The face of pleasure to the youthful imagination is the face of an angel, a paradise of smiles, a home of love; while the rugged face...
Look out upon that fallen creature whose gay sally through the street calls out the significant laugh of bad men, the pity of good men, and...
On unrolling some of the old Egyptian mummies, you will find wheat three thousand years old. The Greek empire has risen and gone; the Roman empire...
Do you ask, “Why not do away with the church, if its members make so many mistakes?” Would you take away the light-house because careless mariners,...
Sin is not only strong to seduce, but heartless to sustain its victims. It will exhaust your means, teach you to despise the God of your...
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense is a life of death. You go and bury a seed...
Let us interrupt the flow of the week, and rear up another Sabbath in the middle of it. And, as those who swim mighty streams do...
Oftentimes you will find men who have been penurious all their lives, and who have amassed a fortune, attempting to buy respect in their old age....
Am I poor? He cannot be poor to whom God’s angels come every day and every night Have I no riches here? I have all that...
On a summer’s day, the gentle western wind brings in all the sweets of the field and garden; and the child, overtasked by joy, comes back...