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288 It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men. —.

O, marvelous power of the Divine seed, which overpowers the strong man armed, softens obdurate hearts, and changes into divine men those who were brutalized in sin, and removed to an infinite distance from God. —.

No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ." —.

The main object of the gospel is to establish two principles, the corruption of nature, and the redemption by Jesus Christ. —.

Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power. —.

The gospel breathes the spirit of love. Love is the fulfilling of its precepts, the pledge of its joys, and the evidence of its power. —.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel. —.