[i Believe In The] Rebuilding

If There Have Been Those Who Doubted Whether A Confederated Representative Democracy Were A Government Competent To The Wise And Orderly Management Of The Common Concerns Of A Mighty Nation, Those Doubts Have Been Dispelled.

Human Life, From The Cradle To The Grave, Is A School. At Every Period Of His Existence Man Wants A Teacher. His Pilgrimage Upon Earth Is But A Term Of Childhood, In Which He Is To Be Educated For The Manhood Of A Brighter World. As The Child Must Be Educated For Manhood Upon Earth, So The Man Must Be Educated Upon Earth, For Heaven; And Finally That Where The Foundation Is Not Laid In Time, The Superstructure Can Not Rise For Eternity.

Slavery Is The Great And Foul Stain Upon The North American Union. A Dissolution, At Least Temporary, Of The Union, As Now Constituted, Would Now Be Certainly Necessary. The Union Might Then Be Reorganized On The Fundamental Principle Of Emancipation.

There Are Three Points Of Doctrine The Belief Of Which Forms The Foundation Of All Morality. The First Is The Existence Of God; The Second Is The Immortality Of The Human Soul; And The Third Is A Future State Of Rewards And Punishments. Suppose It Possible For A Man To Disbelieve Either Of These Three Articles Of Faith And That Man Will Have No Conscience, He Will Have No Other Law Than That Of The Tiger Or The Shark. The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.

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.