Christ and His Cross; Selections from Rutherford's Letters

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... SELECTIONS FROM RUTHERFORD'S LETTERS I THE BATTLE (i) 'Why 'twas all fighting, all their nobler life! All work was fighting, every harm--defeat, And every joy obtained--a victory.' R. Browning. My dearest in the Lord, stand fast in Christ; keep the faith; contend for Christ. Wrestle for Him, and take men's feud for God's favour; there is no comparison betwixt these. When our Lord is going west, the devil and world go east; and do you not know that it hath been ever this way betwixt God and the world--God drawing, and they holding, God 'yea, ' and the world 'nay'? But they fall on their back and are frustrate, and our Lord holdeth His grip. A Upon some weak, very weak experience, I am come to love a rumbling and raging devil best. Seeing we must have a devil to hold the saints waking, I wish a cumbersome devil, rather than a secure and sleeping one. Your Ladyship wrote to me that ye are yet an ill scholar. Madam, ye must go in at heaven's gates, and your book in your hand, still learning. I see that Christ can borrow a cross for some hours, and set His servants beside it, rather than under it, and make glory to Himself, and comfort to His children out of it. Christ is King of crosses, and King of devils. When He was in the grave, He came out, and brought the keys with Him. He is Lord Jailor; nay, what say I? He is Captain of the castle, and He hath the keys of death and hell. And what are our troubles but little deaths? and He who commandeth the great castle commandeth the little also. It is not long days, but good days, that make life glorious and happy; and our dear Lord is gracious to us, who shorteneth and hath made the way to glory shorter than it was; so that the crown that Noah did fight for five hundred years, children may now..