A Stout Heart, A Clear

I Appear, My Fellow-citizens, In Your Presence And In That Of Heaven To Bind Myself By The Solemnities Of Religious Obligation To The Faithful Performance Of The Duties Allotted To Me In The Station To Which I Have Been Called.

Man Wants But Little Here Below Nor Wants That Little Long, 'tis Not With Me Exactly So; But 'tis So In The Song. My Wants Are Many, And, If Told, Would Muster Many A Score; And Were Each Wish A Mint Of Gold, I Still Should Long For More.

I Have To Study Politics And War So That My Sons Can Study Mathematics, Commerce And Agriculture, So Their Sons Can Study Poetry, Painting And Music.

It Is So Obvious To Every Reasonable Being That He Did Not Make Himself, And The World In Which He Inhabits Could As Little Make Itself, That The Moment We Begin To Exercise The Power Of Reflection, It Seems Impossible To Escape The Conviction That There Is A Creator.

Of All Persecuted Sects, The Baptists Stand Forth As Most Prominent, Simply And Only Because They Aim At A More Complete And Thorough Reform Than Any Others Ever Attempted. They Teach That Christ's Kingdom Is Not Of This World; That The Church Is Not A National, Political, Or Provincial Establishment; But A Congregation Of Holy Men, Separated From The World By The Receiving Of The Holy Spirit.