It is not confined within the limits of any one country, or pent up within the pale of any particular forms or outward government. Its members will be gathered from north, and south, and east, and west, and will be of every name and tongue but all one in Jesus Christ. This is the only Church which is truly apostolic . It is built on the foundation laid by the Apostles, and holds the doctrines which they preached. This is the only Church which is certain to endure unto the end .
Nothing can altogether overthrow and destroy it.
When crushed in one land it springs up in another. The true Church outlives them all, and sees them buried each in his turn. This is the only Church of which no one member can perish . The election of God the Father, the continual intercession of God the Son, the daily renewing and sanctifying power of God the Holy Ghost, surround and fence them in like a garden enclosed. This is the Church which does the work of Christ upon earth .