That religion which holds that all men are equal in the sight of the great Father will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the sight of the law.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy, and the Divine source of its claims.
It must never be forgotten that religion gave birth to Anglo-American society. In the United States, religion is therefore commingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism; whence it derives a peculiar force.
If the great questions of the beginning of this century were mainly political, those which will convulse the world at its close will be social.
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