Ebook The Almost Christian Discovered

There may he cant associated with any thing which interests the heart of man, from the play-thing of his childhood to the gravest pursuit of his ripened years: and to discard the culture, or the develop ment, or the guardianship of those specific im pressions which Christianity engraves on the hearts of its subjects, because they have been leagued with absurdity, or hackneyed in the jargon of fools, would be to adopt a principle which goes to the sub version of all confidence in human affairs — a pretext which would never be thought of but for a deep and deadly dislike to the spirit of Christianity itself.