The Sovereignty Of One's Self Over One's

All The Great And Beneficent Operations Of Nature Are Produced By Slow And Often Imperceptible Degrees. The Work Of Destruction And Devastation Only Is Violent And Rapid.

The Doctrines Of The Bible Are Often Not Clothed In The Language Of Strict Truth, But In That Which Was Fittest To Convey To A Rude And Ignorant People The Practical Essentials Of The Doctrine.

Man Is Not To Be Comprehended As A Starting-point, Or Progress As A Goal, Without Those Two Great Forces , Faith And Love . Prayer Is Sublime.

Strange And Mysterious Name To Give To The Spirit Of Darkness! Lucifer, The Son Of The Morning! Is It He Who Bears The Light, And With Its Splendors Intolerable Blinds Feeble, Sensual, Or Selfish Souls? Doubt It Not!

If The Soul Sees, After Death , What Passes On This Earth , And Watches Over The Welfare Of Those It Loves, Then Must Its Greatest Happiness Consist In Seeing The Current Of Its Beneficent Influences Widening Out From Age To Age, As Rivulets Widen Into Rivers, And Aiding To Shape The Destinies Of Individuals, Families, States, The World; And Its Bitterest Punishment, In Seeing Its Evil Influences Causing Mischief And Misery , And Cursing And Afflicting Men, Long After The Frame It Dwelt In Has Become Dust, And When Both Name And Memory Are Forgotten.