The Temple Of Art Is Built In

The Most Beautiful Sight This Earth Affords Is A Man Or Woman So Filled With Love That Duty Is Only A Name, And Its Performance The Natural Outflow And Expression Of The Love Which Has Become The Central Principle Of Their Life.

The Pleasant Converse Of The Fireside, The Simple Songs Of Home, The Words Of Encouragement As I Bend Over My School-tasks, The Kiss As I Lie Down To Rest, The Patient Bearing With The Freaks Of My Restless Nature, The Gentle Counsels Mingled With Reproofs And Approvals, The Sympathy That Meets And Assuages Every Sorrow, And Sweetens Every Little Success--all These Return To Me Amid The Responsibilities Which Press Upon Me Now, And I Feel As If I Had Once Lived In Heaven, And, Straying, Had Lost My Way.

A Fortune Won In A Day Is Lost In A Day; A Fortune Won Slowly, And Slowly Compacted, Seems To Acquire From The Hand That Won It The Property Of Endurance.

The Theological Systems Of Men And Schools Of Men Are Determined Always By The Character Of Their Ideal Of Christ, The Central Fact Of The Christian System.

My Idea Of The Christian Religion Is, That It Is An Inspiration And Its Vital Consequences--an Inspiration And A Life--god's Life Breathed Into A Man And Breathed Through A Man--the Highest Inspiration And The Highest Life Of Every Soul Which It Inhabits; And, Furthermore, That The Soul Which It Inhabits Can Have No High Issue Which Is Not Essentially Religious.