The Only Revenge Which Is Essentially Christian

However Dark And Profitless, However Painful And Weary, Existence May Have Become, Life Is Not Done, And Our Christian Character Is Not Won, So Long As God Has Anything Left For Us To Suffer, Or Anything Left For Us To Do.

Now See What A Christian Is, Drawn By The Hand Of Christ. He Is A Man On Whose Clear And Open Brow God Has Set The Stamp Of Truth; One Whose Very Eye Beams Bright With Honor; In Whose Very Look And Bearing You May See Freedom, Manliness, Veracity; A Brave Man--a Noble Man--frank, Generous, True, With, It May Be, Many Faults; Whose Freedom May Take The Form Of Impetuosity Or Rashness, But The Form Of Meanness Never.

This World Is Given As A Prize For The Men In Earnest; And That Which Is True Of This World Is Truer Still Of The World To Come.

It Was Necessary For The Son To Disappear As An Outward Authority, In Order That He Might Reappear As An Inward Principle Of Life. Our Salvation Is No Longer God Manifested In A Christ Without Us, But As A " Christ Within Us, The Hope Of Glory.

To Turn Water Into Wine, And What Is Common Into What Is Holy, Is Indeed The Glory Of Christianity.