The first real, earnest, religious faith that shall arise upon the ruins of the old worn-out creeds, will transform the whole of our actual social organization, because every strong and earnest faith tends to apply itself to every branch of human activity; because in every epoch of its existence the earth has ever tended to conform itself to the heaven in which it then believed; and because the whole history of humanity is but the repetition—in form and degree varying according to the diversity of the times—of the words of the Dominical Christian Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven."
Let these words—better understood and better applied than in the past—be the utterance of your faith, your prayer, O my brother! Repeat them and strive to fulfil them.—
