Many see more with one eye than others with two, and many have fine eyes and cannot see a jot.

Praise finds out the crack of pride, wealth reveals the flaw of selfishness, and learning discovers the leak of unbelief.

Lord, be pleased of thy great mercy to overrule the vast amount of poverty and suffering which is now in this land, that men may be driven to Thee thereby.

Make sure of your footing when you stand; make double sure of it before you

shift.

It is a sin not to rejoice. I will not say it harshly; I should like to say it as softly and tenderly as it could be put.

The last new book, perhaps the last sentimental story, will win attentive reading, when the divine, mysterious, unutterable depths of heavenly knowledge are disregarded by us. Alas, my brethren, too many eat the unripe fruit of the vineyards of Satan, and the fruits of the Lord's vines they utterly despise !

Between us and heaven once lay the tremendous Alps of

sin.

"Oh," you say, "if I were to begin I should not keep on." No; if you began perhaps you would not; but if He begins with you He will keep on.

Foul is fair to me if the Lord appoints it in love. Laziness is in some people's bones and will show itself in their idle flesh, do what you will with them.

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The developing power of tribulation is very great faith, patience, resignation, endurance, and steadfastness are by far the best seen when put to the test by adversity, pain, and temptation.

With my Lord before me, I am a traitor to him if I chink the pieces of silver in my hand and accept a present satisfaction in barter for higher things.

Experience teaches. This is the real High School for

God's children.

Wagon-loads of sermons have been lost upon you-will you now believe on Him?

You sometimes see a railway carriage or truck fastened onto what goes before, but there is also a great hook behind. What is that for? Why, to fasten something else behind, and so to lengthen the train. Any one mercy from God is linked onto all the mercy that went before it, but provision is also made for adding future blessings.

An honest heart and an honest hand must be found in every man who is to be justified at the last great day.

The learned at this hour scoff at the Book, and accuse of bibliolatry those of us who reverence the divine Word, but in this they derive no assistance from the teaching or example of Jesus.

When the devil's work seems good it is at its worst.

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

A scare is not a conversion. A sinner may be frightened into hypocrisy, but he must be wooed to repentance and faith.

"I sought the Lord, and he heard me," is better argument than all the Butler's Analogies that will ever be written, good as they are in their place.

Silence is often more emphatic than speech.

I do not want to have any of you remaining in spiritual infancy; we long to see you come to the fullness of the stature of perfect men in Christ Jesus.

Your reward is not what you get at present, but it fies in the glorious future. When the Lord Jesus comes He will reward all His stewards and servants. No truth is more plain in the four Gospels than this fact, that when Jesus returns to this earth He will distribute recompense in proportion to work done.

A Christian's business ought to be the best done of any man's in the world.

Supposed friends have left us, even as the swallows quit in our wintry weather; but we are not alone, for the Father is with us.

We have known persons of small talent and position influence their superiors by their zeal.

All are not working men who call themselves so.

Our pastoral observation over a very large church has led us to expect to see terrible failures among those who carry their heads high among their brethren.

To rise in His resurrection, to live because he lives, to be crowned in His coronation, and to be glorified with His glory, this is a double-yea, a sevenfold bliss.

Heaven and all its joys are to be had upon believing.

Even if sin be speedily repented of, its damage is not readily repaired; if its writing be erased you can see where it used to be.

It is a wretched business for a man to call himself a Christian, and have a soul which never peeps out from between his own ribs. It is horrible to be living to be saved, living to get to Heaven, living to enjoy religion, and yet never to live to bless others and ease the misery of a moaning world.

Breathe the air, and the air is yours; receive Christ, and Christ is yours.

Every one in Christ, man or woman, hath some testimony to bear, some warning to give, some deed to do in the name of the holy child Jesus.

O Lord, save me from all deceit and, above all, prevent my deceiving myself.

An ounce of health is worth a sack of diamonds.

If the watcher forsakes his post it will not avail that he climbed a mountain or swam a river; he was not where he was ordered to be.

The limit which is set to prayer-namely, that if we ask anything in accordance with God's will he heareth us, is just such a limit as love on God's part must fix, and as prudence on our part must approve.

That blessed Book is a love-letter from God, the great Father.

The imperfections of the perfect are generally more glaring than those of ordinary believers.

It is said of the peasants around Nice that they seem to have no thought of anything but how they can make a living and save a little money, and I am afraid they are by no means a singular people; in some form or other the world is in all men's hearts and thoughts. The dust of earth has blinded eyes that were meant for heaven.

Malice is seldom specific in its charges.

There is an old proverb which says of So-and-so that he was as sound asleep as a church.' I suppose there is

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nothing that can sleep so soundly as a church.

Lord, bit and bridle me, I pray Thee, and never let me break loose from Thy divine control.

Let us, then, be careful that we do not hurt our neighbor in so tender a point as his character, for it is hard to get dirt off if it is once thrown on.

O Lord, thy LOGOS is my logic; thy Testament is my argument; thy Word is my warrant.

We see around us those who are much hindered in holy living by the fact of their being wealthy, and yet perhaps we are pining to run in their silken sack.

We are so dull and carnal that our affections are soon captured by earthly objects.

When we think of God's delight in us and His love to us, is it not shameful that we should have been so seldom engaged in devotion toward Him.

Sin is carried away into the silent land, the unknown wilderness. By nature sin is everywhere, but to believers in the sacrifice of Christ sin is nowhere. The sins of God's people have gone beyond recall. Where to? Do not ask anything about that." If they were sought for, they could not be found; they are so gone that they are blotted out. I do implore men to give up every kind of public work till they have first done their work at home.

It is not ours to improve the Gospel, but to repeat it when we preach, and obey it when we hear.

The missionary spirit is the spirit of Christ—not only the spirit of Him that died to save, but the spirit of Him who has finished His work, and has gone into His rest. Let us cultivate that spirit, if we would be like the Jesus who has risen from the dead.

With children you must mix gentleness with firmness; they must not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted.

Like thy servant David, I would hate every false way.

Because we make appointments for ourselves and forget the appointments of God, we meet with many more disappointments than would otherwise fall to our lot.

If there were no hell hereafter, it would be hell enough to me not to enjoy everlasting love.

As it is idle with day-dreams to fascinate the heart into a groundless expectation, so it is equally foolish to increase the evil of them by forebodings of to-morrow.

He that rejoices in the Lord always will be a great encouragement to his fellow-Christians. He comes into the room; you like the very look of his face. It is a half holiday to look at him; and as soon as ever he speaks he drops a sweet word of encouragement for the weak and afflicted.

The spirit of the age is the spirit of proud self-sufficiency. Many a time it has cost honest minds great grief to feel that, though they are willing enough to do what they have engaged to do, yet they have lost their ability to perform their word.

If we seek a temptation we shall soon find it; and within it, like a kernel in a nut, we shall meet with sin.

Grin and bear it is the old-fashioned advice, but sing and bear it is a great deal better.

It is a matter of fact that, by smarting for one fault, gracious men learn to avoid others.

When a sincere believer tells of his own experience of the Lord's faithfulness it has a great charm about it. We like to hear the narrative of a journey from the traveler himself.