The Church's testimony is to a rejected as well as to a crucified Lord. His death is to be guarded and witnessed as under man's hand, as well as under God's-under God's for the relief of the sinner or the conscience-under man's for the separation of the saints from the world that really accredits that act of man's hand."
" It is the general deepening of spiritual affection we need in the midst of us, more chastened hearts to give place and liberty, in the absence of nature, to the things of the kingdom of God. The lip watched, the thought watched, the pen watched, and all the instruments and agencies of nature watched, that the Spirit may find in each of us a freer vessel for Himself. Had Lot walked separatedly, his daughters might have been wives of Abraham's seed, instead of mothers of Ammonites and Moabites."