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Christianity Is The Greatest Civilizing, Moulding, Uplifting Power On This Globe.

Man Can Have Strength Of Character Only As He Is Capable Of Controlling His Faculties; Of Choosing A Rational End; And, In Its Pursuit, Of Holding Fast To His Integrity Against Al! The Might Of External Nature.

To Be Energetic And Firm Where Principle Demands It, And Tolerant In All Else, Is Not Easy. It Is Not Easy To Abhor Wickedness, And Oppose It With Every Energy, And At The Same Time To Have The Meekness And Gentleness Of Christ, Becoming All Things To All Men For The Truth's Sake. The Energy Of Patience, The Most Godlike Of All, Is Not Easy.

The Strength That We Want Is Not A Brute, Unregulated Strength; The Beauty That We Want Is No Mere Surface Beauty; But We Want A Beauty On The Surface Of Life That Is From The Central Force Of Principle Within, As The Beauty On The Cheek Of Health Is From The Central Force At The Heart.

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.