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1. So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our head back on the bosom of Christ and quietly fall asleep.
2. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
3. Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
4. How many weary and starved congregations listen hopelessly to a dejected preacher who will never give them a word, a phrase, or a thought they have not heard hundreds of times.
5. The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
6. Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven.
7. "To all who find their days declining, to all upon whom age is creeping with its infirmities, to all whose strength seems steadily to ebb....God seems to take our last things, and as it were, pack them up for our journey. These are tokens that you are approaching land. They are signs that the troubles of the sea are almost over."
8. "Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."
9. "It is what we get by the soul that makes us rich."
10. "Many people wish the Bible to overawe them, as Sinai did the Israelites...who worshiped it one day and danced around a calf the next."
11. "Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly."
12. "The nature of God is the same to all men, but the effects are not the same on all men; because they do not all put it to the same uses."
13. "A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man."
14. "The nature of God is the same to all men, but the effects are not the same on all men; because they do not put it all to the same uses."
15. "Now comes the mystery."
16. "On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives, on that, freemen."
17. "Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."
18. "We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."
19. "Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays an egg, and then cackles."
20. "The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect, whosoever won't."
