The Bible from which he delivered his seraphic sermons was still lying on the pulpit.

When I asked a plain woman, the wife of a weaver, what she could tell me about his discourses, her remarkable reply was: "It did me more good just to see Mr.McCheyne walk from the door to his pulpit than to hear any other man in Dundee." A fine tribute, that, to the power of a Christly personality.

A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent and soul-convincing than a sermon on paper.

I spent a very pleasant hour with sturdy John Bright, and he told me that he had more relatives living in America than in England.

His reason for declining the invitation of our government to visit the United States was that he knew too well what our enthusiastic countrymen had in store for him.