"We are often asked, "If we join your church must we have some one to act as surety?" and the direct answer includes the great fundamental principles of salvation. That Christ would stand as bondsman for a stranger or for a sinner fills them with surprise."
— Hampden Coit DuBose
Source: Preaching in Sinim; or, The Gospel to the Gentiles (1893), ch. "Preaching Christ"