I Will Tell You The Secret. God

We Have To Recognise, That The Gin-palace, Like Many Other Evils, Although As Poisonous, Is Still A Natural Outgrowth Of Our Social Conditions. The Tap-room In Many Cases Is The Poor Man's Only Parlour. Many A Man Takes To Beer, Not From The Love Of Beer, But From A Natural Craving For The Light, Warmth, Company, And Comfort Which Is Thrown In Along With The Beer, And Which He Cannot Get Excepting By Buying Beer. Reformers Will Never Get Rid Of The Drink Shop Until They Can Outbid It In The Subsidiary Attractions Which It Offers To Its Customers.

Faith And Works Should Travel Side By Side, Step Answering To Step, Like The Legs Of Men Walking. First Faith, And Then Works; And Then Faith Again, And Then Works Again--until They Can Scarcely Distinguish Which Is The One And Which Is The Other.

What Is The Use Of Preaching The Gospel To Men Whose Whole Attention Is Concentrated Upon A Mad, Desperate Struggle To Keep Themselves Alive?

... You Cannot Make A Man Clean [simply] By Washing His Shirt.

The Tendency Of Fire Is To Go Out; Watch The Fire On The Altar Of Your Heart. Anyone Who Has Tended A Fireplace Fire Knows That It Needs To Be Stirred Up Occasionally.