No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

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.