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Rh Return, Power of the Pentecost, return to Thy people! Shed down Thy flame on many heads! To us, as to our fathers and to those of the old time before them, give fullness of grace! Without Thee we can do nothing; but filled with the Holy Ghost, the excellency of the power will be of Thee, O God! and not of us. —.

Come, then, with what voice Thou wilt come, Thou power-clad Messenger of my Redeemer! Come with thunder on Thy tongue, or with a sweet "harp of ten strings;" come to us simple as a little child, or wise as a scribe instructed of God; but, O! let us only feel that fire in Thy message which lies not in sentences nor in tones, but in a heart itself inflamed from above, and pouring fire into our hearts. —.

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. —.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. —.

When home is ruled according to God's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element. —.