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When A Founder Has Cast A Bell He Does Not Presently Fix It In The Steeple, But Tries It With His Hammer, And Beats It On Every Side To See If There Be Any Flaw In It. So Christ Doth Not Presently After He Hath Converted A Man, Convey Him To Heaven; But Suffers Him First To Be Beaten Upon By Many Temptations And Then Exalts Him To His Crown.

Prayer Is Faith Passing Into Action.

God's Way Of Answering The Christian's Prayer For More Patience, Experience, Hope And Love Often Is To Put Him Into The Furnace Of Affliction.

An Idle Man Has A Constant Tendency To Torpidity. He Has Adopted The Indian Maxim That It Is Better To Walk Than To Run, And Better To Stand Than To Walk, And Better To Sit Than To Stand, And Better To Lie Than To Sit. He Hugs Himself Into The Notion, That God Calls Him To Be Quiet.

Philosophy Is A Proud, Sullen Detector Of The Poverty And Misery Of Man. It May Turn Him From The World With A Proud, Sturdy Contempt; But It Cannot Come Forward And Say, Here Are Rest, Grace, Pardon, Peace, Strength, And Consolation.