The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be anything but a cup of salvation?

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us. A man who has not learned to say, No -who is not resolved that he will take God's way, in spite of every dog that can bay or bark at him, in spite of every silvery choice that woos him aside-will be a weak and a wretched man till he dies.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.