by the noonday sun. Rationalists and Protestants, on the other hand, rejecting, or subjecting revelation to reason, are like a mariner on the high seas who should throw overboard his only reliable compass. Ah! no wonder that in dogmas they have woefully gone astray! No wonder that in morals they are daily coming nearer the ancient Greeks and Romans! Why, they have not even the merit of consistency. They pay to reason an unreasonable worship. They are rationalists and Protestants by ancestral prejudice. While clinging to the doctrine of private interpretation, they flood the world with scriptural tracts. Brethren, in the presence of revealed truth be ever ready to exclaim: " Yea, I believe; Lord, help my unbelief." Imitate not the doubting but the believing Thomas, and confess your Lord and your God, knowing that blessed is he that hath not seen and hath believed. Thus you may hope to see God by the light of reason and faith here, and by the light of glory hereafter. " For he that believeth shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be condemned."
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