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In the mid 1800s Horatius Bonar put out a series of volumes called "Light and Truth: Thoughts and Themes". There were five books in the series, with a total of 403 small Bible studies in the series meant for personal devotions. This is the 1st volume; 84 small studies. Here is a brief excerpt from the Preface of this series, found in Volume 1:

ALL the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full," said the wisest of the wise. We might add to this, and say, "All the rivers come out of the sea, yet the sea is not empty." All the books in the world have, more or less directly, come out of the Bible, yet the Bible is not empty. It is as full as at the first. Let us not be afraid of exhausting it.

There is but ONE book that would bear such study. Let us be thankful that our world does contain such a book. It must be superhuman, supernatural. Blessed be God that there is at least one thing thoroughly superhuman, supernatural in this world; something which stands out from and above "the laws of nature"; something visible and audible to link us with Him whose face we see not and whose voice we hear not What a blank would there be here, if this one fragment of the divine, now venerable, both with wisdom and age, to disappear from the midst of us; or, what is the same thing, the discovery were to be made that this ancient volume is not the unearthly thing which men have deemed it, but, at the highest estimate, a mere fragment from the great block of human thought, perhaps, according to another estimate, a mere relic of superstition. [break]

The pages that follow are an attempt to bring out, as briefly as possible, the thoughts of God, as contained in the words of his Book. It is with light and truth that we have to do, in handling that Book. The old Latin poet says,

Verborum vetus interit aetas,

but the divine volume, with its true words, like the light which is its emblem, remains, forever perfect, and forever young.

Edinburgh, November 1867.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 The Old and New Creation.
02 The Link Between Being and Non-Being.
03 A Happy World.
04 The Sin, the Sinner, and the Sentence.
05 Man's Fig-Leaves.
06 Expulsion and Re-Entrance.
07 The Blood of Sprinkling, and the Blood of Abel.
08 The Way of Cain.
09 The Man of Rest.
10 Going Out and Keeping Out.
11 The Shield and the Recompense.
12 Liberty and Service.
13 The Day of Despair.
14 The Blood of Deliverance.
15 How God Deals with Sin and the Sinner.
16 The Fire Quenched.
17 The Vision From the Rocks.
18 The Doom of the Double-Hearted.
19 Be Not Borderers.
20 The Outlines of a Saved Sinner's History.
21 Divine Longings Over the Foolish.
22 What a Believing Man Can Do.
23 Song of the Putting Off of the Armour.
24 The Kiss of the Backslider.
25 The Priestly Word of Peace.
26 Human Anodynes.
27 Spiritual and Carnal Weapons.
28 Divine Silence and Human Despair.
29 Jewish Unbelief and Gentile Blessing.
30 The Restoration of the Banished.
31 The Farewell Gift.
32 God's Dealing with Sin and the Sinner.
33 God Finding a Resting-Place.
34 The Moriah Group.
35 Diverse Kinds of Conscience.
36 The Soul Turning From Man to God.
37 Man's Dislike of a Present God.
38 Trite and False Consolation.
39 Gain and Loss for Eternity.
40 Man's Misconstruction of the Works of God.
41 The Two Cries and the Two Answers.
42 The Knowledge of God's Name.
43 Deliverance From Deep Waters.
44 The Excellency of the Divine Loving Kindness.
45 The Sickness, the Healer, and the Healing.
46 The Consecration of Earth's Gold and Silver.
47 The Gifts of the Ascended One.
48 The Speaker, the Listener, the Peace.
49 The Believing Man's Confident Appeal.
50 The Love and the Deliverance.
51 The Sin and Folly of Being Unhappy.
52 The Book of Books.
53 The Secret of Deliverance from Evil.
54 The Voice of the Heavenly Bridegroom.
55 The Love That Passeth Knowledge.
56 The Vision of the Glory.
57 Man's Extremity and Satan's Opportunity.
58 The Day of Clear Vision to the Dim Eyes.
59 The Unfainting Creator and the Fainting Creature.
60 The Knowledge That Justifies.
61 The Heritage and Its Title-Deeds.
62 The Meeting Between the Sinner and God.
63 God's Love and God's Way of Blessing.
64 Divine Jealousy For the Truth.
65 Divine Love and Human Rejection of It.
66 God's Desire to Bless the Sinner.
67 The Resting-Place Forgotten.
68 The Day That Will Right All Wrongs.
69 The Glory and the Love.
70 False Religion and Its Doom.
71 No Breath No Life.
72 Every Christian a Teacher.
73 Work, Rest, and Recompence.
74 Human Heedlessness and Divine Remembrance.
75 Lies the Food of Man.
76 The Love and the Calling.
77 The Anger and the Goodness.
78 Darkness Pursuing the Sinner.
79 Jerusalem the Centre of the World's Peace.
80 Jerusalem and Her King.
81 Looking to the Pierced One.
82 The Holiness of Common Things.
83 Wearying Jehovah With Our Words.
84 Dies Irae.