“Unequally Yoked Together”
I do not believe a Christian man has a right to marry any unconverted woman. I do not believe any Christian woman has a right to marry an unconverted man. I imagine you will laugh
Thoghts
Unhappy Marriages
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
Joy at a Wedding
If the hard brow ever relaxes, it is at a wedding. The nature cold and unsympathetic thaws out under the glow, and the tears start as we hear the bride’s dress rustling down the stairs
The Primeval Man
“God made man in His image.” There is surely no bolder sentence in all human speech. It takes an infinite liberty with God! It is blasphemy if it is not truth. We have been accustomed
A Name of Power
It makes no difference what you call men—prince, peer, or slave. Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant
Man’s Exalted Nature
I look at man’s moral nature. Made in the image of God. Vast capacity for enjoyment, capable at first of eternal joy and, though now disordered, still through the recuperative grace of God, able to
The Worth of Man
If the value of anything is to be estimated by its price, to what an immeasurable height of worth does it exalt man that God gave His Son to redeem him!—redeeming him not with corruptible
The Best Monument
What monument is appropriate for the grave of a godless man? What for the resting place of a Christian? It seems to me after I am dead and gone, I would rather have a man
Demand For Good Men
In a hot summer’s day some years ago, I was sailing with a friend in a tiny boat, on a miniature lake, enclosed like a cup within a circle of steep, bare Scottish hills. On
Love Strong as Death
I look on this mother, who stands with her child on the side of the sinking wreck, to catch the last chance of a passing boat. She catches it—not to leap in herself; but, lifting