“Every truth is important. Those which God has made known by a special revelation, are of eternal worth. To some, however, a peculiar importance attaches, from the relation which they sustain toother truths, and from the derangement produced, in the whole system of truth, by abstracting them from it. For any thing we can tell, every star that glitters above us, may sustain an important part in that reciprocity and balance of forces, by which regularity and harmonious action are secured to the heavenly bodies, and alternate day and night, seed time and harvest, to our planet. This is not saying, however, that the star which feebly twinkles at a measureless distance, bears so important a relation to us as does the sun, the centre of our system; or, if blotted out, consequences so disastrous to us would ensue as must follow the extinction of the ‘glorious King of Day,’ whose immediate beams warm and gladden the earth. There are certain truths which lie at the foundation of the christian system of faith and practice. A mistake in regard to these is like a mistake in the groundwork of a building: no subsequent skill, labor or expense can remedy the evil. It will give deformity or insecurity to the entire edifice.” — J.L. Kirkpatrick, The Moral Tendency of the Doctrine of Falling From Grace Examined: A Sermon (1845), pp. 3-4