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This modern, fashionable, pantheism, also, what sort
of structures does it rear, & will it rear for worship?
Or Can it have one that will fitly symbolize it?
It cannot; till it shall have a pantheon for all the beasts
of the Earth, & fishes of the sea, & fowls of the air, & speci-
mens of the races of men. This is impossible; &, therefore,
pantheism is a monstrosity as a religion impracticable & monstrous; & the nearest approach it
can make to a religious temple for itself, is, to buy
up a strolling menagerie!

So, as atheism, skepticism, pantheism, can not
have holy temples; can express nothing by them; can
give man's religious nature no play through
them; they are cheats & delusions. The religious nature
abhors & rejects them, as nature ever abhors a vac-
-uum. But Christianity shows its adaptation to
our manhood & our nature, by not only fostering
& cherishing all true ideas of religion in the soul, but
by developing them, & giving them play into
the outward, & letting them express themselves
in temples, monuments, & shrines; in utterances of
music, & forms of devotion.