Show Old and New Cried A man may have given up his belief in Christianity after long solemn and painful thought he may have felt constrained to tear himself away from the faith of parents and friends and childhood and the pangs may have been like the tearing away a piece of ones life But such a man is not likely to remain in a creedless condition His sincerity and intensity will never let him rest until he has found some little ground on which he may stand something on which a shelter may be raised to take the place of toe forsaken home He may come to have a poor creed an imperfect creed in many respects a mistaken creed but he will still have creed and be a so eaved from a spiritual death of a frivolous skeptic ismsaved by faith But in these days there are so many who while they are incapable of painstaking thought or a fervent intention flit hither and thither unreaiatingly with the infertile buzzing of an unfelt in fidelity fi-delity They no more deeply eel l in fidblity than they ever t fidii fdeee are flippant sup jfi i I cosii which outcn the trick cf what H called advance thought without tht trouble ot thinking People who would not or could noi rise to the height of a great argument youag people with a foible tor oraais ienu icd frivolous people who have nc knees wbe never knew wLa it wa to Ml down before a great idea easily acquire the pert phrases of unbelief un-belief and dismiss the faiths which I dave stood for ages and take a new I incredulity from a monthly review I In these days people seem to bave no time to be thoroughly informed about any one thing and so they become the victims of some reckless writers confident assertions A rd wellplaced words BpUed with reasons not unplausibla Wind me into the easyhearted man And hug me into snares If it were not for our superficial magazine and newspaper articles some who now affect to be unbelievers or semiunbelievers in Christianity to he pantheistic with Spinoza or positive with Comte would scarcely bav known even the names of these great writers Knowledge comes if wisdom linger everybody knows everything and labor is unnecessary for we can become scientific in an hour and sceptical for a shilling It becomes a duty then to warn men against the plausibilities which solid their attention in order to discredit their religion There would be little danger in these plausibilities if the readers were better informed then they generally are but they are startled star-tled by bold assertions wbcs inaccuracy inaccu-racy they do not know which take possession of the mind as though they were positive fact3Goocl Words |