Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

Man is emphatically self-made.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.