The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

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.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.

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

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.