Life, Like War, Is A Series Of

Marriage Is Not A Union Merely Between Two Creatures - It Is A Union Between Two Spirits; And The Intention Of That Bond Is To Perfect The Nature Of Both.

Read A Work On The "evidences Of Christianity," And It May Become Highly Probable That Christianity, Etc., Are True. This Is An Opinion. Feel God. Do His Will, Till The Absolute Imperative Within You Speaks As With A Living Voice, "thou Shalt, And Thou Shalt Not;" And Then You Do Not Think, You Know That There Is A God.

To Believe Is To Be Happy; To Doubt Is To Be Wretched. To Believe Is To Be Strong. Doubt Cramps Energy. Belief Is Power. Only So Far As A Man Believes Strongly, Mightily, Can He Act Cheerfully, Or Do Any Thing That Is Worth The Doing.

My Christian Brethren, If The Crowd Of Difficulties Which Stand Between Your Souls And God Succeed In Keeping You Away, All Is Lost. Right Into The Presence You Must Force Your Way, With No Concealment, Baring The Soul With All Its Ailments Before Him, Asking, Not The Arrest Of The Consequences Of Sin, But The Cleansing Of The Conscience " From Dead Works To Serve The Living God," So That If You Must Suffer, You Will Suffer As A Forgiven Man.

Now See What A Christian Is, Drawn By The Hand Of Christ. He Is A Man On Whose Clear And Open Brow God Has Set The Stamp Of Truth; One Whose Very Eye Beams Bright With Honor; In Whose Very Look And Bearing You May See Freedom, Manliness, Veracity; A Brave Man--a Noble Man--frank, Generous, True, With, It May Be, Many Faults; Whose Freedom May Take The Form Of Impetuosity Or Rashness, But The Form Of Meanness Never.