“The Church of Christ on earth, beautiful and glorious as she is, is yet here as a means to an end. The Bride of the Lamb is commissioned to carry a message which He was unwilling to commit to a less loyal or sacred keeping. Every fact and phase of our holy religion is in its way apologetical. Like Nehemiah’s rebuilders of Jerusalem, every champion of the truth must work with his sword girded by his side. All theology is apologetics. The Word of God is the charter of universal missions.” — Henry Collin Minton, The Place of Reason in Theology (1896)