Theology came to seem to my mind more and more a weapon in the hands of Satan to embroil and divide the churches.

I found in the Sermon on the Mount leading enough for my ethical guidance, in the life and death of the Man of Galilee inspiration enough to fulfill my heart's desire; and though I have read a great deal of modern inquiry--from Renan and Huxley through Newman and Doellinger, embracing debates before, during and after the English upheaval of the late fifties and the Ecumenical Council of 1870, including the various raids upon the Westminster Confession, especially the revision of the Bible, down to writers like Frederic Harrison and Doctor Campbell--I have found nothing to shake my childlike faith in the simple rescript of Christ and Him crucified.
III From their admission into the Union, the States of Kentucky and Tennessee have held a relation to the politics of the country somewhat disproportioned to their population and wealth.

As between the two parties from the Jacksonian era to the War of Sections, each was closely and hotly contested.

If not the birthplace of what was called "stump oratory," in them that picturesque form of party warfare flourished most and lasted longest.

The "barbecue" was at once a rustic feast and a forum of political debate.