You Must Make Up Your Mind To

To Live Is To Change, And To Be Perfect Is To Have Changed Often.

To Be Deep In History, Is To Cease To Be Protestant.

I Want A Laity, Not Arrogant, Not Rash In Speech, Not Disputatious, But Men Who Know Their Religion, Who Enter Into It, Who Know Just Where They Stand, Who Know What They Hold And What They Do Not, Who Know Their Creed So Well That They Can Give An Account Of It, Who Know So Much Of History That They Can Defend It.

This Is What The Church Is Said To Want, Not Party Men, But Sensible, Temperate, Sober, Well-judging Persons, To Guide It Through The Channel Of No-meaning, Between The Scylla And Charybdis Of Aye And No.

May He Support Us All The Day Long, Till The Shades Lengthen, And The Evening Comes, And The Busy World Is Hushed, And The Fever Of Life Is Over, And Our Work Is Done! Then In His Mercy May He Give Us A Safe Lodging, And A Holy Rest, And Peace At The Last.