I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.