Gospel Awareness

The Gospel Way to Happiness "It is certain those are happy whom God loves; but the question is, how we poor sinners may come at this happiness? The gospel will resolve that question, for it tells us that Christ is the true and living way to the Father; the old way, the new way, the only way: that there is no coming to God as a Father, but by Jesus Christ the Mediator. That he is the door by whom we enter into covenant and communion with God; that he is the light to guide us in the way; that...

"That Gospel breathes peace and goodwill to man; its object is to chase away darkness from the human soul, and thence from the community, by the extensive diffusion of knowledge. It breathes the spirit of liberty in all things civil and religious; it calls on all men to consider this as their unalienable birthright and privilege; it awakens man to a deep sense of his dignity and worth as an immortal being; it brings health and salvation to his soul; it makes him the freedman of the Lord; it enjoins on all the subjects of God’s moral government, to “live...

"The Gospel possesses a secret virtue of indescribable efficacy, a warmth which influences the understanding and softens the heart; in meditating upon it, you feel as you do in contemplating the heavens. The Gospel is more than a book; it is a living thing, active, powerful, overcoming every obstacle in its way. See upon this table this book of books, I never cease reading it, and always with new delight."—Napoleon.

"There is a joy which contains the germ of all other joys—the joy of salvation. To know that our sins—our own sins—have been nailed to the cross of Christ; to know that we belong to our God for ever; to measure with the eye that grace which adopted us before the stars were brought forth, and which will still hold us in its keeping when the skies of today shall have ceased to shine for us; to contemplate that love which reaches, let me say, from eternity to eternity—from the eternity that has gone before to the eternity that is...

"Hear me! To Thee my soul in suppliance turneth,Like the lorn pilgrim on the sands accursed;For life's sweet waters, God! my spirit yearneth —Give me to drink! I perish here of thirst!" —Mary E. Hewitt   "There is an exciting element of this hunger and thirst after righteousness, or, what leads man to hunger and thirst after righteousness, a deep sense of guilt. Man feels he is miserable; he knows, and needs not to be told, that he is sinful, and he is therefore unhappy. His heart makes him feel he is miserable; his conscience tells him he is guilty;...