The Gates Of Hell Shall Not Prevail

Upon My Return From The Army To Baltimore In The Winter Of 1777, I Sat Next To John Adams In Congress, And Upon My Whispering To Him And Asking Him If He Thought We Should Succeed In Our Struggle With Great Britain, He Answered Me, "yes-if We Fear God And Repent Of Our Sins."

Such Is My Veneration For Every Religion That Reveals The Attributes Of The Deity, Or A Future State Of Rewards And Punishments, That I Had Rather See The Opinions Of Confucius Or Mahomed Inculcated Upon Our Youth Than See Them Grow Up Wholly Devoid Of A System Of Religious Principles.

If Moral Precepts Alone Could Have Reformed Mankind, The Mission Of The Son Of God Into All The World Would Have Been Unnecessary. The Perfect Morality Of The Gospel Rests Upon The Doctrine Which, Though Often Controverted Has Never Been Refuted: I Mean The Vicarious Life And Death Of The Son Of God.

We Profess To Be Republicans, And Yet We Neglect The Only Means Of Establishing And Perpetuating Our Republican Forms Of Government; That Is, The Universal Education Of Our Youth In The Principles Of Christianity By Means Of The Bible; For This Divine Book, Above All Others, Favors That Equality Among Mankind, That Respect For Just Laws, And All Those Sober And Frugal Virtues Which Constitute The Soul Of Republicanism.

Were I Disposed To Consider The Comparative Merit Of Each Of Them [facts Or Theories In Medical Practice], I Should Derive Most Of The Evils Of Medicine From Supposed Facts, And Ascribe All The Remedies Which Have Been Uniformly And Extensively Useful, To Such Theories As Are True. Facts Are Combined And Rendered Useful Only By Means Of Theories, And The More Disposed Men Are To Reason, The More Minute And Extensive They Become In Their Observations