Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.