Abraham was a holy man. Each important transaction of life was entered on in a pious spirit, and hallowed by religious exercises. His tent was a...
In his best hours, home, his own sinless home—a home with his Father above that starry sky—will be the wish of every Christian man. He looks...
As with an arch, the grace of God stands the firmer the more weight you lay on it; it’s sufficiency, at least, will be the more...
A single grain of corn would, were the produce of each season sown again, so spread from field to field, from country to country, from continent...
Insects as well as angels, the flowers that spangle the meadow as well as the stars that spangle the sky, the lamp of the glow-worm as...
Though the lower animals have feeling, they have no fellow-feeling. Have I not seen the horse enjoy his feed of corn, when his yoke-fellow lay dying...
For though nature, fallen and unrenewed nature, hates her enemies, and, thirsting for vengeance, would drag them from the horns of the altar, Christianity embraces the...
Bring out from the dust of six thousand years the old covenant of Eden, and on that soiled and tom banner you read the fading motto,...
We are in darkness till we are converted; because we are blind—and that not by accident, but by nature—born blind. There are animals, both wild and...
There is such a thing as education in crime. As there are medical schools for doctors, and commercial academies for merchants, so thieving is systematically taught...