Excerpt from The Voice of the Church One: Under All the Successive Forms of Christianity: A Discourse, Pronounced at the Opening of the Theological School at GenevaWhat astonishing labours - what untiring activities what varied efforts, do men em ploy on earth But time passes its level, for the most part, over their productions, while they imagine themselves to be building a tower which shall reach to the heavens, their proud works are confounded, after a few gen orations, with the sands of the desert.There is nothing stable here, but Christi amity. That alone is immovable, like its Author. It is this rock against which have broken, and are still breaking, waves ever new, without being able to shake it.If, then, there is any one who wishes to give stability to his work on earth, let him connect it with Religion it will receive from this connexion an impress Of immortality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.