“The true glory of Christian worship consists in the presence and power of the Holy Ghost; and without the Holy Ghost, all our paraphernalia of "long drawn aisle and fretted vault," of painted windows and "dim religious light," of symbols of lamb and dove, of pealing organs and what not, are but the paraphernalia of a corpse lying in state. It is a vain attempt to conceal the painful reality of death. One thing, we confess, that commends Presbyterianism to us is, that it cannot be worked by mere human wisdom or power; that it must either have the power of the Spirit to work it, or be nothing.” Thomas E. Peck, “The Spirit of Presbyterianism,” in Memorial volume of the semi-centennial of the Theological seminary at Columbia, South Carolina (1884), 30. https://archive.org/stream/memorialvolume00colu#page/30/mode/2up