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

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

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.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.