Josiah Gilbert Holland: Religion may enter a pothouse as a minister of good, but it may not lay aside its dignity to argue its rights and claims

Religion may enter a pothouse as a minister of good, but it may not lay aside it — Josiah Gilbert Holland

Religion may enter a pothouse as a minister of good, but it may not lay aside its dignity to argue its rights and claims there. The moment that it does this it is shorn of its power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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