What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.