“Great leaders, great statesmen, great poets, great teachers, great inventors, great philosophers are gifts from God to the nations. The service they have rendered cannot be calculated. We are all indebted to God for them more than we can say. But above all is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, his ineffable gift to men. He did not spare his own Son, but gave him freely for all of us. Love is a great gift Take away love and the world would be darker and gloomier than it would be if the sun were blotted out. All these great gifts, and many more, God has given us. ” Selected.

“There is too much truth, we fear, in the suggestion that the reason we turn away from the furnace that is to test ourselves is our awareness that there is so little gold and so much scum in us.” (1913.)

“As everyone knows, fashions in America are dictated by imperious edicts emanating from Paris. Many of these fashions are not only grotesque and ridiculous, but, what is worse, they are positively indecent …” ( 1914).

“Isn’t it a glorious thing to die at exactly the right time? Perhaps none of us know exactly when that is; but every now and then a man outlives his usefulness or in the end kicks the bucket full of the good works of his best.” Joseph Cook said of an eminent American preacher: “He would have lived longer if he had died earlier.” How true is the paradox in many lives. “(1915.)

THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF DARWIN, Zion’s Herald. From the article: “I was a young man with ideas without form. I threw consultations, suggestions, asking myself all the time about everything; and to my amazement, the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.” (1915.)

“Just as flowers carry dew drops that tremble on the edge of the petals and are ready to fall at the first gust of wind or the brush of a bird’s wing, so the heart should bear its words of thanksgiving with beads And at the first breath of heavenly favor the shower came down, perfumed with the gratitude of the heart. ” Beecher. (1916.)

“No man or woman of the humblest kind can be really strong, gentle, pure, and good without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.” Phillips Brooks. (1916.)

“I once felt that I was responsible for the conduct of universal affairs, but recently I have come to believe otherwise. As I tried to rule the world, I felt miserable; now it makes me happy to trust God.” Lyman Beecher. (1916.)

“The grave is not a dead end. It is a public road.” Victor Hugo.

“Why do men try to account for Jesus Christ and give a satisfactory explanation on natural grounds of all that He was and did? Men do not try to prove that Shakespeare was a mother man, or Socrates, or Luther, or Washington. That’s too obvious. But Jesus Christ has never been counted except as the living Bread that came down from heaven. ” Anonymous. (1916.)

The elderly are hungrier for love than bread.

If you can help the poor with a garment of praise, they will appreciate it as much as a woolen blanket on a winter night.

If you can win the one who strays from the error of his way and bring him to Christ for salvation, you will certainly hide a multitude of sins through his forgetfulness.

If you can maintain a joyful and patient spirit toward your enemies, you will have introduced Jesus to a heart in need and you will have earned a place of gratitude in life and you will have thought of the One who was your enemy.

If you want to be a bearer of light, you must have the light in your own heart and in your life, because only then will you be able to bring it to others and thus help win them from the paths of darkness and ruin to the realms of light and the world. everlasting joy. . Selected.

An infidel once taunted a minister with this question … “What right does a man like that have to enter the pearly gates?” “I don’t know, when he arrives, I’ll ask him,” replied the minister. “But suppose it’s not there?” “In that case, ask him,” replied the minister. (1916.)

“If the pastor doesn’t move his church, his church will move him.” JT McGlothlin.

“As a further indignity to Belgium, Germany has deported 30,000 Belgians to Germany for work purposes. This was done without their consent. They just huddled in freight cars like cattle and dispersed throughout Germany, and may never the more they see their families again. or their homeland. Germany continued to commit abuses against civilization. ” Shadows of Nazi Germany Years Later !! (1916.)

“It has been said that an American homeless man can live off what an American family wastes, and that a European homeless man can live off what an American homeless man throws away.” (1917.)

“It is better to leave your money on your child than on your child.”

“Every thought you have is a force that is turned off, and each thought comes back loaded with its kind.”

“Away in your sleeveless, manicured, dazed, powdered, society ladies, and give us back the old days, baking bread, darning stockings, caring for pants, mothers praying, and our homes will be saved.” Biederwolf.

“The man who builds a fence around him, fence more than he fence.” Dr. EM Poteat.

“It is a comfort to know that the true strength of men, like that of tea, is only extracted with hot water.” Anonymous.

Dr. Len G. Broughton, in a Chautaqua conference: “The greatest danger that threatens the American people today is not the danger of war, but the danger that lurks in disrespect for constituted authority. Most of our young people they are not under the proper authority of parents. Our public schools cannot administer disciplinary measures; the very laws of our land are lax, and in too many cases the violator of the law goes unpunished. ” (1917!)

“Any persistent thought will find its way onto the motor track of the brain.” JR Miller.

“The opinion that the Bible engendered in me not only from the teachings of my home as a child, but also from every turn and experience of my life and every step of study, is that it is the only supreme source of revelation, the revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and the spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life that leads the spirit on the path of peace and salvation. ” Woodrow Wilson.

“There is something radically wrong when a boxer can make more money in fifteen minutes than a preacher in fifteen years.” Billy Sunday. (1917.)

“The biblical recorder draws our attention to the fact that a leaning tree is a threat to the forest. Its own base is insecure, it leans on its neighbor for support. So too the leaning trees of mankind. Leaning on others. in churches. Stand tall, have your own opinions and be able to give a reason for hope with you. ” (1917.)

“Before you refrain from doing a good work for someone who does not appreciate it, and justify your course in that passage ‘Do not give the sacred to dogs, and do not throw pearls before pigs, lest they trample them under their feet. feet and it comes back and tears you apart, but be reasonably certain of two things: 1. That what you are casting are “pearls,” and 2. That those you are casting at are “pigs.” Before quoting this passage in justification, make sure of these two points. ” Anonymous.

“I find that there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of ​​doing something good to the world. Some do it with their society, some with their wit, others with benevolence, some with a kind of power to confer pleasure and good humor. In everything. That find “. John Keats. (1917.)

Lloyd George’s response to someone who complained about his small size: “I am saddened to find that our President is disappointed in my size. But his is due to the way you measure a man here. In North Wales we measure a man from his chin up, but evidently you measure him from the chin down. “

TWELVE THINGS TO REMEMBER: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity. 5. The value of the character. 6. The power of kindness. 7. The influence of example. 8. The obligation of duty. 9. The wisdom of economics. 10. The virtue of patience. 11. The improvement of talent. 12. The joy of originating.

“We cannot serve God and Mammon, but we can serve God with Mammon.” Robert E. Speer.

“Try to be happy in this very present moment, and do not postpone being so for a time to come, as if that time belonged to another man who has already come and is ours.” Fuller.

“If the day and the night are such that you receive them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and aromatic herbs, that is your success.” Maeterlinck.

“One cannot be obliged to do more than his duty, but he is obliged to do to the limit of his duty.” Rev. J. Clark.

“There are continually things that must be forgiven. Intentional and unintentional, for foresight and lack of thought, for things that have been said and done, and for things that have not been said or done. We must have the spirit and the attitude. of forgiveness at all times for all. things. On our part, and as far as possible for us, it is always already done. As the action of the heart is the real action and this is always already done. It may not be appreciated for others, but he is already freely forgiven. Tenderness of heart and kindness of act are related like the source of the stream. Movement supports the conditions that drive it. Where the heart is full of trust, indigenous tenderness is put into exercise.

For this there is only one sufficient cause, the healing blood of Jesus that gives “a heart in every thought renewed and full of divine love.” This is the pattern that is shown to us in heaven. In our prayers we say “forgive as God forgave you for the love of Christ.” How rich and full is the forgiveness of infinite love with atoning blood. As we appropriate it, how free and whole we find it. So with us, it should flow to everyone who wants to. “Selected.