All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.