The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.