Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-04 | Page 4 | Local News

MANY A man has deserted Christianity who has not been deserted by Christianity Christian principles which he imbibed in childhood character formed by years of Christian instruction and association abide with him and give a strength and I beauty to his life which ought to be ascribed t to the former presence of faith not to the i absence of it now No splendor of character char-acter developed amid the influence of Christian society even if the subject of it has always been an unbeliever can ever be justly adduced as proof that the like character could be grown and preserved were Christianity clean gone This is a truth which is worthy of attention the substance of which was uttered by Dr E B ANDREWS president of Brown university uni-versity and is the result of the close observation of a scholar of a philosophic mind on the historic plane Christianity simple Christianity is in the web and woof of this age and for ages past Even infidelity shares in its spendid results on civilization and the moral and social i environments of mankind