Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. Martin Luther If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!