I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.