The North American Review, Volume 147 - nouveau livre

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: these things at their true worth and call them by their right names, no matter who gets hurt. Prove all things and hold fast that which is good, as honest old Paul says?as fine a bit of manhood as ever breathed the breath of life. " The truth should be no less than the Gospel of God, presented under a living form so human and so gentle that, being accepted by all, it may rouse the souls of all to a community of thought." I know of no other way to win or silence men like our honest Atheist, or to " leave religion on a higher and more impregnable basis than it was before." Some years ago, I was riding across the prairies with a missionary who had newly come home from Egypt, where he had been eleven years, and talking of many things, I said to him, "Tell me truly who was the very best man you found there." " My Ma- homedan teacher of Arabic," he answered at once; " he was the noblest and best man I found in the valley." " Then what will become of him," I said again, "if he dies in that faith," and his answer was, " He will go to hell, sir, because he would not accept the terms of salvation laid down in the Bible." So say those who sent him out. How mean and vile such dogmas are in contrast with the saying of Achmet the Turk to John Tempest of Brough- ton: " Religion is that manner of serving one and the same God which suits the constitution of each respective country."! And when we blazon such things as my missionary said to me on our banners and fall back on our Bible to maintain them, yes, and give them to our children for "the sincere milk of the Word," what wonder that a man so wholly human and tender as our friend should say if that is your God and this your Bible I will fight them both to the bitter end. Robert Collyer. THE VINDICATION OF JEHOVAH. I Have followed the ...