The Three Crosses
The cross! Poets have sung its praise, and sculptors have attempted to commemorate it in marble, and martyrs have clung to it in fire, and Christians dying quietly in their beds have leaned their heads
Thoghts
Our Salvation Wrought Upon The Cross
Are you trusting in a righteousness of your own! Leave that loom. Are the gossamer threads of your own TOWS and promises ever snapping in your hand, and breaking at every show of the shuttle?
Jesus Bore The Cross For Us
You ladies wear small crosses made of gold and wood and stone about your necks; but the cross that the Son of God carried was a rude, heavy tree, made into a cross. I can
Spes Unica
On a huge cross by the side of an Italian highway hung a hideous caricature of the Beloved of our souls, who poured out His life for our redemption. Out of reverence to the living
Christ With Us Means The Cross For Us
When God breaks up your plans, and throws you to the very ground, and breaks all the threads in the loom which you were weaving, and says to you, “Begin again,” is there any Christ
Skill In Nature
The British museum possesses in the Portland vase one of the finest remains of ancient art; and it may be remembered how, some years ago—the world of taste was shocked to hear that this precious
God In Creation
Phidias, the Grecian sculptor, needed not to have the name Phidias in so many letters on his work, for the master’s hand had a cunning of its own which none could counterfeit. An instructed person
Culture The Complement Of Creation
Creation begins the work. Culture continues it. There is but a beginning in natural fruits, and they never, when left to nature alone, reach beyond that point. When a man finds a crab apple in
Creation In A Circle
God created the universe on the plan of a circle. There are in the natural world straight lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles; but these evidently are not God’s favorites. Giant’s Causeway in Ireland shows what
Creation In A Circle
God created the universe on the plan of a circle. There are in the natural world straight lines, angles, parallelograms, diagonals, quadrangles; but these evidently are not God’s favorites. Giant’s Causeway in Ireland shows what