...for the ampler enjoyments which the nobler activities of life bring. So says our Lord, " I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." If it be asked, what is the great inducement ? what is that which makes life worth living ? what is...

...letter, is " the spirit that makes alive." Well may the orator adopt Christ's proclamation, " I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." Wendell Phillips was called scores of times to deliver his lecture on the " Lost Arts " after it had...

...excluded. But there is another line of ancestry open to us. It is in Him who declares, " I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." When Christ is believed, received, and obeyed, the believer baptized into Christ has put on Christ....

...Now, the Gospel brings the blessed intelligence of life for him in Christ. " I am come," said Jesus, " that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." "He that belie veth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and he that liveth and believeth...

...power of the Holy Ghost ; and for this our most earnest cry shall go up to Him who said : ' I am come that ye might have life ; and that ye might have it more abundantly.' l 1 We may look upon what is specifically called the Christian ministry, and which was instituted at...

...about earthly need " The Yery hairs of your head are all numbered:" about heavenly grace ? " I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly : " about death ? " I am the resurrection and the life: " about eternity ? " Where I am, there shall...

...all Christian teaching, that Christ's mission on earth was to give men life. ' I am come/ He said, ' that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.' And that He meant liberal life, literal, spiritual, and eternal life, is clear from the whole course...

...my daily experiences should teach me. O may I be mindful of the spirit of him who said, " I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." I thank thee for the quiet of night, for its holy thoughts, for its sweet rest, for the new strength...

...forth much fruit." " I came," says the Great Antitype, and Interpreter of these nature-teachings, " that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." There are two words in our text, on which we may for a moment instructively pause. The one suggesting...

...of humanity, whose whole burden of mission to us lies epitomized in His own statement : "I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." Life ! Life ! A more intense, individual human life ! " "Tis life of which our views are scant —...