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

Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

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

Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.

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