This is one of those "very quotable" sermons on the church. Here is a sample quotation: "The church of Christ, enfeebled and defective as she may appear, is the one object on earth on which he bestows in a special sense his love and regard. ... The church is the theater of his grace, in which he delights to make experiments of mercy on human hearts. {RH December 4, 1900, par. 4}