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Did you ever visit the manufactory of splendid porcelain at Sèvres, France? I have done so. If anybody should say to me, “Do you know the manufactory at Sèvres?” I should say, “Yes, I do, and no, I do not. I know it, for I have seen the building. I have seen the rooms in which the articles are exhibited…

You have a friend who is ill, and the doctor says he cannot last long; he must die. You have called a great many times expecting to hear of his departure, but he is still alive. Now the frequent errors of the physicians do not prove that your friend will not die one of these days. And so, though the…

He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…

Christians, never be satisfied with being merely saved. Up with you! Away! Off! Go onward to the high mountains, to the clearer light, to the brighter joy! If saved, and brought, like the shipwrecked mariner, to shore, is that enough? Yes, for the moment it is enough to warrant the purest satisfaction…

A man who is in the sea, deep down under the water, taking a plunge, does not feel the weight of the water. But bring him out on the shore, put a great tub of water on his head, and see what a weight that is to him. So, while a man is in sin as his element, it is no burden to him. But when he is out…

Just as people in a foreign land that love their country always are glad to have plenty of letters from the country, I hope we have much communication with the old fatherland. We send our prayers there as letters to our Father, and we get His letters back in this blessed volume of His Word. You go into…

The very fact that there are hypocrites proves that all are not so. Do you think there would be any bad bank notes in the world if there were no good ones? Do you think anyone would try and circulate bad sovereigns if there were no really good ones? No, I think not. It is the good bank note that makes…

A young minister had been preaching in a country village, and the sermon apparently took deep effect on the minds of the hearers. In the congregation there was a young man who felt acutely the truth of the solemn words to which the preacher had given utterance. He sought the preacher after the service,…

My observation of personal character has been somewhat wide, and I cannot help bearing my testimony that I am greatly afraid of men who make loud professions of superior sanctity. I have had the misfortune to have known, on one or two occasions, superfine brethren, who were, in their own ideas, far above…

Gregory Nazianzen, a foremost father of the Christian Church, rejoiced that he was well versed in the Athenian philosophy. Why do you think he rejoiced in that? Because he had to give it all up when he became a Christian, and, said he, “I thank God that I had a philosophy to throw away.” He counted it…

There lived some few years ago in Perugia, in Italy, a man of the loosest morals and the worst conceivable disposition. He had given up all religion, he loathed God, and had arrived at such a desperate state of mind that he had conceived an affection for the devil, and endeavored to worship the evil…

When a man ran in the Grecian games, if he had run halfway, and passed most of his fellows, and had then turned to look round and to rejoice over the distance which he had already covered, he would have lost the race. Suppose he had commenced singing his own praises, and said, “I have come down the hill,…

One life spent in distinct opposition to the gospel of Jesus is a terrible thing. A Scotchman took some thistle seed to Australia, that he might see a thistle grow on his farm. He only wanted one or two rare old Scotch thistles to make him think that he was at home. Now, thousands of acres are covered…

Do you see that train steaming along the iron way? See, it plunges into a cavern in yonder hill! You have now lost sight of it. Has it perished? As on an angel’s wing, you fly to the top of the hill, and you look down on the other side. There it comes steaming forth again from the tunnel, bearing its…

“From the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born from Hebrews.” Paul shakes out the whole lot for the dogs, and is glad to be rid of it all for Christ’s sake. It reminds me of a ship in a storm. When the captain leaves the harbor he has a cargo on board of which he takes great care,…

I once saw a colonel shooting at a target. There were two targets near each other, and he hit the center of one of them. The attendant called out, “Which target was that gentleman shooting at?” “The one on the left,” was the answer. “I thought so,” said the man, “for he hit the one on the right.” There…

# Philippians 3:17–21 ## Opening So far in this chapter Paul has warned against the Judaizers, and any who would place their confidence in who they are, or what they have done and not the finished work of Christ alone. By way of rebuking this idea, Paul gives his own longs list of “fleshly” qualifications…

In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “In white-water kayaking they teach you to look at the clear, safe water next to the dangerous hole you want to avoid. Experts have found that if you stare at what you are desperate to avoid, you are…

I have heard it said, I believe in heaven but I’m not in any hurry to get there. This feeling became real for Stanley Heerboth and his wife after they attended the funeral of a good friend. When the service concluded the Heerboths decided to go to a Chinese restaurant for a little Szechuan pick-me-up.…

The social isolation and quarantine brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred extraordinary feats of perseverance. James Campbell ran a 26.2-mile marathon in his back yard. He covered the short path more than 7000 time in just over 5 hours earning $22,000 for charity. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers is a spokesperson for Vicis football helmets. He has even invested in the company. In a magazine picture in an article about the safety of football helmets, the photographer captured Rodgers wearing a competitor’s helmet. Sports Illustrated, December 2, 2019,…

When Lee Ann Walker became aware that she was in violation of a new rule put into place by the USGA and R&A, she reported the infraction to officials and added 58 penalty strokes to her score at the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2019/10/16/lee-anne-walker-shoots-127-senior-lpga-penalty-strokes/40327737/…