Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth. Martin Luther If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!

Matthew Simpson

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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

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His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

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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.

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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.

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Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

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Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

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Sanctification is not regeneration.

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If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

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

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The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

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The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

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If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

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

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