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Sin’s tofien tlirn snla In’m, tJjtn tuor!ifiipfti (itiii; but some, ? Matt. 8: 17. some beliebea tje ttinas tofifrS totre sjoftcn, ana some beliebea not. ? Acts 28: 24.
8T6e toocla 63 toisOom ftneto not SfoX … JFoi- tije Jttus require a sign, ana tfie Krecfes serit after toisaom: but toe prt nifi eiivlst cructffea, unto tfie JJrtiw a 5tuinbling–bloc(t, ana unto tfte CKreefts foolisbness; but unto them toliirli are rallea, botb Jittos ana reefts, Cftriat, tfie potoer of 0foa, ana tfie toisBom of ffloa. ? i Con. i: 21-29 test in tfcje grjesjetw 0f anil Three questions lie directly across the path of thought where we are moving. They must be answered, unless we are willing to come to a onesided and loose conclusion. Granted that the faith of Christ is fitted to mankind, how do we know that the world, without Christ, would not have reached, in some way, what Christ has brought? What are we to make of the fact that, when he and his religion have come, some minds have always doubted, and others have vigorously disbelieved ? And, in the propagation of this Faith, why has the progress been partial and unequal ? These difficulties challenge explanation. Inquiry is of the intellect; and we shall find, I believe, that though it is as a thinking creature that man first raises the doubt, yet afterwards, if he is fair and thinks on, he brings the value of his doubt to trial. Before you is a piece of mechanism; it lies in the daylight. It is complicated; it is of durable material; it is of magnificent dimensions, and of many delicate adjustments. The machine is running. Examining it, you are certain of twothings: that it was meant to do a particular w…
