Mother’s Forgiveness
An Englishman told me a story once which may serve to illustrate how God forgives. There was a boy a good many years ago, stolen in London, the same as Charley Ross was stolen here.
Thoghts
Mother’s Comfort
An aged mother is almost omnipotent in comfort. Why? At seventy years of age she has been through it all. At seven o’clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a young mother who
A Suggestive Name
When one speaks the name of my mother, and says to me, “Roxana,” it is no Greek that I think of; it is she that was a Connecticut woman, bred in an obscure neighborhood, quiet
A Sacred Name
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 Missionary Outlook
Why, the earth is like an old castle with twenty gates and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. Lay aside all Christendom, and see how all heathendom is being surrounded and
Universal Fraternity
I am bound to preach the gospel to every creature, for all men are my brothers. The ignorant black man is my brother. His skin, to be sure, may have a different hue from mine;
“Unto Every Creature”
I can imagine Peter saying, “Lord, do you really mean that we shall preach the gospel to every creature?” “Yes, Peter.” “Shall we go back to Jerusalem and preach the gospel to those sinners who
An Earnest Flea
If there were but one man in Siberia unsaved, and all the world were saved besides, if God should move our minds, it would be worthwhile for all the people in England to go after
Our Field, The World
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
A Tender Tie
In looking back to the first marriage, I cannot but think that it was to make its tie more tender that God chose the singular plan he pursued in providing the man with a mate.