Unity Is The Ultimate Goal Of All

Do Not Bury Our Glorious Orthodoxy In The Treacherous Pit Of A Spurious Conservatism.

Unchecked, The Dominating Influences Of Money And Of Barren Intellectualism Would Reduce The Life Of Emotions To Freezing Point. And, Unable To Grasp The Holier Benefits Of Religion, The Mysticism Of The Heart Reacts In The Art-intoxication. .... In This Cold, Irreligious And Practical Age The Warmth Of This Devotion To Art Has Kept Alive Many Higher Aspirations Of Our Soul, Which Otherwise Might Readily Have Died, As They Did In The Middle Of The Last Century.

Genius Is A Sovereign Power; It Forms Schools; It Lays Hold On The Spirits Of Men, With Irresistible Might; And It Exercises An Immeasurable Influence On The Whole Condition Of Human Life. This Sovereignty Of Genius Is A Gift Of God, Possessed Only By His Grace. It Is Subject To No One And Is Responsible To Him Alone Who Has Granted It This Ascendancy.

When The Principles That Run Against Your Deepest Convictions Begin To Win The Day, Then The Battle Is Your Calling, And Peace Has Become Sin. You Must At The Price Of Dearest Peace Lay Your Convictions Bare Before Friend And Enemy With All The Fire Of Your Faith.

Lutheranism Restricted Itself To An Exclusively Ecclesiastical And Theological Character, While Calvinism Put Its Impress In And Outside The Church Upon Every Aspect Of Human Life.