I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one excep… - Theodore L. Cuyler

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.

Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.