" Why should Peter be the one to tell us that all Christians are 'a holy priesthood' but in view of those who should misuse his name in after times ? or why should he be the one to announce to us that we are born again by the word of God, which is preached in the gospel, thus with two blows destroying ritualism to its foundations ? or why should Mary never prefer a request to her Son and Lord but to be checked for it, save as an after-rebuke to those who should think to avail themselves of the Virgin's intercession ? " From "The Revelation of Christ," by F. W. G.