The Question Is Not If The Candidate's

The Seminaries Must Be Like The Churches' Poor Relations, Prolonging Their Existence With Austerity.

Genius Is A Sovereign Power; It Forms Schools; It Lays Hold On The Spirits Of Men, With Irresistible Might; And It Exercises An Immeasurable Influence On The Whole Condition Of Human Life. This Sovereignty Of Genius Is A Gift Of God, Possessed Only By His Grace. It Is Subject To No One And Is Responsible To Him Alone Who Has Granted It This Ascendancy.

It Is Impossible, Bible In Hand, To Limit Christ's Church To One's Own Little Community. It Is Everywhere, In All Parts Of The World; And Whatever Its External Form, Frequently Changing, Often Impure, Yet The Gifts Wherever Received Increase Our Riches.

The Motive Of Art Comes To Us Not From What Exists, But From The Notion That There Is Something Higher, Something Nobler, Something Richer, And That What Exists Corresponds Only Partially To All Of This.

Calvinism Is An All-embracing System Of Principles... It Is Rooted In A Form Of Religion Which Was Peculiarly Its Own, And Form That Specific Religious Consciousness There Was Developed First A Particular Theology, Then A Special Church-order, And Then A Given Form For Political And Social Life.