Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold the pulpit and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

Captain Hale alone without sympathy or support save that from above on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

I never saw heard nor read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular but some degree of persecution.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

If all Church power vests in the clergy then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.

In regard to education something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.