“Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.” YearsAgeLordForeverTreeEventsPositionFlowerAll ThingsAddEndureBelieverRingsGrassTestimonyHope And Faith Book:The Way to Life: Sermons Source: The Way to Life: Sermons
“The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.” AgeNightLosesWalksStepsStudentsSilentRoundsBurningAcquireCheeksPaleLampsLimbsBrowsManlyHueMental PowerSilent Night Book:The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41 Source: The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41
“Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.” MayDoeAgeYoungHeavenTreeFlowerBearsGardenHeavenlySelectNursery Book:The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses Source: The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses