ier without going to battle, facing the cannon's
mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.--_Chapin._

There was never found in any age of the world, either philosophy, or
sect or religion, or law or discipline, which did so highly exalt the
good of communion, and depress good private and particular, as the holy
Christian faith: hence it clearly appears that it was one and the same
God that gave the Christian law to men who gave those laws of nature to
the creatures.--_Bacon._

Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than
her common sense.--_Charles Buxton._

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples. It opened the palaces
of Constantinople to the barbarians, but it opened the doors of cottages
to the consoling angels of the Saviour.--_Alfred de Musset._

Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity,
wholesome, sweet, and poetic? It is the record of a pure and holy soul,
humble, absolutely disinterested, a truth-speaker, and bent on serving,
teaching, and uplifting men. Christianity taught the capacity, the
element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal
happiness. It taught that to love him was happiness,--to love him in
others' virtues.--_Emerson._

Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.
Standing without, you see no glory nor can possibly imagine any;
standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable
splendors.--_Hawthorne._

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden, that have each of
them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall
at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become
nourishers of each other.--_Bunyan._

~Church.~--The Church is a union of men arising from the fellowship of
religious life; a union essentially independent of, and differing from,
all other forms of human association.--_Rev. Dr. Neander._

A place where misdevotion frames a thousand prayers to saints.--_Donne._

She may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveler from New
Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a
broken arch of London bridge, to sketch the ruins of St.
Paul's.--_Macaulay._

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed
to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.--_Burke._

God never had a house of prayer but Satan had a chapel there.--_De Foe._

The church