“The Man of Joys!” I venture thus to name the Christ of God. We do not often enough meditate upon the happiness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Surely it ill becomes us to waste a penny, an hour, or an opportunity. Let us be severely economical for the Lord our God. Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry. It opens his mouth and shuts his eyes and fires his heart and drowns his sense and makes his wisdom folly. Those who preach not the atonement exhibit a dumb and dummy gospel; a mouth
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