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Memoranda Sacra By: J. Rendel (James Rendel) Harris (1852-1941) |
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Sacra
BY J. RENDEL HARRIS FOURTH EDITION HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON MCMVII
TO MY BELOVED IN CHRIST JESUS It pleased God, in the days when we used to meet together in Cambridge
for His worship and for personal help, to draw us unitedly very close
to Himself, so that few of us are likely to forget the seasons of
refreshing which we enjoyed from His presence; and if, by His good
providence, any of us meet in these later days, one of the readiest
sentences to rise to our lips is the word, "Do you remember?" The
papers which make up this little volume were originally designed to the
same end, the remembrance of one another, and of the truths which God
taught us. How often were the pencilled notes of one and another put
into my hand after some bright and happy meeting, that a few copies
might be made and circulated! It is more than fourteen years since
this was first done, and the latest fragment of this book is more than
ten years old. You can see the creases of time in them, and, indeed,
they were never properly rounded. Take them, however, collected and
reprinted, as a token (the only token I can give) that the moth and
rust of time have not eaten away the affection which I had for you all,
and that those two thieves, Change and Death, which were so early busy
with us, have not been able to undermine the house of our Love, nor
abstract the treasure of our common Faith. J. RENDEL HARRIS.
CONTENTS
I. GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING
II. BELIEVING AND BECOMING
III. GLEAMING AS CRYSTAL
IV. HEART ENLARGEMENT
V. HE RESTORETH MY SOUL
VI. ADDITION AND MULTIPLICATION
VII. A CONFERENCE ON DEATH
VIII. CHRIST WILL TAKE ALL
IX. STRONG CRYING
X. THE SENTINEL OF THE HEART
XI. THY FATHER IN SECRET
XII. TESTS OF FAITH, LOVE, AND RIGHTNESS
XIII. THE ETERNAL IDEA
XIV. MORE LIGHT
XV. OVER OVERCOMING
GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He
also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and
deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage. Who is like unto Thee, O most mighty LORD, for verily Thy truth is on
every side. Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, or whither shall I
flee from Thy Presence? If I climb up into heaven, Thou art there. If
I go down unto the dead, Thou art there also. If I take the wings of
the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there
also shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.
Therefore when I sleep in the grave, I am in Thy cradle; and when I
shall arise up and awake, behold around me are Thy everlasting arms. So not alone we land upon that shore:
'Twill be as though we had been there before;
We shall meet more we know
Than we can meet below,
And find our rest like some returning dove,
And be at home at once with our Eternal Love. I GOD THE GOD OF THE LIVING[1] "Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he
calls the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. He is not a God of dead men, but of living men, for all live
unto Him." LUKE xx. 37, 38.
It is very likely that some of us may have been perplexed in the study
of this passage at the answer which the Lord Jesus gave to the
Sadducees, and doubtful as to whether their difficulties and questions
were fairly met by the text that He quoted. Certainly if we had been told to search the Scriptures for passages
bearing on the Future Life and the doctrine of the Resurrection, this
is about the last text that we should have thought of adducing; we
should never have detected in these verses a key that would unlock the
closed doors between two worlds and make sunlight be where previously
all was dark. And even if we had been pointed to this passage containing the
revelation of God at the bush, we should probably only have seen in it
another of the magnificent affirmations of the Divine self existence,
another of the grand "I Am's" which sound forth at times from the mount
of cloud and vision... Continue reading book >>
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