Birth: August 21, 1821 Death: June 7, 1900
Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth..
Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its ….
Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it - a desire which is immediate and irr….
Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that….
I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the prese….
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the conditio….
Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a fu….
The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his ….
No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every asp….
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought ….