Sanctification is not regeneration.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.