When We Are Weak, Then Are We

The Functions Of These Elders, Therefore, Determine The Power Of The People; For A Representative Is One Chosen By Others To Do In Their Name What They Are Entitled To Do In Their Own Persons; Or Rather To Exercise The Powers Which Radically Inhere In Those For Whom They Act.

The Spirit Never Makes Men The Instruments Of Converting Others Until They Feel That They Cannot Do It Themselves; That Their Skill In Argument, In Persuasion, In Management, Avails Nothing.

Christian Humility Does Not Consist In Denying What There Is Of Good In Us; But In An Abiding Sense Of Ill-desert, And In The Consciousness That What We Have Of Good Is Due To The Grace Of God.

If, Unable To Solve The Mysteries Of Providence, We Plunge Into Atheism, We Only Increase A Thousand Fold The Darkness By Which We Are Surrounded

If All Church Power Vests In The Clergy, Then The People Are Practically Bound To Passive Obedience In All Matters Of Faith And Practice; For All Right Of Private Judgment Is Then Denied.