While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.