... You Cannot Make A Man Clean

It Is Against Stupidity In Every Shape And Form That We Have To Wage Our Eternal Battle. But How Can We Wonder At The Want Of Sense On The Part Of Those Who Have Had No Advantages, When We See Such Plentiful Absence Of That Commodity On The Part Of Those Who Have Had All The Advantages?

Look Well To The Fire Of Your Souls, For The Tendency Of Fire Is To Go Out.

Put Your Ear Down To The Bible, And Hear Him Bid You Go And Pull Sinners Out Of The Fire Of Sin. Put Your Ear Down To The Burdened, Agonized Heart Of Humanity, And Listen To Its Pitiful Wail For Help.

We Have To Recognise, That The Gin-palace, Like Many Other Evils, Although As Poisonous, Is Still A Natural Outgrowth Of Our Social Conditions. The Tap-room In Many Cases Is The Poor Man's Only Parlour. Many A Man Takes To Beer, Not From The Love Of Beer, But From A Natural Craving For The Light, Warmth, Company, And Comfort Which Is Thrown In Along With The Beer, And Which He Cannot Get Excepting By Buying Beer. Reformers Will Never Get Rid Of The Drink Shop Until They Can Outbid It In The Subsidiary Attractions Which It Offers To Its Customers.

No Sort Of Defense Is Needed For Preaching Outdoors, But It Would Take A Very Strong Argument To Prove That A Man Who Has Never Preached Beyond The Walls Of His Meetinghouse Has Done His Duty. A Defense Is Required For Services Within Buildings Rather Than For Worship Outside Of Them.