Everywhere The Tendency Has Been To Separate

The Infidelity That Springs From The Heart Is Not To Be Reached By A Course Of Lectures On The Evidences Of Christianity; Argument Did Not Cause, And Argument Will Not Remove It.

The Essential Elements Of Giving Are Power And Love - Activity And Affection - And The Consciousness Of The Race Testifies That In The High And Appropriate Exercise Of These Is A Blessedness Greater Than Any Other.

In Christ We See The Strength Of Achievement, And The Strength Of Endurance. He Moved With A Calm Majesty, Like The Sun. The Bloody Sweat, And The Crown Of Thorns, And The Cross, Were Full In His Eyes; But He Was Obedient Unto Death. In His Perfect Self-sacrifice We See The Perfection Of Strength; In The Love That Prompted It We See The Perfection Of Beauty. This Combination Of Self-sacrifice And Love Must Be Commenced In Every Christian; And When It Shall Be In Its Spirit Complete In Him, Then Will He Also Be Perfect In Strength And Beauty.

The Patriarchal, The Jewish, And The Christian Dispensations, Are Evidently But The Unfolding Of One General Plan. In The First We See The Folded Bud; In The Second The Expanded Leaf; In The Third The Blossom And The Fruit. And Now, How Sublime The Idea Of A Religion Thus Commencing In The Earliest Dawn Of Time; Holding On Its Way Through All The Revolutions Of Kingdoms And The Vicissitudes Of The Race; Receiving New Forms, But Always Identical In Spirit; And, Finally, Expanding And Embracing In One Great Brotherhood The Whole Family Of Man! Who Can Doubt That Such A Religion Was From God?

Christianity Excludes Malignity, Subdues Selfishness, Regulates The Passions, Subordinates The Appetites, Quickens The Intellect, Exalts The Affections. It Promotes Industry, Honesty, Truth, Purity, Kindness. It Humbles The Proud, Exalts The Lowly, Upholds Law, Favors Liberty, Is Essential To It, And Would Unite Men In One Great Brotherhood. It Is The Breath Of Life To Social And Civil Well-being Here, And Spreads The Azure Of That Heaven Into Whose Unfathomed Depths The Eye If Faith Loves To Look.