We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God’s people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ’s disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a “house of mourning,” I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God “stirs up our nests” and bids us fly upward.

I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ’s will and trusting on Christ’s help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

As long as we work on God’s line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul’s roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of “Bible-readers” whose only Bible is the Christian.

A large portion of Christ’s miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children’s souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler’s daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate’s hall.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today’s duties and tomorrow’s anxieties piled on the top of them.