Bet. 11. T. Gospel. English Selection . 187.

BEING AN ARRANGEMENT

OF THE

WORDS OF OUR SAVIOR,

-UNDER-

APPROPRIATE HEADINGS,

WITH A FULL INDEX.

PREPARED

BY FRANK RUSSELL,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

PRINTED BY KALAMAZOO PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1875.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, BY FRANK RUSSELL,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

"It is written that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."

Luke 4: 4.

"The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life."

"If ye continue in my word, then ciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth shall make you free."

แ

John 6: 63.

are ye my distruth, and the John 8: 31.

but my Matt. 13: 31.

word

Heaven and earth shall pass away, shall not pass away."

"Blessed are they that hear the word of God and

keep it."

Luke 11: 28.

gift

Mrs. J. E. Sumner

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INTRODUCTORY.

Jesus spake as one having authority; he spake as never man spake. His words are spirit and they are life.

What he says, then, upon the various subjects that frequently fill our minds will be most profitable to all who are striving to know and to follow him.

To show what he teaches is the object of this volume. It has been simply a growth of compilations springing from the demand which the Christian and teacher must feel in order to know and to communicate the truth as it is in Christ.

The difficulties, doubts, trials, cares, sickness and sorrows prevalent in every parish, have been the experiences which have influenced the gradual arrangement of these topics, and this final offering to a more extended usefulness.

The arrangement is simple. The utterances of the Savior have been classified, that those per