EARLY in his reign Solomon was presented with one of the most momentous and alluring choices that have confronted any man: the Lord said to him: “Ask what I shall give thee”. Solomon’s choice was very prudent: “Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this peopl…
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WE have dwelt at some length upon the influence of family life, because it appeals to us as the right approach to the subject of training the young. There is no influence to equal that of a good home. One of the major tragedies of our time is the disruption of home life. Its disastrous consequences …
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PSALM 78, which portrays in such vivid fashion God’s goodness to Israel from the days of Egypt down to the time of David, indicates in its opening verses the object of the recital: the knowledge of past favours transmitted to the psalmist and his contemporaries must in its turn be handed on to…
Scripture is significant in its silences no less than in the information conveyed. The common run of biographers would have given us a mass of detail about the early years of Christ; the four evangelists are strikingly reticent. We are grateful to Matthew and Luke for their nativity narrat…
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