When we come to pleading terms with God, there is nothing that so helps us as to be able to quote the promise and plead, "Thou saidst.

The egg of mischief is smaller than that of a midge; a world of evil lurks in a drop of rebellion.

He who plays when he should work has an evil spirit to be his playmate.

Sermons which we have studied with care, delivered with travail, prayed over and wept over, are praised for such minor matters as taste, accuracy, and diction, and the truth they contain is not received.

Oh, my heart, take care that thou answer to the Lord like an echo! When he saith, "My love," do thou answer

with the selfsame title.

Sin seems all the greater because it was committed against a sin-forgiving God.

If he that has brought me so far toward heaven does not help me throughout the rest of my journey, I must die even within sight of the Promised Land.

They used in the old times to catch pigeons and send them out with sweet unguents on their wings; other pigeons followed them into the dovecote, for the sake of their perfume, and so were captured. I would that every one of us had the heavenly anointing on our wings, the divine perfumes of peace and joy and rest; for then others would be fascinated to Jesus, allured to heaven.

Let us value Scripture as much as Christ did.

The presence of God does so stay the soul and quiet the heart that fear, which hath torment, is driven away.

Into the army of our Lord the deserter is received with gladness; but he must begin in the ranks, and must prove his fidelity before he is again entrusted with a commission.

The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merry

man.

A whole company of believers have been roused to hearty devotion by the fervor of one man.

Fellowship with God we must. have, or the essential honey of love will be deficient, the bloom of joy will be wanting, the aroma of zeal and earnestness will be missed.

We make fearful failures with God's promises through not appropriating them.

Since the Lord has appeared to me, He has made me see His restraining hand where once I saw nothing but the cruel disappointment of my hopes.

In my own person I know what it is to be vexed with sore pains and yet to feel such rest of heart that I felt no desire to complain. When we rejoice in divine love we make small account of our bodily condition. If deaf, blind, or otherwise full of infirmities of the flesh, we make small reckoning of the whole when we know the joy of pardoned sin.

Those who are evermore making light of hell are probably doing it in the hope of making it easy for themselves. We are bound to guard jealously every single word which He has given to us.

Alas! we do not always suffer fools gladly, though suffer them we do.

Sooner than let their tongues have a holiday, men would complain that the grass is not a nice shade of green, and say that the sky would have looked neater if it had been whitewashed.

Men throw away their souls in order to keep their

coppers.

Peter brought out brass farthings of boasting and impetuous folly at times; but he also brought forth so much true gold that his Lord said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona."

In the dust of self-abasement is the place for hope.

When you and I are risen from the dead we shall rise full of the spirit of service.

Charity towards others, abundantly practiced, would be the death of envy and the life of fellowship, the overthrow of self and the enthronement of grace.

A wise man has told us, as if it were an axiom, that the imputation or the non-imputation of sin is an impossibility. Be it so; we have become familiar with such things since we have beheld the cross. Things which men call absurdities have become foundation truths to us.

The arrears of neglected service are grim debts.

Find, if you can, one occasion in which Jesus inculcated doubt, or bade men dwell in uncertainty.

Of all matters, religion is the worst to play with. It may be easy to mimic it, but the price to be paid for such fooling will be terrible.

Disobedient children are unhappy children.

Alas! the Lord himself had his Judas, and to this day swords of brittle metal hang at the golden girdle of his Church.

The Lord's promise once given is never recalled.

Thy work may be washed away like the work of little children in the sand of the sea-shore, but that which God doeth endureth forever.

I have heard of a husband and wife who felt their love for each other to be so strong that they almost wished to go through the wedding ceremony again to show how content they were to bear the easy yoke of married love. Many of us could say the same. We would also be joined

anew to our Lord.

When you are in argument for the truth, do not grow angry, for this would be to fight the Lord's battles with the devil's weapons.

The sermon is not long to you who feed upon the Word; but to those who sleep at the table it is intolerably tedious. The whole service is dreary to them, though to believers it is bright and happy.

The largest generosity must refuse some requests when it is a higher kindness to withhold than to bestow.

If hearers were better, sermons would be better.

Death can hide in a drop and ride in a breath of air. Our greatest dangers lie hidden in little things.

We care little for those who are orthodox Christians in creed if it is clear that they are heterodox in life. He who believes the truth should himself be true.

We do not hold truth in a true way unless it leads us to a true life.

But when God makes a promise He fulfills it, fulfills it, and fulfills it again and again and again, to the same man and to hundreds of other men.

If you can say, "My God," you will be bound to exalt Him. If He has given Himself to you so that you can say, "My Beloved is mine," you will give yourself to Him, and you will add, “and I am His." Those two sentences, like two silken covers of a book, shut in within them the full score of the music of heaven.

Many prosperous men owe their present position to the fact that they were faithful when they were in humble employments.

For brightness, give me not the sunlight, but that superior glory with which the Lord lights up the darkness of affliction.

One pampered sin will slay the soul as surely as one dose of poison will kill the body.

Wise men in this world are like trees in a hedge—there is only here and there one.

Thousands

Verily, the race of fools has not yet died out. still think it profitable to gain the world and lose their own souls.

Worldly-wise men think us fanatics and fools, but we know what they are and where the folly really lies. Oh, that their eyes were opened to join with us in the joys which they ridicule.

The Lord Jesus Christ has nothing that He values as He does His own people.

While a man's first business is his body and the things of time and sense he is and must be at enmity with God.

It seemed almost a novelty in the church when it was stated, some years ago, that Mr. George Müller walked by faith in regard to temporal things. To feed children by faith in God was looked upon as a pious freak. We have come to a pretty pass, have we not, when God is not to be trusted about common things?

If you have great sin, remember that there is a great Saviour.

We have to magnify our Lord among men who would, if they could, again crucify Him.

We cannot too often use the weapon which the Spirit Himself calls His sword.

The preacher claims no priestly power, and therefore should never wear a peculiar dress.

If God bids us, we can sweeten water with salt and destroy poison with meat; yea, we may walk the waves of the sea or the flames of a furnace.

A true believer should tremble when the world commends him, but he should feel complimented when it utterly despises him.

Evil thoughts mainly blacken the man's own mind.

The world's catechism is, "What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewithal shall we be clothed?"

As the young duck which has been reared in a dry place yet takes to the water as soon as it sees a pond, so do many hasten to evil at the first opportunity. How often it happens that those young persons who have been most shut out from the world have become the readiest victims of temptation when the time has come for them to quit the parental roof.

Your tribulations will yet yield you music.

Superstition and fanaticism shall not be gratified by either voice or dream, but yet the way of the righteous shall be made plain.

We must teach more by our example than by our advice, or else we shall be poor pleaders for the right.