Occupation: Author Birth: June 8, 1830 Death: 1903
If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight..
Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony..
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word..
The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the….
No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must re….
An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ..
It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child..
Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit whic….
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces..
All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty.
There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render ….
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do….
Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved..
A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible..
He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child..
There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness......In all ages everywhere, the true children o….
In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the ….
Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or no….
In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If….
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is….
It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to….