SPURGEONIC TONICS

GOOD BOY!....There is a story about a doctor at one of our hospitals, a year or two ago, he healed a dogs' broken leg and the grateful animal brought other dogs to have their broken legs healed, that was a good dog you say, but some of you are not half so good! You believe that Christ is blessing you, yet you never bring others to Him to be saved.

MEDITATE...."My meditation of Him will be sweet" of HIM that is, of the Well-beloved of the Father, of the Well- beloved of the church, of the Well-beloved of my own soul, of Him who loved me, in whose blood I have washed my robes and made them white. It is meditation of HIM that is sweet, not merely doctrines about Him, but of Him. Not merely of His work or His offices, but His own dear Self! there lies the sweetness of it. And the closer we come to His blessed Person, the more truly we have approached the very center of bliss.

THE GOSPEL....It is the word of God which saves souls, not our comment upon it, howsoever correct that comment may be, let us then be scrupulously careful to honour The Holy Ghost by taking the weapon which He has prepared for us, and believing fully in the divine inspiration of the sacred scriptures and expecting that God will prove their inspiration by their effect on the minds and hearts of men.

GREAT SINNER-GREAT SAVIOUR....Do not think of the sinner, or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of The Saviour.

GUIDANCE....Is there anybody here who is going out of this tabernacle to a place where he ought not go? Will he pray first? he knows he cannot ask a blessing on it and therefore he ought not to go there. Go nowhere where you cannot go after prayer, this is the best guide in your choice of where you should go.

PRAYER....No man has so great need to pray as the man who does no care to pray. When you can pray and long to pray, why then you will pray. But when you cannot pray and do not wish to pray, then you must pray, or evil will come of it. He is on the verge of ruin who forgets the mercy-seat.

IN THE GREATNESS....of our trouble there may often be room for the greater display of the goodness of God.