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day :—“ Liberality in religion—I do not mean 
_ tender and generous allowances for the mis- 
takes of others—is only unfaithfulness to truth.” ! 
- And, with the same qualification, I venture 
to paraphrase the Bishop’s dictum: “ Kccle- 
‘siasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to 
truth.” 
Elijah’s great question, “ Will you serve God or 
~ Baal? Choose ye,” is uttered audibly enough in 
_ the ears of every one of us as we come to man- 
hood. Let every man who tries to answer it 
seriously ask himself whether he can be satisfied 
with the Baal of authority, and with all the good 
things his worshippers are promised in this world 
and the next. If he can, let him, if he be so 
inclined, amuse himself with such scientific imple- 
ments as authority tells him are safe and will not 
eut his fingers; but let him not imagine he is, or 
_¢an be, both a true son of the Church and a loyal 
soldier of science. 
And, on the other hand, if the blind acceptance 
of authority appears to him in its true colours, as 
mere private judgment in excelsis, and if he have 
the courage to stand alone, face to face with the 
abyss of the eternal and unknowable, let him be 
content, once for all, not only to renounce the good 
things promised by “Infallibility,” but even to 
bear the bad things which it prophesies ; content 
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? Charge at the Diocesan Synod of Brechin. Scotsman, Sept. 
44, 1871. 
