Instruction Does Not Prevent Wasted Time Or

There Is Always A Part Of Our Being Into Which Those Who Are Dearer To Us Far Than Our Own Lives Are Yet Unable To Enter.

The Providence That Watches Over The Affairs Of Men Works Out Of Their Mistakes, At Times, A Healthier Issue Than Could Have Been Accomplished By Their Wisest Forethought.

Now, To A Single-minded Man, Who Is Either Brave Enough Or Reckless Enough To Surrender Himself Wholly To One Idea, And Look Neither Right Nor Left, But Only Forward, What Earthly Consequences May Follow Is Not Material. Persecution Strengthens Him; And So He Is Sure He Is Right, Whether His Course End In A Prison Or On A Throne Is No Matter At All. But Men Of This Calibre Are Uncommon In Any Age Or In Any Country Very Uncommon In This Age And This Country.

That In These Times Every Serious Person Should Not In His Heart Have Felt Some Difliculty With The Doctrines Of The Incarnation, I Cannot Helieve. We Are Not As We Were. When Christianity Was First Published, The Imagination Of Mankind Presented The Relation Of Heaven To Earth Very Differently From What It Does Now.

Men Are Made By Nature Unequal. It Is Vain, Therefore, To Treat Them As If They Were Equal.