THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY COMPANION. THE FOLLOWING, BEING A PORTION OF THE CONTENTS, WILL SHOW THE ARRANGEMENT AND PLAN OF THE WORK. Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh Twelfth Fifteenth Sixteenth Morning-Scripture given by inspiration, Evening -The divine teacher, Evening-Purity from idols, Morning-True Worshippers, Morning-God all seeing, Evening-God manifest in the flesh, Morning-Persons of Trinity equal in glory, Evening-The temple of God, Morning-Immutability of counsel, Morning-Creator and preserver, Evening-Remember now thy Creator,' Morning-Righteousness of providence, Morning-Dependence on God, Morning-Gratitude to the Supreme Ruler, Evening-Universal disposer of events, Morning-Vanity of human devices, Seventeenth. Morning-The omnipotent reigneth, Evening-Nothing too hard for God, Evening-Not live by bread alone, Morning-Know not what shall be on the morrow, Evening All things work together for good,' Rom. viii. 28. 37 Rev. xix. 6. Jer. xxxiii. 27. 39 41 Mat. vi. 11. 43 44 46 47 James i. 17. 48 Mat. vi. 26. 50 Twenty-first Morning-Man made after the image of God, Twenty-second Morning-Immortality of the soul, Twenty-third ... Evening-Male and female made after the image Morning-Garden of Eden, Twenty-fourth Morning-The forbidden tree, Evening-The first sin, Twenty-eighth Morning-Hiding from God, Evening-Omnipresence of Deity, Twenty-ninth Morning-Reign of sin and death, Evening-Righteousness and life through Jesus Christ, Gen. iii. 24. Mat. xi. 28.. Rom. v. 12. 1 Cor. xv. 22. Gen. iii. 8. Gen. iii. 13. 62 Eccl. vii. 20. Jer. xvii. 9. Ezek. xxxvi. 26. 80 Rom. v. 14. Rom. v. 17. Isa. i. 4. Evening-Redemption from the curse of the law, Gal. iii. 13. 83 Evening-Blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin, 1 John i. 7.. 85 87 89 90 91 93 94 96 97 98 ... Morning-No sin charged to God's elect, Morning-Marvellous love to a guilty world, John iii. 16. 1 Tim. ii. 5. John v. 23. Rom. viii. 33. 100 1 Peter i. 2. Evening Christ worshipped by angels, Morning The great Prophet, Evening-Danger of refusing him that speaketh, Heb. xii. 25. Morning-Sudden appearance in the temple, Mal. iii. 1. Morning-God glorified in mercy and judgment, Morning-Prayer for divine light, Evening-The word hid in the heart, Morning-Treasure of wisdom and knowledge, Morning-Wisdom crieth at the gates, Morning-God reproving that sinners may give ear, Prov. i. 23. 133 Evening -Christ bearing our griefs, Twenty-second Morning-The serpent cursed, Twenty-third Morning-Christ an offering for sin, Evening -Christ, holy and higher than the heavens, Twenty-fourth Morning-The man of sorrows despised and re Morning-The cross the Christian's glory,. Evening-The end for which the Saviour suffered, 1 Pet. iii. 18. Twenty-sixth Morning-Saints in covenant with God by sacrifice, Ps. 1. 5. Twenty-seventh Morning-Without shedding of blood no remission 1 Evening-Cleansing and atoning blood, Twenty-eighth Morning-God will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. xxxiv. 7. Gen. iii. 15. 140 Ps. xl. 7, 8. 142 Isa. liii. 10. 143 Heb. vii. 26. 144 Isa. liii. 3. 145 Page Morning-The flesh warring against the Spirit, Rom. vii. 21.. 165 Morning-Lord's prayer for his people, Ps. li. 10.. John xvii. 24. Heb. vii. 25. 167 168 1.169 171 193 194 Evening Christ's kingdom not of this world, John xix. 19. Isa. xxxiii. 22. Morning-Every thought brought under obedience, 2 Cor. x. 5. 195 196 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. Rev. J. Forbes, D.D., LL.D., Glasgow............ January, 1 to THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY COMPANION. FIRST DAY.-MORNING. JANUARY. The doctrine of creation, in the proper sense of the term, depends upon the testimony of in In the beginning God created the heavens and spiration for its proof. Evidences of design so the earth,' Gen. i. 1. THE work of creation, implying the production of all things out of nothing, constitutes an amazing operation of the power of God. And as the universe arose at his command, its continued duration is absolutely dependent upon his will. Nothing in heaven or on earth is independent or self-existent; for this constitutes the incommunicable excellence of him who alone hath immortality, who dwelleth in light which is inaccessible to mortal eye, and full of glory. As to man he is of yesterday, and knows nothing. Tracing back the annals of time, we arrive at no very extended era at the foundation of the proudest monarchies, and the most venerated institutions. Within a circle, somewhat more enlarged, we embrace the origin of the globe itif, and of the surrounding heavens; when the began to roll his earliest circuit, and the Toon to measure forth her appointed revolutons. Beyond this, and within a range, however, comparatively great, still finite, we reach de era when the angelic hosts were called into istence. But the years of the right hand of The Most High who can number? He inhabiteth ternity and its praises. Uncreated, unlimited, and independent, as there shall never arrive a period in the exhaustless flow of the cycles of faturity when he shall cease to be; neither was there ever a period, in all the remote tracts of Fast duration, when he began to exist. "I am the First, and I the Last; Th' Almighty God, who was, and is, copiously exhibited throughout all the departments of the universe, unquestionably proclaim to every reflective mind the existence of God. But it was long a question, with some of the most eminent philosophers of antiquity, whether matter was not essentially eternal; and whether God ought not to be viewed rather as the contriver of the universe out of elements already existing, than in the strict and proper signification of the term, its Creator, or absolute Author. To the devout student of revelation there is no longer any darkness resting upon this subject; for through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God; so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.' The design of this great work was to display the glory of its adorable Author; and how fully it was fitted to secure this end, we may even yet understand, notwithstanding the extent to which it has been marred by the influence of sin. The wisdom, the power, and the majesty of God, every where appear in the astonishing magnificence and sublimity of those vast and harmonious arrangements which constitute what have been called the laws of the material universe. His goodness, liberality, and benevolence, together with the all-comprehending and ceaseless assiduity of his providence, shine forth not less conspicuously in connection with the organization, the preservation, and the enjoyments common to the endless variety of the tribes of animate creatures which people the earth, the air, and the sea. It has been justly observed, that though pain and suffering are incident to the creation, it cannot A 1415 |