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41.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 3 - The Lover Wooing - part 3
      The Glory-Coloured Thread. It is a relief to turn now to the chief figure in this tapestried picture of John's weaving. Here are glory-coloured threads of bright yellow. They easily stand out, thrown in relief both by the pleasing blues and the disturbing blacks. It is the figure of the Man on the errand, intent on His wooing, absorbed in His gr ...read more

42.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 4 - Closer Wooing
      An Evening with Opening Hearts: the Story of a Supper and a Walk in the Moonlight and the Shadows Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, And past those noised Feet A Voice comes yet more fleet-- "Lo, naught contents thee, who content'st not Me." --"The Hound of Heaven." "I came forth ...read more

43.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 5 - The Greatest Wooing
      A Night and a Day With Hardening Hearts: the Story of Tender Passion and of a Terrible Tragedy "Now of that long pursuit Comes on at hand the bruit; That Voice is round me like a bursting sea: 'And is thy earth so marred, Shattered in shard on shard? Lo, all things fly thee, for thou fliest Me! Strange, piteous, futile, thing! Wherefore ...read more

44.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 6 - An Appointed Tryst Unexpectedly Kept
      A Day of Startling Joyous Surprises "Halts by me that footfall: Is my gloom, after all, Shade of His hand outstretched caressingly? 'Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, I am He whom thou seekest! Thou drawest love from thee, who drawest Me.'" --"The Hound of Heaven. "After I am raised up I will go before you into Galilee."--Mark xiv. 28. ...read more

45.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 7 - Another Tryst
      A Story of Fishing, of Guests at Breakfast, and of a Walk and Talk by the Edge of Blue Galilee "I come unto you."--John xiv. 18. "Lo, I am with you all the days."--Matthew xxviii. 20. Another Tryst (John xxi.) Jesus Unrecognised. John's story is done. And it is well done. With the skill of a tried jurist he has drawn up a clear fu ...read more

46.) Quiet Talks on John's Gospel 8 - Footnotes
      [1] John i. 35-42. [2] i. 1-18. [3] i. 19-xii. 50. [4] Chapters xiii.-xvii. [5] Chapters xviii.-xix. [6] Chapters xx.-xxi. [7] Colossians i. 15-17. [8] Philippians ii. 6-8. [9] Ephesians i.19-23. [10] Revelation i. 13-18. [11] i. 1-18. [12] i. 19-xii. 50. [13] Chapters xiii.-xvii. [14] Chapters xviii.-xix. [15] Chapter xx. [16] Chapt ...read more

47.) Quiet Talks on Prayer - Table Of Contents
      Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. Gordon Author of "Quiet Talks on Power," and "Quiet Talks about Jesus", etc. Copyright, 1904, by Fleming H. Revell Company Contents     Table Of Contents A. The Meaning and Mission of Prayer     1. Prayer the Greatest Outlet of Power ...read more

48.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 1 - Prayer the Greatest Outlet of Power
      Five Outlets of Power. A great sorrow has come into the heart of God. Let it be told only in hushed voice--one of His worlds is a prodigal! Hush your voice yet more--ours is that prodigal world. Let your voice soften down still more--we have consented to the prodigal part of the story. But, in softest tones yet, He has won some of us back with H ...read more

49.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 2 - Prayer the Deciding Factor in a Spirit Conflict
      A Prehistoric Conflict. In its simplest meaning prayer has to do with a conflict. Rightly understood it is the deciding factor in a spirit conflict. The scene of the conflict is the earth. The purpose of the conflict is to decide the control of the earth, and its inhabitants. The conflict runs back into the misty ages of the creation time. Th ...read more

50.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 3 - The Earth, the Battle-Field in Prayer
      Prayer a War Measure. This world is God's prodigal son. The heart of God's bleeds over His prodigal. It has been gone so long, and the home circle is broken. He has spent all the wealth of His thought on a plan for winning the prodigal back home. Angels and men have marvelled over that plan, its sweep, its detail, its strength and wisdom, its te ...read more

51.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 4 - Does Prayer Influence God?
      How God Gives. Some one may object to all this that the statements of God's word do not agree with this point of view. At random memory brings up a few very familiar passages, frequently quoted. "Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and will shew thee great things, and difficult, that thou knowest not."[9] "And call upon Me in the day of tro ...read more

52.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 5 - Why the Results Fail
      Breaking with God. God answers prayer. Prayer is God and man joining hands to secure some high end. He joins with us through the communication of prayer in accomplishing certain great results. This is the main drive of prayer. Our asking and expecting and God's doing jointly bring to pass things that otherwise would not come to pass. Prayer chan ...read more

53.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 6 - Why the Results are Delayed
      God's Pathway to Human Hearts. God touches men through men. The Spirit's path to a human heart is through another human heart. With reverence be it said, yet with blunt plainness that in His plan for winning men to their true allegiance God is limited by the human limitations. That may seem to mean more than it really does. For our thought of th ...read more

54.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 7 - The Great Outside Hindrance
      The Traitor Prince. There remains yet a word to be said about hindrances. It is a most important word; indeed the climactic word. What has been said is simply clearing the way for what is yet to be said. A very strange phase of prayer must be considered here. Strange only because not familiar. Yet though strange it contains the whole heart of th ...read more

55.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 8 - The "How" of Relationship
      God's Ambassadors. If I had an ambition to be the ambassador of this country to our mother-country, there would be two essential things involved. The first and great essential would be to receive the appointment. I would need to come into certain relation with our president, to possess certain qualifications considered essential by him, and to s ...read more

56.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 9 - The "How" of Method
      Touching the Hidden Keys. One of the most remarkable illustrations in recent times of the power of prayer, may be found in the experience of Mr. Moody. It explains his unparalleled career of world-wide soul winning. One marvels that more has not been said of it. Its stimulus to faith is great. I suppose the man most concerned did not speak of it ...read more

57.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 10 - The Listening Side of Prayer
      A Trained Ear. In prayer the ear is an organ of first importance. It is of equal importance with the tongue, but must be named first. For the ear leads the way to the tongue. The child hears a word before it speaks it. Through the ear comes the use of the tongue. Where the faculties are normal the tongue is trained only through the ear. This is ...read more

58.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 11 - Something about God's Will in Connection With Prayer
      He Came to His Own. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will done. What a stranger God is in His own world! Nobody is so much slandered as He. He comes to His own, and they keep Him standing outside the door, like a pilgrim of the night, staff in hand, while they peer suspiciously at Him through the crack of the hinges. Some of us shrink ba ...read more

59.) Quiet Talks on Prayer 12 - May we Pray With Assurance for the Conversion of Our Loved Ones
      God's Door into a Home. The heart of God hungers to redeem the world. For that He gave His own, only Son though the treatment He received tore that father's heart to the bleeding. For that He sent the Holy Spirit to do in men what the Son had done for them. For that He placed in human hands the mightiest of all forces--prayer, that so we might b ...read more