“It has been said that every Christian is a Calvinist upon his knees. If this is true, and no one who carefully observes the prayers of the devout men of whatever shad of belief can well doubt it, it in great part accounts for the large measure of blessing bestowed upon churches whose formal creed denies the distinctive doctrines of grace. But the church that professes and teaches these great doctrines has an overwhelming argument in her mouth to bring men to their knees, pointing them to the only source of help and blessing, lest seeking to climb up some other way they be cast out as thieves and robbers, or, at least, come short of the glory of God.

And what the church of the future needs that she may have a larger measure of blessing is not that she should cast aside, or curtail, or soften her creed, but that her creed should get down into her heart, and bring her down upon her knees, waiting upon the Lord for his blessing, until his grace shines forth in her life, and all men are pointed to the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world — until all shall hear the voice, ‘Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.’” — Peyton H. Hoge, Presbyterianism and the Future (1889)