Everywhere The Tendency Has Been To Separate

Whatever Capacities There May Be For Enjoyment Or For Suffering In This Strange Being Of Ours, And God Only Knows What They Are, They Will Be Drawn Out Wholly In Accordance With Character.

We Say Then, That Christianity Is Adapted To The Intellect, Because Its Spirit Coincides With That Of True Philosophy; Because It Removes The Incubus Of Sensuality And Low Vice; Because Of The Place It Gives To Truth; Because It Demands Free Inquiry; Because Its Mighty Truths And Systems Are Brought Before The Mind In The Same Way As The Truths And Systems Of Nature; Because It Solves Higher Problems Than Nature Can; And Because It Is So Communicated As To Be Adapted To Every Mind.

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.

No, There Is Nothing On The Face Of The Earth That Can, For A Moment, Bear A Comparison With Christianity As A Religion For Man. Upon This The Hope Of The Race Hangs. From The Very First, It Took Its Position, As The Pillar Of Fire, To Lead The Race Onward. The Intelligence And Power Of The Race Are With Those Who Have Embraced It; And Now, If This, Instead Of Proving Indeed A Pillar Of Fire From God, Should Be Found But A Delusive Meteor, Then Nothing Will Be Left To The Race But To Go Back To A Darkness That May Be Felt, And To A Worse Than Egyptian Bondage.

Let The Church Come To God In The Strength Of A Perfect Weakness, In The Power Of A Felt Helplessness And A Child-like Confidence, And Then, Either She Has No Strength, And Has No Right To Be, Or She Has A Strength That Is Infinite. Then And Thus, Will She Stretch Out The Rod Over The Seas Of Difficulty That Lie Before Her, And The Waters Shall Divide, And She Shall Pass Through, And Sing The Song Of Deliverance.