The fine-grained old truths of religion have been deposited by
the world’s best life. Its age is theirs; but, altho so many
epochs and races went to make them, we use them now without
a thought of their age or of the gravity of getting them
well-grown; like the beautiful ivory mammoth tusk, sticking six
or seven feet out of the frozen ground in Alaska, which the
Indians have used for generations as a hitching-post. Tribes
come and go, and generations succeed each other; but we all
hitch up to the solid truths which offer their convenience,
embedded in the past. (Text.)--JOHN WEISS.
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