Illustrative preaching is intended as well for the unlearned as the learned, for converting the unlettered poor, whose souls are as precious in God’s sight as...
An obscure man rose up to address the French Convention. At close of his oration Mirabeau, the giant genius of the Revolution, turned round to his...
I have spoken a great many times in New York city, but I believe that I never preached the gospel here but once. That was twelve...
Look at the case of your own family to-day, and your child shall come and say to you, “Give me your most precious possession.” What would...
Almighty God, hear the hearts that are full of prayer, that cannot utter their desires on account of the vehemency of their secret emotion. Hear the...
The direct power of prayer is, in a sense, omnipotent. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. It secures for the believer the resources of...
I remember hearing of a boy brought up in an English almshouse. He had never learned to read or write. He only knew the letters of...
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly;...
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we can ask or think,” what a vision the apostle must have had!...
It is an outrage to ask God to do a thing while we sit indolent. The prayer to be acceptable, must come not only from the...