Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.