A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

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

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.