There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.

Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.

The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?