THE RELATION OF THE EPISTLES TO THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN. The relation of the First Epistle to the Fourth Gospel is that of an application...

QUESTION: Explain Christ's word's "I pray not for the world." (John 17:9). ANSWER:  They are not to be understood as an ...

There are two ways of professing holiness — the wise and the proper way, and the ostentatious and distasteful way. Christ did not say in a b...

[The Atonement] affords a basis for the salvation of such pious pagans as live up to their best light. 'They are saved through Christ t...

"Father, that which thou hast given me, I will that, where I am, they also may be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou ha...

In what sense may believers know the Comforter? Jesus, who sends Him, assured His disciples that they should know Him because of His intimat...

QUESTION: If the Lord Jesus wished to change the Sabbath from the seventh day to the first, why did he not himself do it? ANSWER: The day be...

"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you;...

QUESTION: What right have we to teach that Spirit-baptism is for purity? Where in his Gospel did Jesus declare this? ANSWER: I wish everybod...

QUESTION: Explain I Peter 3:19, Christ preaching to the spirits in prison. ANSWER: We have several times answered this extendedly. We now on...

Professor Austin Phelps remarks that next to the mystery of the Three Persons in the one divine nature is the habitation of the human spirit...

QUESTION: When was Jesus glorified? ANSWER: To glorify God or Christ is to make him known and acknowledged as being all that he claims to be...

Temptation is one of the conditions of human probation. We must be put to the proof so long as we are in this world. Character can be solidi...

Jesus Christ's method of conquest by love, disarming malice by turning the other cheek to the smiter, has been sneeringly criticized by ...

Sin paralyzes the will even where it fails to put a film over the eye. In the downfall of our race, in the transgression of our first parent...

At another vital point do all systems of natural religion fail utterly in affording to the guilty soul the assurance of forgiveness. Here is...

The Spirit gives reality to the Old Testament, the prophetic record, and to the New Testament, the historic record of Christ's life. He ...

[The Holy Spirit] is also styled the Spirit of truth. "What is truth?" Jesus Christ declined to answer Pilate's question, not ...

QUESTION: If only a sinless Divine Being can make an atonement for sin, and only the human Jesus died, how has an atonement been made? ANSWE...

Many modern Christians become so highly cultivated and refined in their taste as to rebuke the spontaneous hymn breaking out in the pews, in...