Like great vessels anchored in a stream, the current of time flows past them, and each year they are further behind the spirit of the age, and less in harmony with its demands.

Christianity alone, of all human religions, seems to possess the power of keeping abreast with the advancing civilization of the world.

As the child's soul grows with his body, so that when he becomes a man it is a man's soul and not a child's, so the Gospel of Jesus continues the soul of all human culture.

It continually drops its old forms and takes new ones.

It passed out of its Jewish body under the guidance of Paul.