Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.