Within two blocks of the Pacific Mission, in Chicago, is one of our large depots, the Rock Island and Lake Shore. Here is a good field...

Away on the western coast of England there stands a steep rock that is known to everybody as’ the “Lady’s Rock.” At high water it is...

This extraordinary man died at the early age of thirty-seven. He commenced his labors as a Wesleyan minister in England, in 1816, and...

I. In the spring of 1858, during the prevalence of the wide-spread revivals described in Prime’s “Power of Prayer,” I was soundly...

In the campaign of Napoleon in Russia, while the French army was retreating from Moscow, there lay in a poor, low cottage, in a little...

All dreams that make you better are from God. How do I know it? Is not God the source of all good? It does not take a very logical mind...

The following pathetic story of our late war is told by a Christian writer: “At the close of the first bloody day of the battle of...

The instances in which, in answer to prayer, God has sent remarkable deliverances to people, are numerous and striking. In the days of...

An illustrious example of constancy and power in prayer, we find in John Wesley : “It is said that “as a matter of habit and rule, John...

This mighty man of faith is too well known to the Christian world to need any introduction from us. We quote the following from a brief...

Mr. D. L. Moody and others, who were on the disabled steamer Spree, believe that the vessel was providentially saved in answer to prayer....

In 1868, Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Cott held a revival meeting at Stone Ridge, Ulster Co., N. Y. At the opening of the meeting, she...

When the Lawrence Mills were on fire a number of years ago—I don’t mean on fire, but when the mill fell in—the great mill fell in, and...

This eminent saint of God labored in England during the early history of Methodism. His biographer, Harvey Leigh, says: “Our brother was...

Dr. Lyman Beecher said of the great revival in Rochester, N.Y., conducted by Mr. Finney, that it was the greatest revival in the...

Six years ago Miss Shelly won a gold medal from the Iowa Legislature, “and a wealth of admiration from all who read of her act of...

On his fiftieth birthday, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was interviewed in reference to his long and eventful ministerial life, especially as to...

The Rev. Theodore Clapp, for many years a minister of religion in the city of New Orleans, narrates the following incident, which...

I believe it to be a great characteristic of the American heart, that it clings to home and mother. I remember passing over a...

A little girl once said: “Mother, does God ever scold?” She had seen her mother, under circumstances of strong provocation, lose her...