1 God is a friend to the poor orphan child.
2 I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man.
3 God is my father; God is my friend: I love Him; I believe He loves me.
4 I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
5 I wonder at the goodness of God; the generosity of my friends; the bounty of my lot.
6 I trust, Jane, you are in earnest when you say you will serve your heart to God: it is all I want.
7 On that occasion, he again, with a full heart, acknowledged that God had tempered judgment with mercy.
8 See that she is cared for as her condition demands, and you have done all that God and humanity require of you.
9 God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide.
10 And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.
11 I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm.
12 He has maintained a regular, though not frequent, correspondence ever since: he hopes I am happy, and trusts I am not of those who live without God in the world, and only mind earthly things.
13 God wot I need not be too severe about others; I have a past existence, a series of deeds, a colour of life to contemplate within my own breast, which might well call my sneers and censures from my neighbours to myself.
14 God had an errand for me; to bear which afar, to deliver it well, skill and strength, courage and eloquence, the best qualifications of soldier, statesman, and orator, were all needed: for these all centre in the good missionary.
15 We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.