Certainly, No Revolution That Has Ever Taken

The Infidelity That Springs From The Heart Is Not To Be Reached By A Course Of Lectures On The Evidences Of Christianity; Argument Did Not Cause, And Argument Will Not Remove It.

Faith, Then, Generically, Is Confidence In A Personal Being. Specifically, Religious Faith Is Confidence In God, In Every Respect And Office In Which He Reveals Himself. As That Love Of Which God Is The Object Is Religious Love, So That Confidence In Him As A Father, A Moral Governor, A Redeemer, A Sanctifier, In All The Modes Of His Manifestation, By Which We Believe Whatever He Says Because He Says It, And Commit Ourselves And All Our Interests Cheerfully And Entirely Into His Hands, Is Religious Faith.

The Very Act Of Faith By Which We Receive Christ Is An Act Of The Utter Renunciation Of Self, And All Its Works, As A Ground Of Salvation. It Is Really A Denial Of Self, And A Grounding Of Its Arms In The Last Citadel Into Which It Can Be Driven, And Is, In Its Principle, Inclusive Of Every Subsequent Act Of Self-denial By Which Sin Is Forsaken Or Overcome.

Remove From The History Of The Past All Those Actions Which Have Either Sprung Directly From The Religious Nature Of Man, Or Been Modified By It, And You Have The History Of Another World And Of Another Race.

Certainly, No Revolution That Has Ever Taken Place In Society Can Be Compared To That Which Has Been Produced By The Words Of Jesus Christ.