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

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

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.

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.

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