"The Gates of Hell shall not Prevail Against the Church."
You cannot outflank Christianity by any movement, however alert and unsuspected. Its lines extend backward too far into the past, and they run out too wide into all the earth, even to the end of the world. The result of all investigation, all discoveries, all sciences, is to confirm the faith of men in the reality and accuracy of historic revelation. The Deism of the last century, frantic with passion, threw itself in one combined assault upon revealed Christianity; but like the waves dashing against the rocks, it was thrown back in harmless spray; and the Book of God abides firmer in the convictions of the world to-day than it did before it was assaulted and pelted by infidelity. Judaism blossoms into Christianity. Sinai points to Calvary. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. At his feet we sit as disciples, reverently, gratefully, and truthfully. Whatever theme we select, it leads to the cross of the Son of God, which is the focus of all facts, the center of all history, the substance of all truth, the light and life of every man that cometh into the world.