broken threads

“Corrupt States and depraved municipalities sink beneath the heavy tread and the iron reign of sin; but the innate spirit of a progressive civilization, electrified by religion and virtue, collects its forces, reassembles its agencies, rises from the dead past, gathers the broken threads and continues on the highway of progress.”

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,

“It gathers up the broken threads of the ages, and rallies the moral forces to one bright center, and by its elective affinity, gathers all the gems of truth, and wreathes them about the brow of Christ.”

Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,