"Let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration of the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate it with the elements of their society, and to difiuse its influences through all their institutions, - civil, political, social, and educational. Let us cherish their sentiments, and extend their influence still more and more, until the full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity." 1

• 1. Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, Developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the Republic., by B. F. MORRIS, Philadelphia, 1864, pp. 58-59