Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.