The Consistent Christian- A Handbook for Christian Living

This is a wonderful book! At whatever page you open it, your eye lights upon pithy aphorisms, which combine the sententiousness of Benjamin Franklin with the sweet holy savor of Samuel Rutherford. It contains hundreds of bright seed-thoughts like these: "There is one way to keep a man out of Hell — but there is no way to get a man out of Hell." "This world is very large in our hopes — but very small in our hands." "The water outside the ship may toss it — but it is the water inside the ship which sinks it." "God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves." "Moses had more glory by his veil — than he had by his face." "A saint is not free from sin — that is his burden. A saint is not free to sin — that is his blessing. Sin is in him — that is his lamentation. His soul is not in sin — that is his consolation." Matthew Henry, as rich a writer as he was — did not surpass this little volume in gems of condensed and quickening thought.
It is a wonder, that such a book should have laid in utter obscurity for fifty years. Another wonder is that Religious encyclopedias make no mention of the name of that genius who produced this unique book.