In Our Country We Ask No Toleration

Those Who Make Pictures Of The Savior, Who Is God As Well As Man In One Inseparable Person, Either Limit The Incomprehensible Godhead To The Bounds Of Created Flesh, Or Confound His Two Natures Like Eutyches, Or Separate Them, Like Nestorius, Or Deny His Godhead, Like Arius; And Those Who Worship Such A Picture Are Guilty Of The Same Heresy And Blasphemy.

Religion And Liberty Are Inseparable. Religion Is Voluntary, And Cannot, And Ought Not To Be Forced. This Is A Fundamental Article Of The American Creed, Without Distinction Of Sect Or Party. Liberty, Both Civil And Religious, Is An American Instinct. Such Liberty Is Impossible On The Basis Of A Union Of Church And State, Where The One Of Necessity Restricts Or Controls The Other. It Requires A Friendly Separation, Where Each Power Is Entirely Independent In Its Own Sphere.

The Son Of God, Prompted By The Same Infinite Love, Laid Aside His Divine Glory And Mode Of Existence, Emptied Himself Exchanged The Form Of God For The Form Of A Servant, Humbled Himself And Became Obedient, Even Unto The Death Of The Cross.

Calvinism Emphasizes Divine Sovereignty And Free Grace; Arminianism Emphasizes Human Responsibility. The One Restricts The Saving Grace To The Elect; The Other Extends It To All Men On The Condition Of Faith. Both Are Right In What They Assert; Both Are Wrong In What They Deny. If One Important Truth Is Pressed To The Exclusion Of Another Truth Of Equal Importance, It Becomes An Error, And Loses Its Hold Upon The Conscience. The Bible Gives Us A Theology Which Is More Human Than Calvinism And More Divine Than Arminianism, And More Christian Than Either Of Them.

One Man With Truth On His Side Is Stronger Than A Majority In Error, And Will Conquer In The End.