“The daily regular solemn reading of God’s holy Word by a parent before his children is one of the most powerful agencies of a Christian life.”

“He who is prayed for will know and feel that he is prayed for. Paths of duty will be indicated (to children); dangers will be marked; sins will be arrayed before conscience; divine blessings will be set forth as infinitely desirable. By the same means, through God’s blessing, incentives to piety will be reiterated, convictions [...]

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September 16 – “One thing essential to growth in grace is diligence in the use of private means of grace.”

“One thing essential to growth in grace is diligence in the use of private means of grace. By these I understand such means as a man must use by himself alone, and no one can use for him. I include under this head private prayer, private reading of the Scriptures, and private meditation and self-examination. [...]

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August 28 – “The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.”

“The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it. As I sat last year under a wide-spreading beech, I was pleased to mark with prying curiosity the singular habits of that most wonderful of trees, which seems to have an intelligence about it which other trees have not. [...]

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August 27 – “…but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow…”

“Sermons and books are well enough, but streams that run for a long distance above ground gradually gather for themselves somewhat of the soil through which they flow, and they lose the cool freshness with which they started from the spring head. Truth is sweetest where it breaks from the smitten Rock, for at its [...]

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