If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it."

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