He has taught us that the fatherhood and tenderness of God are manifested here and now in this world, as they will be hereafter; that the religion of Christ is a religion of daily living; that salvation is the purifying of the soul from sin, not its escape from the consequences of sin.
Hoar articulates the belief that true religion is about living a righteous life in the present, rather than merely seeking salvation from sin's consequences.
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To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.
His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
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