Matthew Simpson, was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852 and based mostly in Chicago. During the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War, most evangelical denominations in the North, especially the Methodists, were strong supporters of Radical policies that favored the Freedmen and distrusted the Southern whites. Bishop Simpson played a leading role in mobilizing the Northern Methodists for the cause. His biographer calls him the "High Priest of the Radical Republicans."
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today. faith
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. faith
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. faith
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. faith & knowledge