Category: Writings by John Thomas Mawson
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Is our Faith the Ground of our Peace or the Cause of our Blessing?, by John Thomas Mawson,
Dear Mr Editor — In Mr. Boyd’s valuable paper in April Issue of Scripture Truth he makes one or two statements that seem to me to be open to question, any way in some cases. He cites the case of one who believes the tidings of the death and resurrection…
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Is it Possible to be Without Anxiety?, by John Thomas Mawson,
None of us who have believed that God sent His only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him can ever doubt His love to us; but we may easily treat that love as though it had only secured future blessing for us and was entirely indifferent as…
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Is God to Blame?, by John Thomas Mawson,
We have met men who have denied the goodness of God because of the present sorrows of humanity, and we know others who have misgivings and much perplexity of mind because He has not brought the war to a close by some signal mark of His displeasure upon the guilty…
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Invulnerable, by John Thomas Mawson,
“Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God … upon this Rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:16). I want to speak to you of the absolute stability of that which God does, and to show you…
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Investigating Spiritism, by John Thomas Mawson,
We quote from a Glasgow Journal, “The Church of Scotland’s investigation of Spiritualism has commenced. Yesterday a party of ministerial investigators, comprising many eminent ecclesiastics, assembled in Glasgow, and were present at two séances which had been arranged for the express purpose of enabling them to embark upon the closest…
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“In the Midst”, by John Thomas Mawson,
“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). There are times in one’s Christian experience when some great truth of God comes home with irresistible power to the soul and leaves an impression there that can never…
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“In Sure and Certain Hope”, by John Thomas Mawson,
[Extract from the account of the burial of H.D.R.Jameson] “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which…
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In Secret, by John Thomas Mawson,
Acres upon acres of peach trees stretched themselves upon the hillsides of a fertile valley through which we were speeding in the Sydney — Melbourne express. A beautiful sight were those trees, clothed in pink and white blossom from the topmost branches of them to the lowest, and standing as…
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“In Holy Splendour”, by John Thomas Mawson,
I had been sighing over the dull, drab, ordinary sort of Christian living that seems to characterize the most of us who profess the Name of the Lord, and praying that there might be revived in our souls a holy enthusiasm for Him and His interests. But by what means…
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India, by John Thomas Mawson,
“And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which…
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Incidents and Illustrations, by John Thomas Mawson,
It Passeth Knowledge We were talking together, a young man in deep soul trouble and I, and I quoted to him the wonderful words from Isaiah 53: “He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes…
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“In Christ”, by John Thomas Mawson,
Does the illustration illustrate? Two contradictory statements were made at Bible readings by different speakers. I place them side by side and ask for your kind comments thereon. Statement No. 1Somebody says, slipping a letter into a book, “That is how we are IN CHRIST, hidden in Him.” All I…
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“I Have Fought the Good Fight”, by John Thomas Mawson,
On the evening of July 19th last [1943], John T. Mawson, the beloved Editor of this Magazine, drew his last breath, and “absent from the body” was “present with the Lord.” For a number of years he had suffered more or less from asthma, and on a number of occasions…
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If Anyone Minister, by John Thomas Mawson,
“If anyone minister — as of strength which God supplies; that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen” (1 Peter 4:11, New Translation). To minister is not to preach or to teach,…
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“I Don’t Want It”, by John Thomas Mawson,
A mother had taught her little boy, “The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want,” as a morning text, and in the evening she asked him if he could repeat it. He immediately complied with, “The Lord is my Shepherd. So I don’t want it.” It was not the…
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“I Believe God”, by John Thomas Mawson,
Acts 27 Two hundred and seventy-six souls on board a doomed vessel, and every one of them hopeless and panic stricken but Paul. What was it that made him the one man in that crowd that could impart comfort to it? He could say without a tremor or doubt, “I…
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“I am your Man”, by John Thomas Mawson,
There lies the helpless cripple; for thirty-eight years no life or strength had quickened those palsied limbs into motion, and yet he had hoped, with a wonderful persistency, to be made whole. For did he not lie close to that strange pool which, troubled by an angel at certain seasons,…
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“I Acknowledged … Thou Forgavest”, by John Thomas Mawson,
Next to the blessedness of forgiving, which belongs, of course, to God, comes the blessedness of being forgiven. What words can describe it? The quietness after the storm, the relief after oppression, the deep, holy peace that fills the heart as the sense of forgiveness steals over it! To sink…
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How to Save Others and Glorify God, by John Thomas Mawson,
(Jude 20-25) “But ye, Beloved, Building Up Yourselves in Your Most Holy Faith” THIS IS THE WAY BY WHICH THE DEVIL IS OVERCOME. “If ye continue in My word,” said the Lord Jesus, “then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you…
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How to Overcome the Devil, by John Thomas Mawson,
(Judges 4:1-16) The Canaanites, with Sisera as the captain of their hosts, are figurative of the devil and his power, and we shall see in the victory of Deborah and Barak the way in which the devil has been, and still may be, a defeated foe. There are several features…
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