About This Product
Volume 1: Articles and letters on many subjects including the gospel, the sufferings of Christ, and church truth. Volume 2: Letters and papers on divisions, discipline, cults, etc.
Preface: Alexander H. Rule was born at Hawick, Roxburg County, Scotland, on May 6, 1843, and was taken home to be with the Lord on July 2, 1906. His parents moved to the United States when he was nine years of age and his youth was spent in working on the farm, where, being the eldest of the children, his help was needed while the family grew in number to eleven boys and girls. He was later educated for the ministry and spent the rest of his life in devoted service to the Lord. (See FOREWORD.)
This volume is a selection of portions of his written ministry and a few of his many letters, for he carried on a large correspondence. Some of the articles will be well known to a good many persons. Others have been out of print so long that they will be unknown to most readers of the present day.
More than forty years ago, not long after my father’s “home-going,” the thought impressed me that if a considerable number of his letters could be obtained from his various correspondents, and published in book form, it might prove to be a service to the Lord and a help to many of His people.
Steps were taken to accumulate as many of the letters as possible but it was found that many of them had not been preserved. A busy life and heavy responsibilities intervened and the whole matter was temporarily set aside.
During the past year, the time and circumstances seemed to favor undertaking not only to publish what letters were available and suitable, but also some of the papers which had, during his lifetime, been published in pamphlet form or as magazine articles and are now mostly out of print.
This work, I trust, has been undertaken in the fear of the Lord and with an earnest desire that He will use it for the blessing of many. The time is short; the day of grace is nearly at an end; the enemy of souls is more active than ever. May the Lord give us grace to be found diligently watching while we wait for His coming again. His word is: “Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord” (Luke 12:35-36). And again: “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Rev. 3:11).
I take this opportunity to express grateful acknowledgment to all who have co-operated, or in any way rendered help.
R. W. Rule, 1953.
Table of Contents
Volume 1
1. Preface
2. Foreword
3. Glad Tidings of God
4. Man's Condition; and What Is the Remedy? Part 1
5. Man's Condition; and What Is the Remedy? Part 2
6. Man's Condition; and What Is the Remedy? Part 3
7. Man's Condition; and What Is the Remedy? Part 4
8. Man's Condition; and What Is the Remedy? Part 5
9. Golgotha
10. Dying Skeptic, A Letter to a
11. God's Glad Tidings
12. Triumphant Through Grace
13. Christ's Death, of His Intercession, and of His Life on Earth, The Meaning and Value of
14. Church, A Few Thoughts on the: As Seen in the Word of God With Reasons for Standing Apart from Sects
15. Substitution and Righteousness
16. Atoning Sufferings of Christ, The: First Letter
17. Atoning Sufferings of Christ, The: Second Letter
18. Atoning Sufferings of Christ, The: Third Letter
19. Propitiation, A Letter on
20. Eternal Life, What the Scriptures Say About
21. Up Yonder in a Heavenly Mansion
22. Manifestation of the Life, The
23. God Is Light
24. As He Is in the Light
25. Advocate With the Father, An
26. Aged Apostle's Message to His Children, An
27. Fathers, The
28. Young Men, The
29. Babes, The
30. Obedience to God and Love to the Saints
31. Behold, What Manner of Love
32. Practical Grace
33. Service and Conflict Require Strength and Courage
34. Midnight Cry, The
35. Saviour, Come
36. Christian Giving
37. Appendix
38. Is Sin Burned Out?
Volume 2
1. Preface to Volume 2
2. Truth
3. Faith and Prayer in Connection With the Difficulties of God's People, The Power of
4. Trades' Unions and Benefit Societies, and the Christian's Attitude Toward Them
5. A Word in Season: The Danger of Pride and the Need of Lowliness
6. One Devoting Himself Exclusively to Service, On: Part 1
7. One Devoting Himself Exclusively to Service, On: Part 2
8. The Lord's Sympathy With Us in Suffering
9. Discipline, A Case Calling for
10. Labor Spent in Vain
11. Christ or the World
12. Heart Turned in the Right Direction, A
13. Eternal Sonship of Christ, The: No. 1
14. Remarkable Public Experience With an Infidel, A: Part 1
15. Eternal Sonship of Christ, The: No. 2
16. Remarkable Public Experience With an Infidel, A
17. Remarkable Public Experience With an Infidel, A: Part 3
18. God's Image Reflected in Those Who Come Through the Fire
19. Declension Preparing the Way for the Apostasy
20. What Leads Astray, and the Principles of Restoration
21. Standing in the Evil Day; Christ Our Example; Holding Fast
22. Day of Ruin; the Coming of the Lord, the Church's Hope, A
23. Truth Restored; the Testimony Given; Our Responsibility, The
24. Bermuda; an Interesting Account
25. Bermuda, A Further Word on: The Blow of 1890; Ravenism
26. Day of Weakness; the Open Door; the Final Apostasy, A
27. Letters to a Brother, A Series of
28. Courage to Stand in Remnant Days
29. Sabbath, The
30. Heathen and Millennial Dawn, The
31. Term "Gods" in Psalm 82; Greater Works Than These, The
32. God's Purpose in Trials; Final Blessing
33. Working in a New Place
34. Barbados
35. Unconverted Father Refuses to Hear the Truth From His Son, An
36. Trial Serving as Discipline for the Development of the Divine Life
37. Assembly Discipline, Some Wholesome Words on
38. Discipline: The Spirit in Which It Is Done
39. Strained Relationship Between Gatherings
40. God's Protecting Care and the Lessons He Would Teach Us in Circumstances of Danger
41. Sympathy, A Letter of
42. Walking With God: Points in the Arrangement of Revelation
43. Discerning the Lord's Mind
44. Seeking to Restore an Erring Brother, Principles to Be Exercised in
45. Seeking to Restore, Another Letter on
46. Restoration, A Case of
47. The Truth Revealed - Holding Fast - We Are Not Better Than Our Fathers
48. Revivals
49. On Receiving Into Fellowship From Sects and From Divisive Parties
50. Manner of Receiving From System and the Question of One Absenting Himself From the Lord's Table
51. Membership in Secret Societies and Trades' Unions
52. Grant Division, On the
53. Unanimity in Assembly Decisions and Addressing the Lord Jesus Personally in Worship and Prayer, On
54. Saints Gathered to the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ, To the
55. Ravenism, A Letter on
56. Assembly in Disorder, An
57. Certain Matters of Difficulty in an Assembly, A Letter of Counsel on
58. Review of "Was Moses Wrong?"
59. A Brief Reply to a Letter of P.J.L.
60. A Few Simple Notes on "Life in Christ, and Sealing With the Spirit"
61. B. F. Pinkerton, A Letter by
62. Appendix
63. Divisions Among the People of God and Their Causes and Is There a Path for Faith
64. Eternal Life and the Person of Christ
65. J.S.O. Also Gives This From F.E.R.:
66. Seventh Day Adventism: Its Unscriptural Doctrines and Their Deluding Tendencies
67. Seventh Day Adventism in Its Relation to the Person and Work of Christ
68. Some Remarks* on a Book Entitled Millennial Dawn
69. Theory Advanced, The
70. His Blasphemous Declarations as to the Person of Christ