"Let the priests of another faith ply their prudential expedients, and look so wise and so wary in the execution of them. But Christianity stands in a higher and a firmer attitude. The defensive armour of a shrinking or timid policy does not suit her. Her’s is the naked majesty of truth, and with all the grandeur of age, but with none of its infirmities, has she come down to us; and gathered new strength from the battles she has won in the many controversies of many generations. With such a religion as this, there is nothing to hide, all should be above boards; and the broadest light of day should be made fully and freely to circulate throughout all her secrecies. But secrets she has none. To her belongs the frankness and the simplicity of conscious greatness; and whether she has to contend with the pride of philosophy, or stand in fronted opposition to the prejudices of the multitude, she does it upon her own strength, and spurns all the props, and all the auxiliaries of superstition away from her." – Thomas Chalmers.