He ever liveth

Mizpah for October 11th

He ever liveth to make intercession. Hebrews 7:25

"Man may be too little for your great matters. God is not too great for your small ones. Only give yourself to prayer, whatever may be the occasion that calls for it." Winslow

Miron Winslow (1789-1864) was an American Congregational missionary. He was born at Williston, Vt, graduated at Middlebury College, 1815, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1818. In 1819 he went to Ceylon, as a missionary of the American Board's American Ceylon Mission, and served there(from 1836) in southern India for 44 years. He prepared a Tamil and English dictionary, completed in 1862.

As Jesus was the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world, has an everlasting priesthood, and is a continual intercessor; it is in virtue of this that all who were saved from the foundation of the world were saved through him, and all that shall be saved to the end of the world will be saved through him. He ever was and ever will be the High Priest, Sacrifice, Intercessor, and Mediator of the human race. All successive generations of men are equally interested in him, and may claim the same privileges. But none can be saved by his grace that do not come unto God through him; i.e. imploring mercy through him as their sacrifice and atonement; confidently trusting that God can be just, and yet the justifier of them who thus come to him, believing on Christ Jesus. Adam Clarke

The photograph is of Landon, my son, taken several years ago off the Atlantic Coast at Vilano. We were awaiting one of the Space Shuttle launches to the south.