But he accepted his religion as one of the great facts and proprieties of life.

He did not reach his religious convictions after much burning questioning and many bitter experiences.

In this he did not differ from most men of this age, and it only amounts to saying that Mr.Webster did not have a deeply religious temperament.

He did not have the ardent proselyting spirit which is the surest indication of a profoundly religious nature; the spirit of the Saracen Emir crying, "Forward! Paradise is under the shadow of our swords." When, therefore, he turned his noble powers to a defence of religion, he did not speak with that impassioned fervor which, coming from the depths of a man's heart, savors of inspiration and seems essential to the highest religious eloquence.

He believed thoroughly every word he uttered, but he did not feel it, and in things spiritual the heart must be enlisted as well as the head.