Category: HORATIO BONAR

  • THE WORLD PASSETH AWAY

    THE things that are seen are temporal. Ours is a dying world, and here we have no continuing city. But a few years,—it may be less,—and all things here are changed. But a few years,—it may be less,—and the Lord shall have come, and the last trumpet shall have sounded, and the great sentence shall…

  • WHITHER? WHITHER?

    IN the beginning of last century, an old American Christian died, leaving on his death-bed this message to his son,—“Remember that there is A LONG ETERNITY.” But this was not all. He laid upon his family the dying command, that the same message should be handed down to the next generation, and from that to…

  • I CAN’T LET GO

    THE vessel was pretty high out of the water, and there was no ladder, either of rope or iron, at his side for the poor lad to descend by, so as to reach the boat which lay below. The lad looked over and saw his position. There was the boat, and here was the slowly…

  • THE “LONG TIME”

    IT is the Lord Jesus Himself who has given us these words in one of His parables. He says: “After a long time the Lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.” (Matt. 25:19.) Thus, while in one place He speaks of “the little while,” in another He speaks of “the long time.” Little,…

  • INSTEAD OF ME

    MANY years ago, I was walking with a friend along the pleasant banks of a Scottish river, in one of the early months of summer, when the trees had just begun to show their fresh verdure and to offer us a shade from the sun. A man in rags came up to us begging. We…

  • WHAT IS MY HOPE?

    “I HOPED by this time to have been at the top,” said an old man, who had set out one pleasant autumn morning to climb the hill behind his dwelling. But he had mistaken the way, and was farther from the top than when he set out. He returned weary and disappointed. Like those of…

  • HOW SHALL I GO TO GOD?

    IT is with our sins that we go to God, for we have nothing else to go with that we can call our own. This is one of the lessons that we are so slow to learn; yet without learning this we cannot take one right step in that which we call a religious life.…