A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year