What A Testing Of Character Adversity Is.

The All But Unanimous Judgment Seems To Be That We, The Democracies, Are Just As Responsible For The Rise Of The Dictators As The Dictatorships Themselves, And Perhaps More So.

My Friends, Nothing In All The World Is So Much Worth Thinking Of As God, Christ, The Bible, Sin And Salvation, The Divine Purposes For Humankind, Life Everlasting. But You Cannot Challenge The Dedicated Thinking Of This Generation To These Sublime Themes Upon Any Such Terms As Are Laid Down By An Intolerant Church.

Some Things Mankind Can Finish And Be Done With, But Not ... Science, That Persists, And Changes From Ancient Chaldeans Studying The Stars To A New Telescope With A 200-inch Reflector And Beyond; Not Religion, That Persists, And Changes From Old Credulities And World Views To New Thoughts Of God And Larger Apprehensions Of His Meaning.

Every Human Life Involves An Unfathomable Mystery, For Man Is The Riddle Of The Universe, And The Riddle Of Man In His Endowment With Personal Capacities.

He Is A Poor Son Whose Sonship Does Not Make Him Desire To Serve All Men's Mothers.