This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.