Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer. - Samuel I. Prime

It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distaste for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.