Look at him, can your imagination picture him? Behold his transcendent glory! The majesty of kings is swallowed up; the pomp of empires dissolves like the...
After the defeat of the Romans at the battle of Allia, Rome was sacked, and it seemed as if, at any moment, the Gauls might take...
To-day the world is like a masquerade. High carnival is being held, and men wear their masques and dominoes, and strut about, and we think that...
Christ is our great example in cross-bearing. He had not where to lay his head in life, nor a rag to cover him in death, nor...
On a huge cross by the side of an Italian highway hung a hideous caricature of the Beloved of our souls, who poured out His life...
Phidias, the Grecian sculptor, needed not to have the name Phidias in so many letters on his work, for the master’s hand had a cunning of...
Sir Francis Drake being in a dangerous storm in the Thames, was heard to say, “Must I who have escaped the rage of the ocean, be...
When we preach fine sermons our hearers say, “That was prettily put.” They do not so much notice what we taught, as how we taught it,...
If you are ever so low now remember that “A few more rolling suns, at most, Will land thee on fair Canaan’s coast.” Thy head may...
It is a very terrible thing to let conscience begin to grow hard, for it soon chills into northern iron and steel. It is like the...