Judson, Howard, Wilberforce, and Florence Nightingale drew the inspiration of their benevolence from a dying Saviour's cross, and learned of him who, "though he was rich, yet for our sakes become poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." Christianity, as it was given by Jesus to the apostles, and by the apostles to mankind, was as perfect as the God who gave it.

Our whole duty then is this, that we should restore primitive and apostolic Christianity again to the world.

Many reformers have sought to do this; but they have only reformed in part.

Though they fled from Babylon they stopped short of Jerusalem.
We can not pause in this work which we have begun.

We can not allow ourselves to grow cold and our churches to die.
We must go forward in that path in which the rays of our glorious sun--the Sun of Righteousness--grow brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
God does not make Christians as he created Adam out of the dust of the earth.