To Have Faith In The Word, Scripture

Unchecked, The Dominating Influences Of Money And Of Barren Intellectualism Would Reduce The Life Of Emotions To Freezing Point. And, Unable To Grasp The Holier Benefits Of Religion, The Mysticism Of The Heart Reacts In The Art-intoxication. .... In This Cold, Irreligious And Practical Age The Warmth Of This Devotion To Art Has Kept Alive Many Higher Aspirations Of Our Soul, Which Otherwise Might Readily Have Died, As They Did In The Middle Of The Last Century.

One Desire Has Been The Ruling Passion Of My Life. One High Motive Has Acted Like A Spur Upon My Mind And Soul. And Sooner Than That I Should Seek Escape From The Sacred Necessity That Is Laid Upon Me, Let The Breath Of Life Fail Me. It Is This: That In Spite Of All Worldly Opposition, God's Holy Ordinances Shall Be Established Again In The Home, In The School And In The State For The Good Of The People; To Carve As It Were Into The Conscience Of The Nation The Ordinances Of The Lord, To Which Bible And Creation Bear Witness, Until The Nation Pays Homage Again To God

The Sovereignty Of The State As The Power That Protects The Individual And That Defines The Mutual Relationships Among The Visible Spheres, Rises High Above Them By Its Right To Command And Compel. But Within These Spheres ... Another Authority Rules, An Authority That Descends Directly From God Apart From The State. This Authority The State Does Not Confer But Acknowledges.

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.

Every Science In A Certain Degree Starts From Faith, And, On The Contrary, Faith, Which Does Not Lead To Science, Is Mistaken Faith Or Superstition, But Real, Genuine Faith It Is Not.