My life. A ship that started well. All canvas set. A fair wind. A sea all sun. Then a cloud; then a lurid glare; then a...
Religious life is a life of burden-bearing. Fret not against your crosses, and they will be light. The yoke sits easiest on the neck of the...
Sailing down the Thames one occasionally sees a green flag in tatters, inscribed with the word WRECK, floating in the breeze over a piece of mast,...
The voyage of life should be right across the ocean, whose waters never shrink, and where the keel never rubs the bottom. But men are afraid...
What we do, we had better do right away. The clock ticks now and we hear it. After a while the clock will tick and we...
Is it not foolish to be living in this world without a thought of what you will do at last? A man goes into an inn,...
To the Christian the shadow of death is the golden haze which heaven’s light makes when it meets the earth. But to the sinner these shall...
We ought to be induced away from all harshness by the fact that we ourselves are to be brought into high tribunal at the last, and...
A young woman, dying, said to her father! “Father, why did you not tell me there was a hell?” “Jennie, there is no such place. God...
We shall meet again all we are doing and have done. The graves shall give up their dead, and from the tombs of oblivion the past...