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If It Be True, As I Believe It Is, That Morality Is Dependent Upon Religion, Then Religion Is Not Only The Most Practical Thing In The World, But The First Essential.

Next To The Ministry I Know Of No More Noble Profession Than The Law. The Object Aimed At Is Justice, Equal And Exact, And If It Does Not Reach That End At Once It Is Because The Stream Is Diverted By Selfishness Or Checked By Ignorance. Its Principles Ennoble And Its Practice Elevates.

Nation After Nation, When At The Zenith Of Its Power, Has Proclaimed Itself Invincible Because Its Army Could Shake The Earth With Its Tread And Its Ships Could Fill The Seas, But These Nations Are Dead, And We Must Build Upon A Different Foundation If We Would Avoid Their Fate.

Destiny Is No Matter Of Chance. It Is A Matter Of Choice. It Is Not A Thing To Be Waited For, It Is A Thing To Be Achieved.

If Matter Mute And Inanimate, Though Changed By The Forces Of Nature Into A Multitude Of Forms, Can Never Die, Will The Spirit Of Man Suffer Annihilation When It Has Paid A Brief Visit, Like A Royal Guest, To This Tenement Of Clay?