Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.