We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who co….

Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give i….

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destro….

You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Ju….

So, from generation to generation, the spiritual church is rising upwards toward its perfection; and, though one after another the workmen pass away,….

The lack of brotherhood among believers themselves has paralyzed the church in front of the skepticism and immorality of the world; but when we go ba….

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Got….

True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates th….

Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the t….

Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries an….