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

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

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

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.

His throne is the pulpit. He stands in Christ's stead. His message is the Word of God. Around him are immortal souls. The Savior, unseen, is beside him. The Holy Spirit broods over the congregation. Angels gaze upon the scene, and heaven and hell await the issue. What associations and what vast responsibility!

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