Thomas Guthrie

If a God had died, the terror and grief could barely have exceeded that I once saw in the case of a mother who had set her affections on the child we had met to

The universal conscience of mankind is stricken with a sense of guilt Alarmed by an instinctive sense of danger, men have felt the need of reconciliation; and under a sense of His displeasure, have everywhere

Confession, self-abasement has characterized not prophets and apostles only, but the elect of God in every age of the Church. “I,” said St. Paul, “am the chief of sinners.” “I,” said David, “was as a

His Crown There are crowns worn by living monarchs, of which it would be difficult to estimate the value. The price paid for their jewels is the least part of it. They cost thousands of

A Children’s Heaven Heaven is greatly made up of little children—sweet buds that have never blown, or which death has plucked from a mother’s bosom to lay on his own cold breast, just when they

Cheerfulness In Contentment The way to happiness does not lie in attempting to bring our circumstances up to our minds, but our minds down to our circumstances. Many birds wear a finer coat than the

Opportunities For Exercising Charity None of us liveth to himself; no man or woman should. Yet in this country what an immense amount of power is lost—lost to God, and to the world! I know

Brotherly Love Means Love To All If any man’s sorrows need our sympathy, his bodily or spiritual wants our help, let us think no more of asking whether he belongs to our country or family,

Our Ransom To save us from sin, and from that hell where they seek for death but cannot find it, and only find after unnumbered ages that their torments are beginning. Jesus interposed, saying, “I

Its Sufficiency Within the two boards of the poor man’s Bible is a greater wealth of happiness, of honor, of pleasure, of true peace, than Australia hides in the gold of all her mines. That,