Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

The true religion of Jesus Christ our Saviour is that which penetrates, and which receives all the warmth of the heart, and all the elevation of the soul, and all the energies of the understanding, and all the strength of the will.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age less portable valuables disappear.

Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.