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A devotional prepared by Robert M. Offord (a minister in the Reformed Church in America and the editor of the New York Observer) in 1888 and published in 1889 is a remarkable resource. This writer was combing the bibliography of B.B. Warfield some time ago when it first came to his notice. A daily devotional by Warfield based on Hebrews 2:13 for January 13 — How Shall We Escape, If We Neglect So Great Salvation? — is included. The volume is titled Life’s Golden Lamp For Daily Devotional Use: A Treasury of Texts From the Very Words of Christ. 365 ministers contributed devotional meditations for every day of the year, and many of them were American Presbyterians who are found on Log College Press. Some ministers outside America were included, such as Charles Spurgeon and Adolph Saphir, both of London. Some were at the time serving as American missionaries in foreign lands. All of the contributors were generally Reformed and Calvinistic. Life’s Golden Lamp represents an anthology of Scriptural passages and devotional literature from around the world by men who were actively serving the kingdom on earth in 1888-1889.
In recent days, we have circled back to this particular devotional, and thus, many other extracts from this volume have been added to the site. The number of LCP author contributors is remarkable. Work is ongoing to identify all the Presbyterian ministers whose devotionals are included, but here is a partial list so far:
January 3 — Thomas De Witt Talmage — Ye Shall Find Rest For Your Souls (Jer. 6:16)
January 5 — Howard Crosby — An Inheritance…That Fadeth Not Away (1 Pet. 1:4)
January 7 — William Aikman — God Shall Wipe Away All Tears From Their Eyes (Rev. 7:17)
January 13 — B.B. Warfield — How Shall We Escape, If We Neglect So Great Salvation? (Heb. 2:13)
January 16 — Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr. — Neither is There Salvation in Any Other (Acts 4:12)
February 2 — John Haskell Shedd — By the Power of the Spirit of God (Rom. 15:19)
February 7 — Samuel Henry Kellogg — The Word of Our God Shall Stand For Ever (Isa. 40:8)
February 10 — Thomas Alexander Hoyt — What Persecutions I Endured (2 Tim. 3:11)
February 14 — George Price Hays — How Long Halt Ye Between Two Opinions? (1 Kings 18:21)
March 4 — Theodore Ledyard Cuyler — Healing…All Manner of Disease (Matt. 4:23)
March 8 — Robert Fleming Sample — He Ever Liveth to Make Intercession (Heb. 7:25)
March 19 — Arthur Tappan Pierson — God Loveth a Cheerful Giver (2 Cor. 9:7)
March 23 — Charles Henry Parkhurst — No Condemnation to Them Which Are in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:1)
March 26 — Henry Mitchell MacCracken — Who Art Thou That Judgest Another? (James 4:12)
March 29 — George Burrowes — For Your Sakes He Became Poor (2 Cor. 8:19)
March 30 — William Pratt Breed — Having Loved This Present World (2 Tim. 4:10)
April 17 — John Aspinwall Hodge — Keep Yourselves in the Love of God (Jude 1:21)
April 29 — Henry Harris Jessup — It Shall Not Return Unto Me Void (Isa. 40:11)
May 4- Joseph James Bullock — From Me is Thy Fruit Found (Hos. 14:8)
May 8 — George Dodd Armstrong — Now Are We the Sons of God (1 John 3:2)
May 22 — William Miller Paxton — Whoever Will Not Hearken…I Will Require it of Him (Deut. 18:19)
May 27 — Edward Owings Guerrant — In Me is Thine Help (Hos. 13:9)
June 4 — Joseph Buck Stratton, Sr. — Who Gave Himself For Our Sins (Gal. 1:4)
June 11 — Alexander White Pitzer — God Hath Revealed Them Unto Us By His Spirit (1 Cor. 2:10)
June 24 — Samuel Jack Niccolls — Him Hath God Exalted…To Give Repentance…And Forgiveness (Acts 5:31)
June 30 — Robert Pollock Kerr — We Have Peace With God (Rom. 5:1)
July 1 — John Hall — Spiritual Sacrifices, Acceptable to God by Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 2:5)
July 3 — Robert McGowan Sommerville — So Shall We Ever Be With the Lord (1 Thess. 4:17)
July 6 — David Trumbull — In Nothing Terrified By Your Adversaries (Phil. 1:28)
July 10 — Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Sr. — He Shall Come to Be Glorified in His Saints (2 Thess. 1:10)
July 12 — Samuel Davies Alexander — Feed the Flock of God (1 Pet. 5:2)
July 19 — Moses Drury Hoge — Ye Have Known the Father (1 John 2:13)
July 30 — John Calvin Knox Milligan — And Mercy Rejoiceth Against Judgment (James 2:13)
August 1 — Horace Grant Underwood — That Also He Should Gather Together in One the Children of God (John 11:52)
August 17 — William Finney Junkin — I Can Do All Things Through Christ Which Strengthenth Me (Phil. 4:13)
August 23 — Isaac Stuart McElroy, Sr. — Every Man That Hath This Hope in Him Purifieth Himself (1 John 3:3)
August 27 — Charles Lemuel Thompson — Lord, Increase Our Faith (Luke 17.5)
August 31 — Richmond Kelley Smoot — The Lord Knoweth the Way of the Righteous (Ps. 1:6)
September 1 — Henry Martyn Field — The Friend of the Bridegroom…Rejoiceth Greatly Because of the Bridegroom’s Voice (John 3:29)
September 5 — David W. Frazier — Heal Me Lord, and I Shall Be Healed (Jer. 17:14)
September 8 — William Carlos Martyn — He Forgetteth Not the Cry of the Humble (Ps. 9:12)
September 13 — Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, Sr. — Your Goodness is as a Morning Cloud (Hos. 6:4)
September 27 — William Henry Roberts — He Shall Have Judgment Without Mercy, That Hath Shewed No Mercy (James 2:13)
September 28 — John Dunlap Wells, Sr. — Followers of God, as Dear Children (Eph. 5:1)
October 2 — Charles Robert Hemphill — Let Not Thine Heart Be Hasty to Utter Any Thing Before God (Eccl. 5:2)
October 29 — Jere Witherspoon — The Letter Killeth, But the Spirit Giveth Life (2 Cor. 3:6)
December 14 — Lachlan Cumming Vass I — This Man Shall Be Blessed in His Deed (James 1:25)
December 23 — Henry Carrington Alexander — With Joy Shall Ye Draw Water Out of the Wells of Salvation (Isa. 12:3)
December 24 — Thomas Ralston Smith — The Just Shall Live By His Faith (Hab. 2:4)
Each daily devotional includes a poetic composition, and the signature of the author of the devotional meditation. The whole volume is worth consulting, but we draw your attention to the fact that this 1889 yearly devotional contains at least 50 contributions by Log College Press authors, many of whom are luminaries of church history. It is a work that is filled with the sweet savor of Biblical piety, and we highly commend it to your consideration.
