Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.