The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.