EXTRACTS

If anyone hangs upon me as having received help, if a person gets attached to me because I have done something for him, I must have conducted the thing in a manner which is irregular.

I have not done the service as a true shepherd. The effect should be, whilst I admit there will be affection and respect for any vessel used, the attachment is not to you, but to Christ. You want them to hang on Christ. They hear His voice. The voice means that the Person is there in presence.

A. M. Hayward (‘The Laws of the Kingdom’, p.48)

If we put on anything that is not necessary for dress, it is adornment (see 1 Peter 3). It is calling attention to oneself instead of to Christ

A. M. Hayward (‘The Laws of the Kingdom’, p.13)

“Her price is far above rubies”. There is nothing to compare with her, and that, I think, helps us to see that in a little meeting, however small it is, in the Lord’s eye where saints are working together in the things He has provided, there is some little suggestion of this woman of worth. He is looking for this. In the addresses to the assemblies He finds something like it in Philadelphia.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 23, p.134)

It was never in His mind to make a big display in the time of testimony. Outward smallness in great moral quality and consequent power in service and testimony has ever been in His mind. But the heavenly city is large and withal perfect in every way. These two thoughts—smallness and reproach now and largeness and glory in future—are intended to govern us while here below.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 69, p.293)

Nothing appears to me more pitiful than this unbelief, which pretends that there is nothing in the moral and intellectual sphere beyond the thoughts of man, and which denies man’s capacity to receive light from a more exalted mind—the only thing that raises man above himself, while at the same time rendering him morally excellent, by making him humble through the sense of superiority in another.

J. N. Darby (‘Synopsis’ on Joshua 1)

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