Scripture night lights

by Philip Bennett Power

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 ...unmoveable, and the hinder part be broken with the violence of the waves; then, whether it be by swimming, or on boards, or ou broken pieces of the ship, so it will come to pass that you shall all escape safe to land. Yes, keep from despah--have comfortable thoughts as to final safety; you may be as badly off now, as Lot was in Sodom; but the Lord knoweth how to deliver you. Perhaps you say, "Oh I am not one of the godly; if I were, I should have no fear; I am sure that God would then do everything for me;" but remember, how far from perfect, Lot was; and the God who was merciful in delivering him, will if you love him, not fail to deliver you. And now, our little night light is flickering and nearly burned out, and that, because the case is too small to hold all that we fain would put into it. Enough will it be, if it have helped you through a few hours of gloom--if it have encouraged you to commit yourself to God--if it have shown you that, what is impossible with men is possible with Him. Dear reader--believe, trust, and ask not " HOW." "And I will not send them away fasting, LEST they faint in the way." Matthew iv, 32.?HERE are certain small words which embody within themselves, not merely the turning points, but absolutely no inconsiderable part of the history of our lives. The word "If" has often been the turning point of a man's career--" if" he did this, he entered upon a successful course; "if" he did that, he went down-hill for the remainder of his days; almost all the great turning points of our lives involve an "if;" the one side of which is gain, and the other loss. But the word " Lest," seems to appropriate to itself the largest part of our waking life It may not o...

26 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Reverend Philip Bennett Power (1822-1899) was a prolific writer of evangelical tracts. He was born in Waterford in Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, then ordained. He moved to England, and began a career as a clergyman first in Leicester, then in London with two years at Holloway followed by seven as the incumbent of Woburn Chapel. He was the vicar of Christ Church for ten years. He published over a hundred collections of short religious tracts and individual longer tracts between 1864 and 1894. His works include: The Last Shilling; or, The Selfish Child: A Story Founded on Fact (1853), Breathings of the Soul (1855), 'I Will': The Determinations of the Man of God, as Found in Some of the 'I Wills' of the Psalms (1859), The Lost Sunbeam, the Shady Tree, the Woven Sunbeams (1866), Born With a Silver Spoon in His Mouth (1870), 'He's Overhead' (1871), The Oiled Feather (1871), The Feet of Jesus in Life, Death, Resurrection, and Glory (1872) and The One Moss-Rose (1872)