1. This reconciliation and salvation is not for some hypothetical future. To think that is so is to take it in vain.
2. It is for now, it is here. “In an acceptable time have I heard thee, in a day of salvation have I helped thee” (Is. xlix. 8). What is that “acceptable time,” that “day” but the day which has now dawned on us?
3. and if we are its servants and ministers, we must show it in our lives.
12-13. and shown me yourselves and your destiny in a larger room, in a grand perspective — free from all the cavil and pettiness of the world's slander. Now do the same for me, my brethren. O grasp the secret of my purpose, the breadth of my career and vision; behold its vast import, and do not lay upon yourselves the cruel limitations of the world's misapprehension and deceit and slander. Away with all that!