We must he holy on earth before we die, if we desire to go to heaven after death. If we hope to dwell with God for ever in the life to come, we must endeavour to be like Him in the life that now is. We must not only admire holiness, and wish for holiness: we must be holy.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in Christ. "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." "As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" (James 2:17,26).

We must be holy, because this is the only proof that we love the Lord...

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was a prolific writer, a faithful pastor, and a dynamic preacher. This collection of sermons and tracts come from a variety of sources some of which are not quickly accessible. Some of the chapters in this book have been published as tracts. These are rare, short "Helmingham Series" tracts were first published about the middle of the last century, while J. C. Ryle was a Rector at Helmingham, Suffolk. Some of these chapters are sermons on the topic of Heaven. J.C. Ryle offers very practical counsel that is helpful in our pilgrim journey. Most of these sermons were...

This small booklet is a beginner's manual for what Christians ought to intend in the act of child-rearing. In an age when we are losing our children to the world at a worrisome pace, Ryle give us the tools and the focus to "train them up in the way they should go." -Prov. 22:6

A CLASSIC OF CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS

""J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion. One of the bravest and best of men." -Charles Spurgeon"

"Ryle, like his great masters, has no easy way to holiness to offer us, and no 'patent' method by which it can be attained; but he invariably produces that 'hunger and thirst after righteousness' which is the only indispensable condition to being 'filled.'" - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Train up your child with all tenderness, affection, and patience. I do not mean that you are to spoil him, but I do mean that you should let him see that you love him. Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart. -J. C. Ryle

John Charles Ryle (1816-1900) was a prolific writer, a faithful pastor, and a dynamic preacher. This collection of sermons and tracts titled Wheat or Chaff was originally published as a collection in 1853. This is a collection of Bishop Ryle's most searching sermons which is probably precisely the need of the church in this present day. As usually J.C. Ryle's sermons are so timeless being as relevant today as the day that he preached them.

From his own time until today, J. C. Ryle has been acknowledged to be an outstanding communicator of biblical truth. Ryle shares his approach in this little classic which should be on every Christian teacher's book shelf.