Drawn Low, but Not Empty

"A believer may at some time be drawn low, but he can never be drawn dry... his comforts may be like the widow's oil in the cruse, where only a little remains (1 Kings 17:12)... The Lord did put forth His power, though not in making the oil and meal to overflow... but in keeping it from wasting so as to be a constant supply unto her and the prophet's necessities in the extreme of famine."


- William Spurstowe (1605-1666) was an English puritan and Westminster Divine. He was part of a group of 5 presbyterians that wrote against prelacy under the name of Smectymnuus (being an acronym made up of the initials of their names, WS, or UUS, being the last part of the word). After being kicked out of his pulpit in 1662 for non-conformity, he would be instrumental in the building of 6 almshouses before his death, knowing intimately what poverty was.

Christ Saves those that Trust Him

"If I did not believe in the perseverance of the saints, I could no longer believe in the Saviour Himself. For is it not so that at our conversion we put ourselves with perfect confidence into the hands of Christ, to be saved by Him? –and salvation would scarce be worth having if, after giving up ourselves unto Him, He could in the end leave us."


- Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889), born of a well-cultured and wealthy Jewish family and brought up in rabbinical learning, became a Christian through reading the New Testament while studying medicine at the University of Pesth in Hungary. He spent the rest of his life writing in order "to show that the life and teaching of Jesus--His conception of the Kingdom of God and of the Messiahship--were absolutely opposed to the ideas and conceptions of His time and people." And what greater proof is there that Jesus' doctrine was truly revealed from heaven?