If we might reverently imagine ourselves scheming beforehand what kind of book the Book of God ought to be, how different would it be from the actual….

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fell….

It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atonin….

No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side w….

The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements..

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are fo….

As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eter….

Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and le….

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call..

Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence ….

If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less than that of individuals….

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall l….

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed b….

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprint….

The resurrection asserts a truth which is by no means always written legibly for all men on the face of nature. It tells us that the spiritual is hig….

But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that o….

If man looks within himself he must perceive two things: a law of right, and that which it condemns..

What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-disciplin….

It is some disaster for any mind to hold any one thing for truth that is untrue, however insignificant it be, or however honestly it be held. It is a….

The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none..

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient persevera….