Neither the anger nor the prudence nor the pretensions of man can do anything in the state of confusion in which the church is now. I freely own that I have no hope in the efforts which many make to assure themselves an ecclesiastical position. When the house is undermined in its foundations by an earthquake, it matters little how one tries to make it an agreeable dwelling-place. We shall do better to dust. Such is the place that belongs to us by right, and after all it is the place of blessing. 220