Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.