The doctrine of the resurrection is full of joy to the bereaved. It clothes the grave with flowers and wreathes the tomb with unfading laurel. The...
Christ is the Master of the grave. Just outside of the gate of the city of Nain, Death and Christ measured lances; and when the young...
On a summer’s day, the gentle western wind brings in all the sweets of the field and garden; and the child, overtasked by joy, comes back...
In order to hold yourselves masters of your appetites, begin early. It is no use for a man forty-five years of age beginning to say he...
The ungodly “are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.” Where—where—where? Where are they driven? The man is in health, the sun shines, the sky...
I was at the Paris exhibition in 1867, and I noticed there a little oil painting, only about a foot square, and the face was the...
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...
Did not one who was as near to me almost, as flesh and blood, and who stood high both in church and in business circles, in...
We sometimes say that punishment should be proportioned to sin. There is a sense in which that is most true and just. It is most true...
My brother, I am afraid you may lose heaven the way Louis Phillipe lost his empire. The Parisian mob came around the Tuilleries. The national guard...