We Cannot Be Passive And Silent Towards

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

We Understand Hereby, That The Family, The Business, Science, Art And So Forth Are All Social Spheres, Which Do Not Owe Their Existence To The State, But Obey A High Authority Within Their Own Bosom; An Authority Which Rules, By The Grace Of God, Just As The Sovereignty Of The State Does.

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.

There Are Two Kinds Of Beauty; There Is A Beauty Which God Gives At Birth, And Which Withers As A Flower. And There Is A Beauty Which God Grants When By His Grace Men Are Born Again. That Kind Of Beauty Never Vanishes But Blooms Eternally.

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.