Women Among Heathen
Now what is the difference between the condition of women there and here, then and now? The only difference is that which is made by the gospel of the Son of God. O, women! To-day
Thoghts
A Deadly Sin
Jesus calls a slanderous spirit a beam, compared with which any other mistake is a little thin splinter. Here is a man that condemns every poor creature that is overtaken in a fault. He has
Unkind Words Like Needles
I saw in the museum at Venice an instrument with which one of the old Italian tyrants was wont to shoot poisoned needles at the objects of his wanton malignity. I thought of gossips, backbiters,
“Whispers”
When Paul called the list of the world’s villainy, he put in the midst of the roll “Whisperers.” They are so-called because they generally speak undervoice, and in a confidential way, their hand to the
The Christian Out of Death’s Reach
The time will come when men will laugh at death. We shall one day get such a view of the universe that we shall look down upon death, and say, “O death, where is thy
The Grain of Wheat
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 has been riven and its dust has been blown
Stars Symbols of Immortality
The same stars that look down on us looked down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that I saw flashing across the sky the other night, I wonder if it was not the same one
The Immortality of Influence
It is the privilege of every man to live more in the future than he does in the present. John Wesley’s name is a thousand fold greater to-day than it was when he was living.
Something Wrong
Nine-tenths, at least, of the church members never think of speaking for Christ. If they see a man, perhaps a near relative, going right down to ruin, going rapidly, they never think of speaking to
Do Not Magnify Trifles
If a man should fire a house to destroy the mice in it, we should think him to be fairly mad. Yet those who consider themselves to be reasonable men will set the church in