Birth: January 7, 1832 Death: April 12, 1902
Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom..
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitabl….
The pen is the lever that moves the world..
If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the jou….
A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the atto….
Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is ….
The distance between capital and labor is not a great gulf over which is swung a Niagara suspension bridge; it is only a step, and the laborers here ….
A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off..
By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach..
I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of b….
God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper..
Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who ….
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are….
The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comf….
Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go hom….
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the learned men of t….
If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand.….
At the beginning God said: "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to w….
You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he pu….
I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations a….