If there be any truth, any reason, in what I have said--or rather in
what Christ and his apostles have said--let us lay it to heart upon
this day, on which the clergy of this great metropolis have found a
common cause for which to plead, whatever may be their minor
differences of opinion. Let us wish success to every argument by
which this great cause may be enforced, to every scheme of good which
may be built up by its funds. Let us remember that, however much the
sermons preached this day differ in details, they will all agree,
thank God, in the root and ground of their pleading--duty to Christ,
and to those for whom Christ died. Let us remember that, to whatever
outwardly different purposes the money collected may be applied, it
will after all be applied to one purpose--to Christian civilization,
Christian teaching, Christian discipline; and that any Christianity,
any Christian civilization, any Christian discipline, is infinitely
better than none; that, though all man's systems and methods must be
imperfect, faulty, yet they are infinitely better than anarchy and
heathendom, just as the wheat, however much mixed with weeds, is
infinitely better than the weeds alone. But above all, let us wish
well to all schemes of education, of whatever kind, certain that any
education is better than none.
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