Category: Writings by John Thomas Mawson
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The Conscience must be Reached, by John Thomas Mawson,
“They were pricked in the heart, and said … What shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). It is an absolute necessity that the conscience should be awakened by the truth of God if men are to be truly converted, and the servants of Christ should see that their energies are divinely…
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The Confounding of the Critics, by John Thomas Mawson,
The Scripture says that Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in his words and his deeds (Acts 7). But the “higher critics” discovered 1800 years after that testimony was borne to the learning of Moses that he did not know even how to…
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The Conflict, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Behold, Satan has desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee” (Luke 22:31-32). And what can Satan do against the Lord’s intercession? One thing is certain, he can never get ahead of our Lord. The intercession comes before the temptation, for…
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The Coming of the Lord for His Saints, by John Thomas Mawson,
“I JESUS have sent mine angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. And the Spirit and the bride say, COME … He that testifies these things says, Surely I come quickly. Amen.…
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The Coming Again of the Lord Jesus, by John Thomas Mawson,
A Bible Study It would not be right to say that the coming again of the Lord Jesus will be two comings, yet it is clear from Scripture that it will be in two stages. The first will be His coming FOR His saints, the second His coming WITH them.…
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The Closing Testimony, by John Thomas Mawson,
An Address on the Coming Again of the Lord Jesus “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify to you these things in the churches I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and Morning Star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let…
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The Church – What is it?, by John Thomas Mawson,
Are we interested in this great subject? A young Christian said to me, “It does not appeal to me at all, I am sorry, but it is a side of things I don’t understand.” That same day another young Christian said, “I hope you will speak to us about the…
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The Church, by John Thomas Mawson,
The first time the church is mentioned in Scripture is in Matthew 16 where, in response to Peter’s confession of the Lord, He answered, “Upon this rock I will build My church.” The building began at Pentecost, and has continued ever since, and every one that has believed the gospel of our…
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The Christian Assembly, by John Thomas Mawson,
Some Notes of an Address on 1 Corinthians The Christian Assembly is a community formed upon earth by God Himself, for His own pleasure. It is the ecclesia of God, that is, His called-out assembly; it is “God’s husbandry,” “God’s building,” “God’s temple” (chapter 3:9, 16). It has been called out…
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The Christian and the Trades Union, by John Thomas Mawson,
R.W.W. writes asking whether he, a Christian man employed on the railway, ought to join the Trades Union in view of the pressure that it is threatened will be brought to bear upon him to make him do so. He appeals to us not to tell him that it is…
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The Cause of the Troubles, by John Thomas Mawson,
I am writing on board ship, en voyage to Australia, and find, as I have found before at sea, that in no other circumstances are people more ready to open up their thoughts as to important questions. The troubled state of the world seems to have made them more ready for this…
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The Bright Shining of a Candle, by John Thomas Mawson,
“The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole…
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The Briar and its Blooming, by John Thomas Mawson,
I have just received, in this far away corner of the earth, a copy of the October Number of that useful magazine Simple Testimony, and have read with pleasure and profit a paper in it by the Editor under the above title. I am sitting in a garden of roses,…
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The Bottle or the Spring, by John Thomas Mawson,
Hagar’s bottle soon ran dry in the desert, and it may be that her distress and disappointment thereat blinded her eyes to an unfailing spring that was close at hand. Anyhow, she is a forlorn and pathetic figure crouching on those desert sands, about a bow-shot from her dying lad.…
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The Blowing of the Silver Trumpets, by John Thomas Mawson,
“And the LORD spake to Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall…
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The Bible, Article 2, & A Divinely Perfect Record by John Thomas Mawson,
Many are the glowing tributes that are being paid to the Bible in this tercentenary year of the Authorized Version of it. From every point of view it commands admiration, and all classes seem more or less eager to praise it. This, in a sense, is a refreshing change from…
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The Bible, Article 1, by John Thomas Mawson,
If I were shown a picture in mosaic, a supreme work of art, and were told that many artists had had a hand in its production, but that very few of them were known to each other, and that they lived in places widely separated, and that each had concentrated…
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The Best Robe, by John Thomas Mawson,
With considerable pleasure we listened to an old French missionary as he spoke of his labours among Mohammedans in Northern Africa. One day in the market place of the town in which he was living, he told us, a crowd of men gathered round him with many questions. Eager to…
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The Benediction, by John Thomas Mawson,
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13-14). Once I was at a meeting at which an old Christian, thinking that it had lasted long enough, said the Benediction, supposing that that would…
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The Beloved, by John Thomas Mawson,
An Address on the Epistle of Jude The “Beloved” are the precious wheat among the tares, the sons of God in the midst of a perverse generation. Let no one imagine that they are few in number. They are a great host. It is probable that there are more on…
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