Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.

There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.