The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

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.

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.