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Show OtmEASONIHQ FAITH. riamrlaa la ItUtarr nf In li.fla.aia tea. llaman tlapila.t Thejr were not wretched, at hit, Uiese. esrlj: Loudon iltlfetis, tut, on the con trary, Joyous anl happy awl liojiefuL And nut only for rrnif.ni staled, but lor tlio frrcat act tlio Rreatett laet lit the lime of tticlr blind and unreason-Inn unreason-Inn falltw It la hrjiosslut. to ciafKcnto the till-jiortancu till-jiortancu of unreasoning fallli ft. a factor In liumin happiness. Tlio life of lha meanest man sias tilled with dli nlty and with splendor, boc ni'e nf tlio (treat Inheritance atiured Llm by the church. Wo rauit nottr (or out moment lexte out tlio church In speak-Inn speak-Inn ot tlia past. Wo muit never format tint ,1 ierpte, autre brro oy 1 thrro a doubling Ilolut or a questioning prince of Anjnu, IWIerc d without tlio shadow of doubt. lDOwJed;i Lrou.lit tlio powrr ot questioning. HA yol there was no knowledge. Tbrrrlora ivcry-nmn'a llfo, liowcirr tnlacraUr( rat to bit bippy lnoranco tlit rartoln intnroom of lioarcn V are fond of dwelling on thomodlxtnl ball, tliH ilupldity and tho brutality of lit rndleia lortiirt. ml tbo wlllilincM ot buying taUatlon with nvuaca. Iloll, my frlonh,raa alnayi meant for tin other man. lis who aaw tho ilorlla pMntoxl ou tho chmch wall, rrndlnp, trhtln;, ftIng, cutting, acuurlns tbo or tonla In licll, Lutn thuo aouli fur tboie of hi rnoudoa. Mko Dante, Uoiawanioiu them all hit publlp arvl Wi prlvato foea. lla looked upiranl for lit liopv There ho beheld lovlnx nnrlt bearing aloft la tlulraott anu.1 tlio roul redeemeit to tbo abode ot .parfeet bllu. In that rout lit if xnnlied hlinielft hoMwths portraiture, ciaet and llfellko, of hla own forslvcn and aanctlllod feature. , 'When tho embouadora of tho Cnllpli llaruun at Kaulild brou;lit clfta tu tbo ' ureit King Karl, tho llnrtt thing: ho I. ' had to bor them vru tho ipkndld iiertrlco ot tho ehtirch. 'I hi. itory li told literally. It mlalit ho told aa an allegory. In London, r uoti and Nonnnn at alio for many ernturle to follow tho flneat thhi they ha I to ahotr vraa tho church, with In muilo that movcil tlit hiairt to trnn ; iti promlivs which ateelexl tbo boul to iiuliiraucot It iflorlea, which carrKtl tho beholJerfar away from tho wattlo and clay ot bl hut and lili grimy leathern doublet! Hi tower, which ttnod betntcn him and tho tyrannous overlord, and tarctl hli homo from itartatlon ami hli wotnanklud fnui dUhonor. -rtuuato Indeed It waa for tho people that they had tho cliurcli to tliow to thoa emhatiitdori ot tho Mo lem. Walter Iterant hi llnri.er'm |