You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.

A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.

For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.