Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedience to Him, in channels of His choosing, whether in sunshine or shadow, in the cheer of spring or in the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain?

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.