May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.