Nothing But The Cross Of Christ Can

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.

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 Patriarchal, The Jewish, And The Christian Dispensations, Are Evidently But The Unfolding Of One General Plan. In The First We See The Folded Bud; In The Second The Expanded Leaf; In The Third The Blossom And The Fruit. And Now, How Sublime The Idea Of A Religion Thus Commencing In The Earliest Dawn Of Time; Holding On Its Way Through All The Revolutions Of Kingdoms And The Vicissitudes Of The Race; Receiving New Forms, But Always Identical In Spirit; And, Finally, Expanding And Embracing In One Great Brotherhood The Whole Family Of Man! Who Can Doubt That Such A Religion Was From God?

Everywhere The Tendency Has Been To Separate Religion From Morality, To Set Them In Opposition Even. But A Religion Without Morality Is A Superstition And A Curse; And Anything Like An Adequate And Complete Morality Without Religion Is Impossible. The Only Salvation For Man Is In The Union Of The Two As Christianity Unites Them.

Who Will Reach Heaven? I Do Not Know, But I Am Certain That No One Will Be There Who Does Not Feel At Home.