I should have taken the advice of the variety of much better Christian men than I (many of them Protestant) who called it hopeless years ago.

They were right.

I will not sponsor bigotry.

rb

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine