The Deceitful Nature of Sin
The face of pleasure to the youthful imagination is the face of an angel, a paradise of smiles, a home of love; while the rugged face of industry, imbrowned by toil, is dull and repulsive;
The face of pleasure to the youthful imagination is the face of an angel, a paradise of smiles, a home of love; while the rugged face of industry, imbrowned by toil, is dull and repulsive;
Look out upon that fallen creature whose gay sally through the street calls out the significant laugh of bad men, the pity of good men, and the horror of the pure. Was not her cradle
On unrolling some of the old Egyptian mummies, you will find wheat three thousand years old. The Greek empire has risen and gone; the Roman empire has been riven and its dust has been blown
Do you ask, “Why not do away with the church, if its members make so many mistakes?” Would you take away the light-house because careless mariners, through wrong observations, run their ships high and dry
Sin is not only strong to seduce, but heartless to sustain its victims. It will exhaust your means, teach you to despise the God of your fathers, and then when the inevitable disaster of wickedness
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense is a life of death. You go and bury a seed and that is husbandry; but you bury one, that
Let us interrupt the flow of the week, and rear up another Sabbath in the middle of it. And, as those who swim mighty streams do stop, panting, to rest upon some midway rock ere
Oftentimes you will find men who have been penurious all their lives, and who have amassed a fortune, attempting to buy respect in their old age. Sometimes they do it by making their will, and
Am I poor? He cannot be poor to whom God’s angels come every day and every night Have I no riches here? I have all that every man owns on this earth, and all that
Did not one who was as near to me almost, as flesh and blood, and who stood high both in church and in business circles, in an evil hour fall into forgeries? When he awoke