Afar off, one can hardly tell which is mountain and which is cloud. The clouds rise with peaks and summits, all apparently as solid, and certainly...
Let us build for eternity. A ship, however pretty she may be, is not good for anything unless she can battle with the deep. It makes...
Christianity redeems us; not from sin only, but from all narrowness, meanness, and littleness of conception; it puts great thought into our hearts and bold words...
I plead for education, not because it is the highway to prosperity in law, or in medicine, or in the pulpit, or in political life, or...
The wisdom of to-day is the fruit of the education of all past centuries. We are heirs to the accomplishments of forgotten ages. The knowledge we...
The educated rationalist may laugh at you. But to-morrow he will be trodden under foot, and will go down to shame and everlasting contempt. “Stop,”you say,...
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...
God’s word is a means of education for heaven. By His grace and your own cooperation, your soul may be gradually developed into a more perfect...
I heard two persons on the Wengern Alp talking by the hour together of the names of ferns; not a word about their characteristics, uses, or...
When I was going to Europe in 1867, my Friend, Mr. Stuart, of Philadelphia, said, “Be sure to beat the General Assembly at Edinburg in June....