became one of the most valued nonconformist ministers of the nineteenth century, largely due to the earnestness of his preaching and the excellence of his prolific writings. He held pastorates in Leamington Spa, Bath, and Brighton. He was also a popular speaker for special occasions, such as the opening of C. H. Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle in 1861. After a short illness, he died on March 5, 1878, and was buried in Abbey Cemetery, Bath.
Winslow wrote more than forty books, in which he promoted an experimental knowledge of the precious truths of God.
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And for what intent are all the <strong>Lord</strong>'s loving corrections and<br />
faithful rebukes--His measured, though often painful, and even<br />
crushing afflictions--but to bring back our wandering hearts to Himself?<br />
O blossoming rod, O sweet bitter, O bright cloud, O loving, gentle<br />
chastening, that arrests my wanderings, hedges my path so that I<br />
cannot find my lovers, and turns my feet back to His ways of<br />
pleasantness and to His paths of peace. "He restores my soul, He leads<br />
me in the paths of righteousness, for His name's sake."<br />
THE LORD MY LIGHT<br />
"<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lord</strong> is my portion, says my soul."<br />
"<strong>The</strong> <strong>Lord</strong> is my light."--Psalm 27:1<br />
Without approaching the Pantheistic idea that all nature is God, the<br />
Christian can trace God and Christ in all nature; and affirm that, the<br />
religion which glows in the sunbeam, sparkles in the dew drop,<br />
breathes from the floweret, is the religion of Christ; because, material<br />
though the object be, it yet shows forth the glory of God, images some<br />
feature of Christ's person, illustrates some truth of His word, and<br />
inculcates some lesson of His gospel. Nature, more true to God than<br />
man, ever rises above and beyond itself, elevating the renewed and<br />
reflective soul from matter to mind, and from mind to spirit, until,<br />
quickened with a life from God, the soul soars to God through Christ, to<br />
find its study, happiness, and repose in His infinite fullness as that<br />
fullness is embodied and revealed in the person and work of the <strong>Lord</strong><br />
Jesus.<br />
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