2–8 July 1838

We shun to say that which shocks the reli- gious ear of the people and to take away titles even of false honor from Jesus. But this fear is an impotency to commend the moral sentiment. For if I can so imbibe that wisdom as to utter it well, instantly love and awe take place. The reverence for Jesus is only reverence for this, and if you can carry this home to any man's heart, instantly he feels that all is made good and that God sits once more on the throne. But when I have as clear a sense as now that I am speaking simple truth without any bias, any for- eign interest in the matter, — all railing, all un- willingness to hear, all danger of injury to the conscience, dwindles and disappears. I refer now to the discoijrse now growing under my eye to the Divinity School.