After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.