Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater

To say that Christianity is not a doctrine but a life, is to utter a doctrine.

The life can only be Christian as it is guided by and conformed to Christian truth.

To deny the reality of doctrine and the necessity of believing it, on pretext of exalting the Christian life above it, is to deny the possibility of such life.

It is sometimes called Pauline, because while its distinctive principles underlie all parts of the Bible, ever and anon cropping out as its granitic stratum, they are most fully articulated in the Epistles of Paul.

Whoever so apprehends the doctrine of foreordination as to abridge the fulness, freeness, universality and sincerity of the gospel offer, misapprehends it.

It is forever true that nothing stands in the way of the sinner’s salvation but his own perverseness and refusal to accept it.

If God makes willing in the day of his power, it is we that will. If he gives repentance, we repent. If he fulfils in us the work of faith, we believe.

It is in Zion that the children of the Church are born to newness of life.

Since He has promised to be their God, it is in training them as if they were his; as if it were alone congruous with their position to walk as his children in faith, love, hope, and all holy obedience, that we are to lo…

There are three parties to this covenant sealed in the baptism of children; God, the parent and the child. Originally the first two are the responsible stipulators. At the age of majority the child comes in place of the…

They should feed them with knowledge, guide them by counsel, and specially commend them to God in prayer.

Here is the sad mistake which many fathers and mothers make. They look to others to do the work which they themselves should perform.