Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

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

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

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.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

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