In all that the religious modern thought has, I will not say created, as with a master hand, but heaped together, like an unsuccessful amateur—not one nation, not one family, hardly one solitary soul has (to use Augustine’s words), ever found the requiescat for his “broken heart,” while the Reformer of Geneva, by his mighty spiritual energy, unto five nations at once, both then, and after the lapse of three centuries, has afforded guidance in life, the uplifting of the heart unto the Father of Spirits, and holy peace, forever.
