“MEADOWS may be occasionally flooded, but the marshes are drowned by the tide at every return thereof.”

At the outset of the evil, the heart becomes vacant, the precious stores of the Lord vanish one by one, and there is room for something else. Heavenly-mindedness is gone, and then the heart is ready to mind earthly things. Then comes the suggestion and allowance from the traitor within, and straightway the lumber of Tobiah is introduced by degrees, and the soul becomes a wholesale warehouse for the household stuff of sin.

Of all laborers, he who labors in the spiritual field stands in the greatest need of joy in his work, because of all labor it is that which brings the greatest amount of care, disappointment, trial and suffering.

Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless divine love shall uphold him.

A dying man is needed to raise dying men.

His heart is broken within him and his soul is melted.

WHEN is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you...

It is clear that the term “revival” can only be applied to a living soul, or to that which once lived.

Our God sets great value upon those whom he calls his jewels but from the fact that all providence is but a wheel upon which to polish them.

We, too, are hurled headlong into a sea of sorrows, and find it hard to keep our head above water.

Is not timidity a common vice among Christian workers?