“You know how rapidly the snow-flakes can accumulate on a winter’s day, and you know how soon they aggregate on the top of the Alps; and then, in certain conditions of the weather, that great

Perhaps there is no subject in the Bible that takes hold of me with as great force as this subject of the wandering child. It enters deeply into my own life; it comes right home

“T’is ill-proportioned theology that teaches the doctrine, that the only motive in redemption was a regard to God’s glory. It receives no countenance from the Bible. Does not God “pity us, as a father pitieth

“A young child does not know his father’s strength. We are weak creatures, and cannot conceive fully of the perfections of God; we know not what the power of God can do for us. It

There may be the appearance of life, but certainly not its presence, where there is no activity; as they rightly concluded, who, sailing in Arctic seas, fell in with a ship for long years imprisoned

No one who has read the Scripture will say that it does not teach us to work. Every Bible student loves to work. The Word of God inspires us to work. Paul said the love

Courage maintains itself by its ardent action, as some birds rest on the wing. There is an energy about agility that will often give a man a fortitude which otherwise he might not have possessed.

Religion has been brought into the sphere of ordinary and practical things, and made to consist in the right ordering of disposition and conduct in the usual duties of life. The great duties of life

Till we are reconciled to God, and, born again through His Spirit, have become new creatures in Christ Jesus, we are His enemies. Our works do not spring from love for Him, and therefore cannot

It is said of Julian, the great apostate, that when he was trying to stamp out Christianity in the days of Rome’s prosperity, before it received Christianity, when he was trying to drive those Christians