As in its first dawn, Christianity … is beginning to show itself … as a principle … which … is immanent in nature and in man and … is working … to still higher issues … The principle of Christianity has come to self-consciousness, and … is … capable of being held without that mixture of illusion which was inevitable in an earlier age.

In the conscientious citizen of modern Christendom reason without and reason within … combine to yield both the judgment, and obedience to the judgment … that every human person has an absolute value … that in the estimate of that well-being which forms the true good everyone is to count for one and no one for more than one.

Religion is indestructible. … What then, can we in England do for Religion? All that in us lies to secure a form of Christianity in harmony with progress, liberty, and knowledge. How can this be obtained? By making the Church of England a church of intellectual freedom and a church of the people … Can this church of an episcopal sect, this last obstinate remnant of a dead social system … become a church of freedom, a church for the people? Yes it can! It is for the people to decide.