Henry Ward Beecher

Hungry souls go up and down, to and fro, before Christ’s table, when there is bread that will cause that hunger to cease forever, and water that is drawn from the river coming from God’s

The apostolic idea of preaching was the secret of the power of the first Christian Church for many hundred years. It is historically true that Christianity did not in its beginning succeed by the force

“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we can ask or think,” what a vision the apostle must have had! How much can a man ask or think? When

The test of Godliness is power. The man who is like God in holiness, in love, in goodness, will have some of God’s power. He will be a sun, around which, like celestial bodies around

It sometimes happens that poverty brings to a man what all his wealth had failed to give—happiness. A man too rich to be industrious is a prey to the thousand frets of unoccupied leisure. The

O impatient ones! Did the leaves say nothing to you as they murmured, when you came hither to-day? They were not created this spring, but months ago; and the summer just begun will fashion others

Look at old age! A friend said to me, a lady, “I hate old age,” and there was a vehemency in it that left me no doubt as to the sincerity of the expression. A

More and more as we grow, we appreciate the finer traits of human nature. Men going out into life never forget the mother who stays at home, and who has presented to them a nature

The mission spirit has now gained such momentum and rapidity, that we can now go through a revolution, changing public sentiment from selfishness to benevolence, in twenty-five or thirty years. We know that the influence

Marriages are said to be made in heaven. No, oh no! There may be a world of difference between the two who are joined together; and marriage is a sphere for heroism on that very