Excerpt from Charity and Truth: A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. J. I. T. Coolidge, in St. Paul's Church, Boston, April 14, 1859

I shall endeavor, by God's blessing, to lay down and illustrate some general principles by which such questions as these may perhaps be satisfactorily answered.

It is my earnest desire to be faithful both to Charity and the Truth, and although I cannot hope to meet the views of those with whom truth whatever may be its relative importance is the only consideration, or of those with whom the principle of charity is carried to ex tremes - I still trust that no essential truth may be com promised for the sake Of Charity, and that I shall not be held as an enemy to Charity because I insist upon fundamental truth. My only desire is to do something to adjust, in our minds, the relations of the two.

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