"The great want of this age is men. Men who are not for sale. Men who are honest, sound from center to circumference, true to the heart's core." ::Full Article::

"No men in the world want help like them that want the Gospel. Of all distresses, want of the Gospel cries loudest for relief." ::Full Article::

"Explain it, we cannot. It baffles philosophy. It makes one life out of two and yet leaves the two to flow on together side by side, both of them changed and neither lost--joined and yet separate--two and yet one--both the same and yet both different from what they were,--something of self surrendered and something of the other taken on,--a new life begun and yet the old still continuing--a new realm of being created. It is possible only because the Lord made it so." ::Full Article::

"It brings with it a subtle power by which it changes these young parents into new beings, makes their home a new place, sets before them new objects of life, and transforms the world about them into a new world... They see with new eyes, they work with new hands, they feel with new hearts, and think with new minds..." ::Full Article::

"You may judge a man more truly by the books and papers which he reads than by the company which he keeps, for his associates are often, in a manner, imposed upon him; but his reading is the result of choice, and the man who chooses a certain class of books and papers unconsciously becomes more colored in their views, more rooted in their opinions, and the mind becomes fettered to their views." ::Full Article::

"Let a gust of wind come into a house through an open door and how the doors slam, the curtains rattle, the papers careen about the room, and general confusion is stirred up. So it is when a gusty, passionate voice comes in at our open ears. It wakes up bedlam inside of us in a minute. ...It does not help us to govern ourselves, but puts self-government into rebellion." ::Full Article::

This little article was written over 164 years ago, yet sadly the theme of the story still remains the same even today. God has entrusted you with the care of precious little souls. What a wonderful blessing that the God of all creation found you worthy to be the father to these little treasures. Won't you spend time with them today? ::Full Article::

"No man can literally transfer his character to his son. The father may greatly influence him but the son must make the choice to choose good character. If characters could be made by Christian fathers and deeded to their sons, as property can, we should have grand accumulated worth in our young men." ::Full Article::

"Gentleness belongs to virtue, and is to be carefully distinguished from the spirit of cowardice... It removes no just right from fear; it gives no important truth to flattery; it is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle in order to give it any real value. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions." ::Full Article::

"Men of great eminence, who acknowledge allegiance to a Divine Master, are often so engrossed in public life as to neglect religious duties till their religious life becomes dormant, only to be awakened in moments of emotion. This seems to have been the case with Mr. Webster..." ::Full Article::

"Peter is sinking in the water; the tempest runs high. He looks upon the waves, and is ready to fancy that he is gong to be swallowed up immediately. His fear is reasonable, if he has only the tempest and himself to draw his conclusions from." ::Full Article::

"What is the beginning of wisdom? What has the Saviour promised to those who will keep his words? How far may one hope to know the mind of God regarding himself?" These questions and more are addressed with Scripture in this Bible study. ::Full Article::

"...people become so accustomed to the speed with which time flies along, that they seldom think much about it. Yet how fast our days and years pass away! Our life is like a journey upon the railroad..." ::Full Article::

"There are many places, as we journey along the pathway of life, where we slip and fall. How carefully should we ourselves, tread past such places in all our journeying! Yet how often is it lamentably true, that on the same spot we repeat our stumblings..." ::Full Article::