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.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

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

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

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!

Sanctification is not regeneration.