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The business of a Church is to make true and noble men and women. If it can not do that it has no call to existence in a world where the faithful must forever war against the hosts of evil! The office of Religion in the heart of each man and woman is to cleanse from bodily sins, to purify the heart, to uplift and strengthen the moral nature. If that which one calls his Religion does not do these things he is mistaken about it and the Spirit of Life is not in him. The business of a Church is to make true and noble men and women. If it can not do that it has no call to existence in a world where the faithful must forever war against the hosts of evil! The office of Religion in the heart of each man and woman is to cleanse from bodily sins, to purify the heart, to uplift and strengthen the moral nature. If that which one calls his Religion does not do these things he is mistaken about it and the Spirit of Life is not in him.
Anna Garlin Spencer (Unitarian, minister, reformer) Bell Street Chapel Discourses (1889-1899) p. 92 (via uuquotes)

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