This the Christian creed has given us.' 'I would not have you be virtuous out of fear,' he said upon another occasion.

'The experience of a long life has taught me, however, that sin is always punished in this world, whatever may come in the next.
There is always some penalty in health, in comfort, or in peace of mind to be paid for every wrong.

It is with nations as it is with individuals.

A book of history is a book of sermons.

See how the luxurious Babylonians were destroyed by the frugal Persians, and how these same Persians when they learned the vices of prosperity were put to the sword by the Greeks.