“Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres — and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 142.

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