The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.

The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.

Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.