Things New and Old, A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, FOR THE LAMBS AND SHEEP OF THE FLOCK OF CHRIST. "Feed the flock of God."-1 Peter v. 2. VOL. IX. LONDON: G. MORRISH, 24, WARWICK LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. W. H. BROOM, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1866. CONTENTS. PAGE Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm "Arise, go up to Bethel"...... Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm Preaching Christ: What is it? (Part II.) Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm.. Preaching Christ: What is it? (Part III) Josiah and his Times (Part II.) Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm Josiah and his Times (Part III) ... Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm Josiah and his Times (Part IV.)...... Meditations on the Eighty-fourth Psalm Wisdom's Children: Who are they?.... Josiah and his Times (Part v.) Things New and Ob. CHRIST IN THE VESSEL. (Mark iv. 35-41.) "MAN'S extremity is God's opportunity." This is a very familiar saying. It often passes amongst us; and, no doubt, we fully believe it; but yet when we find ourselves brought to our extremity, we are often very little prepared to count on God's opportunity. It is one thing to utter or hearken to a truth, and another thing to realize the power of that truth. It is one thing, when sailing over a calm sea, to speak of God's ability to keep us in a storm, and it is another thing altogether to prove that ability when the storm is actually raging around us. And yet God is ever the same. In the storm and in the calm, in sickness and in health, in pressure and in ease, in poverty and in abundance "The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever"— the same grand reality for faith to lean upon, cling to, and draw upon, at all times, and under all circumstances. But, alas! alas! we are unbelieving. source of the weakness and failure. 66 Here lies the We are perplexed and agitated when we ought to be calm and confiding; we are casting about when we ought to be counting on God; we are beckoning to our partners" when we ought to be "looking unto Jesus." Thus it is we lose immensely, and dishonour the Lord in our ways. Doubtless, there are few things for which we have to be more deeply humbled than our tendency to distrust the Lord, when difficulties and trials present themselves; and assuredly we grieve the heart of Jesus by thus distrusting Him, for distrust must ( |