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287 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
This principle, drawn from Proverbs 26:27, establishes a sobering truth: every child of Adam, until renewed by Divine grace, presents to Omnipotence and Omniscience the same moral aspect.
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Exell identifies four formidable obstacles by which mortals attempt resistance to the Almighty's purposes.
Graciousness dissociated from strength carries its own formidable influence; strength dissociated from graciousness becomes mere force, bereft of those attributes which command the world's deepest confidence.
The distinction between these two gifts proves essential: instruction consists in the communication of right principles; counsel in the advice by which you may apply those principles practically.
They walk uprightly—their goodness is not stationary but progressive—and are consecrated to God's service, living temples of the Holy Ghost.
Religious instruction must uphold God's law as supreme, though these three need not contradict one another.
Clean hands may indicate abstinence from visible transgressions, yet a clean heart—*katharos*—concerns the inward disposition, the bias of the will, and the affections themselves.
An ancient philosopher observed, "There is nothing great on earth but man, and nothing great in man but his soul." How shall we measure a soul's worth?
"If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry" (Proverbs 6:30). Joseph S. Exell's 1887 treatment exposes sin's cunning architecture. Before transgression ripens into external action, sin deploys imagination, invention, and reason itself to justify the forbidden object—representing...
First, wealth itself is good—Elohim commands humanity to possess the earth and subdue it, and Scripture approves righteous acquisition.
Berlin, August 4, 1936. Jesse Owens stood at the edge of the long jump runway, the roar of one hundred thousand spectators pressing against him...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery...
In March 1907, sanitary engineer George Soper confronted Mary Mallon at a Manhattan townhouse with an alarming claim: she was spreading typhoid fever to every...
In the winter of 1943, the sound of a buzzer echoed through a narrow house at Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom —...
On March 20, 1852, a small Boston publishing house, John P. Jewett and Company, released a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet...
In a cramped, leaking shed behind the École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, Marie Curie bent over a steaming iron cauldron in the...
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged three Black men from a Memphis jail and shot them dead. Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune welcomed five little girls and her own son into a rented cottage in Daytona Beach, Florida. She had...
In the winter of 1943, Corrie ten Boom was a fifty-one-year-old unmarried watchmaker living above her family's shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. Jewish neighbors were vanishing...
The wealthy preserved winter ice and snow in cisterns to cool summer beverages.
Diligence stands opposed not merely to laziness, but equally to rashness—that premature and inconsiderate haste which ruins many endeavors.
This blessing represents a profound debt owed to godly parenthood.
The wise man offers five devastating consequences of adultery: it impoverishes men, threatens death, debauches the conscience with guilt, ruins reputation with perpetual infamy, and exposes the adulterer to the jealous husband's rage.