Salvation Verses

Every star in Heaven yields its ray of light to cheer the mariner upon the watery waste, but there are leaders among that sparkling host — stars of the first magnitude — whose golden lamps are so dexterously hung, and withal trimmed with such excessive care, that they offer waymarks to the wanderer by which he may be able to steer his vessel to the desired haven. So all the promises of Scripture are full of comfort, in their sphere, they glow and glisten with the warmth and light of love; but there are "bright particular stars," even among these; promises, conspicuous as Orion, brilliant as the Pleiades, fixed as Arcturus with his sons. Brethren, you know those soul-saving texts to which I refer, which are radiant with comfort, and have in them such a blessed combination of simple words and comforting sentences, that they guide multitudes of sinners to the port of peace in Jesus Christ.