Your name is mentioned among the promoters of a movement which is to
lead humanity “upward,” Christianity toward its fulfillment.
I regard it as my duty to approach you respectfully and to beg you to
regard me as one of those who join in the loftiest efforts with all
their might. Every fiber of my being belongs to the “upbuilding of a
kingdom of God on earth,” to the “coming of Christianity.” This
comprehends all the efforts of good men. I am all on fire with
idealism, and yet I am no fancymonger. You have to do with “a man
among men.” Undismayed, but also unbefooled, I shall go on in the
paths that are marked out for me. The more comprehensive our action
is, the more effective; the more resolute, the more beneficent; the
more simultaneous along the whole line, the more thorough the success.
“Now, then, something must come.” I live in the firm conviction (to me
the word “belief” would not be enough for this) that we stand before
the gate that at once parts us from and admits us to the age of
completion. To grasp the latch with a vigorous hand seems to me the
duty of all those to whom God has granted the ability to do so.