The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.