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All Mental Discipline And Symmetrical Growth Are From Activity Of The Mind Under The Yoke Of The Will Or Personal Power.

The Very Act Of Faith By Which We Receive Christ Is An Act Of The Utter Renunciation Of Self, And All Its Works, As A Ground Of Salvation. It Is Really A Denial Of Self, And A Grounding Of Its Arms In The Last Citadel Into Which It Can Be Driven, And Is, In Its Principle, Inclusive Of Every Subsequent Act Of Self-denial By Which Sin Is Forsaken Or Overcome.

But For Us There Are Moments, O, How Solemn, When Destiny Trembles In The Balance And The Preponderance Of Either Scale Is By Our Own Choice.

Christianity Excludes Malignity, Subdues Selfishness, Regulates The Passions, Subordinates The Appetites, Quickens The Intellect, Exalts The Affections. It Promotes Industry, Honesty, Truth, Purity, Kindness. It Humbles The Proud, Exalts The Lowly, Upholds Law, Favors Liberty, Is Essential To It, And Would Unite Men In One Great Brotherhood. It Is The Breath Of Life To Social And Civil Well-being Here, And Spreads The Azure Of That Heaven Into Whose Unfathomed Depths The Eye If Faith Loves To Look.

Christianity Alone Inspires And Guides Progress; For The Progress Of Man Is Movement Toward God. And Movement Toward God Wili Ensure A Gradual Unfolding Of All That Exalts And Adorns Man.