The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.