Philosophy has sometimes forgotten God, as great people never did. The
skepticism of the last century could not uproot Christianity because it
lived in the hearts of the millions. Do you think that infidelity is
spreading? Christianity never lived in the hearts of so many millions as
at this moment. Many forms under which it is professed may decay, for
they, like all that is the work of man’s hands, are subject to the changes
and chances of mortal beings, but the spirit of truth is incorruptible; it
may be developed, illustrated and applied; it can never die; it never can
decline. No truth can perish. No truth can pass away. The flame is
undying, though generations disappear. Wherever immortal truth has started
into being, humanity claims and guards the bequest. Each generation
gathers together the imperishable children of the past and increases them
by the new sons of the light, alike radiant with immortality.—_Bancroft._