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Some years ago, on a grand jubilee occasion, a distinguished statesman rose up in the presence of assembled thousands, and, in reply to certain calumnious and...
As death may happen any day, it is certainly wise to be prepared for it every day. So men make their wills; but, so, alas, they...
An obscure man rose up to address the French Convention. At close of his oration Mirabeau, the giant genius of the Revolution, turned round to his...
The direct power of prayer is, in a sense, omnipotent. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. It secures for the believer the resources of...
Of what use would be the machinery which is to be moved, without a force adequate to move it? Without a main-spring within the clock, however...
Let a man invite the poor to dinner, and how people would stop, and stare, and gaze with wonder at the stream of poverty creeping along...
Our God is a God of patience—patience long continued but not everlasting. Swift fly the wings of mercy, slow goes the hand of justice; like the...
Old age comes on almost imperceptibly though the young, perhaps will hardly credit it. Men with furrows in their brow, and gray hairs on their head,...
I am bound to preach the gospel to every creature, for all men are my brothers. The ignorant black man is my brother. His skin, to...
In looking back to the first marriage, I cannot but think that it was to make its tie more tender that God chose the singular plan...